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    Demerits of Science

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    Unleashing IT Winter 2013 Seize innovation‚ accelerate business‚ drive outcomes. All through the cloud. National reach‚ local touch In collaboration with Intel® How Doug Saunders of waste and recycling leader Republic Services strikes a balance between national efficiency and local delivery. Page 16 • CIOs reveal typical cloud journey • Healthcare organizations unify‚ transform IT Unleashing IT Seize innovation‚ accelerate business‚ Winter 2013 Perspectives and Solutions 03 New

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    Mangla Dam

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    existing water shortages during early Kharif sowing period of April-June Regulation and control of high flood peaks in the Indus to enable provision of perennial tubewell irrigation to the riverain area in Sindh. As part of controversy on Kalabagh Dam‚ a number of apprehensions/doubts have been expressed both by upper (NWFP) and lower (Sindh) riparian provinces. Most of these are based either on lack of information or hear say. In addition‚ there have been reservations in the mind of some quarters

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    Dam the Salmon

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    24 October 2011 Dam the Politics... Save the Salmon There are some things in this world that mean more to us than we can explain. We as human beings have an existential connection to all of mother earth’s creatures. We are approaching a dark time in the Klamath River‚ soon there will be no natural born salmon spawning up what was once one of the rivers that spawned the most salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The salmon that at one time flourished in the Klamath‚ are not able to reach their natural

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    The Hoover Dam

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    Hoover Dam INTRODUCTION Without the Hoover Dam‚ many more people would have been jobless during the hard times of the Depression which would have hindered many people needs for inexpensive power and water. While the construction of the Hoover Dam was ongoing‚ many workers looked to it as a representation of every American’s contribution to a better life. The Hoover Dam caused the once deserted towns in the West to flourish into booming metropolises. The construction of the Hoover Dam helped to

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    Three Gorges Dam Introduction: A computer simulated model of how the finished dam is supposed to look like A computer simulated model of how the finished dam is supposed to look like The three Gorges dam is the world’s largest dam with a total length of half a mile and 600 feet high. The construction of this massive dam took over 21 years starting from planning till the finished construction. The dam was built to stop the floorings that occurred and to cut down the greenhouse emissions of Chinas

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    Cce Demerits

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    ce The Disadvantages of Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation Comprehensive evaluation assesses students’ involvement in sports as part of the curriculum evaluation process. Comprehensive continuous evaluation (CCE) is an educational evaluation style used in India for evaluating elementary and secondary school students. The assessment system is designed to replaced standardized board examination testing by evaluating students based on academic and personal progress from the start of their education

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    economist’s point of view which represents the greater market failure – merit or demerit goods ? Justify your answer using both economic theory and relevant examples. (25 marks) Market failure occurs when a free market fails to deliver an efficient allocation of resources. Merit goods are seen to be underprovided by the state whereas demerit goods are seen to be overprovided by the state. Although obviously both merit and demerit goods cause market failure by their under/over consumption‚ the question

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    aswan dam

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    Teaching Geography Workshop 4: North Africa/Southwest Asia – Part 2: Egypt JIM BINKO: Our investigation of North Africa/Southwest Asia continues in Egypt. Here as throughout that region‚ the presence or absence of water has had a profound influence on human settlement. We will see the great impact that access to resources has on the characteristics‚ distribution and migration of human population on Earth’s surface. You will be able to understand how changes in the spatial distribution of

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    Tehri Dam

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    Tehri Dam| | Location of Tehri Dam| Country|India| Location|Uttarakhand[->0]| Coordinates|30°22′40″N 78°28′50″ECoordinates[->1]: 30°22′40″N 78°28′50″E| Status|Operational| Construction began|1978| Opening date|2006| Construction cost|US$1 billion| Owner(s)|Tehri Hydro Development Corporation| Dam and spillways| Type of dam[->2]|Embankment[->3]‚ earth and rock-fill| Height|260.5 m (855 ft)| Length|575 m (1‚886 ft)| Crest width|20 m (66 ft)| Base width|1‚128 m (3‚701 ft)| Impounds|Bhagirathi

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    Poondi Dam

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    surrounding catchment areas was about 3‚700 cusecs. The dam also received about 570 cusecs from the Krishna Drinking Water Supply channel. Tiruvallur District Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal and Government Chief Whip P.M. Narasimhan released the shutters of the link canal to allow 500 cusecs into the Red Hills reservoir. The shutters of Baby canal were opened to allow 90 cusecs into the Cholavaram reservoir. In the evening‚ all the rainwater received in the dam was released into the Kosasthalaiyar‚ officials

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