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    Effect of optimized EGR on fuel consumption Abstract: In recent years‚ more stringent requirements on performance‚ fuel economy and emissions have led to increasingly complicated engine configurations. This paper is a study into the potential benefits of an EGR MAP optimization for low fuel consumption and lower mass emission. Introduction: The narrower environmental restrictions are the current challenge that Diesel engine manufacturers are facing in the last years. The demand on cleaner

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    Young Consumers Paradoxes and strategies of social media consumption among adolescents Renato Hübner Barcelos Carlos Alberto Vargas Rossi Article information: To cite this document: Renato Hübner Barcelos Carlos Alberto Vargas Rossi ‚ (2014)‚"Paradoxes and strategies of social media consumption among adolescents"‚ Young Consumers‚ Vol. 15 Iss 4 pp. 275 - 295 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/YC-10-2013-00408 Downloaded on: 12 April 2015‚ At: 11:04 (PT) References: this document

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    NSIC Project Profiles FROZEN VEGETABLES & COLD STORAGE 1. INTRODUCTION India is a large country producing variety of fruits and vegetables. The range includes fruits like mangoes‚ banana‚ papaya‚ orange‚ mosambi‚ grapes‚ pineapple‚ watermelon etc. and vegetables like potatoes‚ onions and number of green vegetables including lady finger brinjal‚ cabbage‚ peas‚ chillies and so on. Till recently‚ the fruit and vegetable industry is mostly concentrated in rural areas catering to the requirement

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    Marketing 311 Real World #1: Perceptual Differences in Consumption: Tableware Perceiving the volume of the food/drink by the shape of the container is very common in our day to day life. These perceptual reasoning can vary from person to person‚ as it is related with the individual psychological attitude1. Studying the food consumption based on the volume perceived by the shape of the holding container is important for policy makers‚ managers‚ health professionals‚ and dieters or diabetics

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    Americans should eliminate the regular consumption of fast food. Why should Americans eliminate the regular consumption of fast food you may ask? They should because it can cause life threatening dangers for you. If you don’t eat out too many times you will have more money to spend on things you need. Fast food can be heavy on the pocket and cost a lot more. The average family spends about $25 for just two people. On average a family of 4 spends up to $4‚800 on fast food each year. A human by him

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    evaluate economic policy measures that can be used to reduce negative consumption and negative production externalities. Economic policy making is often a field of government decision-making or academia that is regularly filled with confusing terminology and definitions to the average person and thus somewhat confusing‚ this article looks at two of these such terms; ‘negative production externalities and negative consumption externalities’ and attempts to dissect their nature and makeup to some

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    case. In fact‚ the US ranks dead last in quality of care—Americans are sicker and live shorter lives than people in most other industrialized nations. So where’s the money going? The Credit Suisse Research Institute’s 2013 study1 "Sugar: Consumption at a Crossroads" found that 30 to 40 percent of US healthcare expenditures are for diseases directly related to the overconsumption of sugar! We spend more than a trillion dollars each year fighting the damaging health effects of sugar. This

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    MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING CG M A ^ MAGAZINE cgmamagazine.org Talent: A Battle on Two Fronts F inding the right talent—from knowledge industries such as Pharmaceuticals to heavy industries such as industrial manufacturing—^is a problem worldwide‚ despite a large‚ easily accessible pool of educated people. Forty-three percent of 1‚200 global CEOs surveyed by PwC late last year said hiring workers had become more difficult. A quarter of more than 300 U.S. employers in a Deloitte survey in

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    New Heritage Doll Case Lauren Knausenberger 1. Which of the two projects create more value? In order to determine which of the two projects create more value‚ we must calculate NPV based on the assumptions relevant to the decision. The table below shows the NPV for the two product lines given discount rates of 7.7% (low risk)‚ 8.4% (medium risk)‚ and 9.0% (high risk). The Match My Doll Clothing line is currently rated as a medium risk project with 8.4% cost of capital. Given Emily’s

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    1. Why are the Merseyside and Rotterdam projects mutually exclusive? They are mutually exclusive because it would not make sense to invest in both projects. It has to be one or the other project‚ because an increase in out of 14% it not necessary in current market conditions. They are facing intense competition and in a recession. If the increase output to 14% they will not be able to sell it all without dropping prices and hurting already bad margins. Another reason is that an investment into

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