Task 3(a) There are many benefits in using steel as a building material. Steel is a very structurally stable material. It is also eco-friendly and energy efficient. According to Hewlett‚ a freelance writer in Houston‚ construction steel is recyclable with the rates of over 90 percent. Unlike wood‚ there’s no need to worry about the material rotting or damages caused by insects. It is very durable and can withstand most weather conditions. There’s also no need for deforestation that are harmful
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Natural resources are useful materials or substances that exist in the environment like land‚ water‚ sun‚ trees‚ oil‚ minerals‚ etc. Natural resources are generally classified as renewable resources and non-renewable resources. Resource depletion means exhaustion of natural resources in a certain region. When the rate of consumption of these resources exceeds the rate at which they are restored‚ depletion of resources occurs. The utilization of natural resources has increased considerably due to
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On 4th October 2001‚ I went on geography field trip to Ashdown Forest. We got out of the coach and started to walk towards the river source. Unfortunately due to the lack of weather there wasn’t any water. It was dry rather than muddy. We took some notes of landscape then we started walk towards the waterfall which was also dry. We could see where the drop was and where the hard rock eroded away soft rock. We took some measurement of the fall (width and depth). Secondly we walked toward the V-shaped
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the virus actually looks like‚ or what happens when a person is infected. The name “Zika virus” comes from the Ziika Forest in Uganda‚ which is where this disease was discovered in 1947. This virus is circle-shaped‚ with an RNA genome that is surrounded by a fatty membrane similar to other flaviviruses. The virus does not have a real color. The virus can spread through mosquito bites‚ from mother to child‚ sexual intercourse‚ blood transfusion‚ or laboratory exposure. Unborn babies that get
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intimately connected with the forests. Forests have had a great influence on human thought and way of living. For example‚ the Vedas and Upanishads‚ the oldest known religious‚ philosophical and literary monuments of mankind are the direct products of forest-life in ancient India. The Aranyakas or the Forest Texts form an integral part of these oldest testaments of human wisdom and philosophy. They are called so because they were both composed and studied in the forest-dwellings. They contain the
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Enterprise Resource Planning: the usefulness‚ benefits and problems Introduction Nowadays when businesses are operating in a highly automated business environment they have to adopt any newly formed technologies in order to remain competitive (Al-Mashari‚ 2000). Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) form part of these new technologies that businesses need to adopt. The nature of ERP systems‚ their benefits and the problems associated with them will be explained through the answers in the
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People have been using drugs from centuries and first “written” information about it comes form the Sumerian civilization ideograms (dated 5000 B.C.) which shows using of opium for joy. Could they have been wrong with it? In this essay I will try to answer the question about risks and benefits of legalizing soft drugs. Firstly I have to explain what is meant by the definition “soft drug”. Mainly the term regards drugs which are not psychoactive and are non-addictive (or the risk of addiction is
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Organisational Learning Risks and benefits of social media on a Multinational Corporation Student Name: Tan Pei Si Jalyn Student Number: 31726715 Date Due: 9th July 2012 Lecturer Name: Mr Gerard Chan Word Count: 2366 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 SOCIAL MEDIA 3 USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS 4 CREATE KNOWLEDGE SHARING 4 BUILD SOCIAL CAPITAL 5 SUPPORT INNOVATIONS 5 AID PROBLEM SOLVING 5 APPLYING THE THEORY 6 RECOMMENDATIONS 7 RISK AND BENEFITS 8 CONCLUSION 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Preservation of Forests resources Several measures have been prescribed for the preservation of the forests. They are as follows: The trees cut down for timber or other uses‚ should be matched with planting of more trees‚ so that‚ there is no scarcity. The use of fuel wood and wood charcoal should be discouraged. The conventional sources of energy should be tapped. Biogas should be employed for cooking‚ to lessen the consumption of fuel wood. Modern methods of forest management should be
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Treetop Forest Products Ltd is a sawmill operation in British Columbia‚ Canada‚ that is owned by a major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built thirty years ago and was completely updated with new machinery five years ago. Treetop receives raw logs from the area for cutting and planing into building-grade timber‚ mostly 2-by-4 and 2-by-6 pieces of standard lengths. Higher grade logs leave Treetop’s sawmill department in finished form and are sent directly
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