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    Nurses Association (ANA) also plays an important role within the health care reform enacted by President Barrack Obama. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) "the nursing profession advances by fostering high standards of nursing practice‚ promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace‚ projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing‚ and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public". In 1911 the ANA became a renowned health

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    It is common knowledge that winners write history. In Inherit the wind‚ by Lawrence and Lee‚ this is obvious by how they portray religion and sciences. Theology‚ the side that lost the case‚ is shown as a deleterious force‚ smothering all ideas that disagree with it without reason. The religious town of Hillsboro causes the setting to put a negative connotation on religion. When it is described as being a “sleepy‚ obscure country town” (Lawrence 3) it implies that this is what happens to places

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    My report is on Mission Santa Ines which is 35 miles north of Santa Barbara among the rolling hills near the Santa Ynez River. The mission was established September 17‚ 1804 by Father Estevan Tapis as the 19th mission along El Camino Real. In the early 1700’s‚ the country of Spain sent many explorers to the western world to claim land and find riches. When California was founded by several Spanish explorers‚ like Cabrillo‚ and De Anza‚ Spain decided to send missionaries to build missions. There

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    WIND POWER (RENEWABLE ENERGY) IN PAKISTAN By The wind of change is blown and world has now emphasizing towards new technologies out of which renewable energy is important one. Keeping in view the commercial and industrial consumption of oil and gas everyone is conscious to have some alternate resource for energy production. Wind is also one of the resources for the power generation. A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind‚ also called wind energy‚ into mechanical

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    ECON10003 Introductory Macroeconomics Semester 1‚ 2013 Assignment 1   This assignment is worth 10% of your overall mark for this subject.   These questions are designed to assess your knowledge of macroeconomic theory‚ specifically‚ the  45‐degree  diagram  and  associated  concepts‚  and  your  ability  to  apply  that  theory  to  a  real  world  scenario.     The assignment is due by April 10‚ 2.00pm.   You will need to submit your assignment in electronic format to the Commerce Student Centre via 

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    Wind Energy Technology IEEE PES 22 July 2008 JP Lyons - Novus Energy Partners Bob Thresher – NREL Wind Tech Center Mike Robinson – NREL Wind Tech Center Paul Veers – Sandia National Labs Modern Wind Turbines Electrical Pitch Drives GE 1.5sl • 1.5 MW • 77 M Rotor Diameter • 50-100 M Tower Doubly-Fed Generator • 98% Availability • Speed 10-20 RPM Main Shaft & Bearing • Variable Pitch Gearbox Epoxy-Glass Composite Blades Transformer & Electrical Power

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    of the windmill Figure E21.2.1 shows the important parts of a windmill. The wind is shown heading perpendicular toward the hub and blade assembly (this example uses three blades‚ but some use only two‚ and‚ as Fig. 21.7 shows‚ some use many blades). Fig. E21.2.1 A view of a horizontal axis wind energy machine. (U.S. Department of Energy‚ Ref. 30) Energy‚ Ch. 21‚ extension 2 How a windmill works 2 Wind machines come in two basic types—horizontal axis or vertical axis machines. The

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    Background/History on the Wind Power Industry The wind power industry first developed in Iran around 200 B.C. The first windmills were vertical axis wind turbines‚ which were used for pumping water and grinding whole grains for food consumption. The Chinese‚ Romans and Afghans all used windmills around this time for similar use. In the 13th century Holland started developing large horizontal axis windmills. These four-blade windmills were larger‚ carried more torque and wind speed and could do more

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    Santa Cruz Case Introduction Santa Cruz Guitar Company is a small-scale musical instrument company that produces custom high quality guitars. Although Santa Cruz Guitar Company manufactures few guitars a year‚ compared to competitors‚ and lack an actual quality department‚ Santa Cruz Guitar Company is known for high quality instruments. Dr. Robert W. Edwards Deming was a statistician that had a large impact on quality‚ as we know it today. Deming realized how management processes could

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    “A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy”. (1) The inventor of the first electric wind turbine was Clevelander Charles Brush‚ who ran his entire Euclid Avenue mansion off of one for 20 years‚ which later made the cover of Scientific American in 1888. (2) Although the use of alternate energy didn’t rise a great deal afterwards‚ this event did open the eyes for many environmentalists. Wind power is only one of our several “energy source[s] whose

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