The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books. While many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics, their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technology. CRC Press is now a subsidiary of Informa.

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The CRC Press was originally founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC), which supplied laboratory equipment to chemists. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the Rubber Handbook as an incentive to purchase one of their products.^[1] Since then the Rubber Handbook has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.^[1] In 1973, in light of the success of its publishing ventures, the company changed its name to CRC Press, Inc, and exited the manufacturing business.^[1] In 1986 it was bought by the Times Mirror Company; in 1997/98 it became a publicly held company. In 2003 CRC became part of Taylor & Francis, which in 2004 became part of the UK publisher Informa.^[1]

See also[link]

• Woodhead Publishing

References[link]

External links[link]

• CRC Press Website

CRC may refer to:

Companies[link]

• China Record Corporation, a large record company, based in Beijing
• China Resources Cement, a cement company parented by China Resources
• CRC Press, publisher, originally the Chemical Rubber Company
• CRC Industries, a worldwide manufacturer of specialist industrial chemicals, including CRC 5-56 penetrating oil

Computing[link]

• Class-Responsibility-Collaboration card, used as a brainstorming tool in the design of object-oriented software
• Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005, a car-racing game developed by Invictus Games
• Cyclic redundancy check, a type of hash function used to produce a checksum in order to detect errors in data storage or transmission

Organizations[link]

• California Rehabilitation Center, a state prison in the USA
• Cambridge Regional College, a further education college
• Canada Research Chair
• Capital Research Center
• Central Rabbinical Congress, a Haredi group
• Chicago Rabbinical Council
• Christian Reformed Church (disambiguation)
• Civilian Response Corps, deployable American federal civilian employees who provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance
• Commission for Rural Communities, a UK public body
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Communications Research Centre Canada, an agency of Industry Canada
• Cooperative Research Centre, a type of hybrid academic/industry research body existing in Australia
• CRC Churches International, a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination located primarily in Australasia
• Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) in NATO countries
• Crowley's Ridge College, a Christian college in Paragould, Arkansas
• Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center, the Rec center at Georgia Tech

Places[link]

• Camp Red Cloud, a US Army Camp in Uijeongbu, South Korea

Sports[link]

• Cambridge Regional College F.C., a semi-professional football club in England
• Canadian Rally Championship, a rally racing tournament
• Canadian Rugby Championship, a rugby union tournament
• Capablanca random chess, a 10x8 chess variant
• Collegiate Rugby Championship, a rugby sevens tournament

Other[link]

• Camera-ready copy—a document version that is ready to be printed without further alteration
• Christian Rosenkreuz (Christian Rose Cross), founder of the Rosicrucian Order
• Clinical research coordinator
• Costa Rican colón, ISO 4217 currency code
• Colorectal cancer
• Control and reporting center, a component of the Integrated NATO Air Defense System
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• CRC, the FIFA and IOC trigram for Costa Rica, whose ISO 3166 trigram is CRI
• CRC, the ICAO airline designator for Conair Aviation
• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a reference manual published by CRC Press
• MTR CRC-Stock EMU, a train

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Press may refer to:

Media[link]

• News media, the section of the mass media industry that focuses on presenting current news to the public
• Publisher, a company that produces or disseminates literature or information
• Press TV, the Iranian television network
• Associated Press, a global news network
• Press (newspaper), a newspaper in Serbia
• The Pittsburgh Press, a historic newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA that ceased publication in 1991.

Machines[link]

• Printing press, a machine that transfers inked images onto a medium such as paper or cloth
• Machine press, a machine that shapes material
• RAM press, a machine that shapes clay
• Trouser press, an electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers

Food preparation

• French press, a device for coffee preparation
• Fruit press, a device used to separate fruit solids from juice
• Garlic press, a kitchen utensil designed to crush garlic cloves
• Ram press (food), a device used to extract juice or oil
• Wine press, a device used to extract juice from crushed grapes during wine making

Other uses[link]

• Ironing, the act of removing wrinkles from clothes
• Press (overhead), the act of lifting a weight above the head
• Press (surname), family name of English and Eastern European origin
• "Press" (song), by Paul McCartney
• Press (album), by MU330
• Impressment, a method of involuntary recruitment into a navy
• Linen-press, a cabinet for storing textiles
• Press (film), a Turkish film

See also[link]

• The Press (disambiguation)
• Press gang (disambiguation)

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Hooshang Heshmat is the CEO and co-founder of Mohawk Innovative Technology. The company researches and develops green technology for integration into turbomachinery. Heshmat is a fellow in both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.^[1] In 2007 Heshmat received the Mayo D. Hersey Award, in recognition of his "contributions over a substantial period of time to the advancement of the science and engineering of tribology".^[2]

Published works[link]

• Heshmat, Hooshang (2010). Tribology of Interface Layers. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8247-5832-5. 

References[link]

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His Eminence  John Wu
Bishop of Hong Kong
Diocese	Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
Enthroned	25 July 1975
Reign ended	23 September 2002 (&1000000000000002700000027 years, &1000000000000006000000060 days)
Predecessor	Peter Lei
Successor	Joseph Zen
Orders
Ordination	1952
Consecration	1975
Created Cardinal	29 June 1988
Personal details
Born	26 May 1925 Wuhua, Guangdong, China
Died	23 September 2002(2002-09-23) (aged 77) Hong Kong, China
Buried	St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Hong Kong

Styles of John Wu
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Hong Kong

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Cardinal John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung (胡振中樞機; March 26, 1925 —September 23, 2002) was the fifth Bishop of Hong Kong's Catholic church and a Cardinal. He was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

He was born in the village of Ho Hau, Wu-hua (Province of Guangdong, Diocese of Kai-ying). Baptized in the village's parish church, he received his primary education there. He Joined the diocesan minor seminary of Ka-ying for his secondary education in 1940.

He was appointed the fifth Bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese by His Holiness Pope Paul VI as successor to Bishop Peter LEI Wang-kei who had died on July 23, 1974. He arrived in Hong Kong and on July 25 was ordained and officially installed as Bishop of the Hong Kong in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

After due preparation, he initiated a Diocesan Renewal Movement for priests, laity and religious. On March 25, 1985, he led a five-member delegation on a seven-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai, at the invitation of the National Bureau of Religious Affairs under the State Council of China. He was the first bishop of Hong Kong to visit the mainland China. Later on January 21, 1986, he led a seven-member delegation on a ten-day visit to Guangzhou and the eastern part of his home Province, Guangdong, at the invitation of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of that Province. This visit marked the first reunion with his 85 years old mother, after a separation of 40 years.

He was named a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II on May 29, 1988.

After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, on July 11, 1989, he wrote a letter to all the bishops in the world, requesting them to appeal for justice, order and democracy in China.

On September 1, 1991, Wu issued a pastoral letter that exhorting the faithful to give full support to the direct elections to the Legislative Council - the first time in the history of Hong Kong - on 15 September. In 1999, he convoked the "Diocesan Synod" to meet the pastoral needs of the Third Millennium.

He died on September 23, 2002 in Hong Kong at the Queen Mary Hospital, aged 77. He died due to Cardiac Arrest

See also[link]

• Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

External links[link]

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• His Biography
• Giga-Catholic Information on the Bishops of Hong Kong
• Notice of death of Cardinal Wu