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The cutoff left the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming, passed through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80 mile waterless drive, looped around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoined the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko ( also Emigrant Pass ).

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Afton was founded by Mormon settlers along the Lander cutoff of the Oregon Trail.
Improvements to the cutoff such as adding a ferry to cross the Snake River made it into a popular alternative route of the Oregon Trail.
John D. Unruh, Jr., writes of Lassen's first attempt at using his cutoff, rescued from disaster by a group of well-supplied emigrants from Oregon who helped him reach his ranch:

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He also claimed to have " worked out a new and better road to California ", and said he would be waiting at Fort Bridger to guide the emigrants along the new cutoff.
It covered the Santa Fe line from near San Francisco, California to Barstow, California, then east to Chicago, Illinois via the Belen cutoff.

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The " infinities " then become large but finite quantities proportional to this finite cutoff scale, and correspond to processes that involve very high energies near the fundamental cutoff.
While confirming that quantum mechanics and gravity are indeed consistent at reasonable energies, it is clear that near or above the fundamental cutoff of our effective quantum theory of gravity ( the cutoff is generally assumed to be of the order of the Planck scale ), a new model of nature will be needed.
Examples of nonlinear components that are used as mixers are vacuum tubes and transistors biased near cutoff ( class C ), and diodes.
In single mode optical fibre measurements, it is used to enforce true single mode propagation at wavelengths near or below the theoretical cutoff wavelength, at which substantial power can exist in a higher order mode group.
Between two and three miles out of town was a cutoff, Southeast 120th Street today, which went west towards Eichelberger Cave, located near present-day County Road 467.
Nonlinear electronic components that are used as mixers include diodes, transistors biased near cutoff, and at lower frequencies, analog multipliers.
The wavelength is long compared to the duct height near the base, in what is called the long-wave region, and very short near the place where the displacement and velocity are maximized, just before cutoff, in the short-wave region.
Summits near a higher peak, with some prominence or isolation, but not reaching a certain cutoff value for these quantities, are often considered subsummits ( or subpeaks ) of the higher peak, and are considered as part of the same mountain.
It was part of the original Kissimmee Valley Line to Lake Okeechobee south of near Marcy, and a newer cutoff north of there.
When greater power is necessary, e. g. when gaining speed when pulling out of a station and when ascending a gradient, the Walschaerts valve gear enables the engineer to set the cutoff point near the end of the stroke, so that the full pressure of the boiler is exerted on the piston for almost the entire stroke.
Large L < sub > e </ sub > values limit the high frequency output of the driver and cause response changes near cutoff.
The smallest squares in a flownet are located at points where the flow is concentrated ( in this diagram they are near the tip of the cutoff wall, used to reduce dam underflow ), and high flow at the land surface is often what the civil engineer is trying to avoid, being concerned about soil piping or dam failure.
For example, when Ontario's Highway 416 had to pass through a quick clay deposit near Nepean, lighter fill materials such as polystyrene were used for the road bed, vertical wick drains were inserted along the route and groundwater cutoff walls were built under the highway to limit water runoff into the clay.
At some point, a cutoff was built from the Northern Division near the Florida / Georgia state line southwest to the Southern Division at Callahan.
A few years later, Mormon emigration companies abandoned the majority of the cutoff route for a new section which today is Parley's Canyon, passing near Park City.
A cutoff bypassing downtown Niagara Falls opened in or near the 1950s, forming the current line.

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In 1976, a " cutoff " was built from Pelletier, Quebec, to a point on the former ICR main line west of Rivière-du-Loup, eliminating of mountainous trackage on the former NTR to Quebec City.
The rest of the line formed a cutoff between the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad towards New York City and the B & A.
The spur, which is signed as " Route 45 " and also known as the " Leavenworth cutoff ", was built as a shortcut from Leavenworth, Kansas to Kansas City during the construction of the Centennial Bridge ( Leavenworth, Kansas ).

cutoff and Rocks
The cutoff was created to reduce the possibility of ambush by Shoshone warriors along the Snake River such as the one that occurred at Massacre Rocks, which today is memorialized in Idaho's Massacre Rocks State Park.

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Therefore, the overall performance of existing systems could be improved more by reducing the number of luminaires than by switching to full cutoff designs.
This is because the best moves are the ones most likely to produce a cutoff, a condition where the game playing program knows that the position it is presently considering could not possibly have resulted from best play by both sides and so need not be considered further.
This size is a natural cutoff for the maximal momentum that a particle could possess when propagating on the lattice.
If the cutoff is a real, physical quantity — if, that is, the theory is only an effective description of physics up to some maximum energy or minimum distance scale — then these extra terms could represent real physical interactions.
Computer Music magazine considered the combination of these two features to " open up some incredibly powerful control possibilities ", and demonstrated how the signal triggered by a drum loop could control the filter cutoff frequency on a bass sound.
Butterworth showed that a low pass filter could be designed whose cutoff frequency was normalized to 1 radian per second and whose frequency response ( gain ) was
Although Kingman's four home runs in eight games helped propel the Yankees into the post-season over the second place Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles, he could not participate in the team's push to a World Series crown as he was added to the roster after the August 31 cutoff date.
With such engines, variable cutoff could be achieved with variable profile cams that were shifted along the camshaft by the governor.
Young's group made remarkable improvements to some parts of the cutoff on their journey so subsequent Mormon companies could more easily make it through to the Salt Lake valley.
The amendment also held that any such weapon manufactured and registered before the May 19 cutoff date could still be legally owned and transferred by civilians.
The cutoff relay was controlled by a " sleeve " lead that, as with the multiple switchboard, could be activated by either the incoming section or the outgoing.

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A cutoff value has been suggested to be 0. 73, with a higher value indicating presence of multiple sclerosis.
Campaigners also commonly argue that full cutoff fixtures are more efficient than other fixtures, since light that would otherwise have escaped into the atmosphere may instead be directed towards the ground.
However, full cutoff fixtures may also trap more light in the fixture than other types of luminaires, corresponding to lower luminaire efficiency, suggesting a re-design of some luminaires may be necessary.
The use of full cutoff fixtures can allow for lower wattage lamps to be used in the fixtures, producing the same or sometimes a better effect, due to being more carefully controlled.
According to design investigations, luminaires with full cutoff distributions ( as opposed to cutoff or semi cutoff, compared here ) have to be closer together to meet the same light level, uniformity and glare requirements specified by the IESNA.
This indicates that, in roadway installations, over-illumination or poor uniformity produced by full cutoff fixtures may be more detrimental than direct uplight created by fewer cutoff or semi-cutoff fixtures.
In radio communications, cable TV systems or the public switched telephone network for instance, electrical signals can only be transferred over a limited passband frequency spectrum, with specific ( non-zero ) lower and upper cutoff frequencies.
These quantities can then be absorbed into an infinite collection of coupling constants, and at energies well below the fundamental cutoff of the theory, to any desired precision ; only a finite number of these coupling constants need to be measured in order to make legitimate quantum-mechanical predictions.
In fact, gravity is in many ways a much better quantum field theory than the Standard Model, since it appears to be valid all the way up to its cutoff at the Planck scale.
In steam engines the point in the piston cycle at which the steam inlet valve closes is called the cutoff and this can often be controlled to adjust the torque supplied by the engine and improve efficiency.
The yield limits effectively prescribe a cutoff for AES sensitivity, but complex techniques can be utilized to identify heavier elements, such as uranium and americium, using the Auger effect.
Depending on where the cutoff is set, people who would subsequently be diagnosed can be missed.
In physics and electrical engineering, a cutoff frequency, corner frequency, or break frequency is a boundary in a system's frequency response at which energy flowing through the system begins to be reduced ( attenuated or reflected ) rather than passing through.
The cutoff frequency can be calculated from that.
Passing a signal through such a channel results in the removal of frequency components above this cutoff frequency ; in addition, the amplitude of the frequency components below the cutoff frequency may also be attenuated by the channel.

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