...be irritating to the eyes, nose, and lungs. Formaldehyde is released into the home from a variety of indoor sources. Some resins, or glues, used to bind wood chips or fibers into plywood, particleboard, and other pressed wood products, contain formaldehyde. Cabinetry and some floor and wall materials are often made from such products. Formaldehyde is also used in fabrics to impart wrinkle resistance or to fix color, and in some consumer products it is used as a hardening agent or preservative. Also, formaldehyde is a by-product of Cabinetry & gas appliances are common sources combustion processes, such as wood burning, gas appliance use, and cigarette smoking. Formaldehyde is usually present at lower (but not necessarily healthful) levels in outdoor air; it is emitted in car exhaust and from some industrial sources, and is also created from chemical reactions in the air among combustion pollutants, such as those in automobile exhaust. SOME COMMON SOURCES OF FORMALDEHYDE INDOORS Pressed wood products: particleboard, plywood, medium-density fiberboard (MDF); often used in cabinetry, and wall and floor materials Consumer Products: fingernail hardeners, nail polish, wallpaper, some other paper goods, paint, coatings; often a preservative in...
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...1.Table of content 1. Table of content 1 2. List of illustration 2 3. Preface 3 3.1 Introduction 4 3.2 Objectives 5 3.3 Methodology 6 4. Sustainable Material 7 4.1 Linoleum 7 4.2 Wood Plastic Composite (WPC) 11 4.3 Polycarbonate 15 5. Conclusion 21 6. References and Bibliography 22 2. List of Illustrations Figure 1. Linoleum Floor 1 Source: http://bestgreenhometips.com Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 2. Linoleum Floor 2 Source: http: //advancedbuildings.org Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 3. Caramel Linoleum used as stair Source: http://www.ecofriendlyflooring.com/linoleum_gallery.html Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 4. Khaki Gray linoleum laundry room installation Source: http://www.ecofriendlyflooring.com/linoleum_gallery.html Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 5. Brick Linoleum with sunflower Deko Squares Source: http://www.ecofriendlyflooring.com/linoleum_gallery.html Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 6. Wood Plastic Composite 1 Source: http://metallurgyfordummies.com/page/2/ Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 7. Wood Plastic Composite 2 Source: http://www.ask.com/wiki/Wood-plastic_composite Retrieved: 14 May 2011 Figure 8. WPC as docking in balcony Source: CT Wood’s Brochure, 2011 Figure 9. CT Wood Logo Source: CT Wood’s Brochure, 2011 Figure 10. Advantages of WPC Source: CT Wood’s Brochure, 2011 Figure 11. WPC as docking in terrace Source: CT Wood’s Brochure, 2011 Figure 12. WPC as docking in corridor area Source: CT Wood’s Brochure...
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...Opening a Quality Child Care Center A resource guide for starting a business and planning a child care center. Table of Contents: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 First Steps: Assessment, Market Analysis, Business Plan and Child Care Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Finding Your Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Design Considerations and Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Program Administration and Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . 17 Appendix A: Timeline for Start-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Appendix B: Agencies and On-line Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Appendix C: Resources for Developing Polices/Procedures . . . . . 22 Appendix D: Classroom Equipment and Materials List . . . . . . . . 23 Appendix E: Care About Childcare Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Appendix F: Structural Rules from Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Appendix G: Accreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Appendix H: Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 State of Utah, Department of Workforce Services, Office of Child Care © 2012 Opening a Quality Child Care Center Introduction THE BUSINESS OF CHILD CARE Welcome to the world and work of child care! The purpose of this manual is to provide a prospective child care center...
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...Advertising Campaign By Mark Jozaitis Hali Nepsha Adrian Aguirre Prepared for: Management of Maple City Building Services, LLC and April 2016 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Situation Analysis 4 Industry Analysis 4 Company Analysis 4 Service Analysis 4 Market Share 5 Strategy 6 Distribution 7 Competitive Analysis 8 Promotional Strategy 8 SWOT Analysis 9 Target Market & Segmentation 10 Creative Strategy 11 Print Media 12 Electronic Media 14 Internet Media 16 Out-of-Home Media 19 Direct Mail 22 Specialty Advertising – Exhibitive – Supplementary 24 Sales Promotion 27 Public Relations 27 Corporate Advertising 27 Pre-Testing and Post-Testing 29 Budget 29 Supplementary 29 References 29 Executive Summary Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary...
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...however, sugarcharcoal is among the purest forms of carbon readily available, particularly if it is not made by heating but by a dehydration reaction withsulfuric acid to minimise the introduction of new impurities, as impurities can be removed from the sugar in advance. The resulting soft, brittle, lightweight, black, porous material resembles coal. Subtitle: A Boise State University study proves that low-energy feedstocks can be densified and when combusted produce heat output comparable to higher energy content fuels. By Owen McDougal, Seth Eidemiller, Nick Weires. November 23, 2010 By the way, according to one of those online dictionaries, “feedstock” refers to “the raw material that is required for an industrial process.“ Intro Research at Boise State University in Idaho, explored both the caloric content and shape to optimize burn efficiency of the biobriquettes. The energy content of briquettes ranged from 4.48 to 5.95 kilojoule per gram (kJ/g) depending on composition, whereas the energy content of sawdust, charcoal and wood pellets ranged from 7.24 to 8.25 kJ/g. Biobriquettes molded into a hollow-core cylindrical form exhibited energy output comparable to that of traditional fuels. The study demonstrates that low-energy content feedstocks can be composted, pressed and combusted to produce heat output commensurate with higher energy content fuels. A calorific donut stands up to charcoal. This is an interesting statement considering the highest calorific value they...
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...GREEN BUILDING GUIDE Design Techniques, Construction Practices & Materials for Affordable Housing RCAC GREEN BUILDING GUIDE Design Techniques, Construction Practices & Materials for Affordable Housing Principal Author Craig Nielson, LEED AP Rural Community Assistance Corporation Co-authors Connie Baker Wolfe Rural Community Assistance Corporation Dave Conine Rural Community Assistance Corporation Contributor Art Seavey Rural Community Assistance Corporation Design Dave Conine Sharon Wills Rural Community Assistance Corporation Managing Editor and Production Sharon Wills RCAC Corporate Office: 3120 Freeboard Drive, Suite 201, West Sacramento, California 95691 916/447-2854 | 916/447-2878 fax | www.rcac.org Published by Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting rural communities achieve their goals and visions by providing training, technical assistance and access to resources. RCAC promotes quality, respect, integrity, cooperation and commitment in our work. Copyright © 2009 RCAC. All rights reserved. For reprint permission, please call 916/447-2854. Disclaimer: The material in this document has been reviewed by RCAC and approved for publication. The views expressed by individual authors, however, are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of RCAC. Trade names, products or services do not convey, and should not be interpreted as conveying, RCAC approval, endorsement or recommendation...
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...Nursing Interventions for Patient Safety Nursing Interventions for Patient Safety The evolution of nursing is one that is rich in history and clinical practices and has existed for hundreds of years for health care issues. This author has work experiences from 1978 to 1996 as a nurse and nursing consultant in long term care and has a personal interest in how the use of restraints has evolved to a patient focused and caring approach that has reduced the rates of restraint use and patient injuries. Nursing evidence based practices for patient safety evolves from current technological advances, research and nursing theory. The purpose of this paper is to address how nursing clinical practices evolved for the use of patient restraints in health care facilities. Identification and Discussion of Health Care Issue The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defines a physical restraint as “any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to the resident’s body that the individual cannot remove easily which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). Physical force can be human, mechanical devices, or a combination. Some Items that can be used to physically restrain people include bed side rails, waist belts, vests or jackets, hand mitts, arm and leg restraints. This author has witnessed wheel chairs being tied to hallways handrails; patients...
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...disaster they called home. Their yelling, or his to be exact, echoes off the walls and sounds as if they're right in my ear. A force stops me at the bottom of the stairs where the kitchen is to my right, trashed as if a tornado had just blown through. My vision zooms in on the counter top where there is a small splatter of blood on the corner as if someone had been holding onto it with a bloody hand moments before. There are footsteps shuffling upstairs, but my mind focuses on the droplets of blood leading over to the stairs. A vase or something similar is thrown at the wall in the hallway, and I'm rushed once more to the scene of the crime. This part is all too familiar to me, but instead of the typical view of the man's wife on the bedroom floor, her body flies into the wall at the...
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...4431 MAY 3, 2012 RICHARD G. HAMERMESH ALISA ZALOSH Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved? Introduction Shelby Givens, general manager of Westlake Bowling Lanes, sat in her cramped office in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It was March 10, 2010, two weeks before the scheduled meeting of Westlake’s board—Givens’s uncle and two close family friends. During her 9-month tenure as general manager, Givens, working 70-hour weeks, reined in costs and gradually grew revenues. As a result, the business generated its first month of profit in over two years (see Exhibit 1). Yet Westlake was not on track to soon repay the funds the board had loaned it 16 months before. Givens was proud of her achievements, but she worried that they had been too little, too late. Would the board even consider a different path for Westlake if the loaned funds could not soon be repaid? Givens believed that lucrative opportunities were in Westlake’s future, but right now that future seemed uncertain. The board and Westlake’s employees were looking to Givens for guidance. Shelby Givens: Background Shelby Givens was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 2005 with a B.A. in English. For the next three years, Givens worked as a copywriter and creative director for a boutique advertising agency in New York City. She then moved to the Midwest to attend a highly rated business school, from which she graduated in May 2009. As graduation approached...
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...http://www.kewpid.com 1. Fossil fuels provide both energy and raw materials such as ethylene, for the production of other substances 1) Construct word and balanced chemical equations of chemical reactions as they are encountered • Methane + oxygen carbon dioxide + water • CH4(g) + 2O2(g) CO2(g) + 2H2O(l) 2) Identify the industrial source of ethylene from the cracking of some of the fractions from refining of petroleum Generally, demand for petrol exceeds supply produced from fractional distillation of crude oil. Thus, oil refineries increase the proportion of the desired hydrocarbon (ie ethylene) by converting lower demand fractions. This process is called catalytic cracking. Catalytic Cracking: process where high molecular weight fractions from crude oil are broken into lower molecular weight compounds. 3) Identify that ethylene, because of the high reactivity of its double bond, is readily transformed into many suitable products The two bonds of ethylene are not identical. The second bond (pi-bond) is weaker than the first bond (sigma-bond). Thus, only a small amount of energy is needed to enter the system in order to convert a double bond into a single bond. This results in ethylene’s high reactivity. 4) Identify that ethylene serves as a monomer from which polymers are made • • • Ethylene is polymerised to polyethylene High pressures produce soft, low density polyethylene, consisting of tangled chains (with molecular masses 100,000) 5) Identify polyethylene as an addition...
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..... 7 1.2. Problem ........................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.1 Chapter 2................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.2 Chapter 3................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.3 Chapter 4................................................................................................................................ 8 1.2.4 Chapter 5................................................................................................................................ 8 1.3. Research methodology ................................................................................................................ 9 1.4. Delimitations ................................................................................................................................ 9 2. Chapter 2....................................................................................................................................... 10 2.1. Light steel frame building...
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...4431 MAY 3, 2012 RICHARD G. HAMERMESH ALISA ZALOSH Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved? Introduction Shelby Givens, general manager of Westlake Bowling Lanes, sat in her cramped office in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It was March 10, 2010, two weeks before the scheduled meeting of Westlake’s board—Givens’s uncle and two close family friends. During her 9-month tenure as general manager, Givens, working 70-hour weeks, reined in costs and gradually grew revenues. As a result, the business generated its first month of profit in over two years (see Exhibit 1). Yet Westlake was not on track to soon repay the funds the board had loaned it 16 months before. Givens was proud of her achievements, but she worried that they had been too little, too late. Would the board even consider a different path for Westlake if the loaned funds could not soon be repaid? Givens believed that lucrative opportunities were in Westlake’s future, but right now that future seemed uncertain. The board and Westlake’s employees were looking to Givens for guidance. Shelby Givens: Background Shelby Givens was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 2005 with a B.A. in English. For the next three years, Givens worked as a copywriter and creative director for a boutique advertising agency in New York City. She then moved to the Midwest to attend a highly rated business school, from which she graduated in May 2009. As graduation approached...
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...Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Biotechnology Advances 26 (2008) 246 – 265 www.elsevier.com/locate/biotechadv Research review paper Biological degradation of plastics: A comprehensive review Aamer Ali Shah ⁎, Fariha Hasan, Abdul Hameed, Safia Ahmed Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Received 22 November 2007; received in revised form 31 December 2007; accepted 31 December 2007 Available online 26 January 2008 Abstract Lack of degradability and the closing of landfill sites as well as growing water and land pollution problems have led to concern about plastics. With the excessive use of plastics and increasing pressure being placed on capacities available for plastic waste disposal, the need for biodegradable plastics and biodegradation of plastic wastes has assumed increasing importance in the last few years. Awareness of the waste problem and its impact on the environment has awakened new interest in the area of degradable polymers. The interest in environmental issues is growing and there are increasing demands to develop material which do not burden the environment significantly. Biodegradation is necessary for water-soluble or water-immiscible polymers because they eventually enter streams which can neither be recycled nor incinerated. It is important to consider the microbial degradation of natural and synthetic polymers in order to understand what is necessary for biodegradation and the mechanisms involved. This...
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...The Coffee Shop: Social and Physical factors Influencing Place Attachment Lisa Waxman, Ph.D., Florida State University aBstract This study explored the characteristics that encourage gathering behavior and contribute to place attachment in selected coffee shops in the context of literature suggesting social gathering places contribute to social capital. These gathering places, with the potential to enhance community in this manner, have been called third places. The study was qualitative in nature and included the research techniques of visual documentation, observation and behavioral mapping, interview, and survey. A transactional approach to this study was chosen to better understand the meaning of the person-environment relationship. Each coffee shop was observed for twenty-five hours for a total of seventy-five hours. Eighteen interviews were conducted and surveys were collected from 94 patrons to reveal patron attitudes toward the physical and social aspects of the coffee shop as well as their feelings regarding the community in which they live. The key findings regarding the physical characteristics showed the top five design considerations included: cleanliness, appealing aroma, adequate lighting, comfortable furniture, and a view to the outside. A number of themes emerged related to people, their activities, and their feelings and attitudes regarding the coffee shop. Each coffee shop was found to have a unique social climate and culture related to sense of belonging...
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...Abdullah Al- Zabir ZR 103 Manis Das ZR-108 Imrul Hasnat Shakil ZR-111 Mohammad Jishanur Rahman Rumi RH-118 Fabbiha Zahin ZR-122 Ahmed Istehad RH- 123 Sababa Tania Shiney ZR- 127 Ahmed Muntasir Mahin ZR- 128 Md. Al-Amin Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka 7 January 2016 Letter of Transmittal 7 January 2016 Dr. Muhammad Ziaulhaq Mamun Professor Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka Sir: Subject: Submission of Term Paper With all due respect, we the students of section B of 21 st batch would like to submit our term paper as per your instructions for the course entitled Operations Management (P301). This report was based on the factory visit to the adhesive plant of Fast Group in Tejgaon. Information has been gathered mostly through face to face interview and according to your requirements. We have put in our best efforts to fulfill the criteria required by this term paper. We humbly request your acceptance of the submission of this term paper. Yours sincerely, ZR-65 Sazid Ahmad RH-118 Fabbiha Zahin RH-78 Afsin Ahmed ZR-122 Ahmed Istehad ZR- 79 Johan Ahmed RH- 123 Sababa Tania Shiney RH-82 Nuzzat Salsabil ZR- 127 Ahmed Muntasir Mahin RH-87 Shagufta Tasnim Nur ZR- 128 Md. Al-Amin RH-88 Anika Tabassum ZR- 98 Md. Abdullah Al- Zabir ZR 103 Manis Das ZR-108 Imrul Hasnat Shakil ZR-111 Mohammad Jishanur Rahman Rumi iii | P a g e Executive Summary FAST group, starting its journey...
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