This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.

In adhesively bonded structures, the global geometry and loads are fixed by structural considerations and the design procedure focuses on the material properties of the adhesive and on local changes on the geometry.

They are used in remote areas where use of septic tanks is limited, usually to reduce nutrient loads in lakes.

Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.

The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses ; coaches are used for longer distance services.

Smooth regular curves are gentle on equipment and allow easy repositioning of loads.

The two major drawbacks to using ceramics are a significantly higher cost and susceptibility to damage under shock loads.

Ceramic materials are typically used in heavy applications such as trucks carrying large loads or racing, though the harder ceramic materials increase flywheel and pressure plate wear.

Iron crankshafts are today mostly found in cheaper production engines ( such as those found in the Ford Focus diesel engines ) where the loads are lower.

* Keeping peripherals on-chip also reduces power consumption as external GPIO ports typically require buffering so that they can source or sink the relatively high current loads that are required to maintain a strong signal outside of the chip.

These barrels are proof marked and meant to be used with light pressure loads.

Rails are to be upgraded from 20 kg / m to 40 kg / m, to carry substantially increased loads.

Some eye protection products are rated to withstand impact from birdshot loads, which offers protection against irresponsible firearms use by other game bird shooters.

Footings ( often called " spread footings " because they spread the load ) are structural elements which transfer structure loads to the ground by direct areal contact.

Deep foundations are used for structures or heavy loads when shallow foundations cannot provide adequate capacity, due to size and structural limitations.

Sometimes cantilevered walls are buttressed on the front, or include a counterfort on the back, to improve their stability against high loads.

Walers are structural elements which connect across the excavation so that the loads from the soil on either side of the excavation are used to resist each other, or which transfer horizontal loads from the shoring wall to the base of the excavation.

* There are many examples of centuries-old glass shelving which has not bent, even though it is under much higher stress from gravitational loads than vertical window glass.

Single stage presses are commonly most used for high-precision rifle cartridge handloading, but may be used for high-precision reloading of all cartridge types, and for working up loads ( developing loading recipes ) for ultimately manufacturing large numbers of cartridges on a progressive press.

The engine in a car cruising on a highway is usually operating significantly below its ideal load, because it is designed for the higher loads required for rapid acceleration.

Because of the wide variety of loads the " semi " may carry, they usually have a manual transmission to allow the driver to have as much control as possible.

The light alloys used for the structure ( usually magnesium or aluminium alloys ) enabled Zeppelins to lift heavier loads and be fitted with more engines and / or more powerful engines.

Lower voltages such as 66 kV and 33 kV are usually considered subtransmission voltages but are occasionally used on long lines with light loads.

The transmission system usually does not have a large buffering capability to match the loads with the generation.

If there is no active partition, or the active partition's boot sector is invalid, the MBR may load a secondary boot loader which will select a partition ( often via user input ) and load its boot sector, which usually loads the corresponding operating system kernel.

For fusion plasmas, graphite electrodes with dimensions from 1 to 10 mm are usually used because they can withstand the highest power loads ( also sublimating at high temperatures rather than melting ), and result in reduced bremsstrahlung radiation ( with respect to metals ) due to the low atomic number of carbon.

However, physically realizable sources and loads are not usually totally resistive, having some inductive or capacitive components, and so practical applications of this theorem, under the name of complex conjugate impedance matching, do, in fact, exist.

* The operator loads the gun, usually from the muzzle end, with black powder followed by lead shot, a round lead ball, usually wrapped in a piece of paper or a cloth patch, all rammed down with a ramrod that is usually stored on the underside of the barrel.

* Pallet racking, structural racks ( usually steel ) for storing palletised loads

" A paradoxical aspect of this problem is that those most burdened may not be able to participate in the studies: " It is usually those women with the heaviest work loads who choose not to participate in these studies.

Because of this, use of TRIACs with ( for example ) heavily-inductive motor loads usually requires the use of a " snubber " circuit around the TRIAC to assure that it will turn off with each half-cycle of mains power.

When modifying the operating parameters of a CPU, such as in overclocking, underclocking, overvolting, and undervolting, it may be necessary to verify if the new parameters ( usually CPU core voltage and frequency ) are suitable for heavy CPU loads.

The load phase loads the data into the end target, usually the data warehouse ( DW ).

Note: attempt to do parallel loads into the same table ( partition ) usually causes locks — if not on the data rows, then on indices.

Generation and loads in a microgrid are usually interconnected at low voltage.

Aerial crane or ' Sky cranes ' usually are helicopters designed to lift large loads.

In order to hook and unhook the loads, the operator usually works in conjunction with a signaller ( known as a ' dogger ', ' rigger ' or ' swamper ').

Such antennas may be fed either by using a 300 ohm twin-lead feeder or by using a 300-to-75-ohm balun and using coaxial feedline and will usually handle moderate power loads without overheating.

* The very high output impedance of valves ( compared with transistors ) usually requires matching transformers to drive low impedance loads such as loudspeakers or cutting lathe heads.

The audience usually answered with angered catcalls and embarrassed jeering – and loads of laughter.

Different classes of loads ( for example, lighting, fixed motors, and traction / railway systems ) required different voltages, and so used different generators and circuits.

The first stage of boot loaders located on fixed disks and removable drives must fit into the first 446 bytes of the Master Boot Record in order to leave room for the default 64-byte partition table with four partition entries and the two-byte boot signature, which the BIOS requires for a proper boot loader — or even less, when additional features like more than four partition entries ( up to 16 with 16 bytes each ), a disk signature ( 6 bytes ), a disk timestamp ( 6 bytes ), an Advanced Active Partition ( 18 bytes ) or special multi-boot loaders If an active partition is found, the MBR code loads the boot sector code from that partition, known as Volume Boot Record ( VBR ), and executes it.

Steam-gasification processes typically yield high hydrogen contents, downdraft fixed bed gasifiers yield high nitrogen concentrations and low tar loads, while updraft fixed bed gasifiers yield high tar loads.

The LGB proved particularly effective against difficult fixed targets like bridges, which previously had required huge loads of " dumb " ordnance to destroy.

Later, during World War II, the experimental German Arado Ar 232 cargo aircraft used a centerline row of ten " twinned " fixed wheel sets directly under the fuselage centreline to handle heavier loads while on the ground, as the earliest known example of multiple " tandem wheels " on an aircraft, like many of today's large cargo aircraft use for their retractable main gear setups ( usually mounted on the lower corners of the central fuselage structure ).

When carrying larger loads, the part of the shelf attached to the tailgate could be folded up, and fixed with the elasticated support strings, to protect the rear window and heated rear screen elements.

In a standard engine, the valve events are fixed, so performance at different loads and speeds is always a compromise between driveability ( power and torque ), fuel economy and emissions.

There were some gender stereotypes -- she cooked more than my father did -- but she also fixed machines, carried loads.

Other accessories include night sights ( war-time use only ) that attach to the fixed day sights ( f: protected post, r: L-type ), a brass catcher for collecting spent cartridges ( peace-time use only, for reloading and recycling ), a quick-detachable ( by attached cord ) ejection port cover ( painted bright red ) for guard duty which secures the bolt from accidental firing and a speedloader ( rarely issued due to limited availability ) that loads the 36-round magazine in seconds.

Its fixed five-car consist was also the end of an era ; the popularity of the early streamliners was their undoing, because the trains could not be lengthened or shortened to handle varying loads.

The front, usually fixed section of the tailplane is called the horizontal stabilizer and is used to balance and share lifting loads of the mainplane dependent on centre of gravity considerations by limiting oscillations in pitch.

For simple, low-powered loads such as a neon lamp or LED, a fixed resistor is commonly used.