...looked into is “what is the quality of the U-High Creek based on invertebrates found in the water?” The number and types of invertebrates found in the water helped us to determine the water quality of the U-High Creek. This being said, data was collected by collecting aquatic invertebrates in the creek and identifying the number and types of invertebrates found. The original prediction was the water quality of the U-High Creek is fair. The water quality of the creek was actually excellent, thus the original prediction was rejected. Overall, there came out to be 19 different types of invertebrates and 460 in total. Since the number and types of invertebrates found in the samples are so high, the water quality has to be excellent for each of the groups to survive and thrive. Out of the 19 different types of invertebrates, 7 of them were pollution sensitive....
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...The water quality was excellent in the U-High creek. To be excellent, the water quality has to be 23 points. The U-High water quality was 43 points which means the U-High streams water is very good. Humans can negatively impact water by polluting it. One negative impact of humans is when chemicals flow into the water. These chemicals can effect organisms which live in the creek by getting rid of the oxygen they need and by killing the plants which the organisms might use for their habitats. These chemicals can come from industries which humans build along rivers because rivers make it easy to transport goods. Another human activity which can affect water quality is mowing the grass and plants by river or creek banks. Mowing can cause the banks of the creeks to erode which might cause the river banks to collapse. This can again, affect the organisms, water flow patterns and plant life in the creek, which will then affect the water quality too. Fertilizer is a big chemical which...
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...The Chopawamsic Creek is located within the boundaries of the Chopawamsic Creek National Park in Prince William County, Virginia. The creek is a tributary of the Potomac River that stretches around 6 miles long. The creek is located at latitude-longitude coordinate of N 38349707 and W -77.30776 (Trails.com, 2012). The Chopawamsic Creek is an example of our many water supplies needed to sustain life. Man including every living being is connected to water indirectly or directly. Through this connection man has and still is destroying this life sustaining element. It is important to monitor waterways to understand their chemical, physical, and biological makeup to improve their quality and sustainability. As the resource manager of the Chopawamsic Creek I monitor the water through sampling and testing to determine its quality Methods: Biological monitoring was conducted to determine the quality of habitats and overall water health. I used D-Nets sweeping them across or jabbing them into the water depending on the depth to collect macroinvertebrates for sampling. Benthic macroinvertebrates are small creatures living in streams under rocks and sediment. They are relatively immobile and short lived, sensitive to environmental changes, and are a powerful indicator of chronic human disturbances (City of Federal Way, 2012)....
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...New Practice Field Luckett’s Projects 4111 Oakland St. Oakland, CA (510)999-9999 “Invitation to Bid” For “Request For Proposal” William Luckett Poetwrit_sfsu@yahoo.com PM598 – Current term TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS 3 1.1. General Description of Work 3 1.2. What Must Be Included with Bid 4 1.3. Schedule of Bid Period Activities 4 1.4. Location of Work 5 1. INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS These are the “Terms and Conditions” to present as a bidding for proposal. Each bidder is responsible to meet the all requirements of the bid proposal to be to qualify for the RFP Award contain There are four sections the bidder must meet 1.1 General description of work. 1.2 What must be included in the bid 1.3 Scheduling of Bid Period Activities, and 1.4 Location of work. 1.1. General Description of Work The work to be done will be to build a baseball park. We will dig up the surface of the old parking lot. Then will flatten the surface and add baseball clay dirt to make an infield. Next we will bring in new grass to create an outfield. Then we will bring in bleachers for the outfield and put bleachers to surround the first baseline and third baseline. 1.2. What Must Be Included with Bid As bidders you must provide us with a scope, timeline, and a cost. You must have timelines or dates; graphs or Gantt charts, and a process to show how you will deal with time constrains. Other project tools can be used to show how long it will take you to finish this project. Bidders...
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...Process Evaluation DRAFT Report School Community Liaison and Security Programme Prepared for the National Committee for Families and Children (NPA M&E Sub-Committee);and Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports John D. Flowers Table of Contents Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.0 1.2 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.1.3 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.2 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.2.5 3.3 3.5 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3 3.5.4 3.6 Background ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Project Description and Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Purpose of the Consultancy ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Key Activities and Main Deliverables .................................................................................................................... 4 Evaluation Design and Framework .....................................................................
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...Outdoor Learning Areas for DETE Children's Services Centres and Schools (Replaces GP22 dated January 1990) D7 Published by: The Government of South Australia, January 2002 Produced by: Site Property Services Department of Education, Training and Employment For information contact: DETE Site Property Services Asset Policy and Planning Phone (08) 8226 1253 DETE Facilities Design Standards and Guidelines Preface and Guidelines documents. Page 2 This document is a part of the DETE Facilities Design Standards It has been produced by the Department of Education, Training and Employment in consultation with Children’s Services staff for the following purposes:− To provide design guidelines for the planning of new centres. − To provide a reference for site managers when making changes and/or additions. − To assist in the assessment of manufactured equipment for suitability in Children’s Services Centres and Schools. This guide is located within the Standards and Guidelines document as follows. P PLANNING GUIDELINES P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 General Children’s Services Centre Primary/Junior Primary School Secondary School Area School Special Education TAFE Landscape and Planting Relocatable Buildings Environmental Design Disability Access Shade Structures Heating, Cooling & Ventilation Outdoor Learning Areas (Children’s Services Centres and Schools) D DESIGN GUIDELINES S STANDARDS S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 S11 S12 R1 R2 R3 R4...
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...Service Learning is the cornerstone class that links academic studies at the College of Muscogee Nation (CMN) with the student and the communities. Each will strengthen the other as we learn to use cultural and historical facts and traditions to face social problems, meet human needs, promote civic responsibility and provide a basis for future citizen support. My service project is using volunteerism to improve the quality of life for the children in the Okmulgee area by applying the Muscogee traditions and culture taught to us through the curriculum of College of Muscogee Nation and our ancestors. The first goal of this service learning project is to improve the quality of life for the children of the low-income Okmulgee community residents. A historical assessment of the Okmulgee area provides a picture of drastic change and a people trying to make genuine progress in face of pressure beyond their control. This area, like the United States, has experienced drastic changes in the last fifty years including loss of manufacturing plants such as the Peanut Plant, Phillips 66 Refinery, Americana Window Glass, Ingersoll-Rand, and Ball Brothers Glass. The 2013 U.S. Census Bureau lists the population of Okmulgee as 12, 373 with 25.5% below poverty level. The per capita income for the 12 months (in 2013 dollars) is 16, 981 compared to the national per capita of $24,208. According to Oklahoma Unemployment records the unemployment rate in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma was 4.1% in April...
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...calculations Students Useful Sites For Corporate Laws For Taxation For Prime Institututions For Legal Information About Queries? www.dateyvs.com/tax/customs-law-primer/customs-duty-basics-types-and-calculations/ 3/10 1/11/14 Indian Taxation and Corporate Laws » Customs Duty, basics, types and calculations Customs Duty, basics, types and calculations Calculation of customs duty payable is as follows, w.e.f. 17-32012 Seq. Duty Description (A) Assessable Value Rs (B) Basic Customs Duty (C) Sub-Total for calculating CVD ‘(A+B)’ (D) CVD ‘C’ x excise duty rate (E) Sub-total for edu cess on customs ‘B+D (F) Edu Cess of Customs – 2% of ‘E’ (G) SAH Education Cess of Customs – 1% of ‘E’ (H) Sub-total for Spl CVD ‘C+D+F+G (I) Special CVD u/s 3(5) – 4% of ‘H’ (J) Total Duty (M) Total duty rounded to - Duty % Amount 10 12 2 1 4 Rs. 1,000 100.00 1,100.00 132.00 232.00 4.64 2.32 1,238.96 49.56 Total Duty 100.00 132.00 4.64 2.32 49.56 288.52 289 Notes – Buyer who is manufacturer, is eligible to avail Cenvat Credit of D and I above. A buyer, who is service provider, is eligible to avail Cenvat Credit of D above. . A trader who sells imported goods in India after charging Vat/sales tax can get refund of Special CVD of 4% i.e....
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...November 1999 I N S T I T U TE OF M E D I C I N E Shaping the Future for Health TO ERR IS HUMAN: BUILDING A SAFER HEALTH SYSTEM H ealth care in the United States is not as safe as it should be--and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS. Medical errors can be defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim. Among the problems that commonly occur during the course of providing health care are adverse drug events and improper transfusions, surgical injuries and wrong-site surgery, suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, falls, burns, pressure ulcers, and mistaken patient identities. High error rates with serious consequences are most likely to occur in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Beyond their cost in human lives, preventable medical errors exact other significant tolls. They have been estimated to result in total costs (in cluding the expense of additional care necessitated by the errors, lost income and household productivity, and disability) of between $17 billion and $29 billion per year in hospitals nationwide. Errors...
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...FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION: COST AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LARGE SCALE PROVEN PLANTS by Mr. Jean Tilly ,..Sc. Thesis, Chemical Engineering Dept. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 33-006 June 1983 - 01110 1, *II 111114111E10, 11 I ,1I IEY9 1 1 1,iiiii1mlonl -2- FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION: COST AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LARGE - SCALE AND PROVEN PLANTS by Jean Tilly Submitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering on May 6, 1983 in partial fullfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Technology and Policy ABSTRACT Flue Gas Desulfurization is a method of controlling the emission of sulfurs, which causes the acid rain. The following study is based on 26 utilities which burn coal, have a generating capacity of at least 50 Megawatts (MW) and whose Flue Gas Desulfurization devices have been operating for at least 5 years. An analysis is made of the capital and annual costs of these systems using a comparison of four main processes: lime, limestone, dual alkali and sodium carbonate scrubbing. The functional analysis, based on operability, allows a readjustment of the annual costs and a determination of the main reasons for failure. Finally four detailed case studies are analyzed and show the evolution of cost and operability along the years. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Dan Golomb Title: Visiting Scientist -3- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT a I would like to express...
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...Published by the Ecological Society of America Issues in Ecology Number 4, Fall 1999 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support Processes Issues in Ecology Number 4 Fall 1999 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support Processes by Shahid Naeem, Chair, F.S. Chapin III, Robert Costanza, Paul R. Ehrlich, Frank B. Golley, David U. Hooper, J.H. Lawton, Robert V. ONeill, Harold A. Mooney, Osvaldo E. Sala, Amy J. Symstad, and David Tilman Critical processes at the ecosystem level influence plant productivity, soil fertility, water quality, atmospheric chemistry, and many other local and global environmental conditions that ultimately affect human welfare. These ecosystem processes are controlled by both the diversity and identity of the plant, animal, and microbial species living within a community. Human modifications to the living community in an ecosystem as well as to the collective biodiversity of the earth can therefore alter ecological functions and life support services that are vital to the well-being of human societies. Substantial changes have already occurred, especially local and global losses of biodiversity. The primary cause has been widespread human transformation of once highly diverse natural ecosystems into relatively species-poor managed ecosystems. Recent studies suggest that such reductions in biodiversity can alter both the magnitude and the stability of ecosystem processes...
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...Executive Summary My Bike is in a unique position to capitalize on gains from advertising campaign. Starting business in step with a downturn in the economy My Bike has shown to have the products and services customers’ desire. Specialty bike shops make up a small portion of all bike retailers but contribute 55% of the sales revenue in the biking industry. With demands for bikes and their services fairly consistent getting the message out about who My Bike is and what it can do for customer is critical to success in this market. Service, repairs and rentals differentiates its self from mass merchants while the extend adjustment period and used bike selection lets My Bike stand out among other specialty shops. Connecting and communicating with My Bikes identified target market will create awareness and draw traffic to allow for growth. Advertising each segment of products and services around a central theme generates synergy on the My Bike brand but communicates the specific value it will bring to the consumer. The synergy would be centered on the web and feed through advertising media like facebook, tweeter and shop envy sites. Targeting the right message to the right audience at the right time will allow My Bike to be successful in its goals. I. Situation Analysis The Bicycle Industry In 2011 there were approximately 15.7 million bicycles sold within the US in all wheel sizes these sales, combined with the sale of related parts and accessories, represents a...
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...IntMk-CStud-4.qxd 26/05/2005 14:05 Page 563 section 4 case studies cases 4.1 Wal-Mart’s German Misadventure 4.2 Handl Tyrol: Market Selection and Coverage Decisions of a Medium-sized Austrian Enterprise 4.3 Blair Water Purifiers to India 4.4 A Tale of Two Tipples 4.5 Kellogg’s Indian Experience 4.6 Strategic Alliances in the Global Airline Industry: from Bilateral Agreements to Integrated Networks 4.7 GN Netcom in China 4.8 IKEA: Entering Russia 4.9 The ‘David Beckham’ Brand 563 571 574 583 586 590 594 599 604 case 4.1 Wal-Mart’s German Misadventure I don’t think that Wal-Mart did their homework as well as they should have. Germany is Europe’s most pricesensitive market. Wal-Mart underestimated the competition, the culture, the legislative environment. — Steve Gotham, retail analyst, Verdict Retail Consulting, October 20021 We screwed up in Germany. Our biggest mistake was putting our name up before we had the service and low prices. People were disappointed. — John Menzer, head of Wal-Mart International December 20012 ‘Don’t look now:’ low prices all year round! With thanks to Walmart 563 IntMk-CStud-4.qxd 26/05/2005 14:06 Page 564 section 6 case studies section 4 German blues For the world’s largest retailing company, Wal-Mart, Inc., the German market was proving difficult to crack. By 2003, even after five years of having entered Germany, Wal-Mart was making losses. Though Wal-Mart did not reveal these figures, analysts estimated...
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...The Kellogg Company Optimizes Production, Inventory, and Distribution Gerald Brown gbrown@nps.navy.mil Operations Research Department Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California 93943 Kellogg Company, P.O. Box 3599 Battle Creek, Michigan 49017–3599 Kellogg Company, P.O. Box 3423 Battle Creek, Michigan 49016–3423 Operations Research Department Naval Postgraduate School Joseph Keegan joe.keegan@kellogg.com Brian Vigus brian.vigus@kellogg.com Kevin Wood kwood@nps.navy.mil For over a decade, the Kellogg Company has used its planning system (KPS), a large-scale, multiperiod linear program, to guide production and distribution decisions for its cereal and convenience foods business. An operational version of KPS, at a weekly level of detail, helps determine where products are produced and how finished products and in-process products are shipped between plants and distribution centers. A tactical version of KPS, at a monthly level of detail, helps to establish plant budgets and make capacity-expansion and consolidation decisions. Operational KPS reduced production, inventory, and distribution costs by an estimated $4.5 million in 1995. Tactical KPS recently guided a consolidation of production capacity with a projected savings of $35 to $40 million per year. T he Kellogg Company has been using a large-scale linear program, the Kellogg Planning System (KPS), for more than a decade to guide its operational (weekly), production, inventory, and distribution decisions...
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...Marketing plan for Innocent Drink Organization 1. Abstract The 30% downturn that the UK experienced has affected the smoothies market in the region leading to a decline of the market share. It is therefore crucial for Innocent drinks to presents a good evaluative report of the smoothies market of the U.K which recommended a better way of planning for the market. The marketing strategy will also help in seeing how that company can expand its market to other regions of the world. The targeted region is Australia. Which is my proposal for the company to witness a growth of its market share and sales? The paper will present a strategic marketing plan for Innocent Drink Organization. This entails how the organization can use its resources to adapt to the changes taking place in the marketing environment. Innocent Drink Company just like any other organization has to develop strategies which will enable it gain competitive advantages over its rivals. The marketing strategies have to be implemented and cultivated to enable the consumers to be attracted and to consider the innocent products as their best choice. To attain the strategic marketing of the Innocent company, this paper will provide a detailed plan concerning the operations and practices of the company, the already existing strategies of marketing such as on sales strategy, pricing, distribution, promotional, product branding and creation strategies. The strategies management and marketing will further reflect...
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