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  World Intellectual Property Organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The bottom of the trough is positioned closely adjacent to a metal ground plane element, to thereby form a pseudo microstrip transmission line by which a feed input is applied to the antenna's two-portion radiating element.
Since the bottom of the trough is substantially closer to the ground plane element than are the two portions of the radiating element, a shorter feed probe than is traditionally used can be provided to electrically connect to the trough and then to the two radiating elements.
While the bottom wall 26 of trough 19 is preferably a planar wall that extends parallel to the plane that is occupied by ground plane element 13, the spirit and scope of the invention is not to be limited thereto.
www.wipo.int /ipdl/IPDL-CIMAGES/view/pct/getbykey5?KEY=01/54227.010726&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (3850 words)

  
 Fulachta Fiadh
The trough was situated in the area between the arms of the mound.
The trough was placed in a pit which was dug through earlier pits to a depth of 1.1m to the natural boulder clay forming the floor of the trough.
The trough measured 1.3 m x 1.7m and was constructed of horizontally laid planks, retained at the corners and in the centre of the long side by upright posts.
www.angelfire.com /fl/burntmounds/compendium.html   (1519 words)

  
 Xihu Trough -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Xihu Trough falls within the territorial waters of (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China.
The region is a repository for (A fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes) natural gas, and consists of the Chunxiao, Tianwaitian, Canxue, Duanqiao, and Pinghue fields.
The entire trough is approximately 500 kilometres long, and runs parallel to the Chinese coast.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/x/xi/xihu_trough.htm   (95 words)

  
 Xihu Trough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Xihu Trough is a region in the East China Sea, located approximately 400 kilometres east of the cities of Shanghai and Ningbo.
The region is a repository for natural gas, and consists of the Chunxiao, Tianwaitian, Canxue, Duanqiao, and Pinghue fields.
On August 19, 2003 it was announced that Sinopec, CNOOC, Royal Dutch/Shell and Unocal had entered into a joint venture to exploit the gas reserves in the trough, beginning in mid-2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xihu_Trough   (194 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Upper-level troughs influence many surface weather features, including the formation and movement of surface low pressure areas and the locations of clouds and precipitation.
Precipitation tends to fall to the east of the trough axis while colder, drier air tends to prevail to the west of the trough.
On weather maps of the Northern Hemisphere, troughs are shown by upper-air winds, or jet streams, blowing south and then turning back to the north.
www.usatoday.com /weather/tg/wtrough/wtrough.htm   (197 words)

  
 Trough gardening
It's a concept that became popular in Britain at the turn of the century when horse troughs were replaced with metal tubs, thus leaving a lot of rectangular stone containers around the landscape.
Thedepth of the inner box defines the depth of the finished trough --five inches is a good depth for most small plants.
To prepare the trough for planting, cover the drainage holes with pieces of fiberglass mesh, such as is used for window screens.
www.colostate.edu /Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Garden/trough.htm   (820 words)

  
 Build a Stone-Look Trough
She explains how old stone troughs, once used to water farm horses, were turned into lovely container gardens, which were especially appropriate for small plants that might otherwise "get lost" in the garden.
Set the trough on a large sheet of plastic (or a garbage bag), wrap it up, and set it aside to dry for a day or two.
Plant the trough with an array of sun-loving alpines or slow-growing plants that have similar needs and are adapted to your climate.
www.lhj.com /lhj/printableStory.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/16246.xml   (1142 words)

  
 Wildernet - Trough Creek State Park
Today, Trough Creek State Park and the surrounding area is a beautiful lush hardwood forest, intermingled with soft pine.
The Trough Creek Lodge is a renovated two-story stone mansion is available for rental year round.
One, there was a youth detention center literally in the backyard of the lodge, and two, we were there when Ivan hit PA and spent a majority of the weekend trapped on the hill.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=PASPTC&CU_ID=1   (1603 words)

  
 The Escanaba Trough of Gorda Ridge: A Laboratory for Mineral-forming Processes - USGS Fact Sheet
Escanaba Trough's massive sulfide deposits may also have substantial size and contain high grades of gold, silver, copper, and zinc, as well as lesser amounts of metals such as antimony, bismuth, lead, cobalt, and tin.
Earlier studies in Escanaba Trough revealed the presence of large polymetallic sulfide deposits enriched in copper, gold, silver, and other metals that may be comparable in size and metal content to analogous deposits on land.
Clusters of tube worms and white crabs on a sulfide mound in the Escanaba Trough at a depth of 3,230 meters.
pubs.usgs.gov /fs/gorda-ridge   (1107 words)

  
 Refraction and other data: TRANSECT C3 -- SALTON TROUGH
The Salton Trough is underlain by upper Cenozoic sedimentary rocks and minor amounts of volcanic rocks, which are exposed chiefly around its edge and are penetrated in wells.
Onset of rifting and major subsidence in the Salton Trough was followed by marine incursion during the latest Miocene to late(?) Pliocene, as indicated by the Imperial Formation (Dibblee, 1954; Powell, 1984).
Faulting in the Salton Trough occurs primarily on conjugate northwest- and northeast-striking faults and is largely strike slip (Johnson and Hadley, 1976; Johnson, 1979; Fuis and others, 1982).
www.johnmartin.com /earthquakes/eqsafs/safs_835.htm   (682 words)

  
 komo | Weather FAQ: What Is A Thermal Trough?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
When that happens and the trough is to our west, you have air now rushing from the east out toward the offshore trough (See "What Is Offshore Flow" for more information there.).
Thermal troughs are some of the most interesting weather patterns to track, because you can watch its movement in real-time, and the pattern follows a general script.
The day the trough moves overhead is usually the warmest day of the heat wave (and you can also watch the trough pass Port Angeles as their winds shift from east to west and their temperature will plummet.)
www.komotv.com /weather/faq/thermal_trough.asp   (842 words)

  
 HURRICANE-TROUGH INTERACTIONS: HOW DO THEY WORK?
When a synoptic scale trough is, for instance, 1500 km northwest of a hurricane, it almost always will influence hurricane motion, as has been shown by PV inversion.
Upward motion ahead of a synoptic scale trough is on a scale much larger than that of a hurricane.
In particular, during a trough interaction, the vertical wind shear cannot be separated from the trough interaction; rather, they evolve in a highly coupled manner.
www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/tcint98/JOMO_51.html   (1104 words)

  
 Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research
The trough marks the end of the recession that began in March 2001 and the beginning of an expansion.
The committee waited to make the determination of the trough date until it was confident that any future downturn in the economy would be considered a new recession and not a continuation of the recession that began in March 2001.
Although the committee concluded that it was not necessary to invoke this rule to determine that the trough occurred in November rather than September or October, the rule strengthened the committee's confidence in its determination.
www.nber.org /cycles/july2003.html   (2077 words)

  
 Gardening : Outdoor : Trough Gardening : Home & Garden Television
Trough gardening is an old English custom of recycling the watering and feeding troughs of farm animals into beautiful container gardens (figure A).
Trough gardens can combine a whole world of plant life, including interesting rocks and microclimates to create a captivating miniature landscape.
She attributes its ability to thrive in the trough because she is able to manipulate the environment, which includes providing better drainage as well.
hgtv.info /hgtv/gl_containers_outdoor/article/0,1785,HGTV_3561_3811386,00.html   (806 words)

  
 Gardening : Decorative : Trough Gardening : Home & Garden Television
Trough gardens are an attractive way to display a variety of alpine plants, and these gardens can be part of your outdoor landscape all year-round.
Make a trough mold using a plastic dishpan or litter pan; the shape and depth of the trough can vary and is up to you.
When the trough has set sufficiently, peel back the plastic and gently remove the new container from the mold.
www.hgtv.com /hgtv/gl_design_decorative/article/0,,HGTV_3565_1377353,00.html   (392 words)

  
 Badwell Ash Trough | Archaeological Service | Archaeology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
At present all we can be certain of is that the trough is from the Roman period at the latest and may well be Iron Age in date (c.2000-2500 years ago).
The trough also appears to have been of some age when it was finally left in the edge of the former stream channel or mere, as there is clear evidence of a secondary use as a sledge.
At one end of the trough the lug has been crudely shaped to form a notch on each side and the underside furthest from these notches has received a great deal of wear from being dragged along the ground.
www.suffolkcc.gov.uk /e-and-t/archaeology/badash.htm   (651 words)

  
 About the Nova-Canton Trough 3D Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
What you see is a section in the eastern Nova-Canton Trough between 166 degrees 20' West to 166 degrees 50' West, from the equator to 1 degree 25' South viewed from an azimuth of 70 degrees.
The 6100 meter deep is surrounded by 3500-4500 meter ridges and a second shallower trough to the south.
This part of the Nova-Canton Trough is the western extension of the Clipperton Fracture Zone formed near the beginning of the Cretaceous Quiet Zone (about 118 MY ago).
www.soest.hawaii.edu /soest/about.nova.3d.image.html   (274 words)

  
 Thyme on the Terrace - Planting A Trough Garden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Alpine trough gardening is very trendy and fun and when most people think of trough gardens, they think of alpines.
Obviously the old stone troughs and sinks will be the most expensive because they were hand carved in the 18th and 19th century.
Choose the stones that compliment the coloring of your trough and striate the stones on an angle with the trough.
www.thymeontheterrace.com /gardeninginfo/seasonal.htm   (688 words)

  
 TROUGH - Definition
A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
{Trough of the sea}, the depression between two waves.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/trough   (215 words)

  
 John Shelley's Garden Center & Nursery, Inc.
The Troughs are available in three sizes, and there's an infinite variety of plant configurations you may choose from.
Medium Trough with 3 conifers and 6 perennials.
Medium Trough with 2 conifers, variegated boxwood, daphne and 6 perennials.
www.gdnctr.com /troughs.htm   (222 words)

  
 Service Engineering Inc. Medium Duty Trough Maintenance Manual   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Observe the part reaction as the trough goes from a nominal load to an empty condition.
An ideal tuning condition is for the trough to be slightly overtuned, yet still have room on the controller to increase the speed, if necessary.
Operate the trough at the lowest control setting required to obtain good parts movement and meet the feed rate.
www.serviceengineering.com /mdtrough.html   (428 words)

  
 The NBER’s Recession Dating Procedure
The period from a peak to a trough is a recession and the period from a trough to a peak is an expansion.
Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion.
The trough marks the end of the recession that began in March 2001.
www.nber.org /cycles/recessions.html   (2600 words)

  
 Trough Creek Watershed Assoc.
We hope to restore the water in Trough Creek to again supply the clean drinking water, sportsman activities and recreational activities that were once present.
Trough Creek starts at its headwaters in Wood, Pa continues down near Cassville, Pa. where it makes a sharp left.
We hope that the lost beauty of this area can be restored and the streams can again come to life with wildlife and fish.
www.geocities.com /ebtminer/tcws.html   (520 words)

  
 EFFECT OF DISCONTINUING CYCLOSPORINE ON MYCOPHENOLIC ACID TROUGH LEVELS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
MPA trough levels in groups A and C did not change between 6 and 9 months after transplantation: group A 1.87 (0.31-4.32) vs 1.53 mg/l (0.36-3.70), group C 1.62 (0.69-10.34) vs 1.79 mg/l (0.54-6.00), respectively.
Patients in whom CsA was discontinued had higher MPA trough levels at nine months after transplantation as compared with patients who continued the use of triple therapy (P=0.001) or patients in whom steroids were withdrawn (P=0.014).
A significant increase of MPA trough levels was found after discontinuation of CsA (6 months post-transplantation), resulting in almost a doubling of MPA trough levels at 9 months post-transplantation.
www.a-s-t.org /library/abstracts99/792.htm   (361 words)

  
 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The: Horse trough filled with love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This trough was an old one, not one of those newfangled troughs that have faucets and hazelnut-flavored water for the animals.
We live on the outskirts of the mechanized world and horse troughs are not as unusual as they would be in staid downtown Milwaukee, outside Hooters.
It would be fun, she said, if she put the trough outside our home and filled it with plants, or put it inside our home and filled it with plants, or simply made me sleep in it when I was cranky.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_200301/ai_n10852220   (787 words)

  
 Find your favorite trough garden plants here at Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery - srpn.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Troughs using this mix are beautiful and portable.
For the beginner or expert, here are bargain-priced collections of 'miniature trough plants' that will thrive for many years in a small trough.
A trough garden is a miniature alpine landscape arrranged in a stone-like container displayed outdoors, sometimes with winter protection.
www.srpn.net /trough_plants.shtml   (357 words)

  
 US-Trough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The objective of the USA Trough Initiative is to help develop a US trough industry that will be better positioned to compete in domestic and international trough projects.
Nexant has developed a near-term thermal storage option for parabolic trough technology that uses biphenyl-diphenyl-oxide HTF in the solar field and then passes it through a heat ex-changer to heat molten salt (the same “solar salt” used at Solar Two) in a thermal storage system.
Kearney and Associates is investigating using a lower temperature molten salt as the HTF in the solar field as an innovative approach for reducing the cost of thermal storage for troughs.
www.solarpaces.org /US_TROUGH.HTM   (422 words)

  
 Diffraction of Light: light bending around an object
However, if a crest of one wave and a trough of another wave combine, they cancel each other out to produce no vertical displacement (destructive interference).
When sunlight (or moonlight) encounters a cloud droplet, light waves are altered and interact with one another in a similar manner as the water waves described above.
If there is destructive interference, (the trough of one light wave meeting the crest of another), the light will either appear darker or disappear entirely.
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/mch/diff.rxml   (346 words)

  
 Peak-and-Trough Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Peaks and troughs are patterns that are developed by the price action experienced by all securities.
Rising peaks and troughs can be seen easily on a chart by recognizing the higher peaks, or tops, and higher troughs, or bottoms, creating the uptrend.
We should be aware of consolidation in the study of peaks and troughs to recognize this sideways pattern, avoiding the mistake of thinking that the prevailing trend is about to reverse.
www.investopedia.com /articles/technical/02/070302.asp   (720 words)

  
 Alpine and Rock Garden Resource - Hypertufa
There are many beautiful plants from the Antipodes that are suitable for trough culture and a scheme can be designed to enjoy the colour, form and architecture of these plants for many a long-lasting season.
Every year, we alpiners study the seedlists and hope that we can obtain that which we have sought for many years, or perhaps that which is relatively new to cultivation or even that which we have grown in the past but sadly lost.
Whilst I would not disagree with the validity of their claim to be suitable candidates for a trough garden, what may be "Suitable in Seattle" (sounds like a good name for a film that!), may not respond so readily in San Antonio or Salford.
www.backyardgardener.com /trough.html   (1833 words)

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