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Greece. Travel to Destination: Paradise
With Mediterranean blue waters and the black sands of Santorini as such prominent features, it is no wonder that Greece is considered a travelers paradise This country boasts more than eight thousand miles of coastline shared between the mainland and the islands, and entices adventurers to relax or explore the many facets of the landscape
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Buying Property In Crete, Greece | Eight 'Not-So-Obvious' Tips
Some years ago, I bought open rural land on the outskirts of the quaint fishing village of Plaka, opposite to Spinalonga (Elounda)on the island of Crete, Greece It provided a solid learning curve of dealing with the bureaucracy
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Perfume In Ancient Greece
Perfume has been a desired commodity since ancient times and many of the techniques used are still used to some degree today. When looking at ancient attitudes towards perfume it is surprising to discover how much it actually reflects the expectations of it in the modern day. To understand the nature of it in Ancient Greece, historians rely upon written sources, excavated mosaics and other pictorial representations and artifacts such as perfume bottles. From these items, lots can be determined about the function, importance and production of it in ancient Greece.
Business Travel, Mix With Pleasure in Greece
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Greece - Experience Living Ancient History in Crete
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The Ancient Olympic Games in Greece and China
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Planning To Travel To Greece?
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Animation Pages
Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the art of stop motion
animation of 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. For
3D animations, objects (models) are built on the computer monitor (modeled)
and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations,
separate objects (illustrations) and separate transparent layers are used,
with or without a virtual skeleton. Then the limbs, eyes, mouth, clothes,
etc. of the figure are moved by the animator on key frames. The differences
in appearance between key frames are automatically calculated by the computer
in a process known as tweening or morphing. Finally, the animation is rendered.(1)
World Anime Pages
Anime is an abbreviation of the English word "animation", originating
in Japan. Although the term is used in Japan to refer to animation in general,
in English usage the term most popularly refers to material originating from
Japan, a subset of animation. While anime had entered markets beyond Japan
in the 1960s, it grew as a major cultural export during its market expansion
during the 1980s and 1990s. The anime market for the United States alone is
"worth approximately $4.35 billion, according to the Japan External Trade
Organization". Anime has also been a commercial success in Asia, Europe
and Latin America, where anime has become even more mainstream than in the
United States. For example, the Saint Seiya video game was released in Europe
due to the popularity of the show even years after the series has been off-air.(1)
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Antique Pages
Antiques
are usually objects which show some degree of craftsmanship, or a certain
attention to design such as a desk or the early automobile. They are bought
at antique shops, or passed down as an estate. Some valuable antiques can
be bought from antique dealers and auction services or purchased online through
websites and online auctions. Antique dealers are often members of national
trade associations, many of which themselves belong to CINOA, a confederation
of art and antique associations across 19 countries, representing 5000 dealers.(1)
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The
broad term “aquaculture” refers to the breeding, rearing, and
harvesting of plants and animals in all types of water environments, including
ponds, rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Similar to agriculture, aquaculture can
take place in the natural environment or in a manmade environment. Using aquaculture
techniques and technologies, researchers and the aquaculture industry are
“growing,” “producing,” “culturing,” and
“farming” all types of freshwater and marine species.Aquaculture
is the fastest growing form of food production in the world. It is also a
significant source of protein for people in many countries, including the
United States. Globally, nearly half the fish consumed by humans is produced
by fish farms. This worldwide trend toward aquaculture production is expected
to continue. At the same time, demand for safe, healthy seafood is also expected
to grow.Source:NOAA
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Astronomy Pages
Astronomy
is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets,
and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere
(such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution,
physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well
as the formation and development of the universe.Astronomy
is one of the oldest sciences. Astronomers of early civilizations performed
methodical observations of the night sky, and astronomical artifacts have
been found from much earlier periods. Amateur astronomers have contributed
to many important astronomical discoveries, and astronomy is one of the few
sciences where amateurs can still play an active role, especially in the discovery
and observation of transient phenomena.(1)
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An
auction is a process of buying and selling goods by offering them up for bid,
taking bids, and then selling the item to the winning bidder. In economic
theory, an auction is a method for determining the value of a commodity that
has an undetermined or variable price.There
are several variations on the basic auction form, including time limits, minimum
or maximum limits on bid prices, and special rules for determining the winning
bidder(s) and sale price(s). Participants in an auction may or may not know
the identities or actions of other participants. Depending on the auction,
bidders may participate in person or remotely through a variety of means,
including telephone and the internet. Auctions are generally funded by a fee
paid by the seller to the auctioneer or auction company.(1)
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Auto Pages
The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design,
development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006,
more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles
were produced worldwide. In 2006 16 million new automobiles were sold in the
USA, 15 million in Western Europe, 7 million in China and 2 million in India.
In 2007, the markets in Canada, USA, Western Europe and Japan are stagnating,
while those in South America (especially Brazil), Eastern Europe (especially
Russia), and Asia (South Korea and India) are growing.Increasing costs of
oil-based fuels and tightening environmental law and restrictions on greenhouse
gas emissions are propelling work on alternative power systems for automobiles.
Efforts to improve or replace these technologies include hybrid vehicles,
electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles.(1)
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Automation Pages
Automation,roboticization or industrial automation or numerical control is
the use of control systems such as computers to control industrial machinery
and processes, replacing human operators.Automation is now often applied primarily
to increase quality in the manufacturing process, where automation can increase
quality substantially. For example, automobile and truck pistons used to be
installed into engines manually. This is rapidly being transitioned to automated
machine installation, because the error rate for manual installment was around
1-1.5%, but has been reduced to 0.00001% with automation. Hazardous operations,
such as oil refining, the manufacturing of industrial chemicals, and all forms
of metal working, were always early contenders for automation.Another
major shift in automation is the increased emphasis on flexibility and convertibility
in the manufacturing process. Manufacturers are increasingly demanding the
ability to easily switch from manufacturing Product A to manufacturing Product
B without having to completely rebuild the production lines.(1)
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Aviation Pages
Aviation
encompasses all the activities relating to airborne devices created by human
ingenuity, generally known as aircraft. These activities include the organizations
and regulatory bodies as well as the personnel related with the operation
of aircraft and the industries involved in airplane manufacture, development,
and design.Aviation encompasses all the activities relating to airborne devices
created by human ingenuity, generally known as aircraft. These activities
include the organizations and regulatory bodies as well as the personnel related
with the operation of aircraft and the industries involved in airplane manufacture,
development, and design.Many small aircraft manufacturers, including Cessna,
Piper, Diamond, Mooney, Cirrus Design, Raytheon, and others serve the general
aviation market, with a focus on private aviation and flight training.(1)
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Baby Pages
Newborns
can feel all different sensations, but respond most enthusiastically to soft
stroking, cuddling and caressing. Gentle rocking back and forth often calms
a crying infant, as do massages and warm baths. Newborns may comfort themselves
by sucking their thumb, or a pacifier. The need to suckle is instinctive (see
suction in biology) and allows newborns to feed.Newborn infants
have unremarkable vision, being able to focus on objects only about 18 inches
(45 cm) directly in front of their face. While this may not be much, it is
all that is needed for the infant to look at the mother’s eyes or areola
when breastfeeding. Generally, a newborn cries when wanting to feed. When
a newborn is not sleeping, or feeding, or crying, he or she may spend a lot
of time staring at random objects. Usually anything that is shiny, has sharp
contrasting colors, or has complex patterns will catch an infant's eye. However,
the newborn has a preference for looking at other human faces above all else.(1)
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Beverage Pages
Despite the fact that most beverages, including juice,
soft drinks, and carbonated drinks, have some form of water in them; water
itself is often not classified as a beverage, and the word beverage has been
recurrently defined as not referring to water.Alcoholic beverages, such as
wine and beer, have been part of human culture and development for 8,000 yearsAn
alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol,
although in chemistry the definition of an alcohol includes many other compounds.
Beverages like colas, sparkling water, iced tea, lemonade, squash, and fruit
punch are among the most common types of soft drinks, while hot chocolate,
hot tea, coffee, milk, tap water, alcohol, and milkshakes do not fall into
this classification. Many carbonated soft drinks are optionally available
in versions sweetened with sugars or with non-caloric sweeteners.(1)
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Biotech Pages
Biotechnology
is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food
science, and medicine.Biotechnology is often used to refer to genetic engineering
technology of the 21st century, however the term encompasses a wider range
and history of procedures for modifying biological organisms according to
the needs of humanity, going back to the initial modifications of native plants
into improved food crops through artificial selection and hybridization. Bioengineering
is the science upon which all Biotechnological applications are based. With
the development of new approaches and modern techniques, traditional biotechnology
industries are also acquiring new horizons enabling them to improve the quality
of their products and increase the productivity of their systems.(1)
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Blogging Pages
Recently,
researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There
are essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations, as well
as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from
studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to
become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly,
and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls,
since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and
deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.Recently,
through the mass popularity of sponsored post ventures such as PayPerPost
(now known as Izea) a large number of personal blogs have started writing
sponsored posts for advertisers wanting to boost buzz about new products and
services. It has revolutionised the blogosphere almost in the same way that
Google AdSense did.(1)
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Book Pages
Hardcover
books have a stiff binding. Paperback books have cheaper, flexible covers
which tend to be less durable. An alternative to paperback is the glossy cover,
otherwise known as a dust cover, found on magazines, and comic books. Spiral
bound books are bound by spirals often made of metal. Examples of spiral bound
books include: teachers manuals, and puzzle books (crosswords, sudoku).Publishing
is a process for producing books, magazines, newspapers, etc. pre-printed
for the reader/user to buy, usually in large numbers by a publishing company.
Such books can be categorized as fiction (made-up stories) or non-fiction
(information written as fact). A book-length fiction story is called a novel.Publishers
may produce low-cost, pre-publication copies known as galleys or 'bound proofs'
for promotional purposes, such as generating reviews in advance of publication.
Galleys are usually made as cheaply as possible, since they are not intended
for sale.(1)
World Broadcasting Pages
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals
which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public
or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults.There
are wide variety of broadcasting systems, all of which have different capabilities.
The largest broadcasting systems are institutional public address systems,
which transmit nonverbal messages and music within a school or hospital, and
low-powered broadcasting systems which transmit radio stations or television
stations to a small area. National radio and television broadcasters have
nationwide coverage, using retransmitter towers, satellite systems, and cable
distribution. Satellite radio and television broadcasters can cover even wider
areas, such as entire continents, and Internet channels can distribute text
or streamed music worldwide.(1)
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Car Pages
Most automobiles in use today are
propelled by gasoline (also known as petrol) or diesel internal combustion
engines, which are known to cause air pollution and are also blamed for contributing
to climate change and global warming.Increasing costs of oil-based fuels and
tightening environmental law and restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions
are propelling work on alternative power systems for automobiles. Efforts
to improve or replace these technologies include hybrid vehicles, electric
vehicles and hydrogen vehicles. Automobile propulsion technology under development
include gasoline/electric and plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles,
hydrogen cars, biofuels and various alternative fuels.Research
into future alternative forms of power include the development of fuel cells,
Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI), stirling engines, and even
using the stored energy of compressed air or liquid nitrogen.New materials
which may replace steel car bodies include duraluminum, fiberglass, carbon
fiber, and carbon nanotubes.Telematics technology is allowing more and more
people to share cars, on a pay-as-you-go basis, through such schemes as City
Car Club in the UK, Mobility in mainland Europe, and Zipcar in the US.
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Career Pages
As the idea of personal choice and self direction picks up in the 21st century,
aided by the power of the Internet and the increased acceptance of people
having multiple kinds of work, the idea of a career is shifting from a closed
set of achievements, like a chronological résumé of past jobs,
to a defined set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense, career
refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan. As
the idea of personal choice and self direction picks up in the 21st century,
aided by the power of the Internet and the increased acceptance of people
having multiple kinds of work, the idea of a career is shifting from a closed
set of achievements, like a chronological résumé of past jobs,
to a defined set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense, career
refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.(1)
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Chemical Pages
The
chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.
It is central to modern world economy, converting raw materials (oil, natural
gas, air, water, metals, minerals) into more than 70,000 different products.
Polymers and plastics, especially polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride,
polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene and polycarbonate comprise about 80%
of the industry’s output worldwide. Chemicals are used to make a wide
variety of consumer goods, as well as thousands inputs to agriculture, manufacturing,
construction, and service industries. The chemical industry itself consumes
26 percent of its own output. Major industrial customers include rubber and
plastic products, textiles, apparel, petroleum refining, pulp and paper, and
primary metals. Chemicals is nearly a $2 trillion global enterprise, and the
EU and U.S. chemical companies are the world's largest producers. The largest
corporate producers worldwide, with plants in numerous countries, are BASF,
Dow, Shell, Bayer, INEOS, ExxonMobil, DuPont, SABIC, and Mitsubishi, along
with thousands of smaller firms.(1)
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Childcare Pages
It is traditional in western society for children to be looked after by one
or both of their parents, but the need, or preference, for two-job households
means that childcare is delegated to Au Pairs, childminders or crèches
on a full-time (40hrs) or part-time (< 40hrs) basis.Most Western countries
also have compulsory education during which children are at school starting
from 5- or 6-years of age.Additionally, parents may opt to have their own
family members watch their children.For many, the use
of paid childcare is a matter of choice with arguments raging on both sides
about whether children suffer or not.There is no doubt that the first few
years of a child's life are vitally important to form a basis for good education,
morality, self-discipline and social integration.[citation needed] Consistency
of approach, skills and qualifications of careers and ownership have been
shown in many studies to improve the chances of a child reaching his or her
full potential.For example a recent study in Australia concluded centers run
by corporate chains provided the lowest quality care when compared to community-based
providers and independent private centres.(1)
World Children Pages
The Internet has become a tool
for parents and childcare providers to connect.Online
classified ads allow parents to post job offers and childcare providers to
post resumes in hopes of connecting with each other via cyberspace. Such postings
allow anyone to post almost anything at any time with little monitoring. Services
dedicated to matching parents and childcare providers have evolved from for-profit,nonprofit
and governmental organizations.Such services generally offer greater screening,
than general listing services(1)
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Community Pages
Social enterprises are social mission driven organizations
which trade in goods or services for a social purpose. The need to deliver
on financial, social and environmental performance targets is often referred
to as having a triple bottom line.It could be that the profit (or surplus)
from the business is used to support related or unrelated social aims (as
in a charity shop), or that the business itself accomplishes the social aim
through its operation, say through the employment of people from a disadvantaged
community including individuals and existing business who have difficulty
in securing investment from banks and mainstream lenders.A survey conducted
for the SEnU in 2004 found that there were 15,000 social enterprises in the
UK (counting only those that are incorporated as companies limited by guarantee
or industrial and provident societies). This is 1.2% of all enterprises in
the UK. They employ 450,000 people, of whom two-thirds are full-time, plus
a further 300,000 volunteers. Their combined annual turnover is £18
billion, and the median turnover is £285,000. Of this, (84%) is from
trading. The government later revised this estimate upwards to 55,000, based
on a survey of a sample of owners of businesses with employees, which found
that 5% of them define themselves as social enterprises.(1)
World Computer Pages
Computers have been used to coordinate information in multiple locations since
the 1950s. The U.S. military's SAGE system was the first large-scale example
of such a system, which led to a number of special-purpose commercial systems
like Sabre.In the 1970s, computer engineers at research institutions throughout
the United States began to link their computers together using telecommunications
technology. This effort was funded by ARPA (now DARPA), and the computer network
that it produced was called the ARPANET. The technologies that made the Arpanet
possible spread and evolved. In time, the network spread beyond academic and
military institutions and became known as the Internet.(1)
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Construction Pages
Building
construction is the process of adding structure to real property. The vast
majority of building construction projects are small renovations, such as
addition of a room, or renovation of a bathroom. Often, the owner of the property
acts as laborer, paymaster, and design team for the entire project. However,
all building construction projects include some elements in common - design,
financial, and legal considerations. Many projects of varying sizes reach
undesirable end results, such as structural collapse, cost overruns, and/or
litigatios reason, those with experience in the field make detailed plans
and maintain careful oversight during the project to ensure a positive outcome.Building
construction is procured privately or publicly utilizing various delivery
methodologies, including hard bid, negotiated price, traditional, management
contracting, construction management-at-risk, design & build and design-build
bridging.Industrial construction, though a relatively small part of the entire
construction industry, is a very important component. Owners of these projects
are usually large, for-profit, industrial corporations. These corporations
can be found in such industries as medicine, petroleum, chemical, power generation,
manufacturing, etc. Processes in these industries require highly specialized
expertise in planning, design, and construction. As in building and heavy/highway
construction, this type of construction requires a team of individuals to
ensure a successful project.(1)
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Consulting Pages
Management
consulting refers generally to the provision of business consulting services,
but there are numerous specializations, such as information technology consulting,
human resource consulting, and others, many of which overlap, and most of
which are offered by the large diversified consultancies listed below. So-called
'boutique' consultancies, however, are smaller organizations specializing
in one or a few of such specializations.Management
Consulting is becoming more prevalent in non-business related fields as well.
As the need for professional and specialized advice grows, other industries
such as government, quasi-government and not-for-profit agencies are turning
to the same managerial principles that have helped the private sector for
years.One important and recent change in the industry has been the spin-off
or separation of the consulting and the accounting units of the large diversified
firms. For these firms, which began business as accounting firms, management
consulting was a new extension to their business.(1)
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Craft Pages
The term craft
also refers to the products of artistic production or creation that require
a high degree of tacit knowledge, are highly technical, require specialized
equipment and/or facilities to produce, involve manual labour or a blue-collar
work ethic, are accessible to the general public and are constructed from
materials with histories that exceed the boundaries of western art history,
such as ceramics, glass, textiles, metal and wood. These products are produced
within a specific community of practice and while they differ from the products
produced within the communities of art and design, the boundaries of such
often overlap resulting in hybrid objects. Additionally, as the interpretation
and validation of art is frequently a matter of context, an audience may perceive
crafted objects as art objects when these objects are viewed within an art
context, such as in a museum or in a position of prominence in one's home.The
term can also refer to the useful rural crafts of the agricultural countryside.
Craftmanship refers to Plato's idea of specialization, in which the lower
society has a specific job in the greater society so that it functions properly
as a whole.(1)
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Defense Pages
The defense industry, also called the military industry,
is comprised of government and commercial industry involved in research, development,
production, and service of military equipment and facilities. It includes:
Defense
contractors: business organizations or individuals that provide products or
services to a defense department of a government, The Arms industry, which
produces guns, ammunition, missiles, military aircraft, and their associated
consumables and systems.It can also include: Private military contractors:
private companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures
for a military force, The Military-industrial complex, which is generally
the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political
and commercial interests, although it can also be used to describe any such
relationship of industry and military. European defence procurement, which
is more or less analogous to the U.S. military-industrial complex.(1)
World Design Pages
Design
and production are intertwined in many creative professional careers, meaning
problem-solving is part of execution and the reverse. As the cost of rearrangement
increases, the need for separating design from production increases as well.
For example, a high-budget project, such as a skyscraper, requires separating
(design) architecture from (production) construction. A Low-budget project,
such as a locally printed office party invitation flyer, can be rearranged
and printed dozens of times at the low cost of a few sheets of paper, a few
drops of ink, and less than one hour's pay of a desktop publisher.(1)
World Dining Pages
Many homes have a separate kitchen
room or outside (in the tropics) kitchen area devoted to preparation of meals
and food, and many also have a dining room or another designated area for
eating. Dishware, silverware, drinkware for eating and cookware and other
implements for cooking come in an almost infinite array of forms and sizes.
Most societies also have restaurants and food vendors, so that people may
eat when away from home, lack the time to prepare food, or wish to use eating
as a social occasion. Occasionally, such as at potlucks and food festivals,
eating is in fact the primary purpose of the social gathering.(1)
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Pages
Ecology
is usually considered a branch of biology, the general science that studies
living organisms. Organisms can be studied at many different levels, from
proteins and nucleic acids (in biochemistry and molecular biology), to cells
(in cellular biology), to individuals (in botany, zoology, and other similar
disciplines), and finally at the level of populations, communities, and ecosystems,
to the biosphere as a whole; these latter strata are the primary subjects
of ecological inquiry. Ecology is a multi-disciplinary science. Because of
its focus on the higher levels of the organization of life on earth and on
the interrelations between organisms and their environment, ecology draws
heavily on many other branches of science, especially geology and geography,
meteorology, pedology, genetics, chemistry, and physics.Thus, ecology is considered
by some to be a holistic science, one that over-arches older disciplines such
as biology which in this view become sub-disciplines contributing to ecological
knowledge.(1)
World Education Pages
The goal of education is fourfold: the social purpose, intellectual purpose,
economic purpose, and political/civic purpose. Current education issues include
which teaching method(s) are most effective, how to determine what knowledge
should be taught, which knowledge is most relevant, and how well the pupil
will retain incoming knowledge. Educators such as George Counts and Paulo
Freire identified education as an inherently political process with inherently
political outcomes. The challenge of identifying whose ideas are transferred
and what goals they serve has always stood in the face of formal and informal
education. (1)
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Electrical Pages
Electrical engineering may or may not encompass electronic engineering. Where
a distinction is made, usually outside of America, electrical engineering
is considered to deal with the problems associated with large-scale electrical
systems such as power transmission and motor control, whereas electronic engineering
deals with the study of small-scale electronic systems including computers
and integrated circuits.Another way of looking at the distinction is that
electrical engineers are usually concerned with using electricity to transmit
energy, while electronic engineers are concerned with using electricity to
transmit information.(1)
World Electronic Pages
The world market for electronic products was worth some $1.8
trillion in 2006, a figure that is expected to increase to $2.0 trillion in
2007 and $3.2 trillion in 2012, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.5%
over the next 5 years.Of these sectors, industrial products account for 39.6%
of the total sales for electronics products, while computer electronics have
the second largest share of the total market at 20.0%. Semiconductors make
up 13.5%, consumer electronics make up 13.4%, communications electronics account
for 9.9%, and automotive electronics products make up the remaining 2.6%.
(2)
World Employment Pages
In the United States, the standard employment contract is considered to be
at-will meaning that the employer and employee are both free to terminate
the employment at any time and for any cause, or for no cause at all. However,
if a termination of employment by the employer is deemed unjust by the employee,
there can be legal recourse to challenge such a termination. In unionised
work environments in particular, employees who are receiving discipline, up
to and including termination of employment can ask for assistance by their
shop steward to advocate on behalf of the employee. If an informal negotiation
between the shop steward and the company does not resolve the issue, the shop
steward may file a grievance, which can result in a resolution within the
company, or mediation or arbitration, which are typically funded equally both
by the union and the company.(1)
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Energy Pages
In 2004, the average total worldwide power consumption
of the human race was 15 TW (= 1.5 x 1013 W) with 86.5% from burning fossil
fuels.[1] This is equivalent to 0.5 ZJ (= 5 x 1020 J) per year, although there
is at least 10% uncertainty in the world's energy consumption. Not all of
the world's economies track their energy consumption with the same rigor,
and the exact energy content of a barrel of oil or a ton of coal will vary
with quality.n 2004, renewable energy supplied around 7% of the world's energy
consumption. The renewables sector has been growing significantly since the
last years of the 20th century, and in 2005 the total new investment was estimated
to have been 38 billion US dollars. Germany and China lead with investments
of about 7 billion US dollars each, followed by the United States, Spain,
Japan, and India. This resulted in an additional 35 GW of capacity during
the year.(1)
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Engineering Pages
Engineering is the discipline of acquiring and applying scientific and technical
knowledge to the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical
purposes.Engineers use their knowledge of science, mathematics, and appropriate
experience to find suitable solutions to a problem. Engineering is considered
a branch of applied mathematics and science. Creating an appropriate mathematical
model of a problem allows them to analyze it (sometimes definitively), and
to test potential solutions. Usually multiple reasonable solutions exist,
so engineers must evaluate the different design choices on their merits and
choose the solution that best meets their requirements. Genrich Altshuller,
after gathering statistics on a large number of patents, suggested that compromises
are at the heart of "low-level" engineering designs, while at a
higher level the best design is one which eliminates the core contradiction
causing the problem.(1)
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Entertainment Pages
Entertainment
is an activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although
in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person).
The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching
opera, or actively as in computer games.The
playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in entertainment,
but these are often called recreation, because they involve some active participation
beyond mere leisure.The industry that provides entertainment is called the
entertainment industry.The entertainment industry consists of a large number
of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used
in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution
and manufacture of mass media entertainment. In the popular parlance, the
term show biz in particular connotes the commercially popular performing arts,
especially musical theatre, vaudeville, comedy, film, and music.
World Environment Pages
According to the American Marketing Association, green marketing is the marketing
of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing
incorporates a broad range of activities, including product modification,
changes to the production process, packaging changes, as well as modifying
advertising. Yet defining green marketing is not a simple task where several
meanings intersect and contradict each other; an example of this will be the
existence of varying social, environmental and retail definitions attached
to this term.Other similar terms used are Environmental Marketing and Ecological
Marketing.According to market researcher Mintel, about 12% of the U.S. population
can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy
so-called green products. Another 68% can be classified as Light Greens, consumers
who buy green sometimes. "What chief marketing officers are always looking
for is touch points with consumers, and this is just a big, big, big touch
point that's not being served," says Mintel Research Director David Lockwood.
"All the corporate executives that we talk to are extremely convinced
that being able to make some sort of strong case about the environment is
going to work down to their bottom line. (1)
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Equipment Pages
A
tool or device is a piece of equipment which typically provides a mechanical
advantage in accomplishing a physical task, or provides an ability that is
not naturally available to the user of a tool. The most basic tools are simple
machines. For example, a crowbar simply functions as a lever. The further
out from the pivot point, the more force is transmitted along the lever. When
particularly intended for domestic use, a tool is often called a utensil.(1)
World Events
Pages
Event planning is the process of planning a festival,
ceremony, competition, party, or convention.Event
planning includes budgeting, establishing dates and alternate dates, selecting
and reserving the event site, acquiring permits, and coordinating transportation
and parking.Event planning also includes some or all of the following, depending
on the event: developing a theme or motif for the event, arranging for speakers
and alternate speakers, coordinating location support (such as electricity
and other utilities), arranging decor, tables, chairs, tents, event support
and security, police, fire, portable toilets, parking, signage, emergency
plans, health care professionals, and cleanup.Event Planning is a
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