Academic Reading sample task – Identifying writer’s views/claims Discovered in the early 1800s and named ‘nicotianine’‚ the oily essence now called nicotine is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine‚ however‚ is only a small component of cigarette smoke‚ which contains more than 4‚700 chemical compounds‚ including 43 cancer-causing substances. In recent times‚ scientific research has been providing evidence that years of cigarette smoking vastly increases the risk of developing fatal medical
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Drafting By: Madison Stewart Drafting is the drawing up of blueprints for architectural structures‚ and mechanical engineering tools and objects. There are two sides to drafting‚ the mechanical side and the architectural side. It’s a great career that is fun‚ and easy to do. Architectural drafting has to deal with drawing up the blueprints for homes‚ schools‚ churches‚ and any other architectural structure you can think of. It’s very easy to come up with these blueprints. You can either draw
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Renaissance Architecture Between 1400 and 1600 AD classical ideas of an ’’ age of awakening’’ took place in Italy and northern Europe. This period was called ’’ The Renaissance’’ which means ’’born anew’’ in French. Renaissance architecture was inspired by the architecture of classic/ancient Greece and Rome. Before Gothic architecture was very asymmetrical and complex. The renaissance architecture was highly symmetrical and very proportioned. Features Of Renaissance Buildings: •symmetrical
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The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) 1-6 October‚ 2008 Goa‚ India Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategies in India C. Ghosh National Institute of Disaster Management‚ New Delhi‚ India Keywords: Disaster Management‚ earthquake‚ mitigation‚ building codes‚ ABSTRACT: About 59% of India’s land area is under the threat of moderate to severe earthquake shaking intensity VII and higher. In the last 20 years‚ 8 major
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5010 - 1 Economic Analysis of the Firm Week 10 Effects of Organizational Architecture on Ethics and Innovation Wilfredo C. Ilagan Everest University Online Abstract |Instructional Objectives for this activity: | |Assess the effects of organizational architecture on ethics and innovation
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Departamentul de istoria & teoria arhitecturii şi conservarea patrimoniului LIMBAJ ARHITECTURAL 1 AN I / semestrul 2 – 2009-2010 TEMA 1 DE SEMINAR ANALIZA DE OBIECT ARHITECTURAL DUPĂ CRITERIUL ATRIBUTELOR VITRUVIENE Analizaţi (conform fişei de analiză de mai jos) 3 exemple de locuinţe individuale (legate de tema de atelier în desfăşurare)‚ din punctul de vedere al răspunsului la comandamentele vitruviene şi al expresiei arhitecturale pe care o generează‚ urmărind punctele propuse (unde este
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Brand Architecture • Brand architecture is the structure of brands within an organizational entity. • It is the way in which the brands within a company’s portfolio are related to‚ and differentiated from‚ one another. Brand Architecture • There are three key levels of branding: • Corporate brand‚ umbrella brand‚ and family brand - Examples include Godrej‚ Samsung‚ LG‚ Sony • Endorsed brands‚ Dual ‚ and sub-brands - For example‚ Nestle KitKat‚ Cadbury Dairy Milk • Individual product
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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Epistemological Definition Worldwide cities are experiencing a rush of population growth‚ this growth to the ecological balance shown against the environment and the exploitation of natural resources have sued implement new methods of construction using new technologies. (Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21ST Century). Sustainable or sustainable architecture seeks to optimize natural resources and building systems that minimize the environmental
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Enterprise Architecture: Question Consider yourself a practitioner in computer technology‚ telecommunications and Software system‚ who is interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of the most advanced application tools and methods both present (such as MIT programme) and coming. You have consequently been charged with planning‚ developing‚ applying and delivering advance information systems‚ architectural solution and programming products. Identify and critically analyze cognate enterprise
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a pipe; and typed pipes‚ which require that the data passed between two filters have a well-defined type. [pic] Figure 1: Pipes and Filters A degenerate case of a pipeline architecture occurs when each filter processes all of its input data as a single entity.1 In this case the architecture becomes a “batch sequential” system. In these systems pipes no longer serve the function
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