LESSING’S BIOGRAPHY Doris Lessing‚ a British writer‚ was born in 1919 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ moved his family to Persia (now Iran)‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk. Doris was born there. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm. Her mother‚ obsessed with raising a proper daughter‚ enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home‚ then she sent
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places. Ukraine boasts one of the most romantic places in the world: Tunnel of Love. Located near the town Klevan‚ “The Tunnel of Love” became an unique attraction in the world. It was formed on the train tracks‚ through union branches of trees‚ turning into a tunnel of green vegetation. There is however one problem with this “tunnel”. As it passes a train track and should be on your toes if you want to visit him. The Tunnel which covers railway conducted over a length of about three kilometers
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KUALA LUMPUR‚ MALAYSIA Case Study (Mixed Use Tunnel) Project Summary: Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states and three federal territories‚ located on the Malay Peninsula south of Thailand and the northwest portion of the island of Borneo. The country is home to over 27 million people‚ with roughly 1.6 million people living in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur‚ which is situated in the southwest part of Peninsular Malaysia and covers 244 square kilometers. The entire Greater Kuala Lumpur
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III.8. THE TUNNEL DIODE 1. Theory The Japanese physicist Leo Esaki invented the tunnel diode in 1958. It consists of a p-n junction with highly doped regions. Because of the thinness of the junction‚ the electrons can pass through the potential barrier of the dam layer at a suitable polarization‚ reaching the energy states on the other sides of the junction. The current-voltage characteristic of the diode is represented in Figure 1. In this sketch i p and U p are the peak‚ and iv and U v are
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Overconfident Overconfident behavioural is a well-established bias in which someone’s subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy‚ especially when confidence is relatively high. Management’s overconfident seen through overestimate the chances of success and underestimate the associated risks of its decision. The management’s overconfidence reflected from following evidences: * Management overestimate the chance of project success as stated in Eurotunnel prospectus
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addition to the Burleigh drill‚ the next most impressive implementation of technology in blasting of the Hoosac Tunnel involved nitroglycerin. In 1866‚ Thomas Doane imported a liquid and unstable explosive called trinitroglycerin‚ which is called nitroglycerin in America. His decision to think outside of the box and import the substance changed many aspects of the tunneling process. The Hoosac Tunnel was the first location where the explosive was used in the United States‚ and it became an integral part
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The Twin Tunnels‚ proposed by the Governor of California jerry Brown‚ are two tunnels that would run from the delta to Southern California. The project would make two tunnels‚ each about 20-40 feet in wide and around 35 miles long‚ that would be 150 feet beneath the Delta. The Twin Tunnels will be extremely expensive especially to taxpayers and very destructive to the Delta’s ecosystems. Much of California opposes them. The goal of the Twin Tunnels is to divert water from the Sacramento
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Case Study The Channel Tunnel Mingyi Su Elvin Bayramov Christoph J. Szczecina Henrique A. Lima de Faria Fachhochschule Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts Managing Change - Prof. Dr. Josef Mittmann May 26th‚ 2008 Content 1. Historical Context 2. Engineering 3. Organizational Transitions 4. Financial Developments 5. Case Study Answers • Historical Context • Engineering • Organizational Transitions • Financial Developments • Case Study: Answers Christoph
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One of the greatest engineering achievements of ancient times is a water tunnel‚ 1‚036 meters (4‚000 feet) long‚ excavated through a mountain on the Greek island of Samos in the sixth century B.C. It was dug through solid limestone by two separate teams advancing in a straight line from both ends‚ using only picks‚ hammers‚ and chisels. This was a prodigious feat of manual labor. The intellectual feat of determining the direction of tunneling was equally impressive. How did they do this
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TTYL Carpal Tunnel Thousands of people get this syndrome every year. People wake up in the middle of the night with agonizing pain in their hands and wrists. Carpal Tunnel is very painful and a hassle to deal with‚ but treatable. More and more people have gotten this syndrome because of the technology we use. When people repeatedly do the same motions over a certain amount of time‚ like texting‚ their hands and wrist start to ache and become inflamed. Constant texting and the use of a keyboard
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