Urban Transport in Indian Cities A peak of rush hour commuters at Churchgate‚ a terminus for one of Mumbai’s main suburban train lines contributing to the nearly 6.5 million people feeding in and out of the city daily. Urban travel in Indian cities predominantly happens through walking‚ cycling and public transport‚ including intermediate public transport (IPT). Despite high growth rates of motorised two wheelers and cars in the last two decades (15 per cent and 10 per cent per annum respectively)
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Firearms can be used in a positive setting‚ such as target shooting‚ hunting‚ self-defense‚ or recreation. On the other hand‚ a fatal gun accident often makes the front page of a newspaper and even the state and national news‚ especially when a child is involved. In most cases‚ children between the ages of zero to nineteen die due to an accidental gun shooting. Late teens who have committed suicide are the largest group of people who suffer from death of a firearm. In 2003‚ 7‚671 suicides were firearm
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Transport & Service costing Service Costing Unit costing is the method of costing used when the cost units are identical. Identical cost units should have identical costs and this concept of equality of costs is the basic feature of unit costing. It may be noted that process costs‚ output costing and service costing are the sub-divisions of unit costing method. Service Costing – Nature and Problem: Service or operating cost is the cost of providing services. Service costing
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number of plans and schedules. It is very well if everything happens smoothly. But in fact‚ your arranged plans or schedules do not happen as what you expect. Therefore‚ you may immediatly fall into the status of stress. There are many ways to reduce stress. It depends on the manner that you choose. Firstly‚ let’s start a new day in full of energy by a meditation exercise. Research suggests that daily meditation may alter the brain’s neural pathways‚ making you more resilient to stress. A few
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To: Ms BXX From: Tab XXXXXXXX Date: 06 February‚ 2013 Subject: Statement Report of Accident in the Computer Labs How the Accident Occurred At‚ 1000 hours on Tuesday‚ 5 February‚ 2013‚ during the CSI 142 labs classes in Block 247‚ room 293‚ a student by the name of Bosa Matlhare – while working on his java exercise brushed his elbow against the power cord of the computer while attempting to fix the Local Area Network cable on the computer that was assigned to him for that lesson. Not having
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duty operational staff and workers from various departments and maintenance services. In addition to this number‚ there were also 268 builders and assemblers working on the night shift of the constructions of units Nos.5 and 6. The fatal accident sequence was initiated by a decision of the plant ’s management and specialists to make an overnight experiment to test the ability of the turbine generator to power certain of the cooling pumps while the generator was freewheeling to a standstill
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3.1 BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES 3.1.1 Properties of Cell Membranes • Separates living cell from its nonliving surroundings. • 8 nm thick. • Selectively permeable - allows some substances to cross more easily than others. 4.1.2 Fluid Mosaic Model • Singer and Nicolson (1972) - plasma membrane is a mosaic of proteins dispersed within lipid bilayer‚ with only bilayer‚ the hydrophilic regions exposed to water. Hydrophilic region of protein Phospholipid bilayer Hydrophobic region of protein
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Business Forecasting and Modelling Modelling NHS Data for Accident and Emergency Departments to Reduce Attendances and Costs in Twelve London Trusts. Forecasting – Long denigrated as a waste of time at best and a sin at worst – became an absolute necessity in the course of the seventeenth century for adventuresome entrepreneurs who were willing to take the risk of shaping the future according to their own design. (Bernstein‚ P. 1996) K0750834 May 2010 Business Forecasting and Modelling
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Air Accident An Air accident is the worst nightmare of every pilot or passenger that has ever ridden in an aircraft. Although air travel is one of the safest forms of transportations‚ accidents do happen with dramatic and terrifying results. The circumstance of Air accidents takes place by four causes: takeoff and landing‚ mechanical failures‚ pilot error‚ and bad weather. One cause of Air accidents take place is during takeoff and landing. Approximately 80 percent of all aviation
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of Road Accidents The high socio-economic cost of the injuries and fatalities‚ occurring due to road accidents‚ and the need for effective policies for curbing road accidents make it imperative to study the causes of road accidents. The analysis of road accidents in terms of causal factors reveals that drivers’ fault is the single most important factor responsible for accidents‚ fatalities and injuries. Drivers’ fault accounted for 77.5 per cent (3‚85‚806 accidents) of total accidents; 72.0
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