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Blending (other)
Blending may refer to: * The process of mixing in process engineering * Mixing paints to achieve a greater range of colors * Blending (alcohol production), a technique to produce alcoholic beverages by mixing different brews * Blending (linguistics), the process of forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word * Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing * Blending (vocal technique), a technique used in vocal warm up * Blending curves, in mathematics * Blending inheritance, a hypothetical model prior to the discovery of genetics * Alpha blending, a transparency technique in computer image generation * Conceptual blending, a general theory of cognition * Gas blending, the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox * Tea blending, the process of blending different teas to produce a final product * The Blending (novel series), a fantasy series by Sharon Green * Travel blending, a technique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixing (process Engineering)
In industrial process engineering, mixing is a unit operation that involves manipulation of a heterogeneous physical system with the intent to make it more homogeneous. Familiar examples include pumping of the water in a swimming pool to homogenize the water temperature, and the stirring of pancake batter to eliminate lumps (deagglomeration). Mixing is performed to allow heat and/or mass transfer to occur between one or more streams, components or phases. Modern industrial processing almost always involves some form of mixing.Ullmann, Fritz (2005). Ullmann's Chemical Engineering and Plant Design, Volumes 1–2. John Wiley & Sons. http://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpUCEPDV02/ullmanns-chemical-engineering Some classes of chemical reactors are also mixers. With the right equipment, it is possible to mix a solid, liquid or gas into another solid, liquid or gas. A biofuel fermenter may require the mixing of microbes, gases and liquid medium for optimal yield; organic nitration requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blending Inheritance
Blending inheritance is an obsolete theory in biology from the 19th century. The theory is that the progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parents' values of that characteristic. As an example of this, a crossing of a red flower variety with a white variety of the same species would yield pink-flowered offspring. Charles Darwin's theory of inheritance by pangenesis, with contributions to egg or sperm from every part of the body, implied blending inheritance. His reliance on this mechanism led Fleeming Jenkin to attack Darwin's theory of natural selection on the grounds that blending inheritance would average out any novel beneficial characteristic before selection had time to act. Blending inheritance was discarded with the general acceptance of particulate inheritance during the development of modern genetics, after . History Darwin's pangenesis Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution by natural selection on the basis of an understanding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Blending
Travel blending is a technique, developed in Australia, for encouraging people to make more efficient and environmentally sound transportation choices. The technique involves governments encouraging citizens to undertake a greater number of tasks on one trip, rather than making several trips to multiple locations at different times, thus improving travel efficiency and decreasing the strain on transportation networks. The technique originated in Sydney, as an effort to reduce air pollution before the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October .... External links * , an ITDP paper. Transportation planning {{Australia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blending (novel Series)
''The Blending'' is a fantasy series by Sharon Green. There are five novels in ''The Blending'' series, and an additional three novels in ''The Blending Enthroned''. The covers for all the books were illustrated by Thomas Canty. *''Convergence: Book One of The Blending'', Avon, November 1996 *''Competitions: Book Two of The Blending'', Avon, March 1997 *''Challenges: Book Three of The Blending'', Avon, May 1998 *''Betrayals: Book Four of The Blending'', Avon, February 1999 *''Prophecy: Book Five of The Blending'', Avon, July 1999 *''Intrigues: Book One of The Blending Enthroned'', Eos, October 3, 2000 *''Deceptions: Book Two of The Blending Enthroned'' *''Destiny: Book Three of The Blending Enthroned'', Eos, April 2, 2002 Overview Every twenty-five years, those with magical talents, called adepts, compete for a position within The Blending, a group of five adepts who rule the land. Tamrissa (the Fire adept), Lorand (the Earth adept), Jovvi (Spirit), Clarion (the Air), and Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tea Blending
file:TwiningsLadyGrey.jpg, Twinings Lady Grey (tea), Lady Grey tea which is a flavored tea blend containing Bergamot essential oil, bergamot oil, Peel (fruit), citrus peels and flowers file:China Royal Jasmine Curls tea.jpg, Chinese Jasmine tea, a popular scented tea in East Asia. The tea leaves are scented with jasmine flowers. Traditionally, the flowers are not included in the final blend, which retains the scent in the leaves. Tea blending is the act of blending different teas (and sometimes other products) to produce a final product that differs in flavor from the original tea used. This occurs chiefly with black tea, which is blended to make most tea bags, but it can also occur with such teas as Pu-erh, where leaves are blended from different regions before being compressed. The most prominent type of tea blending is commercial tea blending, which is used to ensure consistency of a batch on a mass scale so that any variations between different batches and seasons of tea producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gas Blending
Gas blending is the process of mixing gases for a specific purpose where the composition of the resulting mixture is defined, and therefore, controlled. A wide range of applications include scientific and industrial processes, food production and storage and breathing gases. Gas mixtures are usually specified in terms of molar gas fraction (which is closely approximated by volumetric gas fraction for many permanent gases): by percentage, parts per thousand or parts per million. Volumetric gas fraction converts trivially to partial pressure ratio, following Dalton's law of partial pressures. Partial pressure blending at constant temperature is computationally simple, and pressure measurement is relatively inexpensive, but maintaining constant temperature during pressure changes requires significant delays for temperature equalization. Blending by mass fraction is unaffected by temperature variation during the process, but requires accurate measurement of mass or weight, and calc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conceptual Blending
In cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence, conceptual blending, also called conceptual integration or view application, is a theory of cognition developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. According to this theory, elements and vital relations from diverse scenarios are "blended" in a subconscious process, which is assumed to be ubiquitous to everyday thought and language. Much like memetics, it is an attempt to create a unitary account of the cultural transmission of ideas. History The development of this theory began in 1993 and a representative early formulation is found in the online article "Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression". Turner and Fauconnier cite Arthur Koestler's 1964 book '' The Act of Creation'' as an early forerunner of conceptual blending: Koestler had identified a common pattern in creative achievements in the arts, sciences and humor that he had termed " bisociation of matrices." A newer version of blending theory, with somewhat diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Blending
In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency. It is often useful to render picture elements (pixels) in separate passes or layers and then combine the resulting 2D images into a single, final image called the composite. Compositing is used extensively in film when combining computer-rendered image elements with live footage. Alpha blending is also used in 2D computer graphics to put rasterized foreground elements over a background. In order to combine the picture elements of the images correctly, it is necessary to keep an associated '' matte'' for each element in addition to its color. This matte layer contains the coverage information—the shape of the geometry being drawn—making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where something was drawn and parts that are empty. Although the most basic operation of combining two images is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Implicit Curve
In mathematics, an implicit curve is a plane curve defined by an implicit equation relating two coordinate variables, commonly ''x'' and ''y''. For example, the unit circle is defined by the implicit equation x^2+y^2=1. In general, every implicit curve is defined by an equation of the form : F(x,y)=0 for some function ''F'' of two variables. Hence an implicit curve can be considered as the set of zeros of a function of two variables. ''Implicit'' means that the equation is not expressed as a solution for either ''x'' in terms of ''y'' or vice versa. If F(x,y) is a polynomial in two variables, the corresponding curve is called an ''algebraic curve'', and specific methods are available for studying it. Plane curves can be represented in Cartesian coordinates (''x'', ''y'' coordinates) by any of three methods, one of which is the implicit equation given above. The graph of a function is usually described by an equation y=f(x) in which the functional form is explicitly stated; this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paint Mixing
Paint mixing is the practice of mixing components or colors of paint to combine them into a working material and achieve a desired hue. The components that go into paint mixing depend on the function of the product sought to be produced. For example, a painter of portraits or scenery on a canvas may be seeking delicate hues and subtle gradiations, while the painter of a house may be more concerned with durability and consistency of colors in paints presented to customers, and the painter of a bridge or a ship may have the weatherability of the paint as their primary concern. History Mixing pigments for the purpose of creating realistic paintings with diverse color gamuts is known to have been practiced at least since Ancient Greece. The identity of a/the set of minimal pigments to mix diverse gamuts has long been the subject of speculation by theorists whose claims have changed over time, for example Pliny's white, black, one or another red, and "sil", which might have been yellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocal Warm Up
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in which the vocal folds (vocal cords) are the primary sound source. (Other sound production mechanisms produced from the same general area of the body involve the production of unvoiced consonants, clicks, whistling and whispering.) Generally speaking, the mechanism for generating the human voice can be subdivided into three parts; the lungs, the vocal folds within the larynx (voice box), and the articulators. The lungs, the "pump" must produce adequate airflow and air pressure to vibrate vocal folds. The vocal folds (vocal cords) then vibrate to use airflow from the lungs to create audible pulses that form the laryngeal sound source. The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds to 'fine-tune' pitch and ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blending (vocal Technique)
Blending may refer to: * The process of mixing in process engineering * Mixing paints to achieve a greater range of colors * Blending (alcohol production), a technique to produce alcoholic beverages by mixing different brews * Blending (linguistics), the process of forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word * Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing * Blending (vocal technique), a technique used in vocal warm up * Blending curves, in mathematics * Blending inheritance, a hypothetical model prior to the discovery of genetics * Alpha blending, a transparency technique in computer image generation * Conceptual blending, a general theory of cognition * Gas blending, the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox * Tea blending, the process of blending different teas to produce a final product * The Blending (novel series), a fantasy series by Sharon Green * Travel blending, a technique, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
