Chinese learned and performed music through an oral tradition without any known notation system to record those early songs. The earliest known notation system for Chinese music is from the Sung Dynasty.1 This notation‚ however‚ is indecipherable. This lack of a decipherable notation system leaves much unknown about early Chinese music and most of what is known is from oral tradition. The earliest notation system that can be interpreted is from the Yuan Dynasty.2 After this period music has been found
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Hybrid cars 11:15AM 13/07/2012 Hybrid cars are thought to be the vehicle of the future‚ with increasing emphasis being put on cutting carbon footprints and protecting the planet. Not long ago Hybrid cars were the preserve of the particularly eco-conscious‚ but they have now made their way into the mainstream. Most major motoring brands offer Hybrids with models like the Toyota Prius‚ the Honda CR-Z and the Lexus CT proving popular. They work by combining a fuel
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Marketing Management – MRK-1101 Case Study Marketing Environment Prius: Leading a wave of Hybrid About Toyota Founded by Kiichiro Toyoda‚ Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that is principally engaged in the production of cars‚ vans‚ trucks‚ buses and robots. Alongside its extensive vertical and horizontal integration‚ Toyota participates in the construction of houses‚ production of textile machinery‚ real estate market‚ financial activities‚ and biotechnology
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Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL-5) 1. Introduction. People often suffer from various disorders related to their physical health‚ which also include disorders of the nervous‚ vascular and integumentary systems‚ muscular and neurologic diseases. Consequently‚ these violations probably affect the musculoskeletal system and complicate the daily lives of these people. However‚ with the daily development of science and technology‚ doctors and inventors are trying to create some kind of device that can make
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Hard Drives Hard drives have been around longer than you think. In 1956‚ I. B. M. had invented a disk storage unit that was very large but did not store a lot of data. It was twenty-four inches in diameter and could hold only five megabytes‚ which is the equivalent to three and one half floppy disks. Originally called “fixed disks” later became known as “hard disks” opposed to floppy disks. In 1973‚ I. B. M. released a hard drive that could hold seventeen and one half megabytes. In 1980 Seagate
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Introduction Electrical drives Motion control is required in large number of industrial and domestic applications like transportation systems‚ rolling mills‚ paper machines‚ textile mills‚ machine tools ‚ fans pumps ‚ robots‚ washing machine etc.. system employed for motion control are called drives and employ any of the prime movers such as diesel or petrol engines gas or steam engines hydraulic motors and electric motors for supplying mechanical energy for motion control. Drives employing electric
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A hybrid vehicle is one that combines the best features of two different energy sources‚ one of which is electric power. The three vehicle I would choose is a Ford Escape‚ Chevrolet Tahoe‚ and a Honda Insight. Hybrid are a viable option than other cars because owner will never have to buy gasoline. Also‚ driving a hybrid is good for pollution levels. There are no emissions to harm the environment. The pros for the Ford Escape it is the most-fuel efficient SUV‚ very smooth between gas and electric
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of these vehicles consume gasoline and a smaller proportion is hybrid based. These two types of vehicles have many similarities. The two such vehicles require an energy source and both types of vehicles provide an important function to society. That function is to provide people with a reliable form of transportation. Although these two types of vehicles have many similarities‚ their differences are what distinguish them. Hybrid vehicles are more cost effective‚ environmentally sound‚ and safe
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newer cleaner technologies. The research on alternate fuel sources for cars began long ago‚ but it was not until 1999 that the first hybrid electric powered vehicle was sold. This car was manufactured by automaker Honda‚ and was called the Insight. An electric hybrid vehicle employs the operation of a small engine to assist a typically battery powered electric system. The electric motor propels the front wheels at low speeds‚ and then at higher speeds‚ the standard internal combustion engine takes
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very attractive to the “early adopters” and the consumers were willing to pay over the asking price to get a Prius. When gas prices soared so did the demand for the Prius. Toyota has dealt with these factors well. Successfully introducing a small hybrid into a market dominated by SUV’s is no small feat. Toyota’s success with the Prius is mainly due to their targeting strategy. By targeting the perfect group of consumers‚ sales and demand grew exponentially‚ and pricing has and continues to be at
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