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  2. Hours of service - Wikipedia

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    After accumulating, for example, 70 hours of driving and on-duty time within a period of 8 days, a driver's daily driving limit may be reduced (70 / 8 = 8.75 driving hours per day). A driver may be allowed (but not required) to take 34 hours off-duty to reset the weekly total back to zero (also known as a "34-hour restart").

  3. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - Wikipedia

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    The final rule required truck drivers who use the "34-hour restart" provision to maximize their weekly work hours to limit the restart to once a week and to include in the restart period at least two nights off duty from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m., when one's 24-hour body clock supposedly needs and benefits from sleep the most.

  4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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    It is recommended for those who are unresponsive with no breathing or abnormal breathing, for example, agonal respirations. [1] CPR involves chest compressions for adults between 5 cm (2.0 in) and 6 cm (2.4 in) deep and at a rate of at least 100 to 120 per minute. [2] The rescuer may also provide artificial ventilation by either exhaling air ...

  5. Application checkpointing - Wikipedia

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    Application checkpointing. Checkpointing is a technique that provides fault tolerance for computing systems. It basically consists of saving a snapshot of the application 's state, so that applications can restart from that point in case of failure. This is particularly important for long running applications that are executed in failure-prone ...

  6. Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - Wikipedia

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    The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter aircraft developed and produced for the United States Air Force (USAF). As a product of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.

  7. Sick leave in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Companies with 5 or more employees or a net income of more than $1M must provide paid sick leave. Both part- and full-time employees earn one hour off for every 30 hours worked and can use up to 40 hour a year. Employees of companies with more than 100 employees are entitled to 56 hours per year.

  8. Black start - Wikipedia

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    A black start is the process of restoring an electric power station or a part of an electric grid to operation without relying on the external electric power transmission network to recover from a total or partial shutdown. [1] Power to restart a generating station may come from an on-site standby generator. Alternatively, where a large amount ...

  9. Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method - Wikipedia

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    The Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method ( DLS) is a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target score (number of runs needed to win) for the team batting second in a limited overs cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstances. The method was devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, and was ...