Drive Clean Drive electric Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! Dr. Paul Mac Cready ‚ Jr. The future of transportation is here‚ and it’s knocking at your door! Our day-to-day means of transportation is changing and the more municipalities‚ business leaders‚ utilities and end-users know about Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs)‚ the more prepared they will be to embrace the “vehicles of tomorrow”
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WHAT IS HARM REDUCTION? Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies intended to reduce the negative consequences of high risk behavior such as over drinking or drug abuse. Harm reduction is a non judgmental approach that attempts to meet people where they are at with their drinking or drug abuse. Instead of demanding perfect abstinence‚ this pragmatic approach is supportive of anyone who wishes to minimize the harm associated with a high risk behavior such as drinking or drug abuse. Harm
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Uncertainty reduction theory This theory comes to explain the uncertainty among people who communicate with each other and how different types of communication will help to reduce the uncertainty. As a starting point‚ the developers of this theory (Charles Berger and Richard Calabrese) stated that uncertainty is an unpleasant feeling‚ which people prefer to avoid as much as they can. Every person has been confronted with the feeling of uncertainty‚ rather if it was when arriving to new a destination
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transforms society‚ creates jobs‚ drives human development and finally improves health and education‚ therefore once it’s lacking it will result in poverty. Strong economic growth and employment opportunities
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experiment of making borneol from camphor (FIGURE-3) is performed in two different methods‚ Sodium Borohydride Reduction and Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction‚ to compare the relative product ratio of borneol to isoborneol. The concept of reduction and also oxidation‚ the opposite procedure of reduction‚ deals mostly with electron transfer between atoms. It will not be elaborated here‚ but the reduction procedure involved in this experiment is basically adding hydrogens and losing the carbon-oxygen double
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McClelland identified three key motivating drives that work for everyone. He named these key drives as: * The Need for Achievement * The Need for Affiliation * The Need for Power He also identified how these needs each vary in strength between different people. Everyone‚ says McClelland‚ is motivated by all of these‚ but to motivate individuals‚ the manager needs to consider what the primary drivers in each case are. Achievement How to recognise the Achievement Motive in a person
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Because of the development of new disciplinary‚ people now can research human brain and learn more about the drives (including the drives to acquire‚ bond‚ comprehend and defend) which underlie human actions. It had many researches mentioning how these drives affect employee motivation in organizations. One of them is the article “Employee Motivation: A powerful new model”‚ written by Nitin Nohria (the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration)‚ Boris Groysberg (an associate professor
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the international poverty line include; – Guatemala‚ – Guinea-Bissau‚ – India‚ – Kenya‚ – Lesotho‚ – Madagascar‚ – Nepal‚ – Niger‚ – Senegal‚ – and Zambia • Analysts have found a strong positive relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. • For example‚ East Asia (excluding China)‚which contains the world’s fastest-growing economies‚ reduced the share of its population living in poverty from 23 percent in 1987 to less than 14 percent in 1993. But in Sub-Saharan Africa‚ where negative
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Mohammed N. M. Sayan ESL 0405 ESL Advanced Writing Date: February 13th‚ 2013 Dr. J. Parla Palumbo Topic: Crime Reduction Title: What can I do to reduce crime? Thousands of crimes happen all over the world and increase exponentially every year. According to Nations Master’s website‚ more than twelve million crimes committed in the United states last year. "Crime statistics." nationmaster.com. Rapid Intelligence‚ 2002. Web. 25 February 2013. All of these crimes have happened due to high poverty
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Non-negative Matrix Factorization Based Noise Reduction for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition Seon Man Kim1‚ Ji Hun Park1‚ Hong Kook Kim1‚*‚ Sung Joo Lee2‚ and Yun Keun Lee2 1 School of Information and Communications Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology‚ Gwangju 500-712‚ Korea {kobem30002‚jh_park‚hongkook}@gist.ac.kr 2 Speech/Language Information Research Center Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute‚ Daejeon 305-700‚ Korea {lee1862‚yklee}@etri.re.kr Abstract
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