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Brownout may refer to: * Brownout (electricity), drop in voltage in an electrical power supply, so named because it typically causes lights to dim * Brownout (software engineering), a technique inspired by brownout in electricity, to make applications more tolerant to capacity shortages * Brownout (aeronautics), reduced flight visibility due to airborne particles, especially from helicopter downwash * ''Brownout'' (album), studio album by American band Head Set * Brownout (band), a band from Austin, Texas See also * Greyout, a dimming of the vision caused by loss of blood pressure or hypoxia * Redout, affected vision caused by increased blood flow to the head * Blackout (other) * Whiteout (other) * Eddie Leonski Edward Joseph Leonski (December 12, 1917 – November 9, 1942) was a United States Army soldier and serial killer responsible for the strangling murders of three women in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Leonski was dubbed The Brownout Strangler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (electricity)
A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system. Unintentional brownouts can be caused by excessive electricity demand, severe weather events, or a malfunction or error affecting electrical grid control or monitoring systems. Intentional brownouts are used for load reduction in an emergency, or to prevent a total grid power outage due to high demand. The term ''brownout'' comes from the dimming of incandescent lighting when voltage reduces. In some countries, the term ''brownout'' refers not to a drop in voltage but to an intentional or unintentional power outage (or blackout). Effects Different types of electrical apparatus will react in different ways to a voltage reduction. Some devices will be severely affected, while others may not be affected at all. Resistive loads The heat output of any resistive device, such as an electric space heater, is equal to the power consumption, which is directly proportional to the square of the applied volta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (software Engineering)
Brownout in software engineering is a technique that involves disabling certain features of an application. Description Brownout is used to increase the robustness of an application to computing capacity shortage. If too many users are simultaneously accessing an application hosted online, the underlying computing infrastructure may become overloaded, rendering the application unresponsive. Users are likely to abandon the application and switch to competing alternatives, hence incurring long-term revenue loss. To better deal with such a situation, the application can be given brownout capabilities: The application will disable certain features – e.g., an online shop will no longer display recommendations of related products – to avoid overload. Although reducing features generally has a negative impact on the short-term revenue of the application owner, long-term revenue loss can be avoided. The technique is inspired by brownouts in power grids, which consists in reducing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (aeronautics)
In aviation, a brownout (or brown-out) is an in-flight visibility restriction due to dust or sand in the air. In a brownout, the pilot cannot see nearby objects which provide the outside visual references necessary to control the aircraft near the ground. This can cause spatial disorientation and loss of situational awareness leading to an accident. Pilots have compared landing during brownouts to parallel parking an automobile with one's eyes closed. Description The brownout phenomenon causes accidents during helicopter landing and take-off operations in arid desert terrain. Intense, blinding dust clouds stirred up by the helicopter rotor downwash during near-ground flight causes significant flight safety risks from aircraft and ground obstacle collisions, and dynamic rollover due to sloped and uneven terrain. Brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined (as of 2005). There are several factors which affect the probabil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (album)
''Brownout '' is the only studio album of American band Head Set. Track listing All music and lyrics by Head Set Personnel *Ryan Kirk - vocals, guitar, keyboards, digital editor on "Disconnexion" *Taylor Stacy - bass, backing vocals *Sean Furlong - drums *Chris Fudurich Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ... - keyboards, digital editing *Jim Goodwin - producer *Adam Beilenson and Michael Kerns - executive producers *John F. Matousek - mastering *Alex Patsavas - additional vocals *Brad Kluck - additional vocals *David Frankham - additional vocals *Jackie Vic - additional vocals *Daniel Meyer - guitar solo {{Authority control 2000 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (band)
Brownout is an American Latin-funk band from Austin, Texas. The band was originally formed as a side project of the members of the Grammy-award-winning band Grupo Fantasma. Though the band was formed in 2003, as Grupo Fantasma took off in the early 2000s, Brownout was left "on the backburner", and the band's first album, ''Homenaje'', wasn't released until 2008. Since then, the band has toured regularly across the United States, at events including Bonnaroo, High Sierra Music Festival, and Utopia Festival. Brownout has also served as a backing band for artists including Prince, Daniel Johnston, GZA and Bernie Worrell. In 2014, the group released a series of covers of the British band Black Sabbath under the moniker "Brown Sabbath", which received praise from Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, as well as critical acclaim from NPR, AllMusic and ''Rolling Stone''. In 2018, Brownout released an instrumental cover album of Public Enemy songs titled ''Fear of a Brown Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greyout
A greyout is a transient loss of vision characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color, sometimes accompanied by a loss of peripheral vision. It is a precursor to fainting or a blackout and is caused by hypoxia (low brain oxygen level), often due to a loss of blood pressure. Greyouts have a variety of possible causes: * Shock, such as hypovolemia, even in mild form such as when drawing blood. * Standing up suddenly (see orthostatic hypotension), especially if sick, hungover, or experiencing low blood pressure. * Fatigue * Hyperventilation, paradoxically: self-induced hypocapnia, such as in the fainting game or in shallow water blackout. * Overexertion * Panic attack Recovery is usually rapid. A greyout can be readily reversed by lying down as the cardiovascular system does not need to work against gravity for blood to reach the brain. A greyout may be experienced by aircraft pilots pulling high positive g-forces as when pulling up into a loop or a tight turn, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redout
A redout occurs when the body experiences a negative g-force sufficient to cause a blood flow from the lower parts of the body to the head. It is the inverse effect of a greyout, where blood flows away from the head to the lower parts of the body. Usually, a redout will only ever be experienced by pilots, as planes are the most common devices that allow such negative g-forces to be exerted. Redouts are potentially dangerous and can cause retinal damage and hemorrhagic stroke. According to the predominant theory, the redness appearing in the visual field is not caused by an actual blood flow to the eye, but it is most likely caused by the blood-laden lower eyelid coming into the visual field because of the pull of negative-Gs. See also * Greyout *Fainting *Presyncope Lightheadedness is a common and typically unpleasant sensation of dizziness or a feeling that one may faint. The sensation of lightheadedness can be short-lived, prolonged, or, rarely, recurring. In addition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackout (other)
Blackout(s), black out, or The Blackout may refer to: Loss of lighting or communication * Power outage, a loss of electric power * Blackout (broadcasting), a regulatory or contractual ban on the broadcasting of an event * Blackout (fabric), a textile material that blocks light * Blackout (wartime), the practice of minimizing outdoor lighting for protection from attack * Communications blackout, a halt to communication abilities or utilization * Media blackout, censorship of news related to a certain topic * Protests against SOPA and PIPA, the 2012 web blackout Medicine * Blackout (drug-related amnesia), loss of memory with medicines or alcoholic beverages * Blackout or lost time, a common symptom of psychogenic amnesia and dissociative identity disorder * Syncope (medicine), a loss of consciousness, also known as fainting * Freediving blackout, a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive * Transient global amnesia, a temporary inabil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiteout (other)
Whiteout (including variants white out or white-out) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Whiteout (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe * Whiteout (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain Films * ''Whiteout'' (2009 film), based on the comic book * ''Whiteout'' (2000 film), a Japanese film directed by Setsurou Wakamatsu Music Albums * ''White Out'' (album), a 2000 album by American band Verbow * ''Whiteout'' (album), a 2000 album by rock band Boss Hog * ''Whiteout'' (EP), a 2012 song and eponymous EP by Dawn Richard Songs * "White Out", a 2014 song by Amy Lee featuring Dave Eggar from the album ''Aftermath'' * "Whiteout", a song by Killing Joke on the 1994 album '' Pandemonium'' Groups * White Out (band), an American experimental rock group * Whiteout (band), a Scottish rock group Literature * ''Whiteout'' (Judge Dredd novel), a 2005 novel by James Swallow * ''Whiteout'' (Follett novel), a 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
