Serendipity – Accidental Discoveries in Science ABSTRACT Serendipity means the faculty of making fortunate and unexpected discoveries by accidents. Penicillin‚ X-ray‚ Viagra‚ Teflon are common examples known as accidental discoveries in science. The stories of these discoveries are interesting and meaningful. X-ray for medical diagnosis and treatment‚ miracle drug penicillin‚ Viagra for treatment of erectile dysfunction‚ Teflon for frying pans‚ all of these discoveries make our life wonderful
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Technology has made it possible for businesses to become the much more successful. Automation represents of the major trends of the 20th century. The belief has grown out of the belief that automated system provide superior reliability‚ improved perrformance and reduced cost for the performance of many functions. The automation has steadily advanced as means have been for automating physical‚ perpetual‚and more recently cognitive task in all
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Chapter 2 Forces To study the effect of forces acting on particles. 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle 2.2 Free Body Diagram 2.3 Force Vectors 2.4 Forces in a Plane 2.5 Forces in Space Expected Outcomes • Understand the condition for a particle to be in static equilibrium • Able to construct free body diagrams • Able to solve for the forces acting on a static particle 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle www.classical.com/features 2.1.1 Condition for the Equilibrium of a Particle
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bread as well as biscuit making Plants‚ a sizeable number of people still prefer fresh bread and other products from bakery. The bakery industry in India can be categorized into the three broad segments of bread‚ biscuits and cake. Only 40% of the 3m tonnes bakery products industry in India is in the organized sector‚ while the balance comprises of unorganized‚ small-scale local manufacturers (Samant 2002).With changing consumer tastes and with the entry of multinationals post liberalization‚ the
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vendors in the Global ETC Systems market. View our full TOC hereKey Regions EMEA APAC North America South America Key Vendors EFKON AG Kapsch TrafficCom AG Schneider Electric Siemens AG Thales Group TransCore LP Other Prominent Vendors 3M Grenobloise d’Electronique et d’AutomatismesHitachi International Road Dynamics Metro Infrasys Mitsubishi Heavy Industries OMRON Electronics PercepticsQ-Free SAIC TRMI Systems Integration WatchdataXerox Key Market Driver Need to Reduce
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In this experiment‚ we used simple distillation and extraction to do synthesis of 1-bromobutane. The experiment was carried out by mixing 13.3 g of sodium bromide‚ 15 mL of water and 10 mL of n-butyl alcohol in a 100 mL round bottom flask. We cooled the mixture and added 11.5 mL of concentrated sulfuric acid. Then the mixture was heated at reflux with a short condenser for 45 minutes and then we drained out the condenser. We removed the condenser and distillation head was set up to set up the condenser
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Why profiled on Startup Review eHarmony established a new category within an online market that many considered to be dominated by two well-established Internet brands in Match.com and Yahoo. eHarmony was launched in August 2000 with $3M in funding and grew into a rumored $100M+ revenue‚ highly profitable company in less than 5 years (note: revenue currently estimated at $165M per year). By the time Sequoia Capital and TCV invested $110M into the company in November 2004‚ it was rumored that almost
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decrease their costs so that earn more profit‚ and when earthquake happened many people died because of this reason. Profit vs. quality has been a controversial issue for a long time. In MBA or other business programs‚ I think historical cases such as 3M‚ 2001 financial crisis‚ medical issues
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MORPHOLOGY Ampalaya is a climbing vine‚ nearly or quite smooth‚ annual vine. Tendrils are simple‚ up to 20 centimeters long. Leaves are 2.5 to 10 centimeters in diameter‚ cut nearly to the base into 5 to 7 lobes‚ oblong-ovate‚ variously toothed‚ and heart-shaped at the base. Male flower is about 12 millimeters long‚ and is peduncle‚ with a rounded‚ green‚ and about 1 centimeter long bract approximately at the middle. Female flower is yellow flower‚ about 15 millimeters long‚ long-stalked with pair
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