Abstract: The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization‚ its structure‚ methods‚ and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems.
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Resolution of α-Phenylethylamine Date of Completion of Experiment: Monday‚ November 19‚ 2012 Date Report Submitted: Monday‚ December 3‚ 2012 Objective of Experiment The objective of this experiment was to learn the process of resolution of α-phenylethylamine. Materials Compound | Molecular Weight (g/mol) | Melting Point (°C) | Amount used | Moles used | (+) Tartaric Acid | 150.087 | 171–174 | 11.9 g | 7.93 x 10-2 | (+‚-) α-phenylethylamine | 121.18 | 184-186 | 10.0 ml | 8.25 x 10-2 |
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The Alpha project really caught my attention. Before Module 1‚ I thought that the producer almost always dealt with scripts that were already written and they had simply decided to push the creation of a movie with the script they had selected. However‚ the Alpha project surprised me in that the writer was commissioned to write a script and the producer’s job was on hold‚ or disrupted‚ due to the writer/director. Thus‚ I learned that the producer’s job is intense and they have to interact with the
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thoroughfares. Alpha Paving Industries has been helping customers in Temple construct‚ maintain and repair their asphalt pavements for more than three decades. The History of Temple The Santa Fe Railroad needed a source of services for passengers as well as its equipment. In 1881‚ the area around Temple was selected as a satisfactory junction point‚ so the Gulf‚ Colorado and Santa Fe
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went on a stinking 4 hour hike! It was terrible and my legs were fading. We then had dinner. The taste of the spaghetti filled my taste buds with satisfaction. After that we had a lesson about the Alpha Wolf. We then went looking for the Alpha Wolf. When we were in the middle of looking for the Alpha Wolf when they had to shut down Atwood because people spotted Clowns and Isis. Well‚ we didn’t know that and the our group
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Stars The stars making up jobs coffin or the top of Delphinus are alpha beta gamma and delta delphinus The tail is made of epsilon delphinus It is the 69th in size It is highest in the sky at 10 pm august to september Alpha delphini is a multiple star made of 7 parts A‚B‚C‚D‚E‚F‚and G A and G are the brightest Alpha delphinus is 241 lightyears away Alpha Delphini is sometimes known as Sualocin. The name was given to it by the Italian astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore. It is the Latinized version of
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questionnaire‚ this study used the Cronbach’s Alpha which is the most popular model to determine the correlation among the items and to assess the internal consistency of a questionnaire (or survey) that is made up of multiple Likert-type scales and items. According to Sekaran and Bougie (2010)‚ the range of Cronbach’s Alpha less than 0.60 is consider poor and the range above 0.60 and 0.70 indicate at the level of acceptable. If the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient is closer to 1.0‚ the consistency
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1. Background & key issues The purpose of this case study is identify key issues causing the failure of introducing new leadership to Alpha Mills‚ providing an analysis and recommendations on how the directors/manager could have prevented these problems. Key facts: Alpha Mills is an oil palm plantation wholly owned subsidiary of a British multinational company located in Malaysia‚ it supplies crude palm oil for its parent company’s detergent manufacturing business. Most of the managers have
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9. Piper Alpha video review The Piper Alpha’s tragic chain of events occurred because of a number of safety procedures were not met or implemented. The almighty dollar was given preference over the safety of hundreds of lives. We found a number of unsafe situations that could have been avoided if the right Safety management system was in place. These are our findings. 1. The oil rig recently introduced a new gas pipeline in the weeks leading up to the disaster. The rig wasn’t designed to be a gas
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The Rho Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity‚ Incorporated is a very special chapter. This chapter pulls from only the top institutions in the Greater Cambridge area. Already‚ these schools require immense grit and knowledge to get into‚ let alone succeed in. Then‚ the top men from these institutions are brought together to stimulate their ambitions and promote their personal progress. There is no man in this chapter that is not doing something interesting Harvard‚ MIT‚ Tufts and Babson provide
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