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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Make-up for pre-teens? Recently is seems that more and more girls under the age of eleven are starting to wear makeup‚ but why? They do not need to their still children. First‚ many feel that makeup causes damage to the skin‚ for both older women and younger women. It can be especially damaging to the skin of younger children. Besides‚ do young children really need to wear makeup? Of course‚ we all get that awkward stage and you start not liking the way you look. Many doctors feel that this is just
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Active Euthanasia Should Be Legalized When the topic of euthanasia is discussed many people emphasis on the pain that the patient may be in‚ but what a patient thinks about their quality of life is often more important. Many people do not want to spend the last days or weeks of their life in a way that to them may seem undignified. In a hospital with tubes all over their body and on a machine that is‚ helping them breath is undignified to many. A man by the name of Dr. Harold once said‚ "Having
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So What If a Boy Wears a Dress? Many male kids grow up playing with toy guns‚ toy cars and other toys for their favorite heroes such as Superman‚ Batman or Spiderman while females are known playing with dolls‚ make up kits and sometimes some play with toy guns and cars too which is normal. But when a male kid likes to play with dolls and wear make ups‚ it raises a problem in a society. In the article “What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” by Ruth Padawer‚ she raises awareness by
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In this dissertation we will explore active and passive euthanasia‚ the brouhaha surrounding the two and which one is appropriate and morally sound for modern times. James Rachel has written a very poignant supposition on active and passive euthanasia. Though many disagree with him on the appropriateness of the practice as it relates to humans and what is considered alive. Some believe that one is dead when the brain is dead or in a comatose state. Conversely‚ many believe that a person is alive
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Mount Yasur is an active volcano on Tana Island‚ Vanuatu with a height of 361 m above sea level‚ located on the coast near Sulphur Bay‚ that lies to the southeast of the taller mountain Tukosumera‚ which was active in the Plesistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with nearly a circular summit crater of 400 m in diameter. It is a stratovolcano caused by the eastward-moving Indo-Australian Plate being sub-ducted under the westward-moving Pacific plate. It has been erupting continuously
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Why should students wear school uniforms? By: attackontitans Did you know that most students who don’t feel like they fit in at school are most likely to end up dropping out of school? Wearing school uniforms helps children feel like we fit in and we belong to our school. School uniforms also save our time and our money. Just because you wear the same clothes as everyone else‚ it doesn’t mean that it takes away your personality and individuality. More and more schools should enforce the rule
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In the two poems We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Glass Ceiling by T.R. Hummer they have a common theme about how people often shield themselves and others from reality for social reasons. People do this is many different ways. In our society we can’t tell when people are shielding their true feelings because they are wearing a mask so to speak. In the poem We Wear the Mask the author talks about how wearing a mask changes the way people see you and how it covers up your true emotions
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3.5.1 Material Design‚ Collection and Programming First of all‚ the specimen designs have been drawn using the AutoCAD software. Two design have been drawn which were specimen for the tensile test and also specimen for the hardness test. Figure 3.3 and Table 3.3 shows the tensile specimen design with measurement. Figure 3.4 shows the design hardness specimen design and measurement. Figure 3.3: Tensile specimen design Table 3.3: Tensile specimen measurement All values in mm Sheet type‚ 12
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In active euthanasia‚ death is achieved through the deliberate actions of another‚ such as when a doctor administers a lethal dose of Morphine at the patient ’s request. In passive euthanasia‚ death occurs as a result of the decision to not take action such
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