Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION in ENGINEERING Reverse Logistics for Electrical and Electronic Equipment: a modular simulation model L. GUERRA‚ T. MURINO‚ E. ROMANO Department of Materials Engineering and Operations Management University of Naples “Federico II” P.le Tecchio – 80125 Napoli ITALY luigi.guerra@unina.it murino@unina.it elromano@unina.it http://www.impianti.unina.it Abstract: In recent years there has been a significant
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Water Pollution Part II Amanda Norris Groundwater Pollution pg. 502: Describe : Groundwater is the water we drink. Few countries go to the great expense of locating‚ tracking‚ and testing aquifers. Volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) contaminate 90% of the U.S. aquifers‚ but 2% of samples had unsafe VOC levels. The US found that ⅓of the 26k industrial waste ponds didn’t have liners to prevent toxic liquid wastes from seeping into aquifers. The EPA had completed the cleanup of 297k of the 436k underground
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There are notes here for all of the slides The 23 Lecture Units For 2012 Finding and Displaying Information Unit 1 The materials and processes universe: families‚ classes‚ members‚ attributes Unit 2 Materials charts: mapping the materials universe Material Properties Unit 3 The Elements: Property origins‚ trends and relationships Unit 4 Manipulating Properties: Chemistry‚ Microstructure‚ Architecture Unit 5 Designing New Materials: Filling the boundaries of materials property space
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Story Of Stuff‚ Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine‚ in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together
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Communist Party of the Philippines/New People ’s Army Mandy Rodriguez Homeland Security 302 10/23/2012 Werner D. Lippert Abstract International relations are an integral part of globalization and relations in the modern world between different nations. These relations extend to include state agencies‚ non-governmental organizations‚ inter-government organizations‚ and multinationals. It also extends to the relations that exist between nations and groups that have an international
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Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage Michelle Rowland Buena Vista University Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage We all have to share this world with its limited resources. We must take advantage of all resources we have‚ regardless if they came from the earth‚ are man made‚ or are waste products. The average person in America throws away 3.7 pounds of garbage every day (Resource Recovery Public Works‚ 2009). It is no surprise that this leads to landfills that are filling faster
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Chapter 5 – Short answer a) Phosphorylation - the addition of phosphate to a chemical compound b) What are the 3 mechanisms of phosphorylation used by organisms? • Substrate level phosphorylation – ATP is generated when a high-energy phosphate is directly transferred from a phosphorylated compound (substrate) to ADP • Oxidative phosphorylation – electrons are transferred from a group of organic compounds to a group of electron carriers (NAD+ and FAD); occurs in inner mitochondrial
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December 2011 Examiners’ Report NEBOSH National Diploma in Environmental Management Examiners’ Report NEBOSH NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT DECEMBER 2011 CONTENTS Introduction 2 General comments 3 Comments on individual questions 4 2012 NEBOSH‚ Dominus Way‚ Meridian Business Park‚ Leicester LE19 1QW tel: 0116 263 4700 fax: 0116 282 4000 email: info@nebosh.org.uk website: www.nebosh.org.uk The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health is a registered
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Application of life cycle assessment in service industries: a review Sabrina Rodrigues Sousa 1 ‚ 2 ‚ *‚ Aldo Roberto O metto 1 1 2 University of São Paulo‚ School Engineering of São Carlos‚ São Carlos‚ Brazil Ministry of Science and Technology‚ Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI)‚ Campinas‚ Brazil *sabrinarsousa@gmail.com Abstract The introduction of services in the economy adds value in an intangible way while promotes dematerialization. As products‚ services are developed
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION There is higher demand for electricity in the country due to the high consumption and need for electricity‚ and this project is the plan to study the demand for renewable energy re- sources in Nigeria and to find out the main competitors and discover the best periods for market entry in the country via the micro and the macro environmental analysis. The demand for renewable energy in the country is being driven by the increase and urbanization access to energy
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