Coal Mining Coal mining is taking coal out of the earth for use as fuel‚ and there are two types of it: surface and mountaintop mining and underground mining. Coal is one of the most important resources because of its ability to be a fuel. Surface mining is used when the coal is near the surface‚ and a process known as strip mining extracts it; this is literally tearing a strip out of the earth to expose the coal. This is a highly controversial method though because by taking so many strips
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Resource Allocation in Hotels –Alternative Distribution Options The number of reservations flowing to hotels through the electronic and switchboard distribution channels – the Internet and reservation call centers – is growing steadily. Once a minor contributor of bookings‚ they are now primary business sources and grow more important with every passing month. This productivity growth has heightened emphasis throughout the hotel industry on using the electronic and switchboard distribution channels
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Asset Allocation and Retirement: Do You Need to Make a Change? Many investors who are approaching retirement are wondering if they will need to change their asset allocation when they are no longer collecting a paycheck. The information available from the popular press and many advisors is to generally guide retirees to change their allocation to one that is more conservative. This is usually interpreted to mean that the investor should lighten up on stocks and put more of their investments into
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In 1886‚ John Pemberton who was an Atlanta pharmacist came up with a caramel-colored liquid and then he carried it over to Jacob’s Pharmacy. Once at the pharmacy the mixture was combined with carbonated water. Later on they put the mixture to the test by letting the customers at the pharmacy try it out and it was a success. They then started to sell the new concoction for only five cents a glass. The new refreshing drink was named Coca-Cola‚ the name was given by Frank Robison‚ who happened to
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assist in causing the Industrial Revolution? Coal was one of man’s earliest sources of heat and light. The Chinese were known to have used it more than 3‚000 years ago. It was discovered in Britain. The United Kingdom had a large amount of coal‚ especially in the North West‚ North East‚ Southern Scotland and Wales. Coal also helped improve the ability to manufacture iron‚ a metal needed to make machines and build factories. England traded and sold coal‚ oil‚ wood‚ steel in the markets to get money
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Cost allocation in banks is also one of these competitive challenges in the USA market. Now banks are also revising its polices one after another for an effective marketing strategy and gaining healthy customer relations. Therefore‚ usually banks allocate their costs from the back office to the front office. Basically back office means the internal operations related to cost and management in any organization or bank‚ which is not visible to the public. It is the internal cost allocation policies
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Clean coal technology is a term used to describe technologies being developed that aim to reduce the environmental impact of coal energy generation. It implies that it is possible to make coal a fuel source that is free of (or very low in) carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutant emissions. Some of the techniques that would be used to accomplish this include chemically washing minerals and impurities from the coal‚ gasification (see also IGCC)‚ treating the flue gases with steam to remove sulfur
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Resource Allocation Problem Statement The type of problem most often identified with the application of linear program is the problem of distributing scarce resources among alternative activities. The Product Mix problem is a special case. In this example‚ we consider a manufacturing facility that produces five different products using four machines. The scarce resources are the times available on the machines and the alternative activities are the individual production volumes. The machine
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Page No ENERGY TYPES OF ENERGY ENERGY RESOURCES ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ENERGY CONSERVATION REFERENCE ENERGY Energy is one of the most fundamental parts of our universe. We use energy to do work. Energy lights our cities. Energy powers our vehicles‚ trains‚ planes and rockets. Energy warms our homes‚ cooks our food‚ plays our music‚ gives us pictures on television. Energy powers machinery in factories and tractors on a farm. Energy from the sun gives us
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A Theory of the Allocation of Time Gary S. Becker The Economic Journal‚ Vol. 75‚ No. 299. (Sep.‚ 1965)‚ pp. 493-517. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0133%28196509%2975%3A299%3C493%3AATOTAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N The Economic Journal is currently published by Royal Economic Society. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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