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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...energy, water, land and labour as inputs, to maintain production and sustain output. Manufacturing also produces many waste products, a large number of which, if not treated carefully, and emitted to the environment, are pollutants and may be hazardous to the local population. An extreme example of the harm that can be done by the lax control of wastes is shown through...
Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)

...energy per unit length of cut. Since there is no force perpendicular to the water jet and very little frictional drag in the cut, accurate fixing and positioning of the workpiece is easy. Single or multiple cutting heads can be used, and positioning can be by hand, CNC or optical tracing. Materials: A wide variety of materials, but most suitable for non-metallic materials...
12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...energy to spare, he should read widely to stay cultivated.] "At home, a young man should be a good son, when outside he should treat others like his brothers, his behaviour should be one of trustworthy and proper, and should love the multitude at large and keep himself close to people of benevolence and morality. If after all these activities, he has any energy to spare,...
How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...Solar System in a human lifetime. However, with our present technology, or at least the technology that might come in the next century or so, we can imagine an amazing prospect. [Imagined vision of a spaceship passing above a distant planet] Consider a ship that leaves the Earth and takes 90 years to traverse the 10 light-years to a nearby star. The ship departs carrying...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...energy levels completely depleting, too, that’s when I know I need a break. And it happens at different times throughout the day, actually. It might vary from between about like 11:30 to about 1 o’clock SPEAKER 12 I always eat around 1 o’clock so that I can meet my friends. So we all come from different departments and meet up together in one place to eat lunch...
What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...energy is wasted. According to the post-materialist thesis proposed by Inglehart, this is exactly what we might expect when we compare a developed and developing country. Using that data as a baseline, we were then able to examine how coming to the UK affected Chinese students green attitudes and behaviours. What we found was that Chinese students did change their...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...energy provide examples of the use of celestial and magnetic cues for navigation by migratory birds...Migration: 1 Introduction to movement and migration - Not all animals migrate in the same way as birds. The mass migrations of locusts do not involve a round trip for any individual, for their life cycle is shorter than the seasonal cycle. The round trip of the monarch...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...energy capacity in countries from Costa Rica to Denmark, and in food systems in Cuba. They even suggest that the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland in 2010, which halted northern European air travel overnight, prompted businesses and individuals to adapt almost instantly to the loss of a transport link previously thought indispensable. But while the...