...is to someone, one would simply say it is a bag that inflates during a car crash to save someone's life. But to dig deeper, what is the science behind an airbag and does it always work? An airbag is a nylon bag in the steering wheel of a vehicle. When the censor in the steering wheel goes off that an accident has happened, the airbag inflates within two milliseconds. Within the nylon bag, there is a mixture of sodium azide (NaN3), and potassium nitrate (KNO3), that react when the airbag sensor goes off (Brian). This reaction causes an explosion, “[filling] the airbag with about 67 liters of nitrogen gas- which is enough to inflate a normal air bag” (Scientific America). Theoretically, in the right amount, this will inflate the airbag to the right amount to save the person's life. However, this is just theoretically. In some instances, the airbag may inflate too much or too little, and fail to save a life. Although the scientists that design the airbags use ut-most caution, not every experiment will turn out the same and inflate the airbag perfectly. In an experiment conducted here at "Charley's Newspapers" we stimulated the reaction between baking soda and vinegar by blowing up a plastic bag that was designed to save an egg. This was to get a feel on how accurate an airbag may be. Using very precise stoichiometry, our scientists here had found that .8 grams of baking soda and 11 mL of vinegar should theoretically blow the plastic bag up enough to save the egg's life. However,...
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...Plastic Bag Externalities Audrey Lee ECO305 January 2, 2014 Positive Externalities The positive externalities of plastic bags include the ability to be recycled into other plastic products, lower transportation costs, helping to prevent contamination of hazards. Plastic bags have affected the economy by making the bags cheaper than other bags so they are more readily available. Plastic bags produces 70% less air pollution and 50 times less water pollution than in production than paper bags, and plastic bags require less energy to produce from start to finish; therefore less money is spent on cleaning up the pollution. Plastic bags have greatly helped to reduce the contamination in the health field by allowing healthcare workers to keep contaminated agents from spreading, thus lower the cost of healthcare this is especially helpful in third world countries. Negative Externalities The negative externalities of plastic bags include the following: most plastic bags end up in the landfills, oceans or as litter, all chemicals used to create plastic bags are toxic, plastic bags take 20 to 1000 years to decompose, and kill animals. One of the biggest plastic bag externalities is that plastic bags have a short use life, they are generally used for the short time from the store to home and then discarded. The discarded bags take 20 to 1000 years to decompose but most landfills today are not designed to decompose the products being put into them, so these bags...
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...Nutritional Analysis of Horse Feed Darrie Lewis Partnered with Danielle Henry Introduction Animal nutrition is essential for meeting livestock nutritional requirements in maintaining acceptable performance, growth, and development. Animal nutrition focuses on dietary needs of domestic animals in agriculture or food production. In order to properly give the right balance of nutritional needs, one must know what the animal need in order to properly grow and develop. The amount of feed one gives to an animal should include an overall balance of essential nutrients to ensure successful production. An optimal nutritious diet should include intakes of amino acids, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. The importance and our overall objective of this lab was to determine the different nutritional aspects in animal feed. In our case, my group and I analyzed horse feed. We were to determine the amount and percentages of ether extract, protein analysis, NDF, acid detergent fiber, ADF, and ADL in an amount of feed. Materials & Methods Ether Extraction Materials Thimbles Thimble stand and handler Grinded sample Condenser Purpose To purify samples of organic compounds that are solids at room temperature Method Attach the thimbles to the adapters. Weigh the sample (2g) into the thimble. Move the thimbles to the thimble stand. Put a defatted cotton plug on the top of the sample and place the thimbles into thimble supports attached to the holder. Insert the...
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...Pleasure Palace, a gambling establishment on Devotion Avenue in Midtown, Minnesota, just after 12:00 A.M. the early morning of the alleged burglary. 2. Between 12:05 and 12:10 A.M. the defendant stopped at Rusty Fender's Body Shop at which time he stole a hammer. 3. Between 12:10 and 12:20 A.M. the defendant used the hammer to gain entry to Marquette's Market located on the corner of Main Street and First Street. Entry was gained by smashing the lock on the alley entrance of the store. The defendant obtained $910.00 (in a cloth money bag) from the cash register in the store. 4. At about 12:20 A.M. the defendant left the store by the rear exit at which time he discarded the stolen hammer in the side alley between Marquette's Market and Art Own's Hardware. 5. The defendant then began to run to his home and was seen by Soapy Waters (who saw the defendant drop $2.00 of the money) and Betty Biddy (who saw the defendant throw away the money bag). 6. The day after the alleged burglary the defendant used the stolen money to purchase a guitar at C. Sharp's Music City store. Included in the money he used for this purpose was a Canadian five dollar bill. (A bill identified by store owner Speedy Marquette as being in the store cash register the night before.) 7. Ronald Riff, the defendant, was arrested by Officer Schield at 3:30 P.M. the day after the alleged burglary. 8. The defendant, Ronald Riff, is being charged with the crime of breaking and entering and burglarizing Marquette's...
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...An image can say a lot about a person. It influences how we feel about ourselves as well as how others see us. There are different factors that go into creating a professional image and a significant one is the way we dress. By dressing appropriately, we can create a professional image that others admire. One essential item that every man and woman should have is a carrying case, such as a briefcase or handbag. By having a bag to hold important documents and supplies, the person is perceived as more organized and professional than someone who does not have one (Doche, 2013). Different bags have become more popular and trends have changed for both men and women. Men are no longer using classic box briefcases (Smith, 1997). Instead they are moving towards a sleeker briefcase with compartments for mobile devices (Doche, 2013). Women, on the other hand, are starting to use more gender-neutral handbags ("Working Guide,” 2013). For both genders, the use of an appropriate carrying case is essential to maintaining a professional image. Therefore we must discover what type of carrying case is appropriate. To begin our analysis, we will first analyze the type of carrying case that is appropriate for men. Traditionally, most men carried a fairly large, hard, hinged box briefcase (Smith, 1997). This served the purpose of safely transporting papers and office supplies (Smith, 1997). However, times have changed. As early as the 1990s, the introduction of electronic portable devices has greatly...
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...women, owning at least one nice handbag is a must. Even though many feel that they are just way too expensive for the average middle class person to own, coach handbags are a profound accessory to have in your wardrobe because they are more cost efficient than the other major brands and they produce highly quality bags and have a much larger variety of styles. Every day, Coach Handbags are constantly being intrigued and sought after by more and women. This is due to the primary fact that they are in general, less expensive than those made by the other designer brands. Known designers such as: Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton tend to be outrageously overpriced and yet they are offering the same elegant, beautifully-made unique top-quality handbags that Coach does. This is what makes Coach the overall preferred choice because people are actually able to afford purchasing one or more of these handbags, in a variety of different styles. Coach bags can cost as much as $400 in an actual Coach Store or website. But, Coach has done something that no other company has done to make them more appealing. Coach has created Outlet stores- that in fact sell the same high quality bags at...
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...A. PADILLA Plastic or paper bag The never ending debate There’s a never ending debate on whether or not everyone ought to really stop utilizing plastic bags and instead, only make use of the numerous paper bags types that are produced these days by all the paper bags manufacturers. These reusable paper bags, as we all understand, are friendly to the environment. Unlike plastic bags that takes so many of years for plastic bags to obtain decomposed, it will only take a couple of days for these environment-friendly paper bags to obtain decayed. And simply because it takes so many years for plastic bags to decompose itself, it will trigger a lot of environmental issues like clogging the drainage system methods and polluting bodies of water like lakes and oceans. Plastic bags may also harm all of the living things that reside on the various bodies of water. Which makes these environment-friendly paper bags a much better choice because, because it decomposes effortlessly, it does not trigger as a lot issues towards the environment as much as plastic bags do. When looking at paper vs. plastic and the impact on the environment, it is important to take all aspects into account. This does not simply mean looking at how the bags are disposed of or how long they take to decompose. Instead, the entire lifecycle of the bag needs to be considered and this includes looking at how the bags are made, the raw materials and the energy used to make the bags as well as how they are later...
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...would be “Say bye bye to Micro-buses”. This business has good potential in Nepal as the people who don’t have private transportation have to compromise and travel in microbuses. It is very difficult to travel in microbuses as they are fully loaded and also very time consuming. The company’s main goal would be to facilitate people at a reasonable price with safety. 5. Fashion Paper bag fashion Paper Bag Company offers fashionable paper bags to the people who adore nature at the same time believe in following current fashion trends. Our clients are the ones who visit malls, multiplexes, Departmental stores, gift shops, hyper markets, super markets, specialty stores, etc. our company be buying the raw materials from the Paper Industry, the Paper park, Watabaran, Jamarko Nepal, and even from the Indian company like Rama paper and pulp, Mumbai, kay pulp,pune, premium, Mumbai etc. These company offers variety of paper bags of proven quality to satisfy different requirements of customer. Changing lifestyle & fashion has been a major factor of growth of this industry. Ban on plastic bags in many states of different countries and few places in Nepal are like a ray of hope for this industry. Market penetration strategy has been used to gain & expand market share. Trusted employees and skilled employees secure future growth of the...
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...National Cranberry Cooperative Case Study 1. How might transport vehicles be utilized more effectively? Should crews be scheduled differently on peak days? More crews should be scheduled in the bagging station during peak days The fourth bagging station should be utilized during peak hours (instead of just three of the four being used at a given time) An additional 2,667 bbls per 12-hour period could be processed with these changes At receiving plant no. 1 (RP1), trucks would arrive randomly throughout the day, with a random amount of berries, anywhere from 20 to 400 bbls. In order to utilize transport vehicles more effectively, there should be crews scheduled differently on peak days. It only takes 5 to 10 minutes to unload a truck into a Kiwanne dumper, but the backup would occur when the holding bins were full, causing drivers to have waits up to 3 hours. The backup is not occurring in receiving, so now additional crews are necessary at that station. All feed conveyors are in use during peak times so no new crews need to be added there. However, there seems to be a backup occurring in the bagging station. Instead of keeping the fourth bagging machine as a spare, they should add another five-member team to operate the fourth bagging machine during peak hours. This would result in an additional 2,667 bbls per 12-hour period, or a total of 10,667 bbls per 12-hour period. The additional crews and adding of a bagging station would reduce the number of berries that...
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...that students have to put their backpacks at the front desk while they are shopping. Cashiers could easily grab into the students backpack. The cashier could easily steal something when the students not looking, it’s also not right that adults don’t have to put their bags at the front desk as we do, and my last important thought is that students are blamed more for stealing when they haven’t done anything. My first reason to why students should be able to have their backpacks while they are shopping is because, when a student leaves their backpacks at the front desk of the a store. There could possibly be a cashier who could steal something out of the students backpack while their not looking. The student wouldn’t know until he or she got home and looked in their backpack to find out that something was missing. It would be too late for the students to get it back and the person would already be gone. My second reason to why students should be able to have their backpacks with them while they are shopping is because, adults don’t have to obey the same rules that students have to in life. Adults can have their bags inside of any store and not have to worry about having to give their bags to the cashier at the front desk of the store when they walk in. Adults should have to follow the same rules that students do. Some adults are just as bad when it comes to...
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...Why not to use Plastic bags As everyone knows the humble plastic bag has become an integral part of our lives. In fact the plastic bag has become so common that we hardly notice their presence. Yet if you look around you will notice that we are all in a swamp of plastic bags! They are everywhere. We use them to pack clothes, shoes, pens, tools, video games and even fruits and vegetables. At the super market they are soft yet strong packing medium. They are light weight, high strength and very flexible and come at a low cost. All of this might sound wonderful. But do you want to be a person who contributes to one of the latest and difficult of the environmental problems. The plastic bag is an agent of air pollution, cancer and skin disease. People who use these bags have made this an environmental menace which has made many of world's clean and glimmering metropolises a pile of garbage! Did you know they are a slow poison in our daily life? When you use plastic bag do you know how they are made? Many of the plastic bags at the super market are made through recycled plastic; this means the old plastic is burnt at high temperatures and melted down. For this process a large number of hazardous chemicals are used which makes them a severe health hazard. When you use a plastic bag you could be responsible for giving people who are close to you cancer, because when plastic bags and other plastic materials are burnt below 7,000 degrees they produce gasses which can lead to skin...
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...Bus * Taxi * MRT/LRT 5. Rate the activities you usually do on your free time* Often Seldom Watch TV _____ _____ Internet Surfing _____ _____ Shopping _____ _____ Listen to Radio _____ _____ Read _____ _____ (Brochures, Magazines, Newspapers) 6. What kinds of bags do you always wear?* * Backpack * Shoulder bag * Body-strap bag 7. If you buy your own bags, where?* * Direct Selling * Internet (Online) * Malls, Company Outlets 8. How much are you willing to spend in buying new bags? * Php 300.00 below * Php 301.00 – Php 600.00 * Php 601.00 above 9. What is the main reason why you buy new bags?* * Trend * Boost confidence * Fulfil happiness 10. Put a check for the attributes of bags that you mostly look for* * Brand * Design * Quality * Price * Features (Color, Texture, Shape, Size) * Materials * Uniqueness 11. Are you aware of the brand “MSE or Marikina Shoe Exchange”?* * Yes * No 12. Are you aware about MSE selling bags?* * Yes * No 13. 14. How did you know this brand?* * Brochure * Magazine * Posters * Billboards * TV commercial/Radio * People 15. Do you find MSE trustworthy?* * Yes * No 16. Have you seen any advertisements of...
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...sells bags. Its products include custom messenger bags, laptop messenger bags, and backpacks, as well as travel bags, totes, duffel bags, camera cases, shoulder bags, laptop sleeves and wallets. The company also offers accessories and clothing. It sells its products through specialty retailers, its own retail store, and online through its website. 2. SWOT ASSESSMENT Strengths At the time Mark Dwight purchased the company, Timbuk2 was a popular bag company that produced a trendy bag at a reasonable price. Timbuk2’s bag was very light but very durable and weather resistant. It had established itself amongst young male and female professionals as a stylish yet practical bag. Timbuk2 had just perfected its production method for creating the custom bags. This system adapted from Toyota greatly reduced the turnaround time for producing the bags, positioning...
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...The Rio participants consisted of women who were either single or divorced, ages 32-42, with or without children, and had a high school education. The Rio participants were active in exercise programs while the Sao Paulo participants were not involved in exercise programs. I believe that it is important to note that these focus groups were made entirely of women. In appendix four, under consumer data, it shows that 25% of all garbage bag purchases are made by males (as determined by the individual interviews). The focus groups are cutting out a quarter of Ad-Lider’s potential customers. It is also important to note that the focus groups were entirely type A and B social classes. This demographic is only 19% of Brazilian households, and only 52% of the national consumption. Also, the ages of women involved in the focus groups were 28-42. I believe there are consumers of garbage bags who are both younger and older than the age demographics which were questioned. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the acceptance of the easy close bag, learn about packaging preferences, and how the draw string feature is perceived by customers. Since the...
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...term “it bag”. Outrageously priced, (ranging from $6000 to over $200,000) (Fashion Bank) these bags have grown into a staple in the wardrobes of wealthy women, who use these bags as a symbol of their money. Many people may wonder, what makes Hermes any more special or valuable than any other designer? Why would women willingly spend that much money on something that simply sits on their arms, carrying their cell phones and wallets? In the Hermes Fall 2012 campaign, the brand answers these questions and proves their purses worthy of every penny. The ad features the toolbox bag, (Bag Snob) which rests on the grassy ground next to a model lying down with her arm covering her eyes. Unlike other ads found on the glossy pages of fashion magazines, the model does not present the purse; the purse presents itself. With her eyes out of view of readers who see the ad, nothing draws attention to the model, or more importantly nothing draws attention away from the bag. Leaves cascade down from the tree that the unidentifiable model lies under, falling down near the purse. Because of this, readers’ eyes zoom in on the beautiful bag rather than the lackluster model. By showcasing the bag in this way, Hermes suggests (without explicitly stating it), that the bag can stand out on its own. Just like it captures attention in this picture, it will capture attention in the everyday lives of the women lucky enough to own it. According to the ad, not only will the toolbox bag capture...
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