An oil spill can be defined as an accidental or deliberate dumping of oil or petroleum products into the ocean and its coastal waters‚ bays‚ and harbors‚ or onto land‚ or into rivers or lakes (Holum 1977). Between one and ten million metric tons (one metric ton is 1000 kilograms) of oil are put into the oceans every year. The oil is released‚ most often‚ in small yet consistent doses from tankers‚ industry‚ or on shore waste disposal (Boesh‚ Hersher‚ et al. 1974). Tanker spills cost the United
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Lorenzo’s Oil Essay The film is based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone and their son Lorenzo. In 1984 Lorenzo came down with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)‚ a rare inherited disease. Doctors said that he would lose all his functions and die within two to three years. Refusing to accept this grim verdict‚ the Odones set out on a mission to find a treatment for ALD and to save their child. In their quest for a treatment the Odones often clashed with doctors‚ scientists‚ and support groups
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April 18‚ 2014 Title: Identification of Conjugated diene from Eucalyptus Oil Abstract: The purpose of this experiment is to separate and identify a conjugated diene from eucalyptus oil by making its Diels-Alder adduct with maleic anhydride. The unknown is one of four conjugated dienes with its names and the melting points. The melting point of the adduct was 112°C revealed the identity of the diene in eucalyptus oil which was α-phellandrene. Introduction: Some natural hydrocarbons are conjugated
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Jennifer Obrien Date: 11/ April 11‚ 2013 Abstract Inexpensive‚ affordable food is a person’s wants. If find some ways to solve this problem‚ keep food quality and price. So‚ in this paper discuss the solution of how to strike a balance between inexpensive‚ affordable food and healthy‚ quality food. Firstly‚ according to international trade‚ people can import some healthy food from other country‚ which place has lower labor. So‚ people can control the
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Case Study: British Telecom: Searching for a winning strategy Tuomo Summanen Michael Pollitt Judge Institute of Management November 2002 1. Introduction The development of the telecommunications market in the United Kingdom and the corporate strategy and development of the incumbent‚ British Telecom‚ represents an interesting object of analysis for several reasons. First‚ the UK telecommunications market was - along with the U.S. market - among the first telecommunications market that
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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The Pacific Oil Company “Look‚ you asked for my advice‚ and I gave it to you‚” Frank Kelsey said. “If I were you‚ I wouldn’t make any more concessions! I really don’t think you ought to agree to their last demand! But you’re the one who has to live with the contract‚ not me!” Static on the transatlantic telephone connection obscured Jean Fontaine’s reply. Kelsey asked him to repeat what he had said. “OK‚ OK‚ calm down‚ Jean. I can see your point of view. I appreciate the pressures you’re under
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SMALL-SCALE PRODUCTION OF ESSENTIAL OILS Essential oils are the volatile oils distilled from aromatic plant materials. The odour and flavour of these oils is usually dependent upon these oxygenated compounds. Many oils are terpenoids‚ a few oils are benzene derivatives. Table 1 shows the important constituents of the more common essential oils. Name Part of plant used Leaf Botanical name Important constituents Uses Lemongrass and citronella Eucalyptus Cymbopogon spp Citral
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The importance of oil to the modern world is unique in character and incredibly far-reaching in scope. It is a singularly autonomous variable in the world economy‚ just as‚ if not more potent and influential than Federal Reserve decisions‚ the Euro-Dollar exchange rate‚ conditions in the U.S or stock market indexes. Oil availability and price affect the output capacity‚ rate of growth and level of inflation throughout the world. In the modern world‚ oil affects transportation‚ heating‚ production
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