DESIGN AND SET UP OF A LABORATORY SCALE AEROBIC LANDFILL BIOREACTOR G. Makripodis‚ F. Simantiraki‚ M. Somara‚ E. Gidarakos Laboratory of Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management‚ Department of Environmental Engineering Technical University of Crete‚ Polytechneioupolis‚ Chania 73100‚ Greece ABSTRACT The complexity of landfills‚ as well as the practical and health-related issues generated‚ demands special laboratory and modelling approaches as the first line of in situ landfill investigations
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1 Speed Quality in Apparent Motion and Flipbooks using the Likert Scale Rachel Anyanwu Psychology 3552: Laboratory in Sensation and Perception University of Connecticut at Storrs ABSTRACT Seven participants each viewed two flipbooks of slow and fast speeds of hand-drawn dots and stick figures. By counterbalancing the conditions‚ each participant watched the flipbooks according to the sequential order. After viewing either the slow or fast flipbooks‚ a questionnaire was used to collect
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Address it on a Global Scale Poverty is the state of being extremely poor and being inferior in quality. Nearly half of the world’s population‚ nearly 3 billion people‚ live on less than two dollars a day and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. Poverty can be caused by many issues particularly social and economic reasons. There have been many attempts to address poverty on a global scale and these will be
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A natural resource can be defined as an item that after necessary processing or manufacture is useful and hence meets the needs of the society. Natural resources can be divided into two categories. Renewable and non-renewable. Renewable resources are those which after use will be replenished‚ if used appropriately. Non-renewable resources are those which come in finite stocks‚ therefore will eventually run out. Generally‚ natural resources are spread unevenly over the globe. That is in some areas
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DTD 5 ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Business Research xx (2004) xxx – xxx The SERPVAL scale: a multi-item instrument for measuring service personal values Luis Filipe Lagesa‚*‚ Joana Cosme Fernandesb‚1 a Universidade Nova de Lisboa‚ Faculdade de Economia‚ Campus de Campolide‚ 1099-032 Lisboa‚ Portugal Ericsson Telecommunications Portugal‚ Edifıcio D. Henrique‚ Quinta da Fonte‚ 2780-730 Paco de Arcos‚ Portugal ´ ¸ b Received 14 October 2003; received in revised form 1 June 2004;
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Successfully Navigating the Turbulent Skies of a Large-Scale ERP Implementation February 2012 Summary Bombardier’s Background Bombardier started in the year 1942 and went on to become a key player in the transportation industry. It entered the market of rail transportation in 1974 and 8 years later its desire to diversify led it to enter the Aerospace Industry. By January 31‚ 2007 Bombardier Transportation posted revenues of $ 6.6 Billion of which 55%
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IEEE 802.15.4: a wireless communication technology for large-scale ubiquitous computing applications Anis Koubâa‚ Mario Alves‚ Eduardo Tovar PP-HURRAY! Research Group‚ Polytechnic Institute of Porto Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida‚ 431‚ 4200-072 Porto‚ PORTUGAL {akoubaa‚ emt}@dei.isep.ipp.pt‚ mjf@isep.ipp.pt Abstract. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been attracting increasing interest for supporting a new generation of ubiquitous computing systems with great potential for many applications
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SELECTED MEDIUM-SCALE BOUTIQUES IN STA. ROSA CITY‚ LAGUNA Chapter 1: Introduction and Background of the Study Introduction "Inventory" to many small business owners is one of the more visible and tangible aspects of doing business. Raw materials‚ goods in process and finished goods all represent various forms of inventory. Each type represents money tied up until the inventory leaves the company as purchased products. In a literal sense‚ inventory
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Heat release rate of a subway car on fire in a shrink-scale model Abstract: Heat release rate in a shrink-scale model of a subway car on fire is measured for various aspects of an ignition source and simulated materials differing in material by using shrink scale model. The time is required to reach the value‚ although the maximum Heat Release Rate value is independent of the position of the ignition source. The best method for determining the heat release rate is the maximum Heat Release Rate
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agricultural policies responsible for the scale of the famine? Mao’s agricultural policies could certainly be seen as responsible for the scale of the famine or at least as a huge factor contributing towards it. Other factors‚ such as the conspiracy of silence‚ bad weather and withholding information by peasants and government officials were also partly responsible for the scale of the famine; however Mao’s policies played the biggest role in causing the scale of the famine. Collectivisation was
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