10 résultats pour "aerospace"
- British Aerospace (entreprise).
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Aerospace Medicine - astronomy.
medically as aeroembolism and popularly as the bends, leads to confusion, paralysis, or neurocirculatory collapse. The most characteristic symptoms of the bends arepain in the large joints resulting from pressure of the gas on tendons and nerves, together with spasm of the blood vessels. Preflight inhalation of pure oxygen toeliminate nitrogen from the system has proved valuable as a preventive measure. Rapid decompression, resulting from accidental failure at high altitudes of thepressure withi...
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aerospace valley
Dans le sud ouest de la France, notamment autour de Bordeaux, Toulouse et de leurs périphéries se trouvent des technopôles et des pôles de compétitivité qui regroupent sur des territoires, des entreprises et des organisations d’enseignement supérieur (ex : universités) ayant de forts potentiels de recherches favorables au développement des industries. Ces pôles dynamisent des espaces dans lesquels se développent des activités économiques (ex : industrielles). Comment le pôle de compétit...
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San Jose (California) - geography.
The San Jose metropolitan area is an economic powerhouse. It is the single most important high-technology center in the United States, specializing in aerospace andcomputer technology. Assisting in the area’s steady innovation is its many venture capital firms, which loan money to entrepreneurs starting new companies. It isestimated that the region contains one-half of the leading venture capital firms in the world. Among the nation’s largest companies in the San Jose metropolitan regionare Inte...
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San Diego - geography.
Qualcomm Stadium is the home of the San Diego Chargers, playing major league football. PETCO Park is the home of the San Diego Padres, playing major leaguebaseball. Major sporting events in the city include a professional golf tournament in February, hydroplane races on Mission Bay in late summer, and the Holiday Bowlpostseason college football game in December. VI ECONOMY The total value of all the goods and services produced in San Diego make it one of the most powerful economies in the worl...
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armement - encyclopédie.
d'un pôle aéronautique unique, regroupant Dassault et Aérospatiale, puis par le développement de consortiums européens tels qu'ils existent déjà entre Aérospatiale et Daimler-Benz Aerospace pour les hélicoptères (Eurocopter), les satellites (ESI) et les missiles (EMS). Puissamment exportatrice, l'industrie de l'armement génère un marché que dominent les États-Unis : entre 1987 et 1994, leurs exportations d'armes sont passées de 13 à 20 milliards de dollars. Directement concurrentes, celles...
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San Antonio (city, Texas) - geography.
The SBC Center is the home venue for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the San Antonio Silver Stars of the Women's NationalBasketball Association (WNBA). The dome also serves as the site for the Alamo Bowl, an annual post-season college football game. Large themed amusement parks inthe San Antonio area are Fiesta Texas and Sea World of Texas. San Antonio’s major annual event is the Fiesta, a ten-day celebration in late April with carnivals, ethnic feasts, art...
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Seattle - geography.
Mountains. The area includes the suburban cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, and Issaquah. The Eastside has become home to dozens of high-technologyindustries including Microsoft Corporation, ATL Ultrasound, Nintendo of America, divisions of The Boeing Company, and many other firms. In the 1960s commutersheaded to Seattle jobs from homes on the Eastside. Today, the “reverse commute” from Seattle homes to jobs on the Eastside is just as heavy, and both streams oftraffic cross the same...
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St. Louis (city) - geography.
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St. Louis (city) or Saint Louis,
Between 1940 and 1990 the black population in metropolitan St. Louis nearly tripled. Blacks are most heavily concentrated in three areas in the St. Louis metropolitanregion: East Saint Louis, the North Side close to downtown, and an east-west belt extending from the waterfront to beyond Forest Park. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, areas to the north and south of the central business district were settled by immigrant working families from Germany, Ireland,and many Eastern European countrie...
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