1. Trees save energy and money. Just three trees strategically planted around your home can cut your air conditioning bill in half. 2. Trees save tax payers. Trees in a city slow storm water runoff and reduce the need for storm sewers. Tree shade also helps cool municipal buildings‚ lowering electricity bills. 3. Trees cool our cities. Urban "heat islands" are directly related to massive tree-cutting for development. 4. Trees clean our water and air. From low level ozone in our cities
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Assignment II: Business Basics Biogen Idec Biogen Idec is a global biotechnology company focused on discovering‚ developing‚ manufacturing and marketing therapies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders‚ neurodegenerative diseases and haemophilia. Biogen Idec was formed in 2003 from the merger of two companies‚ Biogen Inc.‚ founded in 1978‚ and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation‚ founded in 1985. It is one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world. Biogen
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Basic Marketing A Global-Managerial Approach Stanley J. Shapiro Kenneth Wong William D. Perreault‚ Jr. E. Jerome McCarthy For use with Shapiro‚ Wong‚ Perreault‚ and McCarthy texts. Copyright © 2002 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Li m ted. i Chapter 1: Marketing’s Role within Organizations For use with Shapiro‚ Wong‚ Perreault‚ and McCarthy texts. Copyright © 2002 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Li m ted. i Marketing Defined Micro-marketing The performance of activities that seek to accomplish an organization’s
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Beloved‚ Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort‚ protection and peace. Morrison uses trees throughout Beloved to emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Many black characters‚ and some white and Native American characters‚ refer to trees as offering calm‚ healing and escape‚ thus conveying Morrison’s message that trees bring peace. Besides using the novel’s characters to convey her message‚ Morrison herself displays and shows the good and calmness that trees represent in the tree imagery
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Jiayou Tao Basic Composition – Section GR Deborah Allen Final Draft March 12th‚ 2015 Modern technology‚ a great place to cover With the rapid development of society‚ modern technology has become one of the most dispensable parts in most people’s daily lives. It is no doubt that modern technology like cell phones and Internet have been widely put into use. We even cannot imagine a day without Internet and electronic devices. It is no exaggeration to say that modern
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Operating System: An operating system (OS) is a set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs require an operating system to function. Types: 1. Real-time A real-time operating system is a multitasking operating system that aims at executing real-time applications. Real-time operating systems often use specialized scheduling
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CHAPTER 1 — BASIC RADAR PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS INTRODUCTION The word radar is an acronym derived from the phrase RAdio Detection And Ranging and applies to electronic equipment designed for detecting and tracking objects (targets) at considerable distances. The basic principle behind radar is simple - extremely short bursts of radio energy (traveling at the speed of light) are transmitted‚ reflected off a target and then returned as an echo. Radar makes use of a phenomenon
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Basics of Statistics Jarkko Isotalo 30 20 10 Std. Dev = 486.32 Mean = 3553.8 N = 120.00 0 2400.0 2800.0 2600.0 3200.0 3000.0 3600.0 3400.0 4000.0 3800.0 4400.0 4200.0 4800.0 4600.0 5000.0 Birthweights of children during years 1965-69 Time to Accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (sec) 30 20 10 0 0 Horsepower 100 200 300 1 Preface These lecture notes have been used at Basics of Statistics course held in University
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Statistics is the study of the collection‚ organization‚ analysis‚ interpretation‚ and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of this‚ including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. The word statistics‚ when referring to the scientific discipline‚ is singular‚ as in "Statistics is an art. "This should not be confused with the word statistic‚ referring to a quantity (such as mean or median) calculated from a set of data‚ whose plural is statistics ("this
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Microorganisms: * Small living organisms; there are 3 types * Bacteria – ecoli‚ salmonella * Fungi – mushrooms‚ athletes foot * Virus – influenza (flu)‚ HIV * When they enter our body‚ they multiply and release toxins / harmful chemicals into our blood * They duplicate every 20 minutes * Physical barriers: eyelashes prevent MO’s from entering through our eyes‚ nasal hairs reduce them‚ skin is a barrier to them (although they can enter through cuts)‚ chemicals in tears
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