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    Fresh Air

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    02/21/2011 Fresh Air Portland Community College decided to become smoke-free in the fall of 2009. They were just one of the many colleges in Oregon‚ and by extension‚ in the United States‚ to become smoke free campuses. Most people know that smoking is bad‚ but how bad is secondhand smoke? Many people that go to campuses dislike breathing in secondhand smoke. PCC’s policy‚ as of fall 2009‚ to become a non-smoking campus‚ was a wise decision that listened to the students. Secondhand smoke

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    Thin Layer Chromatography Introduction Thin Layer Chromatography or TLC is a technique used as a separation and identification technique. There are many forms of chromatography‚ but one thing that remains constant throughout all of the types of chromatography is that there is a stationary phase and a mobile phase. In the case of TLC the stationary phase is the silica gel on the TLC tray. Procedure Chromatograph method is a method of separating mixtures of two or more compounds. Two phases

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    Air-asia

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    1.0 Introduction Our MKT303/310 lecturer‚ Mr. Lawrence Sheah had assigned us a group assignment which takes up to 30% of the coursework. This group assignment has been done by Teah Su Hoey‚ Angel Chia‚ Lo Sau Fui and Shim Yun Khi. In this assignment‚ students are needed to select any one local or multinational service company to do a research report regarding on how the company plan‚ decide and execute their service marketing activities in order to compete and to survive in the competitive business

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    Air Asia

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    opportunities and threats to the MAS is  1. Strength - Emphases on Their hospitality and cabin crew network  2. Weakness - quality competition with AirAsia  3. Opportunity- change in customer preferences  4. Threat - change in economy  Award of Air Asia Award for Malaysia

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    Ryan Air

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    report identifies important issues of Ryanair ’s environment which have been formed since the company ’s development. It also goes on to analyse the future opportunities and threats which Ryanair is likely to face in currently and in the future. Ryan air have developed a cost focus strategy‚ where it focuses on reducing cost to obtain a competitive advantage. The following discussion will show just how efficient the company has implemented this strategy. 2. Introduction In 1985 Ryanair was established

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    Effects of Air pollution: There are different kinds of negative and harmful effects of air pollution. The effects of air pollution are described below. 1. Global warming: Air pollution causes global warming in a great scale. With increased temperatures world wide‚ increase in sea levels and melting of ice from colder regions and icebergs‚ displacement and loss of habitat have already signaled an impending disaster if actions for preservation and normalization aren’t undertaken soon. 2. Causes

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    Who Killed Jon Benet Ramsey

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    WHO KILLED JON BENET RAMSEY? The brutal murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 shocked America to its core. Just as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder seven decades earlier had seared the nation’s consciousness‚ this murder – of a beautiful and talented child in a wealthy Boulder‚ Colorado home --renewed every parent’s worst nightmare. It has been nearly three years since this violent crime occurred and no one has been brought to justice. At 6:48 p.m.‚ Dec

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    Air Pollution in the World

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    Air Pollution in the World OUTLINE I. Nowadays air pollution became very important problem in our world. II. Air pollution is caused by 3 factors. a. Factories b. Cars c. Human activities III. These three main problems listed above cause huge effects on our planet. a. Global warming b. Acid rains c. Health problems IV. Regarding all the factors and the problems they cause‚ we should start changing our world.

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    Addressing Air Pollution Threats with Air Purifier We are already in the year 2013 and like many other fields of technology there also has been significant improvements in the field of pollution prevention. Using an air purifier could address problems of air pollution substantially. With the world growing more and more conscious about environmental issues‚ pollution control is taking driver’s seat among various considerations for home‚ office‚ and workshop owners. Many people are turning towards

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    air travel

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    Task 1 Conduct desk research Consider the air travel industry’s environment‚ conduct research on the main forces in the macro environment facing air travel industry companies. Based on your research prepare a report. Your report should cover the following information a)Background of the research Industry Specific Metrics Aircraft Utilization: The most basic metric for an airline is aircraft utilization. This is a measure of the average number of hours that each aircraft is flying in each 24

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