A heat engine may also serve as a prime mover, a component that transforms the flow or changes in pressure of a fluid into mechanical energy.

A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length ( and thus angle of view ) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length ( FFL ) lens ( see prime lens ).

A fluid power system has a pump driven by a prime mover ( such as an electric motor or IC engine ) that converts mechanical energy into fluid energy.

Šilahvý ( 1997 ) notes that Carathéodory's approach does not work for the description of irreversible processes that involve both heat conduction and conversion of kinetic energy into internal energy by viscosity ( which is another prime example of irreversibility ), because " the mechanical power and the rate of heating are not expressible as differential forms in the ' external parameters '".

Carbon based materials have served as prime materials for NEMS use, because of their highlighted mechanical and electrical properties.

The main ( traction ) generator converts mechanical energy from the prime mover into electricity that is distributed through a high voltage cabinet to the traction motors.

Often a second, additional meaning is intended by using the word prime, namely that any object can be, essentially uniquely, decomposed into its prime components.

It is equivalent to saying that the prime decomposition of the manifold has no acyclic components, and turns out to be equivalent to the condition that all geometric pieces of the manifold have geometries based on the two Thurston geometries S < sup > 2 </ sup >× R and S < sup > 3 </ sup >.

Thus a statistical unit, which would be the prime item of concern, is made of discrete components like organs or machine parts.

On January 2, 1992, Yeltsin — acting as his own prime minister — enacted the most comprehensive components of economic reform by decree, thereby circumventing the Supreme Soviet of Russia and Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, which had been elected in March 1990, before the dissolution of the USSR.

Y ' stands for the luma component ( the brightness ) and U and V are the chrominance ( color ) components ; luminance is denoted by Y and luma by Y ' – the prime symbols (') denote gamma compression, with " luminance " meaning perceptual ( color science ) brightness, while " luma " is electronic ( voltage of display ) brightness.

Note, however, that PFA can be combined with mixed-radix Cooley – Tukey, with the former factorizing N into relatively prime components and the latter handling repeated factors.

In the 1960s, Shorts mainly produced turboprop airliners, major components for aerospace prime manufacturers, and missiles for British armed forces.

The Regional Languages Satellite channels have two components – The Regional service for the particular state relayed by all terrestrial transmitters in the state and additional programmes in the Regional Language in prime time and non-prime time available only through cable operators.

Moreover, each simple group ( prime ) or non-group irreducible semigroup ( subsemigroup of the flip-flop monoid ) that divides the transformation semigroup of A must divide the transition semigroup of some component of the cascade, and only the primes that must occur as divisors of the components are those that divide A's transition semigroup.

The components in the decomposition, however, were not prime automata ( with prime defined in a naïve way ); rather, the notion of prime is more sophisticated and algebraic: the semigroups and groups associated to the constituent automata of the decomposition are prime ( or irreducible ) in a strict and natural algebraic sense ( Eilenberg, 1976 ).

He began his national political career as an aide to François Léotard when the latter was Minister of Culture ( 1987 – 1988 ) in the government of then prime minister Jacques Chirac, then as chief of staff in the Republican Party, then one of the components of the UDF.

In addition to the corporation's administrative offices, LaGrange houses design engineering, emissions testing, rebuild operations, and manufacturing of major components, including prime mover engines, traction alternators, electrical cabinets, and turbochargers.

The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.

* For a finite field of prime order p, the algebraic closure is a countably infinite field which contains a copy of the field of order p < sup > n </ sup > for each positive integer n ( and is in fact the union of these copies ).

there are seventeen other ministers, who are appointed by the prime minister with the consent of the Sabor ; these are in charge of particular sectors of activity.

The GCD of two numbers a and b is the product of the prime factors shared by the two numbers, where a same prime factor can be used multiple times, but only as long as the product of these factors divides both a and b. For example, since 1386 can be factored into 2 × 3 × 3 × 7 × 11, and 3213 can be factored into 3 × 3 × 3 × 7 × 17, the greatest common divisor of 1386 and 3213 equals 63 = 3 × 3 × 7, the product of their shared prime factors.

Using these definitions it can be proven that in any ring a prime must be irreducible.

While most of these migrations had an economic background, Germany has also been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a ' right ' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have since made it less attractive.

British relations with France had scarcely improved since 1815. As prime minister, the Earl of Aberdeen was one of these officials, who feared France and Louis Bonaparte.

The two large banana companies have also owned large cattle ranches where they raised prime beef, but these large companies had the flexibility to change crops as the market demanded.

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

The flight rotation put these three in line to fly as prime crew on the third following mission, Apollo 18.

Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it ( bin Laden being a prime example ), and increasing aid to Islamic groups ( Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups ) that did not, but its pre-war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced.

The hardest instances of these problems ( for currently known techniques ) are semiprimes, the product of two prime numbers.

Extending these deep ideas of Riemann, two proofs of the asymptotic law of the distribution of prime numbers were obtained independently by Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin and appeared in the same year ( 1896 ).

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.

Methods related to the quadratic sieve approach for integer factorization may be used to collect relations between prime numbers in the number field generated by √ n, and to combine these relations to find a product representation of this type.

The failure of these systems can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Birgenair Flight 301 ( investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube: the prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp ), Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, AeroPeru Flight 603 ( blocked static port ), and of one X-31.

11 of these are directly elected representatives whilst three are senators appointed by the governor-general ( two on the advice of the prime minister and the third on the advice of the leader of the opposition ).

Writing out the prime numbers in base-six ( and using the subscript 6 to denote that these are senary numbers ), the first few primes are

However, uncodified conventions, practices and precedents continue to play a significant role in most countries, as many constitutions do not specify important elements of procedure: for example, some older constitutions using the Westminster system do not mention the existence of the cabinet and / or the prime minister, because these offices were taken for granted by the authors of these constitutions.

Though the head of state, be it governor-general, monarch, or president, will have nominal powers to " check " those of the prime minister, in practice these individuals are usually regarded as little more than figureheads who are expected not to actively intervene in day-to-day politics.

Statistical considerations which focus on the probabilistic distribution of prime numbers present informal evidence in favour of the conjecture ( in both the weak and strong forms ) for sufficiently large integers: the greater the integer, the more ways there are available for that number to be represented as the sum of two or three other numbers, and the more " likely " it becomes that at least one of these representations consists entirely of primes.

As a result of these demonstrations, a sizable group within the RCC, led by Khaled Mohieddine, demanded that Naguib be released and returned to the Presidency, and that free elections be held to select a new president and prime minister.

Cattle drove to the northern ranges and held for two winters to mature 'em into prime beef were said to be `` double wintered ''.

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

In addition, the Chinese Communists were able to fill the political vacuum left in Manchuria after Soviet forces withdrew from the area and thus gained China's prime industrial base.

A prime example is in the case of Street Fighter X Tekken, where 12 characters advertised as downloadable content were found completed within the disc.

In late 2003, new parliamentary elections were held and a reformed HDZ party won under leadership of Ivo Sanader, who became prime minister.

The new bridges and roads made what were formerly estates and marshland into prime industrial and residential districts.

Their policies of low public expenditure and low taxation were adopted by William Ewart Gladstone when he became chancellor of the exchequer and later prime minister.

Following the 13th Congress, another power struggle with a different focus began ; this time socio-economic policies were the prime motivators for the struggle.

In 2007 there were big protests against the government, resulting in the appointment of a new prime minister.

The Tocqueville Connection states: " Most of the ambassadors were appointed by former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté, in office from February 2007 until May 2008 ," raising the possibility that the recall was an attempt on the part of Camara to distance himself from the previous government.

In the mid-1940s, during a depressing lull in his career ( his radio show Blue Ribbon Town had failed, and the Marx Brothers as film performers were well past their prime ), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope.

As mentioned above, the king and ( with two exceptions ) the prime minister of Prussia were also the emperor and chancellor of the empire – meaning that the same rulers had to seek majorities from legislatures elected from completely different franchises.

However, Lord Russell sometimes liked to use this position to speak for the whole government, as if he were the prime minister.

The project has found a total of thirteen Mersenne primes, eleven of which were the largest known prime number at their respective times of discovery.

The segment would always open up spoofing Burma-Shave road signs as some of the Hee-Haw cast were seen piled on a truck driving down the road to Slim's Bar-B-Q whose guests often complained about the food to which Slim would counter with something like " I may not have prime meat at this picnic but I do have prime entertainment ..." and then he'd bring out the entertainment.

From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

The three quisling prime ministers were Georgios Tsolakoglou, the general who had signed the armistice with the Wehrmacht, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, and Ioannis Rallis, who took office when the German defeat was inevitable, and aimed primarily at combating the left-wing Resistance movement.

These were sizeable formations in regional context but represented the bulk of prime Zulu fighting strength.

Laptops were, and still are, a prime target, with those traveling abroad on business being warned not to leave them for any period of time.

The first postwar elections were held in 1948 ( women were given the franchise for the first time in 1947 ), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru ( 1878 – 1967 ), became prime minister.

Commentators were quick to refer to Major's previous " Back to Basics " platform to throw charges of hypocrisy and had knowledge of the affair not been kept closely guarded by Tony Newton, " it is highly unlikely that Major would have become prime minister ".

The prime candidate for a geographic origin of the custom in Africa is Ghana where brooms were waved above the heads of newlyweds and their parents.