... Gtonnes of CO2 in 2006 (Brennan 2010). The threat of global climate changes and future energy cost and efficiency provide strong incentives to generate energy and fuels from biomass, a renewable material. Biomass feedstocks refer to a wide range of biological, renewable materials that can be used or converted into fuels, such as ethanol, biodiesel, oil, etc. Food crops are examples of first ... feedstocks, such as corn and wheat. The second-generation feedstock include rice straw, switch grass and other forms of non-food materials. Algae is considered the third generation biofuel raw ma...

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... : "is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that Party". The individual must also "take ... training they have acquired etc. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult to establish to which category belong "unlawful combatants" who commit terrorist acts. Another difficulty is to establish the material compensation, which should be substanti...

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... a dust explosion happened at the center of the factory. The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration defines "dust explosions" known as combustible dust as "a solid material solid material composed of distinct particles or pieces, regardless of size, shape, or chemical composition, which presents a fire or deflagration hazard when suspended in air or some other oxidizing medium over a range ... sources of chemical disasters may be initiated by various activities that lead to chemical disasters. Bhwana and Fulekar describe chemical accidents originating in manufacturin...

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... that all companies disclose several other things in the MD&A (Management Discussion & Analysis) section of the financial statements (Buckstein). In this section, SOX mandates that companies disclose any and all material information, transactions, and all off-balance sheet accounts that might affect the company's financial position in the future (Buckstein). In this MD&A section, SOX requires that all companies issue a report ... ...

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... improvement in recall following sleep. Their findings demonstrated that participants would often show no improvements in recall without sleep whereas 6 hours of sleep proved beneficial in their ability to recall material. Such findings would seem to support the role of sleep in the processing and consolidation of information. However, much like the restoration and evolutionary theories of sleep, this theory has ... ...

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... his argument in that he finds himself struck by the persistent view that the decolonisation of the European Empires is assessed in a Whig interpretation of history. From the data and material evidence used in the paper, Austin considers that the description of the decolonisation of the Empires is due to the unstoppable waves of opposition towards them which arguably clouds this ... ...

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... can also represent a significant advance on the conditions that the poorest communities in the world currently enjoy. However, in the long term, it doesn't seem to offer the potential for material gains that many people seek because it doesn't allow people to benefit from the specialization of production achieved through larger-scale production and trade (not necessarily fast cars and designer ... ...

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... CCCS and key theorists such as Lawrence Grossberg in the United States and Simon Frith in the United Kingdom. Since the 1990's, there has been a proliferation of survey research, theoretical material, and ethnographic work concerned with the production and consumption of popular music and particularly its reception in society. Thomas Edison invented sound recording in 1877 in the United States; as ... ...

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... eventually coming to benefit from neo-liberal economic planning. Instead, it is known that some sectors will benefit and others will not. For example, the experience of a Third World raw material exporting country is not going to resemble at all the experience of a wealthier industrialized country whose gross national product is more connected to industrial output and secondary or tertiary enterprise ... ...

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... of the genius and imagination of the writer/poet, the Realists wanted to de-emphasize the contribution of the writer and thought writers should "objectively" see contemporary life as the material for their writing. They attempted to keep themselves as writers from coming between the reader and the life they presented in their art. Also, the age of the Romantics valued ... ...

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