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K and factor
Table 1,, p. 394, shows a comparison of K factor ratings of a number of commercial insulating materials in common use, including two different types of rigid urethane foam.
where R is the rainfall erosivity factor, K is the soil erodibility factor, L and S are topographic factors representing length and slope, and C and P are cropping management factors.
In order to get agreement with experimental results, Fresnel found that the individual contributions from the secondary waves on the sphere had to be multiplied by a constant, i / λ, and by an additional inclination factor, K ( χ ).
K. Fulford, A. Smirnov, and E. Snow state: " An important vulnerability factor, therefore, for the abuse of psychiatry, is the subjective nature of the observations on which psychiatric diagnosis currently depends.
K-factor or K factor may refer to:
* K factor ( crude oil refining )
* K factor ( traffic engineering )
The noise factor is defined as the ratio of the output noise power of a device to the portion thereof attributable to thermal noise in the input termination at standard noise temperature ( usually 290 K ).
where Y is total output, K is the stock of capital in the economy, L is the labor force ( or population ) and A is a " catch all " factor for technology, role of institutions and other relevant forces which measures how productively capital and labor are used in production.
Here G is final average grain size, G < sub > 0 </ sub > is the initial average grain size, t is time, m is a factor between 2 and 4, and K is a factor given by:
Here Q is the molar activation energy, R is the ideal gas constant, T is absolute temperature, and K < sub > 0 </ sub > is a material dependent factor.
with t the day of calculation ; N the number of constituent shares in the index ( usually 40 ); Q < sub > i, t </ sub > the number of shares of company i on day t ; F < sub > i, t </ sub > the free float factor of share i ; f < sub > i, t </ sub > the capping factor of share i ( exactly 1 for all companies not subject to the 15 % cap ); C < sub > i, t </ sub > the price of share i on day t ; Q < sub > i, 0 </ sub > the number of shares of company i on the index base date ; C < sub > i, 0 </ sub > the price of equity i on the index base date ; and K < sub > t </ sub > the " adjustment coefficient for base capitalization " on day t ( reflecting the switch from the French franc to the Euro in 1999 ).
* K factor crude oil refining
This is the present value factor for K.
* Vitamin K is an essential factor to a hepatic gamma-glutamyl carboxylase that adds a carboxyl group to glutamic acid residues on factors II, VII, IX and X, as well as Protein S, Protein C and Protein Z.
Deficiency of Vitamin K may also contribute to bleeding disorders because clotting factor maturation depends on Vitamin K.
They are set on a so-called " K factor " which determines the average value of price rises above the current rate of inflation ( RPI ) for the next five years.
Woodward's dissertation director was Howard K. Beale, a Reconstruction specialist who promoted the Beardian economic interpretation of history that deemphasized ideology and ideas and stressed material self-interest as a motivating factor.
Sometimes the factor charges the seller ( the factor's " client ") both a discount fee, for the factor's assumption of credit risk and other services provided, as well as interest on the factor's advance, based on how long the advance, often treated as a loan ( repaid by set-off against the factor's purchase obligation, when the account is collected ), is outstanding .< Ref Name =" CPA "> J. G. Siegel, N. Dauber & J. K. Shim, " The Vest Pocket CPA ", Wiley, 2005 .</ ref > The factor also estimates the amount that may not be collected due to non-payment, and makes accommodation for this in pricing, when determining the purchase price to be paid to the seller.

K and term
( In Peru and much of Spanish-speaking South America, " Kola " with a " K " is the generic term used for any flavor of carbonated soft drink, not only colas ).
After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to private practice, opening a law firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell.
and Peter DuPonceau in 1818 ( the term used by Henry C. K. Wyld in 1927 was " received standard ").
Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.
* 1 January 1995-Inauguration of World Trade Organisation ( WTO ), Ambassador K Kesavapany is elected for a one-year term as Chairman of the General Council.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the term was first used in 1989, though the use is not attributed to anyone. The term ' trip hop ' was first used in print by Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for Mixmag, in June 1994 to describe Mo Wax Records Artist ( U. K ) R. P. M and ( American ) DJ Shadow's " In / Flux " single.
Phylloquinone ( K < sub > 1 </ sub >) or menaquinone ( K < sub > 2 </ sub >) are capable of blocking the blood-thinning action of anticoagulants such as warfarin, which work by interfering with the action of vitamin K. They also reverse the tendency of these drugs to cause arterial calcification in the long term.
In the U. S. the term wool is usually restricted to describing the fibrous protein derived from the specialized skin cells called follicles in sheep, although in the U. K. it may be used of any long curling fiber such as wood wool, wire wool, etc.
President James K. Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving office, kept his promise not to seek re-election.
Muggle, a term from the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, refers to a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world.
The opposite of knowledge-K-was what Bion termed-K: " powerful beta-elements term for primitive proto-mental experiences are linked ... the operation of '- K ' as the process that strips, denudes, and devalues persons, experiences, and ideas.
Wright modified the Lotka-Volterra equations by adding a new term, βM / K, to represent a mutualistic relationship.
Hicks conceived of the " K Plan " program under which most Kalamazoo students spend at least one term abroad and spend at least one term working in an academic internship.
If R = K is a field, then a series is invertible if and only if the constant term is non-zero, i. e., if and only if the series is not divisible by X.
As shown in ( 3 ) of the figure 1, in order for there to be an appearance of B term, there must be another state K, which is closely related in energy to either the ground state or the excited states.
" However, Lawrence K. Cecil and Philip Hauge Abelson still write in 1967: " In the first place, the average person uses the term ' Ruhr ' indiscriminately as the Ruhr River or the Ruhr district, two entirely different things.
The village continued to grow with the construction of Airline Highway, and Earl K. Long proclaimed Gonzales a town in 1952 during his term as governor.
* Dr. Douglas K. Ross ( 1971-1973 ) won 2nd term in 1973, but resigned during term for health reasons.

K and used
The acid dissociation constant K < sub > a </ sub > is generally used in the context of acid-base reactions.
Because the range of possible values for K < sub > a </ sub > spans many orders of magnitude, a more manageable constant, pK < sub > a </ sub > is more frequently used, where pK < sub > a </ sub >
To do this, Moseley measured the wavelengths of the innermost photon transitions ( K and L lines ) produced by the elements from aluminum ( Z = 13 ) to gold ( Z = 79 ) used as a series of movable anodic targets inside an x-ray tube.
PAL is used with a variety of 625-line standards ( B, G, D, K, I, N ) but also with the North American 525-line standard, accordingly named PAL-M.
There is a Mozart reference in the title — A Little Night Music is an occasionally used translation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the nickname of Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525.
To mitigate the differences between K & R C and the ANSI C standard, the (" standard c ") macro can be used to split code into ANSI and K & R sections.
Considerable confusion exists about the meanings of the SI ( or metric ) prefixes used with the unit byte, especially concerning prefixes such as kilo ( k or K ) and mega ( M ) as shown in the chart Prefixes for bit and byte.
The method most commonly used today uses prefixes such as kilo, mega, giga, and corresponding symbols K, M, and G,
This style was used by other computer vendors, the CDC 7600 System Description ( 1968 ) made extensive use of K as 1024.
These two styles ( K = 1024 and truncation ) were used loosely around the same time, sometimes by the same company.
For a time, memory capacities were often expressed in K, even when M could have been used: The IBM System / 370 Model 158 brochure ( 1972 ) had the following: " Real storage capacity is available in 512K increments ranging from 512K to 2, 048K bytes.
Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.
The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.
Insect damage to the fossilized leaves of flowering plants from fourteen sites in North America were used as a proxy for insect diversity across the K – T boundary and analyzed to determine the rate of extinction.
Traditionally, liquid helium is used to cool the coils because it has a boiling point of around 4 K at ambient pressure, and cheap metallic superconductors can be used for the coil wiring.
The first rule is used in many ( but not all ) dictionaries, the second in telephone directories ( so that Wilson, Jim K appears with other people named Wilson, Jim and not after Wilson, Jimbo ).
The DCT that is widely used in this regard was introduced by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974 ; see Reference 1 in discrete cosine transform.
* Kennedy, K. ( 1933 ): " Instruments of music used by the Australian Aborigines ".
In the realm of even larger works, Mozart included the double bass in addition to 12 wind instruments for his " Gran Partita " Serenade, K. 361 and Martinů used the double bass in his nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
In the mid 1990s, Arthur Whitney, who had previously worked with Iverson, created K, which is used commercially in financial industries along with its descendant Q.

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