and think of the potential for lower guide way maintenance costs as a result. Imagine a train that speeds along much faster than anything on the highway with a ride as smooth as silk. Imagine that train being capable of speeds higher than any other ground-based transportation system. Maglev can provide this speed and compete directly with airline travel. As stated by American Maglev, "Maglev means magnetically levitated and propelled vehicles. The advantage of maglev is that it can achieve very high
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The Reality of Going Green: Hybrid Vehicles Tanya Messina Contemporary Applications of the Sciences | SCI215 A01 Faculty: Dr. Gomillion Argosy University July 12, 2014
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mankind. The age of energy.” The Athabasca oil sands were founded in the late 1960s and have now developed into a major player within the Canadian economy, acting as its prominent supplier of crude oil. With roughly 2.5 trillion barrels of oil in the ground, the oil sands are one of the largest deposits in the world. However, a problem arises with the extraction process, as it is both expensive and cumbersome with the presence of bitumen within the oil (a highly viscous, black hydrocarbon). Therefore
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climate change. The paper defines engagement as an individual’s state, comprising three elements: cognitive, affective and behavioural. A number of common barriers emerge from the three studies, which operate broadly at ‘individual’ and ‘social’ levels. These major constraints to individual engagement with climate change have implications for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gases in the UK. We argue that targeted and tailored information provision should be supported by wider structural
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(SARS) outbreaks in part of Asia and Canada. And off course, the global financial crises in 2008. While the domestic airline industry is largely deregulated, Australia’s international airline industry remains quite deregulated at the commonwealth level, as it is subject to the detailed capacity controls of airline service agreements (ASAs) that underpin the industry. These agreements control the amount of airline seat capacity which may be deployed on scheduled services over individual country to
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follows: ___. Claim a. In this [paper], I put forward the claim that ___. b. [X] develops the claim that ___. c. There is ample / growing support for the claim that ___. d. [X]’s findings lend support to the claim that ___. e. Taking a middle-ground position, [X] claims that ___. Data a. The data gathered in the [pilot study] suggests / suggest that ___. b. The data appears / appear to suggest that ___. c. The data yielded by this [study] provides strong / convincing evidence that ___. (yielded
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Research Proposal UDB301 – Research Methods Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au The Change Galileo Will Make to RTK Surveying This study is focused on what will change with the construction and implementation of
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year of ink and emits over 8000 kg of volatile solvents (Maji, 2003). VOC when released into the atmosphere participates in the atmospheric photochemical reactions. Ozone is produced at the ground level when oxides of nitrogen and VOCs react in the presence of sunlight. This is a major component of urban smog, which at elevated levels causes a potential hazard to humans, plants and animals. To overcome the problems of emissions due to solvent-based inks and cleaning of presses, a new type of ink based
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TOPIC: CLIMATE CHANGE The topic of climate change is like a puzzle with many different pieces—oceans, the atmosphere, ecosystems, polar ice, natural and human influences. Scientists have been working on this puzzle for more than a century, and while there are still gaps in our knowledge, most experts feel we have the puzzle is complete enough to show that human activities are having an adverse effect on our planet. This talks looks at many of those puzzle pieces, the evidence behind them, and
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processes have had a slow but progressive response in the adoption of clean energy by various institutions across the globe. One of the focuses of the source of clean energy is solar power. The adoption of source of energy would significantly decrease the levels of global warming and ultimately, the termination of unpredictable climatic patterns (Craddock, 2008). The research paper will focus on the assessment of fossil energy versus solar energy in order to come up with comprehensive findings from which
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