This document discusses the potential for renewable energy and the need for transitioning to more sustainable energy systems. It notes that while the share of renewable energy is still small globally, costs for some renewables are getting competitive with existing energy sources. The technical potential for renewable energy is enormous. Realizing a clean energy future will require overcoming challenges through innovation, integration of renewables at larger scales, and increased adoption of technologies.
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This document provides guidance for students on preliminary steps to take before beginning research for an assignment. It outlines key tasks such as carefully reading the assignment requirements, formulating a research question, conducting background research on the topic, determining required source types, identifying appropriate databases and resources to find sources, and employing effective searching strategies. The overall goal is to help students get organized and properly plan their research before beginning the process of searching for and evaluating information.
Customer Bulletin 0310 A Comparison of ISO-C1 Polyisocyanurate Insulation to ...Dyplast Products
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This Customer Bulletin is another in a series of white papers aimed at providing our clients,
engineers, contractors, fabricators, and friends with objective information on competitive
products. Marketing literature on the internet and in printed media address the physical and
performance characteristics of polyisocyanurate rigid foam (ISO) and extruded polystyrene
insulation (XPS). As is often the case, some literature can be misleading and/or in some cases
there may not be sufficient information to credibly compare products. This Customer Bulletin
provides factual, clarifying information which should allow for an objective comparison of
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The document is a production diary for a film project by Shaun Dhaliwal. It summarizes three days of editing work: organizing shots into bins on the first day, troubleshooting a media connection issue on the second day, and adding final touches like sound effects and credits on the third day. Throughout the process, Shaun used techniques like color-coding, naming shots descriptively, and fading to help with the editing workflow.
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The document discusses barriers to centralizing clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis at the University of Pittsburgh. It describes how the university's geographically dispersed campus and hospital system initially led to many small, localized computing clusters lacking sufficient resources for NGS work. It then outlines how the university established a larger central computing cluster and upgraded storage and networking capabilities to help address these issues. However, software interfaces and data sharing across resources remained challenges. The document proposes several solutions being implemented, including research gateways and cloud computing, to further facilitate centralized analysis while improving access and data management.
This document discusses an app called PARCHEGGIAMI that allows users to book parking spaces through their mobile device. It saves users time and money by allowing them to search, find, and book parking options near their destination. The app takes a 10% commission on each booking and generates revenue of over 1 million euros annually based on over 400,000 bookings at an average fee of 3 euros per booking. It provides a marketplace for people to rent out unused parking spaces and competes with both municipal parking and alternative transportation options.
This document provides information about resources from an organization called WOW that focuses on international children's literature. It describes several online databases, journals, and blogs that WOW offers related to global literature, including a database of books and reviews, a journal for sharing classroom experiences using international books, and a blog on current issues. It also provides instructions for browsing and searching the various WOW resources by title, genre, region, age group, or book lists.
The document summarizes the schedule and activities for the PUMA DARTS - The International Youth Player Dart Summer Camp 2012, which was held from August 1-7, 2012 in Shanghai, China. The camp aimed to promote darts among adolescents, enhance youth skills in the sport, and increase international cooperation. It was organized by several local dart associations and sports companies and hosted at the Shanghai Xuhui Youth Sports School. Over the course of a week, 12 foreign and 10 Chinese youth dart players engaged in training, tournaments, cultural experiences, and tours of Shanghai landmarks under the guidance of 2 foreign coaches.
The portfolio assessment for this course consists of a self-reflexive online portfolio submitted in week 13. The portfolio includes copies of weekly blog entries as well as a self-reflective report considering the work done, lessons learned, how the degree has been useful, and how the learning will inform the rest of the degree. Details of activities and responsibilities are also included. The portfolio allows for creativity as it is online, so students can include photos, links, and video clips documenting their work or interviews.
Embedded in a Socio-Ecological System
The article provides a framework for analyzing the relationship between climate change and conflict to inform policy-oriented action. It discusses climate change concepts from the IPCC and argues that climate change hazards create imbalances in socio-ecological systems that can exacerbate or trigger violence. The framework suggests three analysis tools to understand how climate change and conflict interact in specific contexts in order to develop conflict-sensitive climate change adaptation policies and recommendations.
The document provides information about implementing Common Core State Standards in a 3rd grade classroom. It discusses the goals and structure of the standards, focusing on areas like text complexity. It then describes a classroom unit where students analyzed primary sources about Christopher Columbus's voyage and wrote inner monologues from the perspectives of Europeans and Taino people. The unit incorporated complex texts and role-playing to help students understand multiple sides of historical events.
The document discusses money, banking, and government budgets. It defines money and its key functions as a medium of exchange, measure of value, store of value, and standard for deferred payments. It describes different measures of money supply and the role of commercial and central banks. It also explains how commercial banks create credit and how central banks control money supply through various quantitative and qualitative methods. Finally, it outlines the components, receipts, expenditures, and types of deficits in government budgets.
The document provides an overview of a cheese study course, outlining objectives like identifying terms related to cheese production and tasting, describing characteristics of cheeses, and demonstrating teamwork. It includes sections on savoring cheese, conducting a cheese tasting, pairing cheeses with other foods, planning for an upcoming cheese lab, and applying cheese tasting skills to other ingredients. The final page discusses closing the lesson by sharing how cheese tasting skills could be used with other foods.
The document provides recommendations to unlock the potential of cultural and creative industries in Europe, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It was drawn up by nearly 40 European organizations representing hundreds of thousands of cultural actors. The recommendations are designed to be implemented at the EU, national, and local levels. This will help cultural and creative industries deliver their full potential culturally, economically, and socially. It recognizes the specificities of cultural industries, particularly SMEs, and provides recommendations to improve market access, access to finance, working conditions, and promotion/exchange to support these industries.
This document provides instructions for adding a signature in Outlook. It explains that you can create a signature by going to File > Options > Mail and clicking New under Signatures. You then name the signature, enter your contact details, and select OK. When composing a new email, your signature will be available to select from the Signatures menu. You can also set a signature to default on all emails.
The document discusses the Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF) which aims to support the growth of local, autonomous OSM communities in Africa. It does this through outreach, training, community building and mapping activities. The goal is to establish voluntary OSM associations in countries while improving OSM data quality and density. It also hopes to partner with local governments, humanitarian groups, and academics to replicate the project elsewhere. The EOF is funded by HOT and aims to be agile, low cost, and fit the local context of poverty and voluntary involvement.
This document provides information about resources from an organization called WOW that focuses on international children's literature. It describes several online databases, journals, and blogs that WOW offers related to global literature, including a database of books and reviews, a journal for sharing classroom experiences using international books, and a blog on current issues. It also provides instructions for browsing and searching the various WOW resources by title, genre, region, age group, or book lists.
The document summarizes the schedule and activities for the PUMA DARTS - The International Youth Player Dart Summer Camp 2012, which was held from August 1-7, 2012 in Shanghai, China. The camp aimed to promote darts among adolescents, enhance youth skills in the sport, and increase international cooperation. It was organized by several local dart associations and sports companies and hosted at the Shanghai Xuhui Youth Sports School. Over the course of a week, 12 foreign and 10 Chinese youth dart players engaged in training, tournaments, cultural experiences, and tours of Shanghai landmarks under the guidance of 2 foreign coaches.
The portfolio assessment for this course consists of a self-reflexive online portfolio submitted in week 13. The portfolio includes copies of weekly blog entries as well as a self-reflective report considering the work done, lessons learned, how the degree has been useful, and how the learning will inform the rest of the degree. Details of activities and responsibilities are also included. The portfolio allows for creativity as it is online, so students can include photos, links, and video clips documenting their work or interviews.
Embedded in a Socio-Ecological System
The article provides a framework for analyzing the relationship between climate change and conflict to inform policy-oriented action. It discusses climate change concepts from the IPCC and argues that climate change hazards create imbalances in socio-ecological systems that can exacerbate or trigger violence. The framework suggests three analysis tools to understand how climate change and conflict interact in specific contexts in order to develop conflict-sensitive climate change adaptation policies and recommendations.
The document provides information about implementing Common Core State Standards in a 3rd grade classroom. It discusses the goals and structure of the standards, focusing on areas like text complexity. It then describes a classroom unit where students analyzed primary sources about Christopher Columbus's voyage and wrote inner monologues from the perspectives of Europeans and Taino people. The unit incorporated complex texts and role-playing to help students understand multiple sides of historical events.
The document discusses money, banking, and government budgets. It defines money and its key functions as a medium of exchange, measure of value, store of value, and standard for deferred payments. It describes different measures of money supply and the role of commercial and central banks. It also explains how commercial banks create credit and how central banks control money supply through various quantitative and qualitative methods. Finally, it outlines the components, receipts, expenditures, and types of deficits in government budgets.
The document provides an overview of a cheese study course, outlining objectives like identifying terms related to cheese production and tasting, describing characteristics of cheeses, and demonstrating teamwork. It includes sections on savoring cheese, conducting a cheese tasting, pairing cheeses with other foods, planning for an upcoming cheese lab, and applying cheese tasting skills to other ingredients. The final page discusses closing the lesson by sharing how cheese tasting skills could be used with other foods.
The document provides recommendations to unlock the potential of cultural and creative industries in Europe, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It was drawn up by nearly 40 European organizations representing hundreds of thousands of cultural actors. The recommendations are designed to be implemented at the EU, national, and local levels. This will help cultural and creative industries deliver their full potential culturally, economically, and socially. It recognizes the specificities of cultural industries, particularly SMEs, and provides recommendations to improve market access, access to finance, working conditions, and promotion/exchange to support these industries.
This document provides instructions for adding a signature in Outlook. It explains that you can create a signature by going to File > Options > Mail and clicking New under Signatures. You then name the signature, enter your contact details, and select OK. When composing a new email, your signature will be available to select from the Signatures menu. You can also set a signature to default on all emails.
The document discusses the Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF) which aims to support the growth of local, autonomous OSM communities in Africa. It does this through outreach, training, community building and mapping activities. The goal is to establish voluntary OSM associations in countries while improving OSM data quality and density. It also hopes to partner with local governments, humanitarian groups, and academics to replicate the project elsewhere. The EOF is funded by HOT and aims to be agile, low cost, and fit the local context of poverty and voluntary involvement.