Calibration of Total Station As there is height transfer from Wong Yi Chau to Tai Tau Chau‚ reciprocal leveling is needed to minimize the effect of the atmosphere as well as the line of sight and curvature corrections. As a result‚ total station will be calibrated before performing reciprocal leveling. Line-of-sight error and V-Index are determined through calibration. Line-of-sight error and V-Index The line-of-sight error or collimation error (C) is the deviation from the perpendicular between
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Chennai Metro Rail – The Future of our mass transport Introduction Cities are a matrix of functions and activity and at the helm of this activity is mobility. Before the intervention of automobiles commuting was slower and cleaner. But as the cities grew in numbers the need for commuting more people also grew. There has been a significant transformation in the urban transport sector in Chennai‚ from its earlier dependency on waterways to its current mode of rail and road transport. Since the Urban
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base of 15 million with presence in 450 cities and towns in India and a globally across 35 countries. Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/eureka-forbes-launches-mobile-water-purifier/article5959624.ece Local Literature Water Stations in the Philippines In the Philippines‚ bottled water has established a major foothold. In some places‚ piped-water systems are
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One of the major hazards that many communities have dealt with in the recent past is flooding. The Memphis metropolitan area is no different. In fact‚ The Memphis metro area dealt with severe flooding as recently as 2011. With this being said‚ the overall goal of mitigation is an important factor in the preparation and response to disasters such as these. That goal being‚ to create economically secure‚ socially stable‚ better built‚ and more environmentally sound communities that are out of harm’s
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Station Eleven Essay In the novel‚ Station Eleven by Elizabeth St. John Mandel‚ the author decided to start the book by introducing the readers to Arthur Leander‚ who is one of the main characters. Arthur Leander who was performing as King Lear in Shakespeare’s play. As he was performing something really tragic happened to him‚ he had a heart attack on stage. After the death of Arthur Leander‚ there was a Georgia Flu outbreak that was spreading all over the world. A disease known as the flu pandemic
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Direct Currency Quote vs. Indirect Currency Quote There are two ways to quote a currency pair‚ either directly or indirectly. A direct currency quote is simply a currency pair in which the domestic currency is the base currency; while an indirect quote‚ is a currency pair where the domestic currency is the quoted currency. So if you were looking at the Canadian dollar as the domestic currency and U.S. dollar as the foreign currency‚ a direct quote would be CAD/USD‚ while an indirect quote would
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My thoughts about the film‚ Fruitvale Station‚ are plenty. The film was more critical of Oscar‚ and I understand some of the criticisms that are leveled on the one side portrayal of Oscar. This movie is much more one-sided than I had expected it to be. We are introduced to the story of the footage where police are seen shooting the handcuffed Oscar. The movie made it so hard for me to sympathize with the officers who are supposed to protect the people and maintain the law. Even if the character Oscar
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It was the summer season. We were free from school. We were a party of four friends. We decided to go to Mussourie— a fine health resort in the Himalayas. We went to Dehradun by train. From there we decided to go to Mussourie on foot. A bus could also take us there‚ but we just wanted to have a novel experience of hiking. We reached Rajpur. It is just at the foot of the hills. It was from here that we set out for Mussourie on foot. We hired two coolies at Rajpur to carry outr luggage. Our route
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The International Space Station (ISS) The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility which is being assembled in Low Earth Orbit. Construction of the station began in 1998‚ and is scheduled to be complete by 2011. Operations will continue until 2015. At present‚ the ISS is the largest artificial satellite in Earth orbit. It is bigger than any previous space station. The ISS program is a joint effort by the space agencies of the United States (NASA)‚ Russia‚ Japan‚ Canada and ten European
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Saturday‚ September 26‚ it is way beyond words what Metro Manila has gone through in the hands of the recent storm‚ Ketsana. With the unusual amount of rain that Ketsana brought‚ it flooded where it never flooded before. Water seeped into houses and in a matter of minutes‚ reached 30 feet. The speed of the flood took everyone by surprise. People have gone to their rooftops or their neighbor’s roofs to save themselves. Rich or poor‚ everyone was caught off guard and no one was spared in this massive
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