The document discusses the growth of the Latino population in the United States and its impact on reapportionment, representation in Congress, and state legislatures. It also examines Latino voter turnout, registration, and participation in recent elections, and how voting policy changes may affect Latino voting rights and voter mobilization efforts.
The following presentation is a quick look into the ongoing “Passion Campaign” started by The College of Saint Rose career center. To date, I have presented our marketing campaign and two conferences.
This document provides guidance on effective resume and cover letter writing. It discusses what a resume is, common resume myths, and appropriate resume content and formatting. It also covers developing strong action statements using approaches like PAR (Problem, Action, Result), recognition, "So What", and Who, What, When, How. Finally, it discusses the purpose and components of an effective cover letter, including dos and don'ts.
A sudden loss of power will disrupt most business operations, it is not only total mains failures or
‘blackouts’ which can trigger devastating effects. Many electrical loads, for example computer
systems, are equally susceptible to power sags, brown-outs, black-outs, power spikes and surges,
noise and radio frequency interference, and supply frequency changes.
Such loads are often referred to as ‘critical loads’, partly because their continuous operation is
fundamental to the functioning of the business, and also because they require a more stable and
reliable power source than that generally offered by the utility mains supply in order to guarantee
their correct function.
Critical Load Applications
The numbers and types of load falling into the ‘critical’ category are rapidly expanding as an
ever increasing range of microprocessor-based equipment enters both the industrial and commercial
marketplaces. This is typified by the growth of on-line transaction processing and Ecommerce
where 24 hour trading demands absolute power quality with zero downtime.
Among typical critical loads are:
• Computers – e.g. data processing and control systems.
• Industrial process equipment – e.g. precision manufacturing.
• Medical equipment – e.g. life support and monitoring systems.
• Telecommunications network equipment – e.g. PABX.
• Point of sales (POS) terminals – e.g retailing environment.
• On-line business transactions – e.g. internet shopping.
The effects of an inadequate supply to a critical load can include:
• Cessation of the business process – i.e. a total inability to trade and/or communicate
• data loss or corruption due to software crashing
• Expensive hardware failure including component damage – e.g. due to power sags,
spikes etc.
• Production loss due to incorrect operation of a manufacturing process and possible
production equipment damage
• Inappropriate control system operation
• Lost business due to failed POS or telecommunications equipment
• Possible time penalty paid to repair/reset affected systems
This document contains a survey about music magazine preferences. It asks respondents about their age, gender, music tastes, magazines currently read, perceived gaps in coverage, important elements in a magazine, desired frequency of issues, price willingness to pay, and whether free features would encourage purchase. The survey gathers demographic and preference information to help design an optimal music magazine.
Projections on the Latino vote in the 2012 Presidential Election by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund.
The document discusses the growth of the Latino population in the United States and its impact on reapportionment, representation in Congress, and state legislatures. It also examines Latino voter turnout, registration, and participation in recent elections, and how voting policy changes may affect Latino voting rights and voter mobilization efforts.
The following presentation is a quick look into the ongoing “Passion Campaign” started by The College of Saint Rose career center. To date, I have presented our marketing campaign and two conferences.
This document provides guidance on effective resume and cover letter writing. It discusses what a resume is, common resume myths, and appropriate resume content and formatting. It also covers developing strong action statements using approaches like PAR (Problem, Action, Result), recognition, "So What", and Who, What, When, How. Finally, it discusses the purpose and components of an effective cover letter, including dos and don'ts.
A sudden loss of power will disrupt most business operations, it is not only total mains failures or
‘blackouts’ which can trigger devastating effects. Many electrical loads, for example computer
systems, are equally susceptible to power sags, brown-outs, black-outs, power spikes and surges,
noise and radio frequency interference, and supply frequency changes.
Such loads are often referred to as ‘critical loads’, partly because their continuous operation is
fundamental to the functioning of the business, and also because they require a more stable and
reliable power source than that generally offered by the utility mains supply in order to guarantee
their correct function.
Critical Load Applications
The numbers and types of load falling into the ‘critical’ category are rapidly expanding as an
ever increasing range of microprocessor-based equipment enters both the industrial and commercial
marketplaces. This is typified by the growth of on-line transaction processing and Ecommerce
where 24 hour trading demands absolute power quality with zero downtime.
Among typical critical loads are:
• Computers – e.g. data processing and control systems.
• Industrial process equipment – e.g. precision manufacturing.
• Medical equipment – e.g. life support and monitoring systems.
• Telecommunications network equipment – e.g. PABX.
• Point of sales (POS) terminals – e.g retailing environment.
• On-line business transactions – e.g. internet shopping.
The effects of an inadequate supply to a critical load can include:
• Cessation of the business process – i.e. a total inability to trade and/or communicate
• data loss or corruption due to software crashing
• Expensive hardware failure including component damage – e.g. due to power sags,
spikes etc.
• Production loss due to incorrect operation of a manufacturing process and possible
production equipment damage
• Inappropriate control system operation
• Lost business due to failed POS or telecommunications equipment
• Possible time penalty paid to repair/reset affected systems
This document contains a survey about music magazine preferences. It asks respondents about their age, gender, music tastes, magazines currently read, perceived gaps in coverage, important elements in a magazine, desired frequency of issues, price willingness to pay, and whether free features would encourage purchase. The survey gathers demographic and preference information to help design an optimal music magazine.
Projections on the Latino vote in the 2012 Presidential Election by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund.
The document provides an overview of a specialty pharmaceutical company and its product pipeline. It summarizes 6 ANDA applications for generic versions of branded extended release drugs that are under review by the FDA. The applications represent $6.6 billion in branded and generic sales. It also describes the company's controlled release drug delivery platform and strategic partnerships. Examples of potential US market sizes for some products are estimated based on assumptions about market share and pricing to illustrate the variability in generics economics.
The document discusses several key points about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Asia:
1) There has been a progressive rise in IBD incidence and prevalence across Asia over the past 10 years, with the highest rates reported in China.
2) IBD cases in Asia tend to have more complicated disease behaviors and higher rates of conditions like perianal disease compared to the West.
3) Changes in Asian diets and lifestyles as well as alterations in gut microbiota may be contributing to the rising IBD trends.
The document is a collection of 20 stock photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. The photos cover a range of subjects including cities, nature, people, and technology. They are intended to be used freely for non-commercial purposes with attribution to the photographers.
Magazine covers have evolved significantly over time. Early magazine covers in the 19th century contained text-heavy designs with illustrations. By the 1950s, covers shifted to bold, colorful graphics and photos to attract readers' attention on crowded newsstands. Modern covers continue using photos and minimal text to quickly convey key information and entice people to learn more inside the magazine.
New Zealand is a country located in Oceania consisting of several islands southeast of Australia. It has a varied terrain and temperate climate. The majority of its population lives in urban areas and speaks English. New Zealand's economy is based on agricultural exports like meat, dairy, and wool. The country has a unicameral parliamentary system. Māori culture and art have influenced New Zealand's literature, music, and visual art. Popular foods include lamb, seafood, and fish and chips. Tribal groups called iwi still play an important role in Māori society and protocols.
The modern power system around the world has grown in complexity of interconnection and
power demand. The focus has shifted towards enhanced performance, increased customer focus,
low cost, reliable and clean power. In this changed perspective, scarcity of energy resources,
increasing power generation cost, environmental concern necessitates optimal economic dispatch.
In reality power stations neither are at equal distances from load nor have similar fuel cost
functions. Hence for providing cheaper power, load has to be distributed among various power
stations in a way which results in lowest cost for generation. Practical economic dispatch (ED)
problems have highly non-linear objective function with rigid equality and inequality constraints.
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is applied to allot the active power among the generating
stations satisfying the system constraints and minimizing the cost of power generated. The
viability of the method is analyzed for its accuracy and rate of convergence. The economic load
dispatch problem is solved for three and six unit system using PSO and conventional method for
both cases of neglecting and including transmission losses. The results of PSO method were
compared with conventional method and were found to be superior. The conventional
optimization methods are unable to solve such problems due to local optimum solution
convergence. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) since its initiation in the last 15 years has been
a potential solution to the practical constrained economic load dispatch (ELD) problem. The
optimization technique is constantly evolving to provide better and faster results.
While writing the report on our project seminar, we were wondering that Science and smart
technology are as ever expanding field and the engineers working hard day and night and make
the life a gift for us
Industrial revolution worldwide. It has resulted in social changes too and raised the standard of living we examine a future distribution system capable of solving problems caused by the connection of numerous distributed generators. A supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition (SCADA) system for this distribution system should be economical, flexible, and reliable, and should execute a real-time process. In this seminar report, we propose a SCADA system using mobile agents for flexibility. In addition, we show two types of communication protocols that make agent migration more fault-tolerant, and perform experiments where the SCADA system executes earth fault protection within the required time. These results indicate that the SCADA system based on our proposed technologies should be capable of fulfilling the real-time processing requirement.
While writing the report on my seminar, I was wondering that Science and technology are as ever expanding field and the engineers working hard day and night and make the life a gift for us
The document provides an overview of a specialty pharmaceutical company and its product pipeline. It summarizes 6 ANDA applications for generic versions of branded extended release drugs that are under review by the FDA. The applications represent $6.6 billion in branded and generic sales. It also describes the company's controlled release drug delivery platform and strategic partnerships. Examples of potential US market sizes for some products are estimated based on assumptions about market share and pricing to illustrate the variability in generics economics.
The document discusses several key points about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Asia:
1) There has been a progressive rise in IBD incidence and prevalence across Asia over the past 10 years, with the highest rates reported in China.
2) IBD cases in Asia tend to have more complicated disease behaviors and higher rates of conditions like perianal disease compared to the West.
3) Changes in Asian diets and lifestyles as well as alterations in gut microbiota may be contributing to the rising IBD trends.
The document is a collection of 20 stock photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. The photos cover a range of subjects including cities, nature, people, and technology. They are intended to be used freely for non-commercial purposes with attribution to the photographers.
Magazine covers have evolved significantly over time. Early magazine covers in the 19th century contained text-heavy designs with illustrations. By the 1950s, covers shifted to bold, colorful graphics and photos to attract readers' attention on crowded newsstands. Modern covers continue using photos and minimal text to quickly convey key information and entice people to learn more inside the magazine.
New Zealand is a country located in Oceania consisting of several islands southeast of Australia. It has a varied terrain and temperate climate. The majority of its population lives in urban areas and speaks English. New Zealand's economy is based on agricultural exports like meat, dairy, and wool. The country has a unicameral parliamentary system. Māori culture and art have influenced New Zealand's literature, music, and visual art. Popular foods include lamb, seafood, and fish and chips. Tribal groups called iwi still play an important role in Māori society and protocols.
The modern power system around the world has grown in complexity of interconnection and
power demand. The focus has shifted towards enhanced performance, increased customer focus,
low cost, reliable and clean power. In this changed perspective, scarcity of energy resources,
increasing power generation cost, environmental concern necessitates optimal economic dispatch.
In reality power stations neither are at equal distances from load nor have similar fuel cost
functions. Hence for providing cheaper power, load has to be distributed among various power
stations in a way which results in lowest cost for generation. Practical economic dispatch (ED)
problems have highly non-linear objective function with rigid equality and inequality constraints.
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is applied to allot the active power among the generating
stations satisfying the system constraints and minimizing the cost of power generated. The
viability of the method is analyzed for its accuracy and rate of convergence. The economic load
dispatch problem is solved for three and six unit system using PSO and conventional method for
both cases of neglecting and including transmission losses. The results of PSO method were
compared with conventional method and were found to be superior. The conventional
optimization methods are unable to solve such problems due to local optimum solution
convergence. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) since its initiation in the last 15 years has been
a potential solution to the practical constrained economic load dispatch (ELD) problem. The
optimization technique is constantly evolving to provide better and faster results.
While writing the report on our project seminar, we were wondering that Science and smart
technology are as ever expanding field and the engineers working hard day and night and make
the life a gift for us
Industrial revolution worldwide. It has resulted in social changes too and raised the standard of living we examine a future distribution system capable of solving problems caused by the connection of numerous distributed generators. A supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition (SCADA) system for this distribution system should be economical, flexible, and reliable, and should execute a real-time process. In this seminar report, we propose a SCADA system using mobile agents for flexibility. In addition, we show two types of communication protocols that make agent migration more fault-tolerant, and perform experiments where the SCADA system executes earth fault protection within the required time. These results indicate that the SCADA system based on our proposed technologies should be capable of fulfilling the real-time processing requirement.
While writing the report on my seminar, I was wondering that Science and technology are as ever expanding field and the engineers working hard day and night and make the life a gift for us