Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

Other examples of hard real-time embedded systems include medical systems such as heart pacemakers and industrial process controllers.

ARM processors accounted for approximately 90 % of all embedded 32-bit RISC processors and were used extensively in consumer electronics, including personal digital assistants ( PDAs ), tablets, mobile phones, digital media and music players, hand-held game consoles, calculators and computer peripherals such as hard drives and routers.

The fast access time of SRAM makes asynchronous SRAM appropriate as main memory for small cache-less embedded processors used in everything from industrial electronics and measurement systems to hard disks and networking equipment, among many other applications.

Outside the IT domain, preservation of hard copy information, such as contracts, skilled staff or restoration of embedded technology in a process plant must be considered.

A common example of a composite would be disc brake pads, which consist of hard ceramic particles embedded in soft metal matrix.

A common combination consists of a hard material, such as silicon carbide, Ceramic or tungsten carbide, embedded in the pump casing and a softer material, such as carbon in the rotating seal assembly.

In contrast with contingent or soft scaffolding, embedded or hard scaffolding is planned in advance to help students with a learning task that is known in advance to be difficult ( Saye and Brush, 2002 ).

These examples suggest that the fundamentals of disapproval voting processes may already be in place in society, so deeply embedded it is hard to notice.

RBV asserts that any resource which is clearly identifiable, and can easily be acquired or built, cannot be a source of competitive advantage, so only resources or capabilities that are valuable, rare, hard to imitate or buy, and embedded in the organization ‘ VRIO ’ criteria can be relevant to explaining performance, for example reputation or product development capability.

The degree to which Brahms ' personal experience is embedded in the concerto is hard to gauge since several other factors also influenced the musical expression of the piece.

Alloys consist of small particles of a hard compound embedded in the tough, ductile background of a solid solution.

Therefore it is hard to think through what the implications of the basic models above are for the real world if they are not embedded in a dynamic structure that approximates reality.

Legal restrictions on the PlayStation ( using the platform for a military purpose ) combined with the default Xbox configuration “ persistence ” ( i. e. missions recorded on the embedded hard drive for after-action review ) led to the final selection of the Xbox platform for development.

Additionally, if swung too hard, the weapon often became embedded in the victim or their armour, making retrieval difficult.

( However, in the hard real-time embedded systems where barrel processors are often found, memory access costs are typically calculated assuming worst-case cache behavior, so this is a minor concern.

Thus a watermark proving ownership embedded in the data of a picture, in such a way it is hard to find or remove unless you know how to find it.

For hard materials, such as a sample embedded in a synthetic resin, this design of microtome can allow for good " Semi-thin " sections with a thickness of as low as 0. 5 µm.

Common features of all MP3 players are a memory storage device, such as flash memory or a miniature hard disk drive, an embedded processor, and an audio codec microchip to convert the compressed file into an analogue sound signal.

However, Canadian courts have not extended the definition of " audio recording medium " to exempt music copied onto computer hard drives, digital audio recorders ( such as iPods or MP3 players ), or other types of permanently embedded memory.

From across the river they hurled a 26-foot-long stone, which came arcing across the sky like a missile and struck the ground, near Guru's camp, so hard that nearly half of its length was embedded in the ground.

They are used particularly within embedded computing systems where they can often be deployed in to very harsh environments ( where mechanical hard disk drives would simply fail ), or in a thin client because of small size, low power consumption and silent operation.

ITRON specification is meant for hard real-time embedded RTOS.

* Atom ( a DSL in Haskell for hard realtime embedded programming )

A typical webcast, streaming in an embedded media player

* Innes DME204 media player with HD H264 encoder embedded

Media player boxes based on dedicated 1080p decoder chips such as the Sigma Designs 8634 processor are getting SMIL players embedded in them.

In some types of embedded systems, the application software and the operating system software may be indistinguishable to the user, as in the case of software used to control a VCR, DVD player or microwave oven.

When the broadcast format or media format is interlaced, real-time deinterlacing should be performed by embedded circuitry in a set-top box, television, external video processor, DVD or DVR player, or TV tuner card.

A typical webcast, playing in an embedded media player.

Four, the term appliance generally implies that devices are task specific and under the control of some embedded system or application specific operating system, whereas Smart Devices may support multiple tasks, e. g., a mobile phone can act as a phone but also as a games console, music player, camera, etc.

Although episodes 1-77 are still available through the WMV stream URLs, AOL has completely removed the embedded player pages at the website.

Among the highlights were an embedded audio player accessible from every page of the website featuring album artwork, recommendations, and sharing features ; new Quick Genres, Presets, and Search for hassle-free navigation ; updated station directory featuring multiple station views and easy station sort ; and station pages with the ability to distribute or share content via Facebook, Twitter, Email, and widgets.

This was solved when the lead developer created a simple player for the format which supported embedded subtitles, which sparked interest and the community began to grow.

Swfdec has been chosen as the Flash player for Fedora, and it has been ported to DirectFB for embedded use alongside its X11 and GTK + bindings.

In addition, wedges are designed with modified soles that aid the player in moving the clubhead through soft lies, such as sand, mud, and thick grass, to extract a ball that is embedded or even buried .. Wedges come in a variety of configurations, and are generally grouped into four categories ; pitching wedges, sand wedges, gap / approach wedges and lob wedges.

This encourages the player to hit sand wedge shots " fat " ( the club hits the ground before the ball ), which on a firm lie is generally bad, but in the case of a ball embedded or buried in soft bunker sand this will get the clubhead all the way under the ball to lift it out.

The page for the 2012 festival with an embedded player and the schedule is at this url address.

This made the U3 the first iAUDIO player that allowed the user to browse its contents by the contents of ID3 tags embedded in the files.

Creative destruction is embedded within the circulation of capital itself.

The XScale is also used in devices such as PVPs ( Portable Video Players ), PMCs ( Portable Media Centres ), including the Creative Zen Portable Media Player and Amazon Kindle E-Book reader, and industrial embedded systems.