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The aim is to intelligently compensate for aircraft damage and failure during flight, such as automatically using engine thrust and other avionics to compensate for severe failures such as loss of hydraulics, loss of rudder, loss of ailerons, loss of an engine, etc.
On the other hand, failure detection & correction and avoidance of common cause failures becomes here increasingly important to ensure system level reliability.
Because the token stayed within the hub, it did not have to traverse long cables going to every node as in ARCNET and Token Ring therefore becoming faster than those other deterministic networking standards and being less susceptible to cabling problems, network card failures, and line interference.
Hurry Sundown signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including Skidoo ( 1968 ), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy ( and Groucho Marx's last film ), and Rosebud ( 1975 ), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed.
The British failures in North America, combined with other failures in the European theater, led to the fall from power of Newcastle and his principal military advisor, the Duke of Cumberland.
affected by the vessel ’ s basic characteristics such as size, subdivision, armouring and other hardening feartures, and also the design of the ship's systems, in particular the location of equipments, degrees of redundancy and separation and the presence within a system of single point failures.
The operating system keeps its processes separated and allocates the resources they need, so that they are less likely to interfere with each other and cause system failures ( e. g., deadlock or thrashing ).
The advantage of the top-down principle is that political and administrative responsibilities are clearly distinguished from each other, and that responsibility for political failures can be clearly identified with the relevant office holder.
Zhou, who had come to appreciate Mao's strategies after the series of military failures waged by other Party leaders since 1927, defended Mao, but was unsuccessful.
Although these government-funded systems were generally considered failures, several APM systems developed by other groups have been much more successful.
Partly as a result of these failures, and those of other English commanders at this period, John was one of the first important figures in England to conclude that the war with France was unwinnable because of France's greater resources of wealth and manpower.
The report revealed " multiple failures " by other emergency services and public bodies which contributed to the death toll.
Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).
Along with other celebrities, she supported the Alcatraz Island occupation by American Indians in 1969, which was intended to call attention to failures of the government in treaty rights and the movement for greater Indian sovereignty.
Some remedies for market failure can resemble other market failures.
Another notable publication, dealing with failures of buildings, bridges, and other structures, is the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities,
Thrawn was more tolerant of the failures of those under his command than other Imperial officials, who were known for their lethal reaction to minor failures.
The susceptibility of phone service to power failures is a common problem even with traditional analog service in areas where many customers purchase modern telephone units that operate with wireless handsets to a base station, or that have other modern phone features, such as built-in voicemail or phone book features.
Wage and price stickiness, and the other market failures present in New Keynesian models, imply that the economy may fail to attain full employment.
Though protected from access by another app, a well-written app still needs to protect itself against failures and device loss caused by other applications.
The story, which takes place outside regular DC continuity, has Lex Luthor assembling the Legion of Doom after he and several other villains begin to have nightmares about the end of the world and the failures of the Justice League to prevent said apocalypse.
Bernoulli trials may also lead to negative binomial distributions ( which count the number of successes in a series of repeated Bernoulli trials until a specified number of failures are seen ), as well as various other distributions.

failures and international
By 1943, after Italy faced multiple military failures, complete reliance and subordination of Italy to Germany, and Allied invasion of Italy, and corresponding international humiliation, Mussolini was removed as head of government and arrested by the order of King Victor Emmanuel III who proceeded to dismantle the Fascist state and declared Italy's switching of allegiance to the Allied side.
In 2007, the rise in interest rates and the collapse of the housing market caused a wave of loan payment failures in the U. S. The subsequent mortgage crisis caused a global financial crisis, because the subprime mortgages had been securitized and sold to international banks and investment funds.
Hubbard, the former chair of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, has worked at the intersection of the private, government and nonprofit sectors and played an active role in shaping national and international economic policy, including the deregulation policy leading up Wall Street bank failures in 2008.
By seeking to accord certain terrain international legitimacy based upon British failures to assert control over the fiercely independent Pashtun people and tribes in the region, the establishment of a border that would separate British interests from tribal interests was extremely important to British foreign policy.
It would have been difficult for the emperor to mistake the importance of this manifestation of French opinion, and in view of his international failures, impossible to repress it.
These crises and others had resulted from international conflicts such as the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812, and had caused widespread domestic foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing.
However, other significant players did not emerge in order to form a strong national team which resulted the consecutive failures of the qualification for the international competitions in the 2000s.
It sought to improve international efforts to promote democracy and human rights by documenting the failures and successes of World Bank and U. S. Agency for International Development judicial reform programs in Latin America and Asia.
International award for Power Alerts: A researcher of the School for Mechanical Engineering, whose ingenious Power Alerts saved the Western Cape from widespread power failures in 2006 received an international award in the USA for his work in the field of energy conservation.
The party's early attempts to garner votes by blaming these humiliations unilaterally on " international Jewry " were not successful with the electorate, but the party's propaganda wing learned quickly and began a more subtle propaganda combining anti-semitism with a spirited attack on the failures of the " Weimar system " and the parties supporting it, calling them the November Criminals.
The security dilemma is a popular concept with cognitive and international relations theorists, who regard war as essentially arising from failures of communication.
On 16 September 2005, the airline was indefinitely banned by the French Civil Aviation Authority from operating its prestigious Paris route due to safety concerns which had arisen following aircraft check-ups which had revealed failures to meet international norms in the loading, transport of dangerous materials, navigation documentation and tire maintenance.
Explaining his resignation he cited the President's broken promises, political corruption and blackmailing, the undemocratic system, institutional inabilities, failures of accountability, the sabotage of National Assembly, global issues including Pakistan-US relations, international terrorism and US global domination, Israeli aggression, the Iraq war, Islamabad-Delhi relations including the Kashmir dispute and Pakistan-Afghanistan relations.
For example, mismanagement of mortgage lending in the United States led in 2008 to banking failures and credit shortages in other developed countries, and sudden reversals of international flows of capital have often led to damaging financial crises in developing countries.
However, market failures are not uniform across countries and so it stands to reason that labor standards should not be constructed in an international way.
Liberalism manifested a tempered version of Wilson's idealism in the wake of World War I. Cognizant of the failures of Idealism to prevent renewed isolationism following World War I, and its inability to manage the balance of power in Europe to prevent the outbreak of a new war, liberal thinkers devised a set of international institutions based on rule of law and regularized interaction.
The process has been upset by a spate of international and local corporate failures, with the result that governments worldwide saw the need for regulation of auditors to be tightened up and became more involved in the process.
Now, National-Anarchists in the U. S. are carefully studying the successes and failures of their more prominent international counterparts as they attempt to similarly win converts from the radical environmentalist and white nationalist movements in the U. S.
Trott wrote: " What the majority has unintentionally accomplished in embracing this case is nothing less than the wholesale creation of a World Court, an international tribunal with breathtaking and limitless jurisdiction to entertain the World's failures, no matter where they happen, when they happen, to whom they happen, the identity of the wrongdoer, and the sovereignty of one of the parties.

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