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5 unusual facts about Tool


Central Institute of Tool Design

Central Institute of Tool Design or CITD (Hindi: केन्द्रीय उपकरण अभिकल्पन संस्थान) is an institute in India providing programs in Tool Engineering and Technology .

Comparison between Esperanto and Interlingua

Esperanto, in his view, was a theoretically neutral instrument for communication, which could serve as a vehicle for idealistic values, initially Zamenhof's philosophy of homaranismo, later the interna ideo (internal idea) of achieving "fraternity and justice among all people" (Zamenhof) through the adoption of Esperanto.

Graph Modelling Language

Graph-tool, a free and efficient Python module for manipulation and statistical analysis of graphs.

Third Eye Open: The String Tribute to Tool

The group uses violins, viola and cello to express their interpretation of the music of the alternative, progressive metal band Tool.

Third Eye Open: The String Tribute to Tool is a cover album released in 2001 by The String Quartet, a rotating group of musicians from Los Angeles, who focus on tribute albums covering other bands' work through Vitamin Records.


Adventure International

The games were written using an in-house adventure creator with text compression and a sophisticated command interpreter running on a BBC Micro and a graphics tool running on an Apricot F1.

Area of responsibility

Sometimes known as distant battlespace, it is useful to the force commander as a tool in assigning subordinate areas of operations and in focusing intelligence collection and information operations to shape the battlespace to facilitate future operations.

Areal feature

Edward Sapir notably used evidence of contact and diffusion as a negative tool for genetic reconstruction, treating it as a subject in its own right only at the end of his career (e.g., for the influence of Tibetan on Tocharian).

Bohorič alphabet

With the authors Anton Tomaž Linhart and Valentin Vodnik, it became an established tool of literary expression again.

Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone

Chabahar free trade–industrial zone was established in 1992 along with the two other free trade zones Qeshm and Kish Island to use global expertise (mostly from South East Asia) as a tool for the development of the country, accelerating the accomplishment of infrastructure, creation of employment, and representation in global markets.

Choosing Healthplans All Together

The original CHAT tool was developed in 1995 by physician ethicists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Michigan in the United States.

CoDeSys

The CODESYS Professional Developer Edition offers the option to add components to the tool which are subject to licensing, e.g. integrated UML support, a connection to the Apache Subversion version control system or static code analysis of the application code.

Culpeper National Cemetery

These make-work improvements included replacing the original 1870s tool house at the cost of $8,000 in 1934, raising and realigning 912 headstones in May 1934, by the Civil Works Administration, and realignment and re-setting 402 headstones in 1936 though a Works Project Administration project.

Dara O'Rourke

He is also the founder of GoodGuide, an online consumer tool for retrieving information about the supply chain of consumer products such as toys, food, and detergents.

Declan Hicks

Declan is involved in many various forms of motorsport, and was recently part of a team building and racing a Power Tool Drag Racer to race in the Silverline tools Challenge, soon to be seen on the Discovery Canada magazine show Daily Planet, with his team-mates Jon Lawes and Ben Short.

Deployment

Deployment flowchart, a process mapping tool used to articulate the steps and stakeholders of a given process

Digital ICE

LaserSoft Imaging released an infrared dust and scratch removal tool (iSRD - infrared Smart Removal of Defects) in 2008, that allows Nikon's film scanners for Mac OS X, as well as many scanners from other manufacturers to make high quality scans of Kodachrome slides.

ERIKA Enterprise

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.

Flexible Macroblock Ordering

FMO builds on top of another error-resilience tool, Arbitrary slice ordering, because each slice group can be sent in any order and can optionally be decoded in order of receipt, instead of in the usual scan order.

Forced settlement

Forced settlements in the Soviet Union, punitive settlements, a tool of Soviet political repression

Frow

Froe, tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain

Georges Cipriani

In the late 1960s, he worked as a milling machine operator in the machine tool workshop of the Renault-Billancourt factory.

Hall of Fame Racing

Darnell came over with sponsorship from Northern Tool and Equipment and Labonte replaced David Gilliland in the 71 TRG Motorsports car.

Harvest Moon 64

The player starts with five basic tools to help restore the farm: a hammer, an axe, a sickle, a hoe, and a watering can.

Horr's Island archaeological site

Shells were used as hammers, awls, celts and digging tools, and as bowls, dippers and spoons.

Interferome

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis and orthologue sequence download;

Internet in Cuba

According to Boris Moreno Cordoves, Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communications, the Torricelli Act (part of the United States embargo against Cuba) identified the telecommunications sector as a tool for subversion of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the necessary technology has been conditioned by counter-revolutionaries, but is also seen as essential for Cuba’s economic development.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

Law of superposition

When combined with the related principle of faunal succession, the law of superposition provides a very powerful tool for dating rocks and strata.

Leatherman

The company was founded in July 1983 by Timothy S. Leatherman and Steve Berliner in order to market his idea of a capable, easily-portable hand tool with multiple functions.

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

Mary Leakey

For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge, in eastern Africa, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines.

Mobile Web

mTLD, the registry for .mobi, has released a free testing tool called the MobiReady Report (see mobiForge) to analyze the mobile readiness of website.

Mudmen

Mudmen have opened for many well-known bands, including ZZ Top, Tool, Dropkick Murphys and Bowling for Soup, as well as fellow Canadians Nickelback, Sum 41 and The Guess Who.

MyFax

MyFax is an Internet business communication tool which had been provided by the Ottawa-based software company Protus IP Solutions.

PC-Lint

PC-lint is a commercial software linting tool produced by Gimpel Software for the C/C++ languages.

Pickaroon

Picaroons Traditional Ales – A New Brunswick brewer named after the common logging tool.

PubChemSR

PubChemSR is a MS-Windows-based data search and retrieval tool for the NCBI's public chemical database PubChem.

Rod Ferrell

Before Richard had even awakened, Ferrell beat him multiple times with a crowbar, fracturing both his skull and ribs, almost instantly knocking him out, and killing him shortly thereafter.

Rooftop photovoltaic power station

Visual-SOLAR is a Geographic information system (GIS) tool being developed that uses high-resolution Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-derived Digital Surface Models to accurately recreate the earth’s surface, including building rooftops.

Rorschach test

James Heilman, an emergency room physician involved in the debate, compared it to the publication of the eye test chart: though people are likewise free to memorize the eye chart before an eye test, its general usefulness as a diagnostic tool for eyesight has not diminished.

Scorecard

Balanced scorecard, a tool used by managers to measure employee performance

Sem-France Loire

Sem was replaced as main sponsor in 1984 when the small power tool manufacturer Skil became the main sponsor making the Skil-Sem team.

Ski Museum of Maine

In early 2009 the museum completed the acquisition of a set of miniature skis that were crafted circa 1905 in Portland, Maine, by Theo A. Johnsen and used by him as a marketing tool for his Tajco brand ski equipment.

South Pole Carbon

South Pole Carbon, in partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in 2012 developed a Carbon Screening tool to unveil greenhouse gas emissions profiles of more than 40,000 publicly listed companies.

SPEC XPC

In 1993, the XPC project group developed Xmark93, a standardized benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of computer systems running the X Window System.

Sphagnum palustre

In a project called Mossclone which is part of the 7th framework program of the European Union the peat moss Shagnum palustre will be multiplied in moss bioreactors to create a measuring tool to track air quality in Europe.

Sun Open Storage

Core features provided by Solaris include the operating environment, the ZFS file-system, an analytics tool based on Dtrace, the Network File System (NFS) and CIFS protocol interfaces and other core features.

Time–distance diagram

Time–distance diagrams can be created using any kind of drawing tool, certainly one which allows scaled drawing (for example, CAD editors, Visio).

Tool management

Each component is also linked to a tool category that belongs to a user specific tree structure, which serves to find the tools according to their technical criteria without indicating the number.

Utensil

Eating utensil, a tool for shaping and carrying food to the mouth

Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares

As historian and former MR-8 militant Daniel Aarão Reis Filho declared to journalist Elio Gaspari, "as part of the radicalization process initiated on 1961, the project of the leftist organizations that supported the armed struggle was revolutionary, abusive and dictatorial (...) There is not even one document of those organizations in which they present themselves as a tool of democratic resistance".

Vilnius letter

Such criticism may hint at the Vilnius letter as a tool for U.S. policies to divide and rule, citing essays from the think tank PNAC.

Wanna Have Fun

It was an inexpensively priced long-running EP issued mostly as a promotional tool for her album Sisters of Avalon, released the same year.


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