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FPP may refer to: Politics * Federacja Polskiej Przedsiębiorczości, a defunct political party in Poland * First-past-the-post voting * First Peoples Party, a defunct political party in Canada * Patriotic Front for Progress (French: '), a political party in the Central African Republic * Popular Front of Potosí (Spanish: '), a defunct political party in Bolivia * Fundación para el Progreso, a Chilean libertarian think tank. Science and medicine * Fantasy prone personality * Farnesyl pyrophosphate * Final Parsec Problem * FPP scale, for rating tornado intensity * Fundamental Physics Prize * Floating-point processor Other uses * Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) * Fire Protection Publications, an American publisher * First-person perspective * Fish protein powder * Fixed-point property * Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling * Floating power plant * Forest Peoples Programme, a British indigenous-rights organization * Fund Processing Passport * Portuguese Roller Sports F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federacja Polskiej Przedsiębiorczości
The Federacja Polskiej Przedsiębiorczości (lit. "''Federation of Polish Entrepreneurship''", FPP) was a political party in Poland. History The party was established as the Christian Labour Party (''Chrześcijańska Partia Pracy'', ChPP) on 31 March 1990 by representatives of small businesses.Piotr Wróbel (2014) ''Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996'', Routledge, p248 It was part of the Christian Democracy alliance for the 1991 parliamentary elections. The alliance won five seats in the Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ..., with Józef Hermanowicz and Henryk Rospara of the ChPP becoming MPs. In 1993 the party was renamed Federacja Polskiej Przedsiębiorczości. It was part of the Catholic Electoral Committee "Homeland" alliance for the 1993 parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fundamental Physics Prize
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner. The prize is awarded to physicists from theoretical, mathematical, or experimental physics that have made transformative contributions to fundamental physics, and specifically for recent advances. Worth USD$3 million, the prize is the most lucrative physics prize in the world and is more than twice the amount given to the Nobel Prize awardees. Unlike the annual Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Special Breakthrough Prize is not limited to recent discoveries, while the prize money is still USD$3 million. Physics Frontiers Prize has only been awarded for 2 years. Laureates are automatically nominated for next year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. If they are not awarded the prize the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Peoples Programme
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best. FPP works with forest peoples in South America, Africa, and Asia, to help them secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation are best achieved on their lands. Forests cover 31% of total land area of the planet. Of that, 12% are designated for the conservation of biological diversity and nearly all are inhabited. Many of the peoples, who live in and have customary rights to their forests, have developed ways of life and traditional knowledge that are attuned to their forest environments. Yet, forest policies commonly treat forests as empty lands controlled by the state and available for ‘development’ – colonisation, logging, plantations, dams, mines, oil wells, gas pipelines and agribusiness. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floating Power Plant
A powership (or power ship) is a special purpose ship, on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource. Converted from existing ships, powerships are self-propelled, ready to go infrastructure for developing countries that plug into national grids where required. Unmotorised powerships, known as power barges, are power plants installed on a deck barge. These are sometimes called "floating power plants" or "barge mounted power plants". They were initially developed during World War II by General Electric for the War Production Board as a transportable large-scale power generation resource. Powerships or power barges can be equipped with single or multiple gas turbines, reciprocating diesel and gas engines, boilers or nuclear reactors for electricity generation. Bureau Veritas, an international certification agency with experience in overseeing both shipbuilding and power plant development, classifies such floating power plants as "special service powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixed-priority Pre-emptive Scheduling
Fixed-priority preemptive scheduling is a scheduling system commonly used in real-time systems. With fixed priority preemptive scheduling, the scheduler ensures that at any given time, the processor executes the highest priority task of all those tasks that are currently ready to execute. The preemptive scheduler has a clock interrupt task that can provide the scheduler with options to switch after the task has had a given period to execute—the time slice. This scheduling system has the advantage of making sure no task hogs the processor for any time longer than the time slice. However, this scheduling scheme is vulnerable to process or thread lockout: since priority is given to higher-priority tasks, the lower-priority tasks could wait an indefinite amount of time. One common method of arbitrating this situation is aging, which gradually increments the priority of waiting processes and threads, ensuring that they will all eventually execute. Most real-time operating systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixed-point Property
A mathematics, mathematical object ''X'' has the fixed-point property if every suitably well-behaved mapping (mathematics), mapping from ''X'' to itself has a fixed point (mathematics), fixed point. The term is most commonly used to describe topological spaces on which every continuous (mathematics), continuous mapping has a fixed point. But another use is in order theory, where a partially ordered set ''P'' is said to have the fixed point property if every increasing function on ''P'' has a fixed point. Definition Let ''A'' be an object in the concrete category C. Then ''A'' has the ''fixed-point property'' if every morphism (i.e., every Function (mathematics), function) f: A \to A has a fixed point. The most common usage is when C = Top is the category of topological spaces. Then a topological space ''X'' has the fixed-point property if every continuous map f: X \to X has a fixed point. Examples Singletons In the category of sets, the objects with the fixed-poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fish Protein Powder
Fish protein powder (FPP) describes a food grade powder product designated primarily for human consumption applications. It differs significantly from fish meal products which are designated for animal feed applications. Fish protein powders have various sanitary processing, purity and functional characteristics which establish them as human food ingredients. Production plants registered for the USA market are located in Peru and France. History Historically, the fish processing methods used for human consumption have been: fresh, canned, frozen, smoked or dehydrated - all of which would be used as a whole food rather than as an ingredient in other foods. Additionally, an industrial fish industry exists where whole fish and by products from fish processing have been cooked and dehydrated to form a product termed fish meal, which is used for animal feed, pet food and fish feed. With the evolution of refining and processing technology and expanded research on the nutrition of fis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Perspective
A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first-person protagonist (or other focal character), first-person re-teller, first-person witness, or first-person peripheral. A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë's ''Jane Eyre'' (1847), in which the title character is also the narrator telling her own story, "I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me". This device allows the audience to see the narrator's mind's eye view of the fictional universe, but it is limited to the narrator's experiences and awareness of the true state of affairs. In some stories, first-person narrators may relay dialogue with other characters or refer to information they heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view. Other stories may switch the narrator to different cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Protection Publications
Fire Protection Publications (FPP) is a department of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT) a division within Oklahoma State University (OSU), in Stillwater, Oklahoma. FPP is the world's leading publisher of training materials for the fire and emergency services. FPP also serves as the headquarters for the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA). FPP and IFSTA have worked together to bring the fire service quality training materials for more than 85 years. The primary function of Fire Protection Publications is to publish and disseminate training manuals as proposed and validated by IFSTA. IFSTA committee members provide the technical review and validation of the manuals. Fire Protection Publications researches, acquires, produces, and distributes these manuals. A partial list of validated training manuals produced by FPP under the IFSTA imprint include: * ''Essentials of Fire Fighting'' * ''Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiber Patch Placement
Fiber Patch Placement (FPP), initially known as Fiber-Patch-Preforming.., is a robot-operated manufacturing technology for fiber composite objects such carbon, glass and adhesives. The basis of the Fiber Patch Placement process is the adaptation of the patch orientation to the locally or globally prevailing component complexity, e. g. the adaptation to a geometry, or to a complex load path. Description In patch based production, predefined material strips (fiber patches) are cut from flat dry or pre-impregnated fiber tape by an automated cutting unit and applied robotically with positional accuracy to a three-dimensional forming tool with the help of a flexible patch gripper. The load path-oriented and almost scrap-free deposition of the individual increments directly on the final 3D geometry eliminates additional forming steps. The unwanted draping effects of the fibers during the lay-up can be avoided by using appropriate patch sizes, allied with the controlled and uniform dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floating-point Unit
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents real numbers approximately, using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. For example, 12.345 can be represented as a base-ten floating-point number: 12.345 = \underbrace_\text \times \underbrace_\text\!\!\!\!\!\!^ In practice, most floating-point systems use base two, though base ten (decimal floating point) is also common. The term ''floating point'' refers to the fact that the number's radix point can "float" anywhere to the left, right, or between the significant digits of the number. This position is indicated by the exponent, so floating point can be considered a form of scientific notation. A floating-point system can be used to represent, with a fixed number of digits, numbers of very different orders of magnitude — such as the number of meters between galaxies or between protons in an atom. For this reason, floating-poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FPP Scale
The Fujita scale (F-Scale; ), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists and engineers after a ground or aerial damage survey, or both; and depending on the circumstances, ground-swirl patterns ( cycloidal marks), weather radar data, witness testimonies, media reports and damage imagery, as well as photogrammetry or videogrammetry if motion picture recording is available. The Fujita scale was replaced with the Enhanced Fujita scale (EF-Scale) in the United States in February 2007. In April 2013, Canada adopted the EF-Scale over the Fujita scale along with 31 "Specific Damage Indicators" used by Environment Canada (EC) in their ratings. Background The scale was introduced in 1971 by Ted Fujita of the University of Chicago, in collaboration with Allen Pearson, head of the National Seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
