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Slop Ship
Slop or SLOP may refer to: * Slop (clothing) *AI slop, a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media *Slop is the common name for household food scraps *Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions * a popular term for Backlash (engineering) *''The Secret Life of Pets'', a 2016 animated film * Self-selecting opinion poll, a poll or survey where the results reflect those individuals who choose to participate *Slop (S.L. OP) has been used as military slang for Special Operations cohorts *Doctor Slop, a character in the 1759 novel ''Tristram Shandy'' * Jan Janz Slop (1643–1727), painter of the Dutch Golden Age *Slop(s) is/are the residue of seawater washing of tanks in oil tankers, see crude oil washing *Hose (clothing) Hose are any of various styles of men's clothing for the legs and lower body, worn from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, when the style fell out of use in favour of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slop (clothing)
In 16th to 19th century Europe and North America, the slop trade was the manufacture and sale of slop, cheap ready-made clothing that was made by slop-workers and sold in slop-shops by slop-sellers. Slop The name "slop" was originally naval slang for the cheap ready-made clothing that a naval rating would purchase in lieu of an official uniform (which ratings in the British Royal Navy, at least, did not have until 1857) sometimes from a "slop chest" maintained on board ship by the purser. The trade The trade originated in government purchases of uniforms for soldiers and sailors; said uniforms being standardized and mass-produced rather than tailored to individuals, made to official specifications with rules about materials and shapes. The rise in the slop trade was particularly spurred on by wartime orders for military clothing, such as during the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession. The slop trade was flourishing by the 18th century, as slop-sellers realize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AI Slop
"AI slop", often simply "slop", is a term for low-quality media, including writing and images, made using generative artificial intelligence technology, characterized by an inherent lack of effort, logic, or purpose. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation akin to "Spamming, spam", and uses figurative language similarly, stemming from unwanted food. It has been variously defined as "digital clutter", "filler content produced by AI tools that prioritize speed and quantity over substance and quality", and "shoddy or unwanted AI content in social media, art, books and, increasingly, in search results." Jonathan Gilmore, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York, describes the material as having an "incredibly banal, realistic style" which is easy for the viewer to process. Origin of the term As early large language models (LLMs) and Diffusion model, image diffusion models accelerated the creation of high-volume but low-quality written content and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Waste
The causes of food going uneaten are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during food production, production, food processing, processing, Food distribution, distribution, Grocery store, retail and food service sales, and Social class differences in food consumption, consumption. Overall, about one-third of the world's food is thrown away. A similar amount is lost on top of that by feeding human-edible food to farm animals (the net effect wastes an estimated 1144 kcal/person/day). A 2021 meta-analysis, that did not include food lost during production, by the United Nations Environment Programme found that food waste was a challenge in all countries at all levels of economic development. The analysis estimated that global food waste was 931 million tonnes of food waste (about 121 kg per capita) across three sectors: 61 percent from Household waste, households, 26 percent from Foodservice, food service and 13 percent from Food retailer, retail. Food loss and waste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure
Strategic lateral offset procedure (SLOP) is a solution to a byproduct of increased navigation accuracy in aircraft. Because most now use GPS, aircraft track flight routes with extremely high accuracy. As a result, if an error in height occurs, there is a much higher chance of collision. SLOP allows aircraft to offset the centreline of an airway or flight route by a small amount, normally to the right, so that collision with opposite direction aircraft becomes unlikely. In the North Atlantic Region pilots are expected to fly along the North Atlantic Tracks, oceanic track center-line or 1 or 2 nautical miles to its right, randomly choosing one of these three offsets on each entry to oceanic airspace. The aim is to not achieve an overall even distribution of one-third of all flights on each of the three possible tracks, as one might assume. When the procedure was originally developed, 4.9 percent of aircraft in most oceans could not offset automatically, so the centerline had to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backlash (engineering)
In mechanical engineering, backlash, sometimes called lash, play, or slop, is a Engineering tolerance, clearance or lost motion in a mechanism caused by gaps between the parts. It can be defined as "the maximum distance or angle through which any part of a mechanical system may be moved in one direction without applying appreciable force or motion to the next part in mechanical sequence."p. 1-8 An example, in the context of gears and gear trains, is the amount of clearance between mated gear teeth. It can be seen when the direction of movement is reversed and the slack or lost motion is taken up before the reversal of motion is complete. It can be heard from the railway couplings when a train reverses direction. Another example is in a valve train with mechanical tappets, where a certain range of lash is necessary for the valves to work properly. Depending on the application, backlash may or may not be desirable. Some amount of backlash is unavoidable in nearly all reversing me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Life Of Pets
''The Secret Life of Pets'' is a 2016 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, and distributed by Universal. It was directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Yarrow Cheney, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, from a screenplay written by Brian Lynch (writer), Brian Lynch and the writing team of Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The film stars the voices of Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan, and Albert Brooks. The film's plot follows the relationship between a spoiled terrier named Max and a giant, unruly dog named Duke. It also follows what other pets do when their owners are gone for the day. ''The Secret Life of Pets'' premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2016, and was released in theaters in the United States on July 8. The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-selecting Opinion Poll
In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability sampling. It is commonly used to describe situations where the characteristics of the people which cause them to select themselves in the group create abnormal or undesirable conditions in the group. It is closely related to the non-response bias, describing when the group of people responding has different responses than the group of people not responding. Self-selection bias is a major problem in research in sociology, psychology, economics and many other social sciences. In such fields, a poll suffering from such bias is termed a self-selected listener opinion poll or "SLOP". The term is also used in criminology to describe the process by which specific predispositions may lead an offender to choose a criminal career and lifestyle. While the effects of self-selection bias are closely related to those of selection bias, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Operations
Special operations or special ops are military activities conducted, according to NATO, by "specially designated, organized, selected, trained, and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of employment." Special operations may include reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, and counterterrorism, and are typically conducted by small groups of highly trained personnel, emphasizing sufficiency, stealth, speed, and tactical coordination, commonly known as ''special forces'' (SF) or ''special operations forces'' (SOF). History Australia In World War II, following advice from the British, Australia began raising special forces. The first units to be formed were independent companies, which began training at Wilson's Promontory in Victoria in early 1941 under the tutelage of British instructors. With an establishment of 17 officers and 256 men, the independent companies were trained as "stay behind" forces, a role that they were later employed in against the Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Slop
Dr Slop is a choleric physician and "man-midwife" in Laurence Sterne's novel ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' (1759). The doctor is summoned by Tristram Shandy's father to attend his son's imminent birth. Slop makes his first appearance in Chapter 34 of the novel, where he is described as: :"... a little squat, uncourtly figure ... about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horse-guards." He is portrayed as an incompetent quack, arriving at Shandy Hall having forgotten his array of "vile instruments" and "obstetrical engines", which have to be urgently sent for. In performing a forceps delivery of the baby, Slop damages the infant Tristram's nose, much to his father's consternation, and is obliged to perform a rudimentary rhinoplasty using cotton thread and a piece of whalebone from a maid's corset. Sterne partially based the character of Slop on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Janz Slop
Jan Janz Slop, or Jan Slob (1643 in Edam – 1727), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken, he was a glasspainter who lived to be the last of a breed. He had been a pupil of Jozef Oostfries and was still active at 75 when Houbraken was writing in 1712.Jan Janz Slop Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He married Heiltje Sieuwerts 31 December 1661 in |
Crude Oil Washing
Crude oil washing (COW) is the process of washing out residue from oil tankers using the crude oil itself. After the oil tankers have been emptied, crude oil is pumped back and preheated in the slop tanks, then sprayed back with high-pressure nozzles in the cargo tanks onto the walls of the tank. Due to the stickiness of the crude oil, it clings to the tank walls, and such oil adds to the cargo remaining on board. By washing the tanks with crude oil, the amount of cargo remaining on board is significantly reduced, and with the high value of oil, the financial savings are significant, both for the charterer and the ship-owner. If the cargo remaining on board is deemed as 'liquid and pumpable', then the charterers can claim from the owner for any cargo loss for normally between 0.3% up to 0.5%. It replaced the ''load-on-top'' and ''seawater washing'' systems, both of which involved discharging oil-contaminated water into the sea. MARPOL 73/78 made crude oil washing equipment mandato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
