Active Water-Wave Absorber Matthew Carney ME236: Control & Optimization of Distributed Parameters Professor Alex Bayen University of California‚ Berkeley 04.30.2007 UC Berkeley‚ Spring 2007 1 Contents • • • • • • Motivation Initial Idea Literature Search Focus Current Work Future Work www.emec.org.uk UC Berkeley‚ Spring 2007 2 Motivation • Significant amounts of energy is stored in the ocean • Large potential for extracting energy from waves • Control is the key to optimizing
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Speaking and listening share a very close relationship of communication. They really couldn’t exist without the other. If you think about when you are a little kid growing up‚ you repeat things that you hear from the people around you. Without listening to them‚ you couldn’t speak. Not to contradict what I said earlier‚ but I do understand where Alison is coming from when she used the example people hearing the things around us and not reacting to them. In Melinda’s case‚ she couldn’t find the words
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“Listening Skills are Important for Career Success‚ Organisational Effectiveness and Worker Satisfaction.” Listening skills are methods which enable a person to understand what another person is saying. Technology offers new ways such as e-mail to send and store messages voice communication‚ in person or by telephone‚ radio or television‚ is still the common way to transfer information from one person to another. Listening skills are important because it is part of communication. It plays an
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adolescents spend that much of their time listening to music‚ it is bound to have an effect on them. Certain music lyrics have a negative influence in a teenager’s life. Music can affect teenagers ever-changing emotions‚ cause dangerous thoughts especially to those who are already alienated‚ and cause women to become de-sensitized to being treated poorly. Music can easily affect teenagers’ delicate emotions in a troublesome way. For instance‚ Christenson & Roberts describes how music can change how adolescents
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I. OBJECTIVES A. extract the system of values found in the reading selection; B. participate actively in class and group discussion; and C. discuss the message of the selection through group discussion. II. CONCEPTS A. Topic: Reach for Your Dream By: David D. Moore B. Reference: reading.com.ph. pp32-36 C. Materials: photocopy of the story‚ power point presentation‚ manila paper III. PROCEDURES A. Pre-Reading Activities 1. Preliminary Activities a. Checking of Attendance b. Checking of Assignments
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Examples of Active and Passive Voice Active voice describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb. Inpassive voice sentences‚ the subject is acted upon by the verb. Sentences in Active and Passive Voice Here are examples of sentences written in both the active voice and the passive voice‚ with the active voice sentence appearing first: Harry ate six shrimp at dinner. (active) At dinner‚ six shrimp were eaten by Harry. (passive) Beautiful giraffes roam the savannah
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How you define your worldview is how you see the world through your eyes. Everyone has a different worldview and different components to make their worldview. The three components that make up my worldview are God‚ knowledge‚ and ethics‚ because they shaped my thoughts‚ experiences‚ education‚ and my life decisions. The basic idea of whether there is a God or not is very abstract. It is impossible to prove that no God exists and it is for that reason that it is not considered a scientific concept
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Listening to Music Helps Students Be More Productive in The Classroom In a survey of 400 students‚ 93% said they worked better while listening to music (Paul). Listening to music can be a responsibility without even realizing it. While working in class there are so many distractions of the world‚ how about drown them out with music? Mood changes are the number one link to how music affects people. Students’ work ethic and productivity also change greatly. Listening to one’s own personal selection
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I chose to do an observation on myself for Nonverbal Listening. I had a conversation with two different people on two different occasions. The conversations were with my husband Scott‚ and a long time friend Kim‚ whom I do not see very often. Scott and I went out to dinner at a restaurant a few days ago and we were there for a little more than an hour. The main topic of our conversation was about how he felt to be back home after being deployed by the Army‚ to Afghanistan for a year. Kim and
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Listening log Composer- W.A Mozart Title of work- Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (K. 191) Date of Composition- 1774 Date of listening- 22/10/2010 Medium of performance-CD Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) BBC Philharmonic‚ Gianandrea Noseda This is Mozart’s only surviving bassoon
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