Continuous post-war expansion followed and the organisation seized a variety of lighting, engineering and consumer electronics businesses, merging with EMI in 1979 to create Thorn EMI, which itself demerged in the mid-1990s.

Continuous improvement in model specifications has led to the introduction of 40: 1 gearing in locomotive drive mechanisms, NEM couplings on all stock, and LED lighting strips for coaching stock ( yellow for ' older ' coaches, to represent incandescent illumination, and white for more modern coaches and EMUs to represent fluorescent fittings ).

Continuous deep palpation starting from the left iliac fossa upwards ( counterclockwise along the colon ) may cause pain in the right iliac fossa, by pushing bowel contents towards the ileocaecal valve and thus increasing pressure around the appendix.

Continuous flow dryers may produce up to 100 metric tonnes of dried grain per hour.

Continuous lanes are restricted in that vehicles turning from a side street may not cross over the double-white line to enter the continuous lane, and no lane changes are permitted to the continuous lane from an adjacent lane or from the continuous lane to an adjacent lane, until the double-white line has been passed.

Continuous, fast up-and-down movements of the leg, and / or rapidly moving the legs toward then away from each other, may keep sensations at bay without having to walk.

In extreme cases, the procedure may be indicated as a treatment for severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea seen in patients intolerant of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ( CPAP ) therapy.

* Overheating: Continuous high levels of slippage may overwhelm the converter's ability to dissipate heat, resulting in damage to the elastomer seals that retain fluid inside the converter.

Continuous Wound Infiltration may reduce PONV and the need for post-operative pain management drugs.

Continuous quantities may be scalar or vector quantities.

Continuous process furnaces may also use paste-type, Søderberg electrodes to prevent interruptions due to electrode changes.

Continuous signal may also be defined over an independent variable other than time.

Continuous obsolescence may be unintentional.

Continuous obsolescence may also be intentional, for example when an application tries to include compatibility for the output of another widely-used application.

A common practice is to use Automated Continuous Integration, although this may be done manually.

( Continuous high energy exposure may still be able to saturate the sensor materials and render the sensor unable to register further information.

Continuous Gâteaux differentiability may be defined in two inequivalent ways.

Continuous distillation can be run at a steady state for an arbitrary amount of time.

Continuous tone can be achieved with graphite on a smooth surface without blending, but the technique is laborious, involving small circular or oval strokes with a somewhat blunt point.

; Public regulated navigation ( encrypted ): Continuous availability even if other services are disabled in time of crisis ; Government agencies will be main users.

The Pulsed UWB Radio is based on Continuous Pulsed UWB technology ( see C-UWB ) and will be able to deliver communications and high precision ranging.

Continuous operation usually requires that there be fully redundant configuration, or at least a sufficient X out of Y degree of redundancy for compatible equipment, where X is the number of spare components and Y is the number of operational components.

Continuous tracks can be traced back as far as 1770 and today are commonly used on a variety of vehicles including bulldozers, excavators, tanks, and tractors, but can be found on any vehicle used in an application that can benefit from the added traction, low ground pressure and durability inherent in continuous track propulsion systems.

Intersections with continuous-flow lanes will be posted with a white regulatory sign approximately 500 feet before the intersection with the phrase, " Right Lane Continuous Traffic ," or other similar wording.

More on this can be seen on < cite > Goldratt's Theory of Constraints-A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement </ cite > by William Dettmer ISBN 0-87389-370-0.

In the US, one can generally cut 20 ft or 6 meters ( or a bit more with MSHA permission ) ( 12 meters or roughly 40 ft in South Africa before the Continuous Miner goes out and the roof is supported by the Roof Bolter ), after which, the face has to be serviced, before it can be advanced again.

Continuous functions f and g are said to be homotopic if and only if there is a homotopy H taking f to g as described above.

Continuous lines demarcate septum and free wall seen in echocardiogram, dotted line is a suggestion of where the free wall of the right ventricle should be.

* " brake " Continuous brakes, to put at the command of the engine driver adequate braking power ; this requirement being increased as the technology made it reasonable to ' automatic ' ( in modern parlance ' fail-safe ') continuous brakes which had to be ' held off ' by vacuum or compressed air and would be applied automatically if that supply was lost ( e. g. if a train were divided ).

An MCU is characterised according to the number of simultaneous calls it can handle, its ability to conduct transposing of data rates and protocols, and features such as Continuous Presence, in which multiple parties can be seen on-screen at once.

Continuous control design methods are not as susceptible to these problems and can be made to mimic sliding-mode controllers.

* Continuous tractive effort: Continuous tractive effort is the tractive force that can be generated at any given speed.

Continuous compounding can be thought of as making the compounding period infinitesimally small ; therefore achieved by taking the limit of n to infinity.

For example, Continuous Kwik Cricket can be played by two groups of 10 or 12, with each batting for a set period of time, the Lord's Game can be played by two groups of four or five, and Pairs Kwik Cricket works for groups of 8, each playing as a pair and rotating the roles ( batsmen ; bowler and wicket-keeper ; leg side and off side fielders ).

Continuous no-till needs to be managed very differently in order to keep or increase yield on the field.

Recently, several of these individuals found " dead in bed " were wearing Continuous Glucose Monitors, which provided a history of glucose levels prior to the fatal event.

Continuous support during labour provided by doulas ( along with variety of groups such as nurses, midwives, other hospital staff, partners, family or friends ) have been associated with improved outcomes for both mothers and children.

The Continuous Ministry or Continuous Cabinet was an informal designation used to describe the grouping in the Queensland Parliament that existed from 1890 to 1899, and provided six colonial-era Premiers of Queensland.

Continuous motion of the arc contact area at the anode by flow or magnetic forces.

" Continuous use of neuroleptics has been shown to decrease the total brain volume by 10 % in macaque monkeys.

Continuous phase transitions are described by the Ginzburg-Landau theory, which works in the so-called mean field approximation.

Continuous development on modules is rare, many are abandoned by their authors, or go years between new versions being released.

Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds ( down from 54, 000 in 1917 ), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed.

Continuous study of the scriptures, theological writings, and understanding and interpretation of church doctrine are embodied in several statements of faith and catechisms formally adopted by various branches of the church, often referred to as ' subordinate standards '.

*** Continuous rod: Metal bars welded on their ends form a compact cylinder of interconnected rods, which is violently expanded into a contiguous zig-zag-shaped ring by an explosive detonation.

* Continuous Injection System, a fuel injection system developed by the Robert Bosch Group

In radio or wireless telephony, Private Line is a term trademarked by Motorola to describe their implementation of a Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System ( CTCSS ), a method of using low frequency subaudible tones to share a single radio channel among multiple users.

Continuous vacuum is applied inside the soft liner to massage milk from the teat by creating a pressure difference across the teat canal ( or opening at the end of the teat ).

Continuous tracks or caterpillar tracks are a system of vehicle propulsion in which a continuous band of treads is driven by two or more wheels.

Continuous means that the solenoid is not formed by discrete coils but by a sheet of conductive material.

* Continuous Partial Attention, a term coined by Linda Stone in 1998to describe a kind of multitasking

The HDF was located in Hubble's northern Continuous Viewing Zone, as shown by this diagram.

* Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble, David Farley ; ISBN 0-321-60191-2

* Continuous rating scale ( also called the graphic rating scale ) – respondents rate items by placing a mark on a line.

* Continuous data protection, also called continuous backup or continuous vaulting, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data

Continuous growth is enabled by formative tissues in the apical openings of the roots of the teeth.