Youth‚ a simple word that contains five letters‚ but actually it is way deeper than being a word as it represents the world’s future. The definition of the word itself changes from a country to another‚ based on the cultural‚ institutional and political factors. Based on the United Nations standard youth are all the young people aged from 15 to 24 years [1]. Furthermore‚ youth is considered as a transition stage; where the person transfers from being independent and relying on their parents to be
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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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| Distillation is defined as: `Distillation is based on the fact that the vapor of a boiling mixture will be richer in the components that have lower boiling points.Therefore‚ when this vapor is cooled and condensed‚ the condensate will contain more volatile components. At the same time‚ the original mixture will contain more of the less volatile material. Distillation columns are designed to achieve this separation efficiently.Although many people have a fair idea what “distillation” means‚ the
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OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION: INTERROGATING THE OIL COMPANY’S ADHERENCE TO ARTICLE 40 ON COMMUNITY COMPENSATION Indigenous communities across the globe have been victims of unwarranted exploitation by private investors in the search for among others oil and gas. Whenever governments and oil companies intend to enrich themselves from the oil revenue‚ history has indicated that voiceless citizens are subjected to inhuman treatment and torture‚ deprivation of their indigenous community rights‚ disruption
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Gangs are corrupting minds and ruining our youth‚ many teens need to open their eyes and see the truth. A gang could just be a social group of friends and family that just hang out‚ but many of these gangs are involved in criminal activity like murders‚ robberies and drug dealing. One thing all gangs share in common is that they all want to claim territory (Conly) Gangs have been a part of history for thousands of years and their roots run deep into Americas past and culture. (Lewis) Gangs are a
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11 2.2 Global Scenario 11 2.3 Indian Scenario: 17 3 Performance Review of X Plan Period 25 3.1 Introduction 25 3.2 Hydrocarbon Reserve Position 25 3.3 Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production 26 3.4 Implementation of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) 28 3.5 Implementation of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Policy 28 3.6 Equity Oil and Gas from Abroad 29 3.7 Consumption of Petroleum Products during X Plan 31 3.8 Refining Capacity 32 3.9 Investments 33 4 Review of Policy Measures 36 4.1 Marketing
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Comparative Nutritional Quality of Palmstearin Liquid Oil Blends and Hydrogenated Fat (vanaspati) S. Ray and D.K. Bhattacharyya* Department of Chemical Technology‚ University Colleges of Science and Technology‚ Calcutta University‚ Calcutta - 700 009‚ India ABSTRACT: An attempt was made to use high-melting lowdigestible fat palmstearin as a vanaspati substitute by blending it with polyunsaturated fatty acid-rich liquid oils. This blending produced fat products of zero-trans fatty acid content
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community. Mental health is the ability to think clearly and coherently‚ it is greatly linked to emotional health. Intellectual Health is when the brain requires stimulation and challenge‚ this is kept up with life long learning. Having an active role in employment and the curiosity to update your knowledge will facilitate good intellectual health. Spiritual Health
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Measurement in Fats and Oils. Introduction : Vegetable oil is an important and widely used lipid source for our everyday food products. Its application is increasing day by day for food purposes and for the manufacturing of a number of toiletry products. However‚ some vegetable oils are not up to standards to meet consumer satisfaction in terms of their physico-chemical properties or for the texture and stability of the food products (Reyes- Hernandez et al.‚ 2007). Recently‚ palm oil has become the
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The 2010 BP oil spill that took place on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect claimed 11 lives‚ and is considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the petroleum industry’s history. The spill flowed continuously for 87 days until it was declared to have been contained on 15th July 2010 and finally sealed on 19th September of the same year (BP‚ 2013). However‚ unconfirmed reports indicate that some of the well sites continue to leak (Pulham‚ Hilaire & Fenn‚ 2010). The spill took a physical and psychological
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