Oil Shale Development in the United States potx

... Surface Retorting. Oil shale can be mined using one of two meth-ods: underground mining using the room-and-pillar method or surface mining. The current state of the art in mining—both room-and-pillar ... considering mining methodsand processing losses (e.g., Taylor, 1987). Oil Shale Resources in Place The Green River Formation The largest known oil shale deposits in the world are in the Green ... prescribed method.6 Oil Shale Development in the United States: Prospects and Policy Issues2.1 shows the location of the formation and its major oil shale bearing basins: the Piceance, Uinta, Green...

CORE PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION in the UNITED STATES potx

... www.NAMLE.net INTRODUCTION NAMLE is excited to offer to educators, advocates and allies these Core Principles of Media Literacy Education in the United States. In crafting them, the writers have ... also recognizing that much has changed in the decades since the term "media literacy" first came into use. In responding to those changes, this document shifts the focus of the discussion ... in the United States. The “Implications for Practice” section is written with them in mind. Our intention is that future versions of the document will be developed to meet the needs of the wide...

Payment systems in the United States potx

... financial institutions may provide and the regulatory structure to which the institutions are subject. Despite the large number of financial intermediaries, the banking system in the United States ... The Federal Reserve settles for the cheques it collects by posting entries to the accounts that deposit-taking institutions maintain with the Federal Reserve. The account of the collecting institution ... transactions in which either the originating depository institution or the receiving depository institution is not their customer. These inter-operator transactions are settled by the Federal...

The economic impact of obesity in the United States potx

... 10.2147/DMSOTT.S7384 The economic impact of obesity in the United States Ross A Hammond Ruth LevineEconomic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USACorrespondence: Ross A Hammond Brookings ... in utility under the optimal solution in each model is then measured to ﬁnd welfare loss. After calibrating the model using data from the MEPS, the authors ﬁnd that there is in fact a welfare ... at its initial value for all individuals, with other risk factors adjusted for each year of aging. Results from the model demonstrate substantial increases in disease risk with increasing BMI....

Economic Transfers in the United States by Marilyn Moon, ed. potx

... ranking in PRI, they will also be in the 5th vigesile for purposes of calculating shares in the other five income concepts, irrespective of what happens to the size of their incomes when the ... is the result of the negative share in HDI of the bottom vigesile, precluding the calculation of a tax rate in figure 2.1; the rate for the next three vigesiles comprising the remainder of the ... record. In- kind income, including imputed wages and imputed farm income, was distributed by a variety of methods, using information already in the EM-SM file, as well as information from the...

Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report potx

... systems in nine states, offers wind energy to its member systems under the Prairie Winds brand. More than 50 of its member systems offer the product to their retail customers. Initially, the wind ... Detroit Edison) In 1996, DTE Energy was one of the first utilities in the United States to offer a green pricing program when it established the SolarCurrents program, supporting the development ... supplied from the utility's 6-MW share of the 50-MW Nine Canyon Wind Project located in eastern Washington. 24 September 2004 • NREL/TP-620-36823 Green Power Marketing in the United States: ...

The Colored Regulars in the United States Army potx

... of emigration or of determination toremain in the United States; convinced of the hopelessness of contending against the oppressions in the United States, living in the very depth of that oppression ... Regulars in the United States Army, The The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Colored Regulars in the United States Colored Regulars in the United States Army, The 1away, and threatened to take the ... and then dropped intooccasional and special gatherings. They did much good in the way of giving prominence to the colored oratorsand in stemming the tide of hostile sentiment by appealing to the...

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT potx

... complementand interrelate with the style of the painting, and may interrelate with the painting on a very highlevel indeed (take, for example, Georges Seurat’s painted borders and frames, such as for The 17not ... identity” between the allegedly infringing elements and the original elements. Rather, the law in this circuit is that outside of the narrow context of “claimsof compilation copyright infringement of ... idiosyncratic, they at some point cross the line into ‘expression’”). When drawing the line, however, “it is useful to note the policy purposes served by the distinction”; to “encourag[e] the creation...

THE ECONOMI INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: LONG-AND SHORT-TERM PERSPECTIVES potx

... institutions in the United States. In contrast to other immigrant-receiving countries across the advanced industrial world, immigrants in the United States are strongly attached to the workforce: ... source of information on immigrants in the US labor market. 10MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States This points to an important difference in the ... CES-WP-08-27.15MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States Mazumder, Bhashkar. 2008. Upward Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States. Washington, DC: Economic...

Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Trading in the United States and China potx

... from the power plants in China. The industry sector emits 40%, and the remaining 19% belongsto other sectors.142 The production of SO2is more decentral-ized in China than in the United States, ... Pollution Trading in the United States and Chinaby Heather Jarvis and Wei XuEditors’ Summary: As in the United States, acid rain is becoming quite prob-lematic for the People’s Republic of China. Unlike ... the increasingly serious situation of acid rain andSO2, the law institutes “two zones,” the acid rain control-ling zone and the SO2controlling zone. These two zonesare established in the...

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