com/locate/biombioe Rice straw as a renewable energy source in India‚ Thailand‚ and the Philippines: Overall potential and limitations for energy contribution and greenhouse gas mitigation Butchaiah Gadde a‚1‚ Christoph Menke b‚*‚ Reiner Wassmann c‚2 a The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment‚ King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi‚ 126 Prachauthit Road‚ Bangmod‚ Tungkru‚ Bangkok 10140‚ Thailand b University of Applied Sciences Trier‚ Department of Building Engineering
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm MD 45‚9 1426 The mediating effect of organizational reputation on customer loyalty and service recommendation in the banking industry Nick Bontis and Lorne D. Booker DeGroote School of Business‚ McMaster University‚ Hamilton‚ Canada‚ and Alexander Serenko Faculty of Business Administration‚ Lakehead University‚ Thunder Bay‚ Canada Abstract Purpose – The overall purpose
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Should China revalue the yuan against the dollar? If so‚ what impact may this have on (1) US balance of payments‚ (2) Chinese balance of payments‚ (3) relative competitiveness of Mexico and Thailand‚ (4) firms such as Wal-Mart‚ and (5) US and Chinese retail consumers? China‚ the largest growing market in the world‚ currently has a policy regarding monetary regulation that allows the Yuan to “float”. This has seen the Yuan appreciate by approximately 24% over the past few years. Today‚ the exchange
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am going to be looking how the Tsunami on December 26th 2004 affected tourism in Thailand. I will recount the details of the tsunami‚ followed by personal opinion on how the scale of the disaster could have been avoided. I will then quote facts and evidence using newspaper/ hotel reports and then summarise my findings. The Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26th 2004 was caused by an underwater earthquake and was one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Thailand‚ causing major damage and disruption
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The Impossible: Follow Up Questions 1. What natural disaster devastated the coast of Thailand? A tsunami devastated the coast of Thailand. 2.What are the causes of this type of disaster? Slow earthquakes under the sea floor cause tsunamis. 3.As a responder‚ list the needs and concerns you expect victims and survivors to have? As a responder‚ I would expect victims and survivors to have open wounds‚ hunger‚ dehydration‚ emotional distress‚ and missing family members. 4
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other‚ they chose to hold on despite the trauma they may have gone through. Sometimes in life‚ just like them‚ you feel like you are in a full blown tsunami with no escape. What do you do then? All you have to do is ask Maria Belon‚ her husband and three sons. Their Christmas holiday in Thailand turned into a nightmare when the Indian Ocean tsunami came crashing into their resort on 26 December 2004‚ leaving them bruised and scattered. She was terrified‚ alone and convinced that she was going
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2012 A Term Project Advisor -------------------------------- (Aj. Kunchalee Lekpetch) Outline Topic: The factors that the effect on the rubber price between 2011 to 2012. The rubber is an important industrial crop of the country (Thailand). The price of rubber effect the world economy. There are five factors that effect on the price of rubber. Support
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Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan and the Indian Ocean earthquake affecting Southern Asia are both primary examples of natural disasters. Although these two events were completely unrelated to each-other‚ the economic and environmental impact that they had on their effected regions were very much similar. These included widespread death and injuries‚ building and infrastructure losses‚ major economic downfall and socio-economic loss. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck the coast
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outward‚ making landfall at speeds topping 500 mph (www.cbsnews.com). The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by a violent‚ impulsive undersea disturbance or activity near the coast or in the ocean. When a sudden displacement of a large volume of water occurs‚ or if the sea floor is suddenly raised or dropped by an earthquake‚ big tsunami waves can be formed by forces of gravity. The waves travel out of the area of origin and
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INTRODUCTION A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ severe weather‚volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover.[1] An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in
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