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Corporate Social Responsibility Ford Motor Company
1,728 words
Social responsibility is the concept that business
is part of the larger society in which it exists
and must therefore act in a way that not only
advances the firm, but also serves the society.
More than ever firms are being challenged to
integrate social responsibilities in to their
operations. Many firms now believe that social
responsibility to be a lot more than granting
money to community groups or volunteering their
time to organizations - although these are both
important ways that firms ...
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Harvard Business Review Product Or Service
1,645 words
Activity-Based Costing (ABC) started as a
methodology that recognises the need to understand
how costs actually relate to individual products
and services (Cooper & Kaplan, 1989) that later
resulted in a more refined system of allocating
overheads to products and services, according to
the demand of each activity. Homemade Pty Ltd -
Food (Dikolli & Smith, 1996: 47 - 55) was a pilot
project where it took part in an ABC feasibility
study during the mid 90 s. This company has been
chosen for this s...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Millions Of Dollars
2,556 words
Cars that go 5, 000 miles between fill-ups,
electric power plants you buy like appliances, a
world with radically reduced pollution, and a
better standard of living... Sounds like a sci-fi
pipe dream - if it weren't for all these
automobile and power companies spending billions
to make it real. by Jacques Leslie I'm at the
headquarters of Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby,
a suburb of Vancouver, and my big fuel cell moment
is about to occur. Following the example of the
premier of British Columbi...
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Opposite Direction Royal Society
1,980 words
... 'During its flow, ' and this was the time when
an effect was expected -- but here Faraday's power
of lateral vision, separating, as it were, from
the line of expectation, came into play -- he
noticed that a feeble movement of the needle
always occurred at the moment when he made contact
with the battery; that the needle would afterwards
return to its former position and remain quietly
there unaffected by the flowing current. At the
moment, however, when the circuit was interrupted
the needle...
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Spark Plug Cast Iron
1,260 words
... ions severe enough to threaten sight. This is
why it is recommended to wear appropriate safety
gear. Drive Shafts Shafts are a major component of
the trimmer and you must pay particular attention
to their durability. Most shafts are made of
hardened steel. Flex shafts generally have been
ignored by industry because of their high
proliferation. As long as the shaft is labelled as
a strong, reinforced unit, it should have no
problems with breakage. Benefits you gain with
flex shafts are the an...
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Foreign Currency Foreign Trade
1,529 words
... highest yearly value export level registered
since 1989. In year 2000, monthly average was USD
863. 9 million (in 1999 monthly average was USD
708. 6 million). Industrial products represented
97. 4 % of total exports in 2000, while products
from agriculture and forestry held a weight of
only 2. 6 % (Romania export in 2000). In the
structure of exports by goods, five sections of
goods hold 69. 7 % of total exports: textile
matters and articles thereof (24. 2 %),
metallurgical products (16. 0 ...
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Death Row Pay Taxes
660 words
In Ed Angers essay, Fry Death Row Creeps in
Electric Bleachers, he talks about an idea he came
up with that would execute killers and rapists
quicker and easier. Anger says to have electric
bleachers to fry hundreds of killers and rapists
at one time. I believe Anger has come up with a
winning idea that will clean jails out. The
specific points that I agree with are the idea of
the electric bleachers, the quantity of prisoners,
and the cost of housing these prisoners. The idea
of the electric bl...
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Diesel Engines High Pressure
1,702 words
Early work Rudolf web a German engineer, conceived
the idea for the engine that now bears his name
after seeking a device to increase the efficiency
of the Otto engine. Diesel realized that the
electric ignition process of the gasoline engine
could be eliminated if, during the compression
stroke of a piston-cylinder device, compression
could heat air to a temperature higher than the
auto-ignition temperature of a given fuel. Diesel
proposed such a cycle in his patents of 1892 and
1893. Originall...
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Magnetic Fields Electric Current
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In ancient times men knew of a special kind of
rock that could pull other rocks of the same kind
and pieces of iron toward themselves. Such rocks
were called lodestones. Today man uses the same
force exerted by electromagnets and permanent
magnets to provide magnetic aide to trains and
more efficient power generators. This report will
focus on the use of magnets in the generation of
electricity and magnetically aided trains.
Magnetism is defined as the force exerted by a
magnetic field. A magnet...
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Electric Light Bulb Standard Of Living
680 words
Most importantly, Turner felt that the dominant
individualism frontiersmen displayed led to the
development of individualist democracy. With the
absence of eastern institutions, frontiersmen were
forced to rely on their own intuition and vigor.
Frontiersmen were heartland Americans, people who
overturned eastern deference to authority and
depended on their own perceptiveness and energy to
develop the West. Most importantly, Turner
suggests that the frontier disregarded eastern
homage to authorit...
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Lighthouse At Two Lights Child With A Book Color
652 words
Vincent van Gogh's Sower is well-known for the
authors use of line in the painting. Peter Paul
Rubens Kermis perfectly depicts extensive use of
light and color, while Chuck Closes Stanley is
famous for its space. All three works exhibit
extensive use of line, space and color. Authors of
these works used different techniques to create
impression of space, which sets up the mood of a
composition. I have decided to discuss use of
line, color and light in Sonia Delaunay's Electric
Prism, Edward Hopp...
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Frederick Jackson Turner Definitions Of Frontier And Pioneer
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Frederick Jackson Turner's Definitions of
"Frontier" and "Pioneer" Within the conceptual
framework of this research, we will first
elaborate on Turners conception of frontier, to be
followed by the assessment of his potential
conception for the word pioneer. After that, we
will choose a pioneer and see why he would be a
pioneer according to Turner's definition. The
pioneer we will discuss within the course of this
report is Thomas Edison. Eventually reaching the
Pacific Ocean, the United States ...
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Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Totally New Religion Mercerism
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Analytical Book Report Philip Dick is one of the
most famous science fiction writers. Many of his
works was adapted for films, plays and operas. All
of his works has interesting and exciting plot but
the main reason their popularity is deep
philosophical basis. This philosophical basis
character of each Dicks book. Dicks own
contribution back to the science fiction genre was
an unrelenting analysis of the question What is
Real? Also central to his literature was the
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Nine Inch Nails Heavy Metal Music
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CENSORSHIP OF HEAVY METAL Heavy Metal? s
popularity is and has been on the rise due to its
many bands and increased guitar technology. Since
the mid 1960? s, when heavy metal spread to the U.
S. from England, it has grown in popularity. Many
of the first bands that came from Europe came with
two intentions; to spread heavy metal to other
parts of the world, and to make it grow in
popularity. Heavy metal is a form of rock? n? roll
music played on electric guitars and amplified to
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Ban On Human Cloning Important To Understand
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Running head: Downside of Cloning The Ethical
Downside of Cloning Ethics in Health Care October
17, 1998 Introduction For the first time the
cloning of a whole human being seems really
possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider
the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses.
Also, it is important to understand some of the
theory underlying the desire to build a better
human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning With recent
developments in the cloning of the first whole
mammal with Dolly the ...
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Cruel And Unusual Support The Death Penalty
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Tug of War A Deep Look Into The Controversy
Surrounding The Death Penalty Is the death penalty
fair? Is it humane? Does it deter crime? The
answers to these questions vary depending on who
answers them. The issue of capital punishment
raises many debates. These same questions troubled
Americans just as much in the day of the Salem
witch trials as now in the say of Timothy McVeigh.
During the time of the Salem witchcraft trials
they had the same problem as present society
faces. Twenty innocent p...
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Ground Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide
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Alternative Electric Vehicles Alternative Fuels
Alternative Fuel Vehicles You Can Buy Today From
the earliest days of the automotive industry
alternative fuels have always competed with
petroleum for powering vehicles. Nicholas Cugnot
made the first self-powered road vehicle in 1769
with a steam engine, and the first gasoline
automobile didnt appear until over 100 years later
from Karl Benz. Through the late 19 th and early
20 th century steam and electric power remained
strong contenders. The i...
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Electric Charge Electric Field
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Electric Water Heater And Piezoelectric Force
Transducer Electric Water Heater And Piezoelectric
Force Transducer What is a piezoelectric force
transducer (or sensor)? A transducer is a device
that transmits power from one system to another.
In the case of the piezoelectric, they power comes
in the form of electricity from a piezoelectric
material acted on. Piezoelectricity may be
described as the property of some materials that
become electrically charged when subject to
mechanical stress. Thes...
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Electromagnetic Waves Electromagnetic Radiation
440 words
Electromagnetism defined as Electromagnetics
Electromagnetics Electromagnetism defined as?
magnetism produced by an electric current? . In
other words it is the electricity part of what
holds ourselves and every bit of matter in the
universe together. This source of universal? glue?
is found within atoms themselves. As the name
sounds, there are two different forces within
electromagnetism the electric force and the
magnetic force. Before the early part of the last
century, scientist studied ele...
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Sirs Researcher Multiple Sclerosis
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The Inside Disease Multiple Sclerosis affects 350,
000 people around the United States. Judy Rhamini,
a forty- six-year-old mother of two, was diagnosed
with the crippling disease in 1988. In late 1997,
her attacks had become so devastating that one of
them left her arms and legs temporarily paralyzed.
To combat the attacks, Mrs. Rhamini began a four-
hour daily regimen of intravenous steroids. Within
weeks, her pain was gone. Judy Rhamini now takes
Avonex, which is a beta- interferon, and since...
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