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    Investigation of Wireless Measure and Control Methodology for High Voltage Circuit Breaker I. INTRODUCTION The high voltage circuit breaker is the most important device for protection and control in power systems and its safety operation has always been an important requirement to be guaranteed. The working state of high voltage circuit breaker can be evaluating by the condition monitoring and fault diagnosis technology. If the data provided by the condition monitoring proved to be normal‚ the

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    withstand voltage (dry/wet) -- for lines -- for CB / Isolator -- for other equipments Remarks 1050kVp 680kV 520kV 610kV 630kV 460kV 460kV 530kV 460kV (Line-ground) (open terminals) Substation Bird’s view 400kV Circuit Breaker 400kV Isolator 400kV Current Transformer 400kV CVT 400kV Surge Arrester Shunt Reactor & NGR 400/220 kV Auto Transformer 400kV Bus Post Insulator Wave Trap Functions of substation equipments

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    02.29.08 Component B “The Farming of Bones” By: ~Edwidge Danticat~ Talking about the culture brought throughout this book‚ your looking at a Latin American culture‚ specifically the Dominican/Haitian cultures. As I read this book‚ beyond the many numerous ways she worded her sentences and how the characters spoke‚ they often spoke with a definant difference than you would hear here in common U.S. language. They would constantly use inferences to what they were

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    Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3

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    The use of enjambed lines in “The Silken Tent” helps emphasize important aspects of a woman. The first example that illustrates this idea is shown the first couple lines‚ “She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent‚” (Frost 1-3). These lines help emphasize the notion that women are soft‚ fine‚ radiant‚ and lustrous creatures. It also emphasizes the idea that women are at their prime at mid-age. By de-emphasizing this phrase‚ it shows

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    earlier stories. All the stories are all about Haitian women trying to understand their relationships to their families and to Haiti. The epilogue‚ “Women Like Us‚” suggests that these women are related. The epilogue’s unnamed narrator‚ possibly Danticat herself‚ notices her similarity to her mother and female ancestors. These women cook to express sorrow‚ but the narrator chooses to write. Her mother doesn’t approve because Haitian writers are often killed. However‚ the narrator’s female ancestors

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    drink liters of Mountain Dew everyday as a result of him falling in love with the soda as a child. Soda such as Mountain Dew contains a ton of sugar‚ acid‚ and caffeine. If consumed too often‚ all of these things can cause health problems such as tooth decay from acid‚ diabetes from sugar‚ and insomnia as a result of an excessive intake of caffeine. Thrash is highly likely to acquire one of these health problems due to the fact he drinks nothing but liters of Mountain Dew every single day. As far

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    essence of slavery was still present. Another slavery-opposer‚ a poet named John Leaf Whittier‚ wrote a poem as a reaction to the attempted recapturing of an escapee expressing his disdain for these actions taken by the government. However‚ Thomas R. Dew clearly articulated that there are no moral complications with slavery because there is absolutely nothing in the bible that suggests that slavery is an immoral institution‚ while Whittier viewed it as immoral and unacceptable‚ and Child viewed just

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    consider that while the issue of slavery was the occasion of the Civil War‚ it was not the sole cause‚ the rights of individual states is also to be considered as a factor‚ as the Southern States felt it was their constitutional right to own slaves (Dew‚ 2001). The decision to secede without force of arms is also significant according to Benedict‚ as it would have disrupted the federal system greatly and there is no indication of what the consequences of this would have been (Benedict‚ 1988). Eleven

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    Air Conditioning Psychrometrics Course No: M05-005 Credit: 5 PDH A. Bhatia Continuing Education and Development‚ Inc. 9 Greyridge Farm Court Stony Point‚ NY 10980 P: (877) 322-5800 F: (877) 322-4774 info@cedengineering.com AIRCONDITIONING PSYCHROMETRICS AIR CONDITIONING PSYCHROMETRICS In air-conditioning system‚ the air must undergo one or several of the following processes: Psychrometrics can be used to predict changes in the environment when the amount of heat and/or

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