The monograph contains the results of the author's long-term research on improving the thermal preparation of construction machines in the winter period. A review and analysis of devices promising for use in thermal preparation systems is given. It is proposed to divide the winter period into time periods, each of which is characterized by its own preparation means. A comprehensive preparation...

This dictionary is intended for readers of specialized technical literature in English. It contains over 125,000 words and expressions covering a wide range of industries and technologies.

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In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

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Forget about the boring pages of textbooks. Witty and tricky problems for ingenuity and fascinating puzzles, secrets of encrypted correspondence and amazing tricks with numbers, intricate tricks of mathematical gymnastics and even short stories with a mathematical secret await you. The great popularizer of science Yakov Isidorovich Perelman will help you understand: mathematics is entertaining...