22-2-96 CONDUCTING POLYMERS By Colin Pratt INTRODUCTION Until about 30 years ago all carbon based polymers were rigidly regarded as insulators. The idea that plastics could be made to conduct electricity would have been considered to be absurd. Indeed‚ plastics have been extensively used by the electronics industry because of this very property. They were utilized as inactive packaging and insulating material. This very narrow perspective is rapidly changing as a new class of polymer known
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drugs have been banned in sport if they are deemed to provide an unfair advantage‚ pose a health risk‚ or are seen to violate the ‘spirit of sport’. The use of banned drugs by athletes is referred to as ‘doping’. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)‚ and more recently‚ the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have been leading the way in the battle against drugs in sport. Why do some athletes use drugs? Most athletes take drugs to enhance their physical performance in an attempt to prevent them
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It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose‚ It’s How you Play the Game St. Louis University‚ School for Professional Studies English 190-LO Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric & Research July 8‚ 2013 It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose‚ It’s How You Play the Game Most people here on this beautiful planet aspire to be successful. There are many different measures of that success. To some it may be money‚ to others fame or recognition. For some folks it may be the simple
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hoping to pull sport enthusiasts from the ‘ban doping’ side of the argument and look at the full picture long term. I will do this by showing them the positives of legalising PED’s. Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be Legalised in Professional Sports? For years there has been an ongoing argument about whether performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalised in professional sports. The use of performance-enhancing drugs‚ commonly known as doping‚ has been happening behind the scenes. You hear
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Lance’s training schedule and regime (Rose & Fisher‚ 2014). Armstrong was the key decision maker when it came to the team such as choosing the other riders‚ the doctors and the support staff. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey‚ Lance describes doping as leveling the playing field because everyone else was doing it. This could be considered rules based (Ghillyer‚ 2014) as he is doing it the same as everyone else. Tyler Hamilton had doped for the
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oxygen and nutrients and all the toxic waste products are removed from the body by this metabolism. There are many instances where an athlete has used a drug to enhance the desired output in an unfair and illegal manner. Such a practice is termed as “doping”. Eventually in the long run‚ the effect of drug taking leads to other mental disorders and even death. Certain drugs such as psychomotor stimulant drugs include amphetamines (namely‚ amphetamine‚ dextroamphetamine‚ and methamphetamine) and methylpenidate
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from competition for life. Peptide hormones – Great Britain’s Terry Newton was a rugby player for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats‚ and in 2009 he tested positive for the growth hormone drug. Newton opted not to contest the charge brought by the UK Anti-Doping Agency for taking a self-administered human growth hormone. That triggered an automatic two-year ban. The 31-year-old is the first athlete in the world to test positive for HGH. "There has been a feeling that you can take growth hormone with impunity
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Competition can be unfair if there is unequal access to particular enhancements‚ but equal access can be achieved more predictably by deregulation than by prohibition. A couple professor of the University of Geneva says: ‘We believe that rather than drive doping underground‚ use of drugs should be permitted under medical supervision’.
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Unit-II: MOS/BiCMOS Process Technology and Integration Introduction BiCMOS = CMOS + Bipolar (BJT) structures on the same substrate. Advantanges of CMOS device: 1. Low Power 2. High digital IC density. Advantages of Bipolar transistors: 1. Ability to deliver large drive currents 2. Capability to rapidly charge heavy loads. The implementation of digital bipolar circuits with emitter-coupled logic (ECL) gates permits small logic swings and excellent noise immunity
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the current legislation of steroid usage in the United States. In the United States we have the United States anti doping agency (USADA) as the governing body that decides what drugs are to be put on the controlled substances list. In Sports the decision is up to the league‚ but they follow suit with the USADA and several leagues have a more comprehensive list. The World Anti Doping Agency was formed in 2003 before the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. WADA takes the stance that any steroid or steroid dervitave
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