A steel column is extended by welding or bolting splice plates on the flanges and webs or walls of the columns to provide a few inches or feet of load transfer from the upper to the lower column section.

The more reflux that is provided for a given number of theoretical plates, the better the tower's separation of lower boiling materials from higher boiling materials.

Moreover, the efficiencies of the vapor-liquid contact devices ( referred to as " plates " or " trays ") used in distillation towers are typically lower than that of a theoretical 100 % efficient equilibrium stage.

A variety of horseshoes, including aluminium racing plates ( light coloured ) and shoes used on cattle in lower right.

Another version has one " sharp " reed directly above its " natural " on the lower plate, with the same number of reeds on both plates.

Lip piercing continues to be practiced by many people, the most well-known of which are certain African tribes, who wear large decorative lip plates or discs, usually in the lower lip.

Spades are flat metal plates, usually attached to the aileron lower surface, ahead of the aileron hinge, by a lever arm.

For this reason, glasses usually are placed into an upper basket, and flat open-shaped plates and cutlery that the water can spray through are placed in lower baskets.

Those who secured membership in this selective party received considerable rewards, such as access to special lower priced shops with a greater selection of goods, special schools, holiday facilities, homes, furniture, works of art and official cars with special white license plates so that police and others could identify these members from a distance.

The more reflux is provided for a given number of theoretical plates, the better the tower's separation of lower boiling materials from higher boiling materials.

Moreover, the efficiencies of the vapor-liquid contact devices ( referred to as plates or trays ) used in distillation columns, as seen in Figure 3, are typically lower than that of a theoretical 100 % efficient equilibrium stage.

In primitive fish, this ring consists of four plates, but the number is lower in many living ray-finned fishes, and much higher in lobe-finned fishes, various reptiles, and birds.

Continental added secret marks to the plates of the lower values, distinguishing them from the previous issues.

At higher temperatures, and hence lower undercooling, the reduced thermodynamic driving force causes a decrease in the nucleation rate which allows individual plates to grow larger before they physically impinge on each other.

Its performance might however be quite adequate if tests are limited to lower frequencies ( ferrite plates have a damping curve that makes them most effective between 30 – 1000 MHz ).

Members in this genus have slender clawed digits which are cylindrical or depressed at the base ( rarely dilated ); the distal phalanges are compressed, forming an angle with the basal portion of the digits, the lower surface of which has a row of plates.

As the upper and lower sections both opened, metal plates were needed on the sides to connect the two mechanically.

Barkudia insularis has the snout depressed, obtusely pointed, projecting strongly beyond the labial margin ; rostral large, emarginate laterally to receive the nasal shield ; supranasals large, in contact with one another and with the first labial ; fronto-nasal broader than long, larger than the frontal ; interparietal much larger than the frontal ; parietals narrow, obliquely placed, in contact with one another behind it ; 3 supraoculars, the first entering the supraciliarly margin, the first two in contact with the frontal ; 1 large supraciliary in the angle formed by the 3 suboculars ; nasal shield comparatively large, the nostril at its anterior extremeity ; 1 large loreal ; a preocular ; lower eyelid composed of 2 or 3 opaque scales ; upper eyelid vestigial ; 4 supralabials, the third below the eye ; ear-opening minute ; a singly azygous postmenta ; body elongate with 140 ventral scales between the post-mental and pre-anal plates ; 20 smooth scales round the mid body.

The main nerves branch repeatedly, then attach to the lower side of each plate in the batteries, which are composed of hexagonal columns, in honeycomb formation: each column consists of 140 to half a million gelatinous plates.

The turret's forward armour package in addition to the ERA and steel plating contains a composite filler sandwiched of Russian composite armour between upper and lower steel plates, the composite armour results in a lower weight and improved protection when compared with steel-only armour.

Once the growth medium in the petri dish is inoculated with the desired bacteria, the plates are incubated at the best temperature for the growing of the selected bacteria ( for example, usually at 37 degrees Celsius for cultures from humans or animals, or lower for environmental cultures ).

Polyester plates: These are much cheaper and can be used in place of aluminum plates for smaller formats or medium quality jobs, as their dimensional stability is lower.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

Dependent upon it were posts on the lower Mississippi and the region westward to the frontiers of New Spain.

In a study of older adults, those who volunteered were significantly higher on life satisfaction and will to live, and significantly lower in depression, anxiety, and somatization.

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

In an appeal on the record from a decision in a judicial proceeding, both appellant and respondent are bound to base their arguments wholly on the proceedings and body of evidence as they were presented in the lower tribunal.

Under this standard, the appellate court gives deference to the lower court's view of the evidence, and reverses its decision only if it were a clear abuse of discretion.

In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Two iron arms were installed here to support a pulley to raise and lower furniture.

On the other side of the northern Black Forest were the Chatti about where Hesse is today, on the lower Main.

Flood levels, that had been stable from about 3, 000 to 2, 600 BC, had started falling, and by the Akkadian period were a half-meter to a meter lower than recorded previously.

Thus while Persian-speakers were concentrated on the lower rungs of the work force, managers tended to be brought in from some distance.

Names were human readable, containing spaces, upper and lower case letters, and including support for searching.

In the 16th century, the rights of the lower classes were abolished.

While the Freien Ämter often had independent lower courts, they were forced to accept the Confederation's sovereignty.

The northern part, the so-called Unteren Freie Ämter ( lower Freie Ämter ), which included the districts of Boswil ( in part ) and Hermetschwil and the Niederamt, were ruled by Zurich, Bern and Glarus.

The Abbreviators of the lower, or lesser, were to be promoted to the higher, or greater, bar or presidency.

He appointed seventy-two abbreviators, of whom twelve were of the upper, or greater, and twenty-two of the lower, or lesser, presidency ( Parco ), and thirty-eight examiners on first appearance of letters.

Abbreviators of the lower presidency before their suppression were simple clerics, and according to permission granted by Sixtus IV ( loc.

Also, a fighter jet flying straight and level will be able to do so closer to the crowd and lower than if it were performing a roll or a loop.

The lower voltage requirement and higher heat rating selected CPUs that were essentially " cherry picked " from the manufacturing line.