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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. Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - Wikipedia

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    Maintenance hours per flight hour was also improved from 30 early on to 10.5 by 2009, lower than the requirement of 12; man-hours per flight hour was 43 in 2014. When introduced, the F-22 had a Mean Time Between Maintenance (MTBM) of 1.7 hours, short of the required 3.0; this rose to 3.2 hours in 2012.

  6. Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

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    The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, United States. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and ...

  7. Sick leave in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Companies with more than 18 employees must provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave to full-time, part-time, and temporary employees. Workers earn one hour off for every 34 hours worked, which can be used after 90 days for full-time employees, 180 days for part-time employees, and 150 days for seasonal employees. South Carolina

  8. 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 ...

  9. List of major power outages - Wikipedia

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    The initial blackout lasted around 9 hours where at 21:00 local time power to most of the affected areas was restored, with almost 20 hours of blackout in total. Initially, the PLN (Indonesia's state electricity company) stated that cause of the outage was due to disruptions in a number of plants in Java, [237] but later said that the cause was ...