Oil and Gas Law Outline Fall 2000 Class One INTRODUCTION Petroleum: generic name for certain combustible hydrocarbon compounds found in the earth A commercial oil deposit requires the presence of a porous‚ permeable rock formation containing oil of a marketable A.P.I. gravity and of producible viscosity. Three fundamental properties of petroleum (for oil and gas production): 1. state (gaseous‚ liquid or solid) 2. specific gravity
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Y A Guide to the Common Edible and Medicinal Sea Plants of the Pacific Islands By Dr Irene Novaczek C ommunity Fisheries Training Pacific Series 3A S upplementary Guide to Sea Plants: Pacific Series 3 USP Marine Studies Programme / SPC Coastal Fisheries Programme: Training Materials for Pacific Community Fisheries The University of the South Pacific Secretariat of the Pacific Community Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development New Zealand Official Development Assistance Australian
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Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related
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ED208: STUDY OF EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUALS 1 ASSIGNMENT 1 The term “disability” means the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in community life on equal terms with others. It describes the encounter between a person with a disability and the environment. The Fiji National Council of Disabled Persons (FNCDP) uses the United Nations (UN) definition of disability as stated below: “Disability summarizes a great number of different functional limitations
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5/7/13 A summary of Vishaka case‚ Supreme Court‚ 1997 for Sexually Harassed women in India | Sexual Harassment at Work Place in India Sexual Harassment at Work Place in India Working on to save Indian working women from Sexual Harassment at Workplaces HARASSMENT NOTIFICATIONS The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Work Place Bill‚ 2012 Circular for central govt employees on Vishaka case‚ 1998 Supreme Court Guidelines on Vishaka case‚ 1997 Home Sexual Harassment
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Alex Ibarra ENG 150-274 December 12‚ 2012 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Living on this earth is a privilege and unfortunately we sometimes take advantage of it. Stories of deforestation‚ air and water pollution really make a person think of just how much our planet is being harmed. A major concern is water pollution. Water covers at least 70 percent of the planet which makes our rivers‚ lakes‚ and oceans essential. Many of these bodies of water are being polluted and although they may be
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besieged with bad news‚ as the American film studio - Universal Pictures has announced it’s pulling Pacific Rim 2 off its release calendar completely but the American musical comedy film - Pitch Perfect 3 is moving back two weeks to fill Pacific Rim 2’s old slot. A Universal representative said in a statement‚ "Legendary and Universal Pictures are committed to having Pacific Rim 2‚ the sequel to 2013’s Pacific Rim‚ which triggered a $411 million at the global box office‚ be the vanguard‚ fully-immersive
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The idea of Pacific Coffee was inspired by the coffee culture of Seattle‚ where coffeehouses were community hubs‚ serving great Italian espresso based coffee in generous western culture sizes‚ with informality and a friendly attitude. Pacific Coffee is one of the leading coffee chains in Hong Kong‚ with retail outlets in Hong Kong‚ China and Singapore. Since opening its first outlet in 1992‚ the chain has played an instrumental role in bringing a coffee drinking culture to Hong Kong.With comfortable
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch By: Niamh Leah Frances Edmonstone Imagine one day the whole ocean turning into a giant patch of toxic trash. People have been trashing the ocean for years‚ but now there is too much trash out there and it is destroying the environment and killing the marine life. If we don ’t try to stop this issue from escalating in the near future‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patches size will increase rapidly and have huge effects on the planet we live on. Charles Moore‚ an oceanographer
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Communal Life in the Pacific Almost every country is experiencing changes due to today’s modern society. Communal life is the traditional way of living which has advantages from which most people can benefit in any society. This form of living is very common in some parts of the Pacific where most people are bound to be together with their traditions. However‚ it is important to consider that this traditional way of living is being forgotten today and there are many reasons for this decline in the
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