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    the complexities of individual’s navigation in our modern and increasingly globalised society. Proulx would agree with the statement ‘The global cannot be all bad nor the local all good. In our lives today‚ the two must coexist and we must learn to navigate both’‚ and her text provides evidence to this effect. The novel does not present the simplistic dichotomies of the global being negative and the local being positive‚ but instead focuses on characters navigation through both. Proulx demonstrates

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    Anika A. 2012 Inquiry: What was so significant about these 3 inventions? —How were they discovered? —What were they commonly used for? —What substantial impacts have they each had? 3 Significant Inventions Gunpowder‚ printing‚ and the magnetic compass: 3 significant inventions‚ all either invented‚ or first used‚ in ancient China. 17th century English philosopher‚ Sir Francis Bacon‚ described these innovations as 3 inventions which “changed the world”. The practical use of gunpowder

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    age. Dominant age range is from 13 years old to 35 years old but still applies to older generations that are active in the ocean. o Familiarity with computers and Internet Not much is needed to navigate through the website. Simple side navigation bar with a home link. o Key target audience insight – Most compelling thing you want the audience to think‚ learn or do as a result of visiting the site Encourage local residents to enjoy the beach communities as well as promote local events

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    performance standards‚ in order to improve the standard of collision avoidance at sea‚ BEARING IN MIND that automatic radar plotting aids with inadequate performance standards or operated by insufficiently trained personnel might prejudice safety of navigation‚ HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its sixty-fourth session‚ 1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Performance Standards for Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPAs) set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

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    &provides standard NMEA0183 strings in raw mode for any microcontroller. The module provides current time‚ date‚ latitude‚ longitude‚ speed‚ altitude and travel direction / heading among other data‚ and can be used in a host of applications‚including navigation‚ tracking systems‚ fleet management‚ mapping and robotics.                This is a stand alone GPS Module and requires no external components except power supply decoupling capacitors. It is built with internal RTC Back up battery. It can be directly

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    About Compass's Invention

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    The compass has served as a navigational aid to many tourists‚ travelers‚ and numerous explorers. Though the compass has served well in navigation‚ it has affected and improved mankind greatly. In China‚ building was refined in many ways by the compass. It has enabled many to find positions‚ direction or route. No one knows when‚ where‚ or by whom the compass was invented (dEstaing and Young 153). We do know though‚ that there were numerous inventors of the compass. The first compass was invented

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    in the modern age or whether it still has a use in modern navigation. To decide this I explored modern navigation techniques‚ which is mostly done by global positioning systems‚ I researched the way that these work and the methodology behind the use of a sextant. The conclusion that I came to was that modern day sextant use is rare unless practicing for an emergency. Since its release GPS has dominated and is now the main source of navigation on most vessels (big or small). The reason for this dominance

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    Navaids in Aviation

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    How would pilots ever get around so easily without the help of navigation aides? Navigational aides have been around for almost as long as aircraft have been flying in the skies above us. The first navigation system was composted of just a high intensity-flashing beacon. These beacons were placed on the flight routes that were popularly flown in the mid 1920’s. With more time more of these technologies that help us navigate the world will be even simpler than today. This paper will explain how some

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    modem‚ the system automatically sends a return reply to that mobile indicating the position of the vehicle in terms of latitude and longitude. Block Diagram:   Circuit Diagram:   Circuit Operation: The project is vehicle positioning and navigation system we can locate the vehicle around the globe with 8052 micro controller‚ GPS receiver‚ GSM modem‚ MAX 232‚ EEPROM. Microcontroller used is AT89S52. The code is written in the internal memory of Microcontroller i.e. ROM. With help of instruction

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    GPS Certification Program Part A: 1. UTM stands for universal transverse mercator geographic coordinate system.What you often see on poster-size maps of the world is an equatorial mercator projection that has relatively little distortion along the equator‚ but quite a bit of distortion toward the poles. By slightly changing the orientation of the cylinder onto which the map is projected‚ successive swaths of relatively undistored regions can be created. This is exactly what the UTM system

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