Radiation is mostly produced by nuclear power plants, which such plants are in use world wide. In order to operate nuclear power plants efficiently, a safe standard of operation guidelines and procedures should be established. ... Scientists reuse and categorize radioactive waste to establish and regulate the characteristics and risks of each. High-level wastes are products of two sources which originate from nuclear power plants and reprocessing plants (Ringius 23). ... "In Papan, Malaysia, a rare earth plant was set up in 1982 by a firm owned in part by the Japanese mu...

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In this instance, considering the costs involved in replacing mules with rings in existing plants, it appears that the decisions of British cotton masters were vindicated. ... Britain `s principal competitor, Germany, developed large-scale iron & steel making despite importing suitable ore from Sweden, but German workers were 80% more productive per worker than their British counterparts by 1914,making Britain` s attachment to its acid steel making plant puzzling. ... In 1869, they were more or less set free from all government control and set about elaborating that anti-intellectual, anti-sci...

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Abstract Electronic waste or e-waste is one of the rapidly growing problems of the world. E-waste comprises of a multitude of components, some containing toxic substances that can have an adverse impact on human health and the environment if not handled properly. In India, e-waste management assumes greater significance not only due to the generation of its own e-waste but also because of the dumping of e-waste from developed countries. This is coupled with India's lack of appropriate infrastructure and procedures for its disposal and recycling. Corporate responsibility thus becomes even ...

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Statistics compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center report that an estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants resided in the United States in 2012, 58% of that population being from Mexico (Passel). With over half of this massive population being from just south of the border, it is no wonder why discussion surrounding immigration in the news is dominated by topics such as violence in border communities due to drug trafficking, the "takeover" of Spanish speakers in the U.S., the competition for jobs amongst American citizens and Mexican immigrants, and the financial burden placed on border...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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The novels written before and during the "Boom" are linked together by defining characteristics. ... Most of the gains in agriculture were due to large farms or packing plants.11 Widespread pollution also contributed to the reaction against industrial progress. ...

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They suggest that "the cultural characteristics of a target market will be responsive to certain culturally bound channel structures, such as local stores, or bazaars- Issues regarding International Marketing Mass marketing, as we know was "out" in the early 1990's and customized marketing becomes more and more important as we are entering the 21st Century. ... Therefore, understanding of culture is of major importance, even to those who deal with only domestic plants and domestic customers. ...

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One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want to abolish all experiments on live animals. At the other extreme there are those who say that it is quite all right for us to do whatever we like to animals. ...

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