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Crank (person)

Known as: Crank (persons), Kookdom, Kookism 
"Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A crank… 
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2018
2018
Investigation of kinematic parameters of two nonconventional piston machines with wobble board
Article deals with description of non-conventional mechanism FIK and mechanism with ring, which may be suitable for special… 
2012
2012
Design Model Free Switching Gain Scheduling Baseline Controller with Application to Automotive Engine
Internal combustion (IC) engines are optimized to meet exhaust emission requirements with the best fuel economy. Closed loop… 
2011
2011
Mechanics of Composite Beams
A structural element having one dimension many times greater than its other dimensions can be a rod, a bar, a column, or a beam… 
2008
2008
Unsteady Laminar Free Convection from a Vertical Cone with Uniform Surface Heat Flux
Numerical solutions of, unsteady laminar free convection from an incompressible viscous fluid past a vertical cone with unifo rm… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Multi-output control of a heavy duty HCCI engine using Variable Valve Actuation and Model Predictive Control
Autoignition of a homogeneous mixture is very sensitive to operating conditions, therefore fast control is necessary for reliable… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
A specific heat ratio model and compression ratio estimation
Cylinder pressure modeling and heat release analysis are today important and standard tools for engineers and researchers, when… 
2001
2001
Assisting teachers to support mildly intellectually disabled learners in the foundation phase in accordance with the policy of inclusion
1997
1997
Contact control of flexible micro/macro-manipulators
  • J. Lew
  • Proceedings of International Conference on…
  • 1997
  • Corpus ID: 29929347
Contact force control of a long-reach micro/macro-manipulator, in which the macro-manipulator is flexible, is discussed in this… 
1996
1996
Effect of Alternative Diesel Fuels on Heat Release Curves for Cummins N14-410 Diesel Engine
A Cummins N14-410 engine was operated on 12 fuels produced by blending methyl tallowate, methyl soyate, and fuel ethanol with no… 
1983
1983
Arm crank vs handrim wheelchair propulsion: metabolic and cardiopulmonary responses.
: The handrim propulsion system of most manual wheelchairs has been shown to be inefficient and stressful to the cardiovascular… 
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