Male sheep which are part of the breeding herd for raising lambs.

The male of the sheep family.

(1) Heavy rubber seals in a blowout preventer which can be closed to provide pressure control. One of three types – blind, pipe, or shear – may be installed in several preventers mounted in a stack on top of the wellbore. (a) Blind rams, when closed, form a seal on a hole which has no part of equipment extending through the blowout preventer.(b) Pipe rams, when closed, seal around any pipe standing in the hole.(c) Shear rams, cut through drill pipe and then form a seal. (2) Well-logging companies furnish blowout preventers with modified rams which can be closed down over logging cable to provide pressure control. Will not damage cable.

RAMS is a java based server useful for managing inter-domain VoIP routing, called number translation and Call Detail Record collection. RAMS supports the European Telecommunications Standard Institute's OSP Peering protocol .

Is an enterprise-wide risk analysis and management software system which measures, monitors and manages positions in a real-time environment.

Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety

Mortgages in which the bank makes a loan for an amount equal to a percentage of the appraisal value of the home. The loan is then paid to the homeowner in the form of an annuity.