1.1 This practice covers chemical solutions and procedures to be used in etching metals and alloys for microscopic examination. Safety precautions and miscellaneous information are also included.

1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems, if any, associated w...

1.1 This guide recommends techniques for treating uncertainty in input values to an economic analysis of a building investment project. It also recommends techniques for evaluating the risk that a project will have a less favorable economic outcome than what is desired or expected.

1.2 The...

The increased use of information technologies has led to more research on information technology/information system (IT/IS) adoption and decision-making behavior in small businesses to improve information utilization. This paper presents an extensive review of the literature on IT/IS adoption to ide...

More Electrical Aircraft (MEA) which replaces the hydraulic and pneumatic power by electrical power leads to reducing emissions and fuel consumption. The MEA concept has led to a growing use of the starter/generator (S/G) system. Permanent magnet (PM) machines have been gaining interests for aircraf...

Power converters are the typical switched systems which operate based on the alternate switching of the semiconductor switches. The operating mode of power converters consists of several operating stages in one switching period. Each operating stage refers to a sub-circuit or equivalent circuit wher...