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LeasePlan is a world leader in Car-as-a-Service, with 1.8 million vehicles under management in over 29 countries.

Our resilient and cash generative business services model has a strong track record of sustainable growth and profitability.

LeasePlan operates two leading businesses, with 1.8 million vehicles under management in over 29 countries.

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LeasePlan

LeasePlan is an international company of Dutch origins, specialised in automobile leasing and fleet management.

Founded in the Netherlands in 1963 following a joint venture between a bank and a company providing services to drivers, LeasePlan initially specialised in the open-book management model.

In 1985, the banking group ABN-Amro acquired 100% of the shares in LeasePlan and founded a holding company named ABN-Amro Lease Holding.

In 2003, the holding company of the LeasePlan Group was renamed LeasePlan Corporation.

In 2004, ABN-Amro sold LeasePlan Corporation to a consortium consisting of the Volkswagen Group, Olayan Group, and Mubadala Development Company.

In 2012 LeasePlan acquired the Italian car leasing activities of BBVA. On 21 March 2016, an international consortium led by the Dutch Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn pension fund completed its acquisition of the company.

LeasePlan Bank is a Dutch internet savings bank and an undertaking of LeasePlan.

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Location Longue Durée

Que ce soit de la location longue durée de vélo l’autopartage, ou de la location longue durée de véhicule thermique du leasing de véhicule électrique, ALD Automotive vous accompagne dans votre démarche et vous conseille sur les mobilités adaptées vos besoins et votre usage.

La location longue durée vous permet de louer une voiture pour une période et un kilométrage définis, accompagnée de services associés au véhicule.

Pour en savoir plus sur la location longue durée, les avantages de cette formule et les services associés, vous pouvez consultez nos pages d’aide la LLD. Que vous soyez un professionnel ou un particulier, la location longue durée s’adapte facilement vos besoins.

Que vous souhaitiez bénéficier d’un vélo fonctionnel pour votre activité ou pour l’ensemble de vos collaborateurs, nous vous proposons un service de location de vélo d’entreprise, et une expertise conseil pour vous accompagner mettre en place un Plan de Mobilité Employeur.

En plus de proposer une nouvelle alternative vos collaborateurs, la location longue durée de vélos apporte de nombreux avantages pour les entreprises : réduction d’impôts sur les sociétés, valorisation de sa marque employeur, fidélisation des employés, réduction des émissions de CO2.

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ALD Automotive

ALD Automotive is a French fleet managing and operational car leasing company and a majority owned subsidiary of Société Générale.

The company is active internationally and manages around 1.5 million vehicles.

With a direct presence in 41 countries and with top 3 positions in 26 countries, ALD Automotive is ranked #3 worldwide and #1 in Europe by number of contracts under management and excluding OEM captives as at 31 December 2017 with around 1.5 million full service vehicle leasing and fleet management service contracts.

The company also sells former lease fleet vehicles to consumers through its ALD carmarket brand.

In 2015 ALD Automotive started leasing out e-bikes in the Netherlands, as part of a program on experimenting with innovative mobility on the Dutch market.

On 16 June 2017 the company was listed on the Paris Euronext stock market.

On 6 January 2022 the company announced its intention to acquire its Dutch-headquartered competitor Leaseplan for 4.9 billion euros.

Ly/BAthsO4 #ReadyToMoveYouChargePoint & ALD Automotive are advocating for fleets in future EU environmental regulations.

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Important Things to ConsiderDepending on your circumstances and what is important to you, a lease could be a great option for your next vehicle.

Below are some important factors that may influence your decision.

Monthly payments on leases are generally 20% – 30% cheaper than loans.

Easy to upgrade to the newest vehicle model every few years.

There are often fees charged if you drive more than your lease’s mileage allowance.

And Is It A Good Idea?

At the end of the lease, you’ll either return the vehicle to the dealership or buy out your lease if you want to keep the car, if that’s an option in your lease.

You’ll typically need good credit to lease a new car.

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At the end of the lease term – typically two to four years – you’ll return the car to the dealership and walk away from the car and monthly payments for good, unless your lease allows you to purchase the vehicle.

A closed-end lease means you’ve already agreed on how much the car’s value will decrease during your lease term.

Your lease contract can include a number called the gross capitalized cost, which is comparable to the agreed value of the car and services at the start of the lease.

If you view car ownership as a hassle, a lease may be a good choice for you.

Autoflex Leasing: New & Used Car Leasing In Dallas Fort Worth, TX

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Our lease specials are some of the best near Fort Worth, TX. How does it all work? Glad you asked.

Chances are, we do! Right here at Autoflex, you can get a Kia lease or a Tesla lease.

We take lease return vehicles, demo vehicles, and other low mileage vehicles and lease them as we would a brand new car.

The difference with this type of auto leasing is that you’ll get tremendous savings from driving away in a used car lease with minimal miles on the clock.

Why? Their banks are set up to sell or lease new cars only.

Autoflex leases more vehicles per day than anywhere else.

Ending Your Car Lease Is Tricky, But Can Still Pay Off

Before the car market was turned upside down by the pandemic, microchip shortages and supply chain disruptions, most people simply turned in their leased cars.

“Getting the equity out at the end of the lease is more difficult than just turning it back in,” says Scot Hall, executive vice president of operations for Swapalease, which matches leaseholders with car shoppers looking to take over a lease.

Turn your car in to the leasing company and then lease or buy a different brand of vehicle.

Trading in your leased car also typically reduces the sales taxes on the new car.

Your equity can serve as a down payment on a new or used car or cover the drive-off costs for a new lease.

Turn your car in, then buy or lease a different brand.

One arm of the dealer group could buy out the car, and the other arm could get you into a new car.

Vehicle Leasing

Vehicle leasing or car leasing is the leasing of a motor vehicle for a fixed period of time at an agreed amount of money for the lease.

The key difference in a lease is that after the primary term the vehicle has to either be returned to the leasing company or purchased for the residual value.

Some consumers may prefer leasing as it allows them to simply return a car and select a new model when the lease expires, allowing a consumer to drive a new vehicle every few years without the responsibility of negotiating the trade-in value or sale price of the old vehicle, or possible repair costs after expiry of the manufacturer’s warranty.

For the seller, leasing generates income from a vehicle the seller still owns and will be able to lease again or sell through vehicle remarketing once the original lease has expired.

As consumers will typically use a leased vehicle for a shorter period of time than one they buy outright, leasing may generate repeat customers more quickly, which may fit into various aspects of a dealer’s business model.

As of 2016, leasing accounted for about 25 percent of total vehicle sales and 31 percent retail sales in the United States.

Leasing a vehicle provides access to a vehicle that might otherwise be unaffordable as an outright purchase.

Economy Of Russia

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia underwent a radical transformation, moving from a centrally planned economy to a globally integrated market economy.

The phenomenon of corruption is strongly established in the historical model of public governance in Russia and attributed to general weakness of rule of law in Russia.

Another factor stimulating the IT sector growth in Russia is the presence of global technology corporations such as Intel, Google, Motorola, Boeing, Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, SAP AG, and others, which have intensified their software development activities and opened their R&D centers in Russia.

Balance of trade in Russia is reported by the Central Bank of Russia.

Exports in Russia is reported by the Central Bank of Russia.

Russia is the 16th largest export economy in the world and is a leading exporter of oil and natural gas.

Imports in Russia is reported by the Central Bank of Russia.

Russia Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption

Corruption and impunity are pervasive, especially in public procurement, media, national defense, and public utilities.

The individual income tax rate is a flat 13 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 20 percent.

The overall tax burden equals 11.0 percent of total domestic income.

Government spending has amounted to 35.3 percent of total output over the past three years, and budget surpluses have averaged 0.3 percent of GDP. Public debt is equivalent to 19.3 percent of GDP. Regulatory Efficiency.

In 2019, the World Bank reported that subsidies accounted for about 69 percent of the government’s budget.

Russia has 11 preferential trade agreements in force.

The trade-weighted average tariff rate is 5.5 percent, and 227 nontariff measures are in effect.

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For purposes of description it is convenient to refer to the official set of 11 traditional economic regions into which Russia is divided.

Overall, agriculture contributes little more than 5 percent to Russia’s gross domestic product, though the sector employs about one-eighth of the total labour force.

In European Russia the proportion of land devoted to crops increases southward, from virtually none in the North region to about two-thirds in the Central Black Earth region.

More than two-fifths of Russia is forested, and the country has more than one-fifth of the world’s total forests-an area nearly as large as the continental United States.

Russia produces about one-third of all canned fish and some one-fourth of the world’s total fresh and frozen fish.

The biggest fields lie in the remote Tunguska and Lena basins of East Siberia and the Far East, but these are largely untapped, and the bulk of output comes from more southerly fields along the Trans-Siberian Railroad. About three-fourths of Russia’s coal is produced in Siberia-some two-fifths from the Kuznetsk Basin alone and the remainder from the Kansk-Achinsk, Cheremkhovo, and South Yakut basins and numerous smaller sources.

Nonferrous metals are available in great variety from many districts, but by far the most important are those of the Ural region, which is Russia’s main centre of nonferrous metallurgy.

Russia’S Ukraine Invasion Could Be A Global Economic ‘Game Changer’

On Friday, Russia’s isolation deepened as the country’s communications regulator blocked access to Facebook, one of the few sources of information that the government already did not control, saying it had discriminated against Russia media.

Together, Russia and Ukraine account for 3 percent of global output, according to JPMorgan Chase.

“There’s a chance – which increases with every human rights outrage that Putin commits – that Russia is shut out of the global economy for a long time. You are removing this big chunk of the global economy and going back to the situation we had in the Cold War when the Soviet bloc was pretty much closed off,” said Maury Obstfeld, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, Russia embarked on a helter-skelter series of economic reforms, including establishment of the country’s first stock market, and welcomed foreign investors.

Remittances from migrant workers from Central Asia who work in Russia make up about 30 percent of the economy in both the Kyrgyz republic and Tajikistan and are almost certain to plummet as Russia plunges into a deep recession and the ruble sinks.

Total U.S. two-way trade with Russia and Ukraine last year amounted to $40 billion, and Wall Street banks have less than $15 billion at stake in loans to Russian borrowers.

There will be collateral damage from the sweeping U.S. and allied sanctions that have slashed most of Russia’s links to global trade and finance.

The Worst Is Yet To Come For Russia’S Economy. 50-50 Odds On A Russian Bond Default.

Energy exports were meant to keep flowing, even as the U.S. and European Union cut off seven Russian banks from the Swift global payments system, and froze most of the Russian central bank’s foreign reserves.

That’s nixed the fat dividends that investors were counting on from Russian oil and gas stocks, and turned the ruble into a phantom currency, unanchored by real world transactions.

The Russian central bank’s official fixing plunged 20% after the freeze on reserves was announced on Feb. 28, and has hovered since then at about 110 to the dollar.

Worse has yet to come for Russia’s economy.

“It’s not stepping up as a sole purchaser of Russian exports.” In fact, the Beijing-based Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank froze lending to Russia and Belarus on March 3.

The broader market is less confident as “Self-sanctioning” from would-be Russian oil buyers goes viral.

Credit default swaps are pricing a 50-50 chance of a Russian sovereign debt default, State Street’s Hurd says.

Video published on social media Saturday shows parts of a Ukrainian tank factory outside of Zhytomyr – about 140 kilometers west of Kyiv – has been leveled after Russian military strikes at the complex.

While Russia has conducted military strikes on Ukrainian military positions during the invasion, CNN has identified a number of civilian complexes, apartment buildings, schools and markets across Ukraine that have been hit by the Russian military.

Many of the buildings that once made up the Zhytomyr Armored Plant complex are leveled.

“Well, that’s what flew into us last night,” a soldier is heard saying as they walk through the bombed out complex.

His comments suggest the Ukrainian soldiers had taken refuge at the plant overnight.

Reduced to rubble: The buildings that once stood in the eastern part of the complex are now mangled heaps of metal and concrete.

The soldier continues walking, noting he’s passing by pieces of unassembled tanks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a “Desperate plea” for more planes as Russian forces continued to batter strategic locations with missiles and artillery.

RUSSIA WARNS UKRAINE COULD LOSE STATEHOOD. Putin continued to blame Russia’s war against Ukraine on Ukrainian leaders, saying if they “Continue to do what they are doing, they are calling into question the future of Ukrainian statehood.”

In a video address to the nation, he urged Ukrainians in cities taken over by Russian forces to fight back.

Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery fire and airstrikes prevented residents from evacuating the eastern city of Volnovakha and the southeast port city of Mariupol.

Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were holding key cities in the central and southeastern part of the country Saturday, while the Russians were trying to block and keep encircled Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Sumy.

Ukrainian forces were defending Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest port city, from Russian ships, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said.

DEEPENING HUMANITARIAN NEED. The U.N. World Food Program says millions of people inside Ukraine, a major global wheat supplier, will need food aid “Immediately” and Ukrainian refugees continued to pour into neighboring countries, including Poland, Romania and Moldova.

What Is A Timing Belt And When Should You Replace It?

In more recently manufactured vehicles, the timing belt is a rubber belt that synchronizes the actions of the camshaft and crankshaft to keep your valves safely moving and your engine running.

In older vehicles, the timing belt may actually be a chain.

If a timing belt is worn out it may begin to slip and severe misfires will occur.

There is no clear-cut sign that a timing belt is going bad. Usually, when timing belts fail, it is not a gradual decline, instead, it is a sudden occurrence.

To prevent the unfortunate event of the belt slipping, replace the belt as recommended based on your vehicle manufacturer’s guidelines.

Stop into any of our Sun Auto Service locations today if you think your timing belt is worn or if you want to get an idea of how often you should replace the belt.

Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will help educate you on the best time to replace your timing belt as recommended by your vehicle manufacturer.

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SDP/SI supplies hobbyists, students, distributors and a wide variety of OEMs with high-quality machined timing belt pulleys, molded pulleys, timing belts, sprockets, and chains at affordable prices.

Synchronous drives can be divided into 3 categories: Chains and Sprockets Gears Belt Drives.

Belt drives are particularly useful in applications where layout flexibility is important.

SDP/SI offers a broad range of off-the-shelf inch and metric timing belts, timing belt pulleys, chains, and sprockets; timing pulleys in aluminum, steel or plastic with or without metal inserts, metal hubs, set screws or Fairloc® hubs.

SDP/SI carries a large inventory of single and double-sided timing belts in standard inch and metric widths.

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Symptoms Of A Bad Or Failing Timing Belt

The timing belt is an internal engine component that rotates the engine’s cam and crankshaft in sync and ensures each cylinder fires at the appropriate time.

The timing belt is located under a timing cover and is in the front of the engine.

Generally, timing chains last longer than timing belts, with some rated to last the lifetime of the car.

Listed below are a few common symptoms that might indicate that your timing belt is wearing out or has broken – which will require a local ASE certified mechanic to replace the timing belt and inspect other internal engine components for damage.

If the timing belt has broken inside, the engine will not be able to turn over or ignite.

If the issue is due to the timing belt being broken, it may also result in other internal engine compartment damage.

Leaking oil from the timing belt cover commonly results in engine overheating as well and can prematurely wear the timing belt.

Timing Belt

A timing belt is usually a toothed belt-a drive belt with teeth on the inside surface.

The use of a timing belt or chain instead of a gear drive enables engine designers to place the camshaft(s) further from the crankshaft, and in engines, with multiple camshafts a timing belt or chain also enables the camshafts to be placed further from each other.

Timing belts are typically covered by metal or polymer timing belt covers which require removal for inspection or replacement.

The manufacturer may also recommend the replacement of other parts, such as the water pump, when the timing belt is replaced because the additional cost to replace the water pump is negligible compared to the cost of accessing the timing belt.

A timing belt is typically rubber with 2 reinforcements; a high-tensile cord of fibres running the length of the belt as tension members and a facing fabric which covers the belt teeth for strengthening and protection from wear.

The first known timing belt was used in 1945, and the first belt driven camshaft engine was invented in 1954 by American Bill Devin.

The first timing belt cam drive was invented in 1954, American Bill Devin built a Flat opposed cylinder air cooled French Panhard Devin race car with a highly modified engine using English Norton Manx motorcycle cylinders and heads and a toothed rubber belt driving the 2 overhead camshafts on the Norton cylinder heads.

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VRM uses The Vacation Bridge to update channel partners including Tripadvisor/FlipKey, Inntopia, Resorts and Lodges, Cottage Country, and many others.

VRM is an affordable, user-friendly PMS that allows us to manage and market our vacation rentals efficiently, with the added bonus of having direct integration options with other leading services in the industry, such as Bluetent Digital Marketing.

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Built For Tough Environments

Panel PCs Panel PCs are a rugged, mountable PC/Display combination.

Features necessary to function in harsh environments include water and dust resistance, wide temperature tolerance, and scratch resistant glass.

Best Rugged Laptops Of 2022: The Top Drop-Proof Laptops For Outdoors Or WFH

Look no further than the best rugged laptops of 2021 if you’re looking for durability and power in one device.

No matter if you’re just a bit clumsy, a writer on the road looking for the best laptops for writers, or work on a hectic worksite, one of the best rugged laptops here will work for you.

With Dell laptops leading the charge, here are our top picks of the best rugged laptops that tout power and durability.

Looking for a rugged portable for your kids, be sure to check out our best laptops for kids list.

Dell is a household name when it comes to the best laptops, but it still makes the best rugged laptops right now.

It’s the less “Extreme” version of our number one pick, but its still one of the best rugged laptops on the market right now.

It’s not going to be as robust as some of the other rugged laptops on this list, but it’s easily portable and the screen can be flipped – making it a rugged 2-in-1 laptop.

The Best Rugged Laptops For 2022

Who’s tougher, Dwayne Johnson or Jason Statham? The answer is about as inconclusive as advertisements for laptops with vague, overlapping descriptions like “Semi-rugged,” “Fully rugged,” and “Business-rugged.” But the need for notebooks that can take a licking and keep on clicking is very real.

Really rugged laptops are vertical-market dwellers, designed for work in the field or on factory floors.

What’s the price you pay for such super-sturdy survivability? One is the literal price: Rugged laptops cost a lot more than their civilian counterparts.

Two, the weight: A laptop with virtual armor plating can test your biceps to the tune of 10 pounds, an immense burden compared to the three or four pounds of most laptops.

A more stringent abbreviation seen on seriously sturdy laptops is a code such as “IP65.” The IP stands for “Ingress protection”-the ability to keep solids or liquids out of the machine’s vulnerable innards.

While you can’t see them easily, many rugged laptops have specially shock-mounted components.

That’s why many rugged laptops boast extra-bright displays, with 1,000 or more nits of brightness compared to the 200 to 400 of most indoors-optimized systems.

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Nautiz X41 rugged handheld gets Android 11 and versatile new pistol gripHandheld Group, Handheld Group, a leading manufacturer of rugged mobile computers, today announced an operating system upgrade to Android 11 for the Nautiz X41 rugged handheld.

What happened in rugged computing 10 years ago: February 2012February 2012 was a busy month in rugged computing! DAP opened a second US office and previewed their V1010 vehicle computer.

Getac expands extensive portfolio of rugged mobile computers with a new Android tablet designated the ZX10Getac a leading producer of rugged technology and customized integrated solutions today announced the launch of its ZX10 fully rugged tablet, a versatile new 10-inch device built around the Android 11 operating system.

Operating system upgrade for NAUTIZ X2 rugged Android handheldHandheld Group, a leading manufacturer of rugged mobile computers, today launched an operating system upgrade to Android 11 for the NAUTIZ X2 rugged handheld which has become a popular device especially in logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications.

First-In-Market rugged case for Android-based Lenovo Tab K10 launched by MobileDemandMobileDemand, provider of rugged tablets, cases, and mobile all-in-one computing solutions for enterprise productivity, today announced the launch of a rugged, patented, and feature-rich xCase for the new Lenovo Tab K10. With its durable rugged construction, extreme protection, and unlimited mounting solutions, the xCase extends the tablet’s capabilities even further.

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Rugged Computer

A rugged, or ruggedized computer is a computer specifically designed to operate reliably in harsh usage environments and conditions, such as strong vibrations, extreme temperatures and wet or dusty conditions.

Design engineering decisions such as reduction of cabling, addition of liquid cooling and heat sinks, and rugged materials, are made to ensure performance in harsh environments.

One research study found that in environments where rugged computers are commonly used, total cost of ownership was 36% lower for rugged notebooks and 33% less for handhelds and PDAs, compared to conventional non-rugged versions.

The levels of ruggedization are not standardized, but they are measured by various certifications such as MIL-STD-810, IP, or ATEX. A rugged tablet may be semi-rugged or fully rugged.

Levels of ruggedization are measured by various certifications such as IP, MIL-STD-810 or ATEX. A rugged smartphone has a thicker and completely sealed housing which protects it against all kinds of elements such as water, dust, shock and vibration.

Like a rugged tablet, it typically meets IP certification and military standard specifications for dust, shock, vibration, rain, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and temperature extremes.

Each transmission failure leads to five to ten minutes in lost productivity as the user has to re-login to the company network through a VPN. Since enterprises are turning to cellular networks to enable full-time connectivity for their users, major vendors of rugged computers offer both built-in wireless LAN and wireless WAN capabilities, and partner with cellular carriers, such as Verizon and AT&T, as part of their offerings.

Partial Discharge Definition & Causes

Partial discharge is an electrical discharge that does not completely bridge the gap between two electrodes.

Modern cable and cable accessories cannot withstand partial discharge.

The vast majority of partial discharge does not occur all the time, but rather when the voltage of the cable system exceeds the “Turn on” voltage of the PD site.

Surges in the power cable system can cause the cable voltage to momentarily exceed PDIV, leading to a burst of PD activity and erosion of the cable or accessory insulation.

PD activity will continue until the cable voltage drops below the “Turn off” voltage of the PD site.

Once the PDEV drops below the normal operating voltage of the cable system, the PD activity and the associated insulation erosion will continue indefinitely.

From this point forward, a cable system failure will most likely occur in a short period of time.

Causes And Types Of Partial Discharge

The standard definition of partial discharge is an electrical discharge that does not completely bridge the space between two conducting electrodes.

Detecting partial discharge in an electric power distribution facility with the Fluke ii910 Precision Acoustic Imager.

Types of partial dischargeCorona Discharge: This common form of partial discharge occurs when discharge is directly into the air emanating from the sharp surface of the conductor.

Arcing Discharge: Arcing discharge is a prolonged electrical discharge produced by the electrical breakdown of a gas.

It can be one of the most destructive types of partial discharge.

Currently there are several methods of detecting partial discharge.

A better way to detect partial discharge is the Fluke ii910 Precision Acoustic Imager.

What Is Partial Discharge?

The Partial Discharge is an electrical discharge that, as the name suggests, does not completely “Bridge” the insulation between electrodes or conductor materials.

If the electric field across a given capacitor creates a voltage higher than that the capacitor can withstand, partial discharge occurs leading to a current pulse that travels along the capacitor.

Partial Discharge can occur everywhere, independently of the kind of insulation used to separate electrical components: it can occur in a liquid insulation because of the presence of gas bubbles or in a solid insulation for example inside the dielectric of a cable.

The effects of the Partial Discharges are different depending on the location where the discharge occurs.

The theory to describe the Partial Discharge effect is basically the same for all the categories, so the above classification is just a sorting according to the “Location” where the discharge occurs and the different ways how it manifests.

The main causes of partial discharge can be related to: defects on the material, wrong installation with material damages, surface contamination, wrong application and ageing of material.

In most of the cases the Partial Discharge is the first evidence of a future major failure that can occur, if no corrective actions and proper maintenance are put in place.

Partial Discharge

In electrical engineering, partial discharge is a localized dielectric breakdown of a small portion of a solid or fluid electrical insulation system under high voltage stress.

While a corona discharge is usually revealed by a relatively steady glow or brush discharge in air, partial discharges within solid insulation system are not visible.

Whenever partial discharge is initiated, high frequency transient current pulses will appear and persist for nanoseconds to a microsecond, then disappear and reappear repeatedly as the voltage sinewave goes through the zero crossing.

With the partial discharge measurement, the dielectric condition of high voltage equipment can be evaluated, and electrical treeing in the insulation can be detected and located.

A number of discharge detection schemes and partial discharge measurement methods have been invented since the importance of PD was realised early in the last century.

The cumulative effect of partial discharges within solid dielectrics is the formation of numerous, branching partially conducting discharge channels, a process called treeing.

The amplitude and frequency of the UHF partial discharge pulses are digitized, analyzed and processed in order to generate an appropriate partial discharge data output, supervisory control and data acquisition alarm.

Partial Discharge

Since partial discharges are not a 100% reproducible event, a measuring method in connection with surge pulses was defined in the IEC 61934 standard to determine the insulation quality of winding materials by partial discharge measurements.

As soon as a partial discharge occurs for the first time, this voltage level is recorded as the partial discharge inception voltage.

The test voltage is then further increased until 50% of the surge pulses produce partial discharge.

This voltage is called the repeated partial discharge inception voltage.

Now the voltage level of the surge pulses is reduced again.

If partial discharges are detected in less than 50% of the surge pulses, this value is recorded as the repeated partial discharge interruption voltage.

As soon as no more partial discharges are registered at a voltage level, the partial discharge interruption voltage is reached and the test is terminated.

What Is Partial Discharge And What Are The Different Types Of Partial Discharges In Power Cables?

“Partial discharge is a localized electrical discharge that only partially bridges the insulation between conductors and which may or may not occur adjacent to a conductor.”

The term ‘partial discharge’ includes a wide group of discharge phenomena.

Internal Discharges: occurring in voids or cavities within solid or liquid dielectrics;.

Surface Discharges: appearing at the boundary of different insulation materials;.

Treeing: continuous impact of discharges in solid dielectrics forming discharge channels.

Further, when the field increases the breakdown capacity of this defect, it breaks down and discharges different forms of energy which result in partial discharge.

The detection and measurement of discharges is based on the exchange of energy taking place during the discharge.

How To Enable The Touchscreen In Windows 10

The touchscreen on a Windows device is usually enabled out of the box.

In this guide, we show you how to turn on the touchscreen in Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7, as well as how to force Windows to check the hardware for a touchscreen, and how to update the touchscreen driver.

To enable the touchscreen in Windows 10 and 8, you need to access the Device Manager.

If you can see a listing for an HID-compliant touch screen in your Device Manager, and your touchscreen still doesn’t work after you enable it, you may have a driver or hardware problem.

If you have Windows 7, enable your touchscreen through the Pen and Touch menu instead of the Device Manager.

No, Windows 10 laptops and 2-in-1 devices technically don’t need a touchscreen.

The main reason to enable a touchscreen on a Windows 10 device is that it can make it easier to accomplish some tasks because tapping on the screen typically takes less time than moving the mouse around and clicking with a small trackpad. In some cases, a touchscreen and compatible pen device can allow you to use your Windows 10 laptop, 2-in-1, or tablet in the same way that you would use a drawing tablet.

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A good monitor is almost a necessity to ensure you get the greatest visual effect as you work, study, or play games.

The best computer monitors have built-in speakers that can be used as your primary source for audio, or as a backup in case your computer or external speakers go out.

Most monitors support VGA and HDMI. There are options if you use DisplayPort.

How To Enable Or Disable The Touch Screen On A Laptop

Choose an action from the list below and follow the steps to enable, calibrate, or disable the touch screen on your laptop or Chromebook.

Enable the touch screen If the touch screen is not working on your laptop or Chromebook, try enabling it using the steps for your device.

If you do not find a HID-compliant touch screen entry in the Device Manager, your laptop probably does not have a touch screen display.

If the touch screen is not working, try cleaning the screen to remove any dirt, dust, and fingerprints.

If the touch screen is not working, try cleaning the Chromebook screen to remove any dirt, dust, and fingerprints.

Calibrate the touch screen If the touch screen is working, but not correctly, you can try calibrating it to see if that helps fix the issue.

Disable the touch screen If you want to disable the touch screen on your laptop or Chromebook, disable it using the steps for your device.

Kosketusnäytön/-Paneelin Ongelmien Vianmääritys

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Windows 10 Touch Screen Driver Download & Update. Easily!

It’s always important to keep your touch screen drivers up-to-date to make sure the touch screen is working properly and prevent touchscreen issues like touchpad not scrolling.

Update Windows 10 touch screen drivers automatically.

If you don’t have the time, patience or computer skills to update the touchpad driver manually, you can do it automatically with Driver Easy.

Download and install Driver Easy.Run Driver Easy and click the Scan Now button.

To manually update your Windows 10 touchscreen drivers, you need to go to the manufacturer’s official.

Website, find the drivers corresponding with your specific flavor of Windows version and download the driver manually.

Now congrats – you’ve already installed the latest Windows 10 touchpad driver on your PC. Feel free to drop us a comment if you have any further questions.

Touchscreen

In 1990, HCIL demonstrated a touchscreen slider, which was later cited as prior art in the lock screen patent litigation between Apple and other touchscreen mobile phone vendors.

An early attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega’s intended successor to the Game Gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.

Optical touchscreens are a relatively modern development in touchscreen technology, in which two or more image sensors are placed around the edges of the screen.

With the growing use of touchscreens, the cost of touchscreen technology is routinely absorbed into the products that incorporate it and is nearly eliminated.

Touchscreen technology has demonstrated reliability and is found in airplanes, automobiles, gaming consoles, machine control systems, appliances, and handheld display devices including cellphones; the touchscreen market for mobile devices was projected to produce US$5 billion by 2009.

Research from the University of Glasgow demonstrates that touchscreen users reduce input errors, increase input speed, and lower their cognitive load when touchscreens are combined with haptics or tactile feedback.

While the addition of touchscreens is a development for this industry, customers may choose to bypass the touchscreen and order from a traditional cashier.

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Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company organized in Delaware and based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable.

In 1997, Jay S. Walker founded the company in Stamford, Connecticut, which launched Priceline.com, an online travel site, that used a Name Your Own Price bidding model.

In 1999, the company became a public company via an initial public offering, making Walker, who owned a 35% stake in the company, a multi-billionaire.

On April 1, 2014, the name of the company was changed from priceline.com Incorporated to The Priceline Group Inc. In July 2017, the company acquired the Momondo Group.

In August 2017, KAYAK acquired the assets of Mundi, a Brazilian metasearch company.

On February 21, 2018, the name of the company was changed from The Priceline Group Inc. to Booking Holdings.

Effective January 1, 2014, Darren Huston was named chief executive officer of the company, replacing Jeff Boyd.

Interoperability

Interoperability includes the exchange and use of information within a health care organization and across organizations.

Barriers to interoperability must be addressed in order to support the level of electronic sharing of health information needed to provide the best care, engage people in their health, succeed in new models of care, and improve public health.

Doing so requires collaboration across many private and public sector entities, including hospitals and health systems, technology companies, payers, consumers, and federal and state governments.

While health IT tools are essential for building the care system of the future, and hospitals are making significant ongoing investments, too often, the tools are expensive, unwieldy and do not yet support easy information sharing.

The current inability for electronic systems to speak the same language to one another and to efficiently and correctly transmit information – to be interoperable – is among the most pressing issues facing health care stakeholders today.

This web page provides an over view of interoperability, it importance, and the barriers to realizing its potential.

Interoperability In Healthcare

It applies to health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare providers that conduct certain healthcare transactions electrically.

The primary goal of the consortium is to coordinate work with governments and national ministries of health to further align existing and emerging standards and implementation guidance with strategic healthcare policy goals to achieve improved health outcomes for people everywhere.

The health interoperability ecosystem comprises individuals, systems and processes that want to share, exchange and access all forms of health information, including discrete, narrative and multimedia.

The U.S. Core Data for Interoperability is a “Standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.” A “Data Class” is an “Aggregation of various Data Elements by a common theme or use case.”

In parallel with the release of the ONC Interoperability and Information Blocking Final Regulation, CMS also outlined an Interoperability and Patient Access Final Regulation, as part of their MyHealthEData Initiative, focused on driving exchange of and patient access to health information by liberating patient data using CMS authority to regulate Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Plan, and Qualified Health Plan issuers on the federally facilitated exchanges.

The Interoperability Standards Advisory process represents a single, public list of standards and implementation specifications published by ONC. ONC coordinates the identification, assessment and determination of these recommended standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health IT interoperability needs.

New Zealand’s health agencies, organizations and individuals signed a Commitment to New Zealand Health Interoperability to outline principles to drive the adoption of exchange infrastructures and processes in their health sector.

Interoperability

Interoperability at the operational and tactical levels is where strategic/political interoperability and technological interoperability come together to help allies shape the environment, manage crises, and win wars.

The Interoperability Coordinator leverages a regional structure to better allocate grant funding around the Commonwealth so that all areas have an opportunity to improve communications interoperability.

The State Interoperability Executive Committee, established by the legislature in 2003, works to assist emergency responder agencies at all levels of government to define interoperability for their local region.

The desktop interoperability is a sub-section of the software interoperability.

This definition focuses on the technical side of interoperability, while it has also been pointed out[by whom?] that interoperability is often more of an organizational issue: often interoperability has a significant impact on the organizations concerned, raising issues of ownership, labor relations and usability.

Interoperability can have important economic consequences; for example, research has estimated the cost of inadequate interoperability in the U.S. capital facilities industry to be $15.8 billion a year.

University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory – premier research facility on interoperability of computer networking technologies.

What Is Interoperability, And What Are The Benefits?

Interoperability in healthcare is the ability for various healthcare information technology to exchange, interpret and use data cohesively.

“Data exchange schema and standards should permit data to be shared across clinician, lab, hospital, pharmacy, and patient regardless of the application or application vendor.”

Foundational interoperability refers to the ability of one information system to exchange data with another.

The focal point with foundational interoperability is that the receiving system does not have to interpret the data it receives.

Structural interoperability is of medium complexity and defines the data structure of the information being passed between systems.

Semantic interoperability is the most complex and sought-after form of exchanging healthcare data.

Full visibility and access to patient data for both the healthcare institution and the patient is the primary benefit of interoperability.

Vertical Farming: Origins, Advantages And Disadvantages

With a growing population and not much operational farmland to go around, vertical farming may be used to fulfill the growing food demands of the world.

As a result, governments and developers around the world would take note of vertical farming and implement it in cities such as Abu Dhabi, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Dubai, Beijing etc.

The following are the advantages and disadvantages of vertical farming.

Conventional farms require too much land and water, while vertical farming requires a fraction of it with more yield per acre.

In a controlled environment of vertical farming such factors are negated and thus less susceptible to disruption in the supply chain process.

Vertical farming helps in environmental conservation as deforestation that accompanies traditional farming can be negated, thus saving resources in the long run.

Vertical farming is quite costly and some use urban settings where the real estate prices are high, thus, its maintenance costs are even higher as compared to traditional farming.

Vertical Farming

In vertical farming systems, CEA is often used in conjunction with soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics.

Although Despommier’s skyscraper farm has not yet been built, it popularized the idea of vertical farming and inspired many later designs.

As of 2021, Bowery Farming is the largest indoor vertical farming company in the United States.

Unlike traditional farming in non-tropical areas, indoor farming can produce crops year-round.

In a workshop on vertical farming put on by the USDA and the Department of Energy experts in vertical farming discussed plant breeding, pest management, and engineering.

Up to 20 units of outdoor farmland per unit of vertical farming could return to its natural state, due to vertical farming’s increased productivity.

In order for vertical farms to be successful financially, high-value crops must be grown since traditional farms provide low-value crops like wheat at cheaper costs than vertical farms.

No Longer A Futuristic Concept

KL: Vertical farming offers many benefits that traditional farming cannot.

While the crops produced by traditional farming are limited by geographic region and seasonal changes, vertical farming allows growers to grow regional or seasonal crops indoors year-round.

Vertical farms are being built in deserts, high-population urban areas, and other places that traditional open-field farming is not practical.

UM – What crops are best grown through vertical farming? Which crops are better suited for traditional farming?

Interior view of a vertical farm in Minneapolis, MN. UM – Are the fruits and produce grown from vertical farming different – nutritionally, aesthetically, flavor-wise – from those grown by traditional methods?

UM – How much of the farming market will vertical farming comprise, say 10 years down the road?

UM – Vertical farming seems to be a very futuristic concept, but gears are already in motion for practical implementation.

What You Should Know About Vertical Farming

Finally, the vertical farming method uses various sustainability features to offset the energy cost of farming.

Vertical farming has a lot of promise and sounds like the farm of the future.

Year-round crop production is possible in a controlled indoor environment which is completely controlled by vertical farming technologies.

Less Use Of Water In Cultivation: Vertical farming allows us to produce crops with 70% to 95% less water than required for normal cultivation.

Increased Production of Organic Crops: As crops are produced in a well-controlled indoor environment without the use of chemical pesticides, vertical farming allows us to grow pesticide-free and organic crops.

Human and Environmentally Friendly: Indoor vertical farming can significantly lessen the occupational hazards associated with traditional farming.

The performance of farms like AeroFarms will determine how important a role vertical farming will play in the future to face the challenge of growing food demand.

Vertical Farming: Farms Of The Future? The Pros & Cons

Vertical farming is a method of producing crops that’s quite different from what we normally think of as farming.

Vertical farming is credited to Dickson Despommier, a professor of ecology at Columbia University, who came up with the idea of taking urban rooftop gardens a step further, and creating vertical farming “Towers” in buildings, that would allow all of a building’s floors, not just the rooftop, to be used for producing crops.

Generally, vertical farms use less water than traditional farms.

In a vertical farm, all those artificial lights add to carbon emissions at a much higher rate than traditional farms.

It’s ironic: while in theory, vertical farms are perfect for city dwellers, who are likely to be further away from farms, the price point will still be out of reach for many.

Final Thoughts Vertical farms are being heralded as the farms of the future.

There are several benefits to vertical farming, including no reliance on weather, less water usage, and the ability to convert city spaces into working farms.

Association For Vertical Farming

The AVF acknowledges that vertical farming in its current state can provide access to fresh, safe, and sufficient food, independent of climate and location.

In the decades to come, where overpopulation and severe planetary changes challenge our current way of life, vertical farming will become a necessary solution in global food production.

The Association for Vertical Farming is the leading, global non-profit organisation for raising awareness and connecting all stakeholders to advance the implementation of vertical farming.

Vertical Farming 2021

The skyscraper “Despommier” vertical farm describes a vertical farming building which is intended primarily for food production, and all of the areas of the building have a function related to the vertical farm.

This type of vertical farming architecture is the most commonly seen in commercial vertical farms today like Aerofarms, Bowery Farming, and other vertical farming companies.

Although you may not be able to construct multi-million dollar vertical farm racking system with led lights at your home, there are ways to do vertical farming at home, especially vertically farming outdoors.

Vertical Farming In the USA. The US is one of the largest vertical farming industries in 2020.

Vertical Farming New York City.New York is a hotspot for vertical farming activity, with notable companies such as farm.

Incorporating some suggestions from our friends at Vertical Urban Farming Project combined with a shameless self plug, here are our top 3 picks: ‍1) The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century ‍2) Vertical Farming: The Advanced Guide ‍3) The Urban Farmer: Growing Food For Profit .

Vertical ocean farming is a distant cousin of traditional vertical farming which uses submerged growth structures to grow plants such as seaweed and kelp underwater.