Strategies adopted by South Africa for ensuring Energy Security 1.) Introducing cutting-edge technologies for high-impact climate change mitigation‚ particularly to reduce coal dependence. 2.) Encouraging Bank to provide support in five areas: (i) energy efficiency and conservation‚ development of energy service companies‚ and application of smart grid technologies; (ii) renewable energy‚ including wind‚ concentrated solar‚ biomass‚ geothermal and small hydropower; (iii) cleaner
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image of solar panels from your head -- that kind of demand is going to require power plants. There are two main ways of generating energy from the sun. Photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar thermal (CST)‚ also known as concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. PV converts sunlight directly into electricity. These solar cells are usually found powering devices such as watches‚ sunglasses and backpacks‚ as well as providing power in remote areas. Solar thermal technology is large-scale by comparison
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First Rate Hospital (FRH) is committing significant resources to this pilot program since the demand for this type of network will only increase with time. Setting up a new infrastructure has monetary costs for both equipment and man-hours. The IT staff will need to install and set up the new infrastructure‚ as well as‚ train professional and standard users on the expectations for use of the new network and specific HIPAA rules for the use of their own device. The IT department along other members
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Navarro CMR fa05 10/21/05 7:06 PM Page 1 The Well-Timed Strategy: MANAGING THE BUSINESS CYCLE Peter Navarro S ome companies appear to exhibit considerable skill in managing the business cycle. For example‚ during the 2001 recession‚ Lowe’s employed an aggressive countercyclical capital expansion strategy to significantly outperform a cost-cutting and retrenching Home Depot. Dell countercyclically increased its advertising budget and gained market share from key rivals such
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Article 1. Jones and Wicks (1999): CONVERGENT STAKEHOLDER THEORY We describe two approaches to stakeholder theory - a social science approach and a normative ethics approach- since neither of them is complete without the other. One group of scholars views stakeholder theory as a potential foundation for the growth of social science-based research; another views stakeholder theory as an umbrella term describing a class of narrative accounts‚ each based on its own moral principles. We argue
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Motivation Theory and Corporate Responsibility (Summary) Mario Minoja University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Bocconi University Maurizio Zollo INSEAD and Bocconi University Abstract Whereas CSR Scholars generally identify two kinds of motivation for engaging in CSR‚ namely instrumental and normative motivation‚ we argue that this framework does not provide a comprehensive picture of reasons leading individual people and companies to engage in CSR and‚ even more important‚ does not
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AIX commands you should not leave home without Page 1 of 15 AIX commands you should not leave home without Level: Intermediate Shiv Dutta‚ Senior Software Engineer‚ IBM 06 May 2003 Updated 24 Oct 2006 Do you ever feel you wish you could answer some of your own questions when you work with AIX® and your System p™ server? Do you ever feel you could save time by not having to call on the support professionals all the time? Well‚ wish no more. Shiv Dutta discusses some of the AIX commands that
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The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) was established in 1933 in response to a catastrophic event in the Southern Great Plains region know as the “Dust Bowl” or “Dirty Thirties”. In 1869‚ the railroad made its way to the Great Plains and became home to the many early settlers who took advantage of the “free soil” or land tracts offered by the government via the Homestead Act; a bill enacted in hopes to curb slave labor and increase the number of individual farmers who owned and operated
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Delivery India - Process & Quality Reduction in Not Found Faulty (NFF) Maxis Team Charter Business Case Not Found Faulty (NFF) is a prime concern for NSN. There is a huge cost involved in the transportation/scanning of such units. In this project‚ we will be focusing on Maxis CT. In one quarter (Jan-Mar)‚ the total cost incurred is around 12KE. Therefore in 1 year‚ this figure would be in the range of 50KE. Thus‚ with an aim to reduce this by 50%‚ the saving would be around 24KE for 1
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than a product‚ whereby shared resources‚ software‚ and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet). A Cloud Service Provider (CSP) offers Cloud services out of one or more DCs‚ where compute‚ storage‚ and network resources are offered on-demand to Cloud Service Consumers (CSC). The infrastructure resources are offered via a service called the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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