Encyclopedia of Computational Engineering and Academic Investigation Methods

• Self-documentation — The act of self-documenting and its result; an individual and autonomous process of gathering materials, data, and bibliographical evidence to clarify a subject, or an advanced function of a computer system to automatically generate its own technical user guides.
• Motorized draisine — A light, self-propelled railway vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine or an electric motor, used on tracks for the rapid transport of inspection personnel, tools, or materials needed for railway line maintenance and repair.
• Self-balancing — The act of self-balancing and its result; an automatic physical, mechanical, or cybernetic process by which an object, vehicle, or complex mechanism restores its stability or vertical position without human intervention or external corrective commands.
• Self-excitation — The act of self-exciting and its result; the process of magnetizing an electric generator using the current generated by itself, or the autonomous generation of a nerve impulse or biological alert state without external stimulants.