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BTC Pipeline
BTC may refer to: Organizations * BAL Bashkirian Airlines (ICAO code) * Behavior Tech Computer, a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer * Belize Trans Colours, a Belizean LGBT rights organisation * Bodoland Territorial Council * Botswana Telecommunications Corporation * British Transport Commission * BTC (Bahamas), a telecommunications provider * Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, the former name of Vivacom * Busan Transportation Corporation, in Busan, South Korea Education * Balderstone Technology College * Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa * Bellingham Technical College * Belmont Technical College * Blackhawk Technical College Places * BTC City, a shopping and other use area in Ljubljana, Slovenia * Batticaloa Airport (IATA code) * Britomart Transport Centre, New Zealand * Bucharest Tower Center, a building in Romania * Bellevue Transit Center, the busiest bus stop in Washington state Science and technology Biochemistry * Betacellulin, a protein encode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BAL Bashkirian Airlines
BAL – Bashkirian Airlines (russian: «Башкирские авиалинии», ba, «БАЛ Башҡортостан авиалиниялары») was an airline with its head office on the property of Ufa International Airport in Ufa, Russia. It operated regional and trunk routes from Ufa and charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The company was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2007. History The airline was founded in 1991, originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based Aerovolga. It began to make permanent domestic, foreign connections and charter flights to Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona. In October 2006, the airline lost its air operator's certificate after intense security renovations. In April 2007, Bashkirian Airlines reported the insolvency of the airline and ceased operations. It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution. Destinations As of January 2005, Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britomart Transport Centre
Britomart Transport Centre, also known as Britomart railway station, is the public transport hub in the Auckland Central Business District, central business district of Auckland and the northern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk railway line. It combines a railway station in a former Edwardian architecture, Edwardian post office, extended with expansive Modern architecture, modernist architectural elements, with a bus interchange. It is at the foot of Queen Street, Auckland, Queen Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of the CBD, with the main ferry terminal just across Quay Street, Auckland, Quay Street. The centre was the result of many design iterations, some of them being substantially larger and including an underground bus terminal and a large underground car park. Political concerns and cost implications meant that those concepts did not proceed. However, at the time of its inception in the early 2000s the centre was still Auckland's largest transport project e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTC Touring
In motor racing, BTC Touring (BTC-T) was the set of new regulations for the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) introduced in 2001 BTCC, after the demise of the Supertouring category. The cars were based on standard bodyshells, but were allowed significant modifications to turn the car into a racecar and differentiate it from the Super Production class that would run alongside BTC Touring in the 2001 BTCC. Models In chronological order of their appearances, the cars were: * BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Coupe * BTC-T Peugeot 406 Coupe * BTC-T Alfa Romeo 147 *BTC-T Lexus IS200 *BTC-T MG ZS EX259 *BTC-T Honda Civic Type-R *BTC-T Proton Impian *BTC-T Peugeot 307 * BTC-T Vauxhall Vectra * BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch *BTC-T Honda Integra Type R Gallery File:2005FOS HondaIntegra MattNeal.jpg, Matt Neal demonstrates a Team Dynamics BTC-T Honda Integra Type R at the 2005 Goodwood Festival of Speed. File:Vauxhall astra brands hatch.jpg, Tom Chilton driving a VXRacing prepared BTC-T Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicycle Torque Coupling
An S and S Coupling also known as a Bicycle Torque Coupling or BTC is a coupling which enables bicycle frames to be separated into smaller pieces, usually to facilitate packing and transporting. Couplings can be built into the frame by the frame manufacturer when the frame is made or can be added to a frame after it is finished. A special spanner is available for tightening and loosening the couplings. Applications The couplings are usually installed in the top tube and down tube of a single-rider diamond frame. This enables the bicycle to be boxed small enough to avoid the extra fee most airlines charge to check a bicycle as luggage. They can also be installed in tandem and recumbent frames. Santana manufactures a "triplet (or quad) that can be transformed into a tandem by simply removing the center section of the frame." Characteristics The couplings are available in stainless steel, cromoly steel, and titanium and in different sizes, from to match the frame tubing in which t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan Pipeline
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, via Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is the second-longest oil pipeline in the former Soviet Union, after the Druzhba pipeline. The first oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline reached Ceyhan on 28 May 2006. History Planning The Caspian Sea lies above one of the world's largest collections of oil and gas fields. As the sea is landlocked, transporting oil to Western markets is complicated. During Soviet times, all transportation routes from the Caspian region were through Russia. The collapse of the Soviet Union inspired a search for new routes. Russia first insisted that the new pipeline should pass through its territory, then declined to participate. In the spring of 1992, the Turki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowerman Track Club
The Bowerman Track Club (BTC) is an American training group sponsored by Nike, Inc. for professional distance runners as well as a separate recreational club for casual runners. The professional team is supported by head coach Jerry Schumacher and assistant Pascal Dobert. The club maintains a rivalry with the competing Oregon Track Club, also sponsored by Nike, Inc. BTC athletes won three medals at the 2017 World Athletics Championships. The club is named after Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. Purpose As the organization states itself: Roster The Bowerman Track Club hosts the following athletes: Men * Mo Ahmed * Amos Bartelsmeyer *Matthew Centrowitz Jr. * Chris Derrick * Grant Fisher * Evan Jager * Woody Kincaid * Lopez Lomong * Sean McGorty * Marc Scott * Josh Thompson * Kieran Tuntivate Women * Shelby Houlihan * Courtney Frerichs * Vanessa Fraser * Karissa Schweizer * Elise Cranny Former members Some members have left the club, either due to reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapesti TC
Budapesti Torna Club was a Hungarian sports club in Budapest and the first football club in the country. Its football team were the winners of the first two seasons of Nemzeti Bajnokság I, in 1901 and 1902. History The club was founded on January 21, 1897. It was the first official football club to be founded in Hungary, and it will soon be followed by many others. On September 18 of the same year, it played the first official match in Hungarian history, between two internal teams, the blue-white one and the red-white one, with the former winning 5-0. On October 31 it played the first international match of a Hungarian club, when it played against Austria's Vienna Cricket and Football Club in Vienna , losing 2-0. It was one of the founders of the Hungarian football leagues, the Nemzeti Najnokság, and the winner of its first two editions. After 1925 the club played only in the amateur leagues and it was dissolved during season 1945-46. Honours *Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block Truncation Coding
Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a type of lossy image compression technique for greyscale images. It divides the original images into blocks and then uses a quantizer to reduce the number of grey levels in each block whilst maintaining the same mean and standard deviation. It is an early predecessor of the popular hardware DXTC technique, although BTC compression method was first adapted to color long before DXTC using a very similar approach called Color Cell Compression. BTC has also been adapted to video compression. BTC was first proposed by Professors Mitchell and Delp at Purdue University. Another variation of BTC is Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding or AMBTC, in which instead of using the standard deviation the first absolute moment is preserved along with the mean. AMBTC is computationally simpler than BTC and also typically results in a lower Mean Squared Error (MSE). AMBTC was proposed by Maximo Lema and Robert Mitchell. Using sub-blocks of 4×4 pixels gives a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitcoin
Bitcoin ( abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009, when its implementation was released as open-source software. The word "''bitcoin''" was defined in a white paper published on October 31, 2008. It is a compound of the words ''bit'' and ''coin''. The legality of bitcoin varies by region. Nine countries have fully banned bitcoin use, while a further fifteen have implicitly banned it. A few governments have used bitcoin in some capacity. El Salvador has adopted Bitcoin as legal tender, although use by merchants remains low. Ukraine has accepted cryptocurrency donations to fund the resistance to the 2022 Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X86 Instruction Set
The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor. The x86 instruction set has been extended several times, introducing wider registers and datatypes as well as new functionality. x86 integer instructions Below is the full 8086/8088 instruction set of Intel (81 instructions total). Most if not all of these instructions are available in 32-bit mode; they just operate on 32-bit registers (eax, ebx, etc.) and values instead of their 16-bit (ax, bx, etc.) counterparts. The updated instruction set is also grouped according to architecture (i386, i486, i686) and more generally is referred to as (32-bit) x86 and (64-bit) x86-64 (also known as AMD64). Original 8086/8088 instructions Added in specific Intel processors Added with Intel 80186, 80186/Intel 80188, 80188 Added with 80286 Added with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triphosgene
Triphosgene (bis(trichloromethyl) carbonate (BTC) is a chemical compound with the formula OC(OCCl3)2. It is used as a solid substitute for phosgene, which is a gas. Triphosgene is stable up to 200 °C. Triphosgene is used in a variety of halogenation reactions. Preparation This compound is commercially available. It is prepared by exhaustive free radical chlorination of dimethyl carbonate: :CH3OCO2CH3 + 6 Cl2 → CCl3OCO2CCl3 + 6 HCl Triphosgene can be easily recrystallized from hot hexanes. Uses Triphosgene is used as a reagent in organic synthesis as a source of CO2+. It behaves like phosgene to which it cracks thermally: :OC(OCCl3)2 → 3 OCCl2 Alcohols are converted to carbonates. Primary and secondary amines are converted to ureas and isocyanates. Triphosgene has been used to synthesize organohalides. The use of triphosgene in these reactions provided a broader class of substrates that could be used for halogenation. Alkyl chlorides are synthesized via an SN2 reaction w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trimesic Acid
Trimesic acid, also known as benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid, is an organic compound with the formula C6H3(CO2H)3. It is one of three isomers of benzenetricarboxylic acid. A colorless solid, trimesic acid has some commercial value as a precursor to some plasticizers. Trimesic acid can be combined with ''para''-hydroxypyridine to make a water-based gel, stable up to 95 °C. Trimesic acid crystallizes from water in a hydrogen-bonded hydrated network with wide unidimensional empty channels. See also * Trimellitic acid (1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylic acid) * Hemimellitic acid Hemimellitic acid (benzene-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid) is an organic compound with the molecular formula C6H3(СО2Н)3. Like the other isomers of benzenetricarboxylic acid, hemimellitic acid is a colorless solid. It is prepared by oxidation of 1, ... (1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid) References Benzoic acids Tricarboxylic acids {{organic-compound-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
