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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all I want to thank ALLAH for his love and blessings to me; it is his blessings only that I am able to complete this project. I want to express my gratitude to all those who had accompanied & supported me. I want to express my sincere and humble gratitude to Prof. Jamal A Khan‚ Chairman of Department of WildLifeSciences‚ AMU‚ ALIGARH for giving me opportunity to work here and to carry out my dissertation work in this university. I am extremely thankful to Dr.Satish Kumar

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    latitude are numbered from 0° to 90° north and south. Zero degrees is the equator‚ 90° north is the North Pole and 90° south is the South Pole. Zero degrees longitude is located at Greenwich‚ England. The degrees continue 180° east and 180° west where they meet at the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean. To locate points‚ degrees longitude and latitude are divided into minutes and seconds. There are 60 minutes in each degree and each minute is divided into 60 seconds. Using all components‚

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    Competition Promotes Prosperity Competition in most cases is a good thing. Athletes often profit the most from competition because they are forced to give their all on every play. Even a world class athlete‚ if he has completion will be pushed further and will have to give in to his own agenda (laziness) to remain competitive. Competition in the market place is no different; it combats most company self-interests and instead provokes producers into wealth-creating activities.1 The competitive

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    Daniel Rodriguez English 10 Mrs. Toman March 29‚ 2011 Research Paper: Henry Ford Imagine how life would be if our society did not have cars. Today‚ our society is dependent on cars for our daily routines. From transporting our food‚ clothes‚ and technology to just going to the store across the street‚ cars are a very important part of our society. In the 19th century‚ only the wealthy and upper middle class had access to automobiles‚ and they only used cars for fancy transportation

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    “The only reference points on the high seas were the stars and Sun. Locations and courses now had to be spatial: a navigator needed to locate himself on a grid of imaginary lines of latitude and longitude” (Helden‚ 1995). Based on the time of eclipses of these moons‚ a navigator could figure out his longitude‚ based on the

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    The north-south lines represent lines of longitude while the east-west lines represent lines of latitude. The Prime Meridian and the International Date Line are both important lines of longitude‚ the first divides the planet into the western and eastern hemisphere at 0 degrees while the second is located at 180 degrees and separates two calendar dates. The equator‚ the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn are the three most important lines of latitude. The Equator is located at o degrees

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    Chapter 1: 1: Contrast physical geography and cultural geography A: Cultural geography centers on things such as people‚ religions‚ languages‚ foods‚ and traditions‚ While physical geography centers on the aspects of the earth‚ the soil‚ the mountains‚ water‚ landforms etc. 2: If any idea cannot be disproven by some possible observation or test‚ can such an idea be supported by science? Explain. A: The book states that in order for something to be considered scientific there must be some test

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    insurance system which is in the form of the SMS‚ the microcontroller unit reads the SMS and sends it to the Global Positioning System (GPS) module and using the triangulation method‚ GPS module feeds the exact location in the form of latitude and longitude to the user’s mobile. By reading the signals received by the mobile‚ one can control the ignition of the engine; say to lock it or to stop the engine immediately. The main concept in this design is introducing the mobile communication into an embedded

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    Claudius Ptolemy was born C. 100 CE. The size and content of his literary production suggest that he lived until about 170 CE. He was a Greek descent‚ mathematician‚ geographer and Egyptian Astronomer. Nothing much is known about Ptolemy’s life apart from what can be anecdotal from his writings. The Major Astronomical work he did was title the Almagest which was completed about 150 CE and contains reports of Astronomical observations that Ptolemy had made over the preceding quarter of a century.

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    like ATMEGA microcontroller‚ ultrasonic sensor and microphone to provide more refined location and orientation information. The visually impaired person issues the command and receives the direction response using audio signals. The latitude and longitude values are received continuously from the GPS receiver and then transferred to the PC using the zigbee transceivers‚ using these values the localization of the visually impaired person is attained using Google map. KEYWORDS localization; visually

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