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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...law of hydrostatics cap p sub atm equals rho times g times h so equation sequence part 1 h equals part 2 cap p sub atm divided by rho times g equals part 3 101.325 multiplication 10 cubed Pa divided by 1.225 kg m super negative three multiplication 9.81 m s super negative two equals part 4 8431.6 times ellipsis m full stop Therefore the height of the atmosphere would be...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...laws and regulations to prohibit or restrict undesirable practices. For example, under the terms of the USA’s Clean Air Acts, the operators of specified industrial processes are obliged to apply the principal of maximum achievable control technology (MACT) to control pollution. A series of standards document what MACT represents for each industry and, in effect, set the...
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...law and strain/stress (constitutive) relations. The major stages in the creation of any finite element model, according to Baguley and Hose (1997), for most types of analysis are: selection of analysis type idealisation of material properties creation of model geometry application of supports or constraints application of loads solution optimisation. It is extremely...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...laws and policies including: gang injunctions for 14–17 year olds, joint enterprise, specialist gang policing units, gang profiling databases/matrices, and minimum mandatory sentence for possession of a knife or offensive weapon by a 16 or 17 year old in public or on school premises. Gunter (2017, p. 208) For Gunter, this focus on gangs is not a race neutral one and...
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...laws that constrain much of engineering. Making ammonia is not as simple as stirring the raw materials together in a bucket; and understanding the process by which ammonia is formed allows us to make it as efficiently as possible. First, the reaction between nitrogen and hydrogen proceeds better at high pressures. If the engineer can provide a high-pressure system for...
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Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...law’. But it can be possible to design services that are more readily accessible to those who need them most. The Derby community paediatric service decided to tackle ways to improve access for children from the most disadvantaged areas (Maharaj et al., 2014). Added to this, the service monitored how well families and children from those areas were finding and using the...
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...law in 1853, compulsory smallpox vaccination for infants provoked vigorous opposition, not only from middle class radical liberals, but also from working class movements.13 It was not until 1898 that conscientious objection was allowed, but this followed progressive decline in compliance with vaccination law from about 1889. From then on, Britain differed from most...
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...law, employers have to pay their interns the national minimum wage if: the intern counts as a ‘worker’ (things that make you a worker include having a contract – written or verbal – and being required to turn up even if you don’t want to) the intern is promised a work contract in future. By law, employers do not have to pay their interns the national minimum...