Weighbridge Technology Weighbridges play a vital role in today’s agricultural industries‚ providing valuable weight data for incoming and outgoing vehicles at farms‚ mills and terminals‚ as well as for bulk loading activities. Now a blend of versatile instrumentation‚ user-friendly software and communication technology is rapidly increasing the scope of weighbridges‚ thereby expanding their operational and data collection capabilities. Parkerfarm’s Mark Spick outlines what users should look for
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Time Series Models for Forecasting New One-Family Houses Sold in the United States Introduction The economic recession felt in the United States since the collapse of the housing market in 2007 can be seen by various trends in the housing market. This collapse claimed some of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. such as Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers‚ as they held over-leveraged positions in the mortgage backed securities market. Credit became widely available to unqualified borrowers
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Types of Fallacy 1) Fallacy of Accident/ Fallacy of Sweeping Generalization - occurs when one reason with the generalization as if it has no exceptions. Examples: 1) Cutting people with a knife is a crime Surgeons cut people with knives Therefore‚ surgeons are criminals. 2) Birds can fly Penguins are birds Therefore‚ penguins can fly 3) Speeding up above 50 kph is a crime. Therefore‚ ambulance drivers are criminals. 2) Fallacy of Converse Accident - occurs when
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Last Updated: Tuesday‚ 18 July 2006‚ 16:36 GMT 17:36 UK E-mail this to a friend | Printable version | | China plan to protect environment | Pollution problems have grown along with China’s economy | China plans to spend 1.4 trillion yuan ($175bn) over the next five years on protecting its environment.The sum - equivalent to 1.5% of China’s annual economic output - will be used to improve water quality‚ and cut air and land pollution and soil erosion.China has some of the world’s most polluted
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CLASSIFICATION ESSAY Types of Nutrients A healthy diet is one that helps maintain or improve general health. It is important for lowering many chronic health risks‚ such as obesity‚ heart disease‚ diabetes‚ hypertension and cancer. A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water. Nutrients can be obtained from many different foods‚ so there are numerous diets that may be considered healthy. For me‚ I think that there are 3 kind of
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Types of Banks. Commercial banks differ from investment banks.Most financial consumers think of “the bank” as a place to keep liquid financial resources‚ such as checking accounts and savings accounts. A consumer may have personal accounts at acommercial bank. The commercial bank’s primary business involves taking in financial assets as deposits then lending these assets to other customers at a rate of interest. The interest rate the bank charges on loansand revolving lines of credit or other credit
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FALLACIES OF RELEVANCE 1. Appeal to Force If you suppose that terrorizing your opponent is giving him a reason for believing that you are correct‚ then you are using a scare tactic and reasoning fallaciously. Example: David: My father owns the department store that gives your newspaper fifteen percent of all its advertising revenue‚ so I’m sure you won’t want to publish any story of my arrest for spray painting the college. Newspaper editor: Yes‚ David‚ I see your point. The story really
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Self Edit A Series of Poignant Memories Memory #1 I’ve always wanted a dog. When I was younger‚ I would constantly be asking for one. However my parents weren’t too keen on the idea of getting a dog. When I was younger‚ they said I wasn’t responsible enough to care for a puppy. As I got older‚ they started to run out of reason of why I couldn’t get a dog‚ which is why I got a dog on my 15th birthday. About a week or so before my birthday my parents told me that they had found a breeder and were
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Food Choices In our Social Responsibility class we watched the series of videos “Diet for a New America” available on You Tube. These videos are based on a book with the same name written by John Robbins‚ the son of Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. Trough the videos I learned the connections between our diet‚ diseases‚ animal cruelty and environmentalism. It’s impossible to summarize the entire content of the videos but I’m going to point some facts that really shocked me: * Cholesterol
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UBS Alternative Investments February 2011 Hedge Fund Education Series This publication is a compendium of all previously published reports in the series. Part 1 What are Hedge Funds? Part 2 Inside the Black Box Part 3 Asset Characteristics of Hedge Funds Part 4 Important Hedge Fund Strategies Part 5 Implementing a Hedge Fund Portfolio Please click the links above to jump directly to a section. UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS FS) is pleased to provide you with information about
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