the u s petroleum refining industry

... Vehicles: Summary of a Symposium U. S BATTERY INDUSTRY FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLES the U. S has the supply base and skilled workforce to sustain a globally competitive industry These issues present ... means of reducing energy use and as an important manufacturing industry This is no less the case for the United States Currently, the transportation sector accounts for two-thirds of U. S petroleum ... lithium-ion battery makers A major reason for the conversion is that the business case for trucks is more clear-cut Because trucks burn so much petroleum- based fuel, investments in hybrids can sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... annual sales of new products This could result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of U. S manufacturing jobs and reduce the standard of living and personal mobility of millions of U. S consumers ... non-exclusive externalities with a public value of little marginal consequence to the average consumer As shown in Figure 9, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U. S Census (BEA /U. S Census) estimate ... values With these prices and the fuel savings estimated at each of the 2025 mpg scenarios, it is possible to calculate two estimates for the monetary value of the annual fuel savings These results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... about losing exports to the EU if they cultivated GE crops The United States successfully challenged the EU s biotech approval rules and EU member states’ unwillingness to approve GE crops at the ... member state moratoriums at the WTO While the WTO was considering the dispute, the United States continued to push for the EU to drop its biotech rules In 2005, the USTR demanded that the United States ... the cables (32.6 percent) addressed environmental issues, primarily repeating the industry contention that GE crops reduce pesticide use and soil erosion as well as the promised drought-resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:49

... handful of very successful drugs Thus the U. S. -owned share of these best selling drugs is an important and superior measure of the U. S share of innovational earnings And it is precisely these earnings ... Yet, several substantially varying perspectives immediately present themselves American labor will assess the pharmaceutical industry on the basis of the number of jobs and the volume of salaries ... exclude sales of bulk drugs and veterinary drugs SOURCE: Annual Survey Reports (Washington, DC: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, various years) Starting in the 195 0s, American firms began...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... specialized software—a difficult process but one in which the United States is preeminent Other key abilities essential to successful systems integration, also abilities in which the United States ... inserted Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution Keeping the U. S Computer Industry Competitive: Systems Integration http://books.nap.edu/catalog/1914.html ... already existing islands of computer applications into a coordinated enterprise-wide distributed network system As this formulation suggests, the fundamental challenges raised by systems integration...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20

... processed for use as fuel or sold for other purposes such as mulch for gardens The debarked logs are washed and passed through stone separators to remove all the bark The logs also pass through ... enhance the effect of the sulfur gases 4.5 Effluents Pulping Uses Larges Quantities of Water and Produces Significant Amounts of Wastewater The pulp and paper industry is the largest industrial ... effluents Wastes, Residuals, or Byproducts Bark and fines that are burned as fuel in boilers No significant wastes, residuals, or byproducts No significant wastes, residuals, or byproducts No significant...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... The U. S Newspaper Industry in Transition Summary The U. S newspaper industry is suffering through what could be its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression Advertising revenues have ... Business Models The Harvard Business School has developed a case study, entitled The Newspaper Industry in Crisis, as a teaching tool “to help students to understand the dynamics of radical industry ... industry change and foster a discussion around potentially viable business models on the internet.” The premise of the study is that the newspaper s 19th century business model has been turned upside...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... captured particulate or gaseous pollutant species The disposal of ashes and scrubber sludge is a concern in the industry, due to the generally low pH of these wastes Many mills must raise the pH by ... organic compounds (VOCs), some of which may also be HAPS SOx, SO2 and, to a lesser extent NO, are also a concern The following sections discuss emission sources for these pollutants and the associated ... pollutants, toxics and, in particular, chlorinated organic compounds Section 2.2 discusses the solid wastes, while Section 2.3 discusses air emissions 2.1 EFFLUENTS Pulp and paper mills require large...

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Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 10:21

... agriculture and food industry to bioterrorism is difficult to address in a systematic manner due to the highly dispersed nature of the industry and because many of the risk evaluations used to assess ... significant, these figures represent only a fraction of the total value of agriculture to the U. S economy This is because the statistics not take into account allied industries and services, such as suppliers, ... MSX disease [Haplosporidium nelsoni], perkinsosis, bonamiosis) • Crustacean diseases (e.g., white spot disease, yellowhead disease) For further details, see the OIE classification of diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 16:20

... such social policies The fossil fuel provisions arise from the President s agreement “at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels” and are listed in a separate section ... industries, such as shipbuilding, food services, and other necessary services The refining phase, especially, contributes large “spill-over” effects around the country even though capacity is ... have a formal title to their property invest as much as 47% more in their businesses.”62 Of course, conditions in the U. S are not as dire Reform, nonetheless, supports business development in both...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... possibilities between unpriced pulp and wastepaper The study found positive but statistically insignificant substitution possibilities and contributes to the existing literature in at least three ways ... Normality tests on the residuals produced mixed results The Shapiro-Wilk W univariate test rejected the null hypothesis of normality for the cost and labor share equation but could not reject the null ... is the price of factor j (Chambers, 1988) In contrast to Allen-Uzawa, the Morishima measure is not sign symmetric Also, although Allen-Uzawa substitutes are Morishima substitutes, two factors...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... Effects of Federal Deposit Insurance Deposit insurance prevents bank runs  Prevents losses by small depositors  Reduces “systemic risk” in the banking system Deposit insurance gives banks  incentives to: ... incentives to:  hold riskier assets  hold less capital  manage the bank s assets less carefully Incentive Effects of Deposit Insurance: A Closer Look Deposit insurance increases the supply of ... Fundamentally sound, but with modest weaknesses that can be corrected Moderately severe to unsatisfactory weaknesses; vulnerable if there s a business downturn Many serious weaknesses that have...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2015, 07:57

... Project Summary Form (CPS1797), Los Alamos National Laboratory: Los Alamos, NM, USA, 2005 U. S Census Bureau 2005 Statistics of U. S Businesses (SUSB); Company Statistics Division: Washington, DC, USA, ... policy case also suggests very small impacts on industry s bottom line in the II-CPM simulations, under the assumptions about fuels and prices used in the study The modeling results showed only ... Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS) [25], the U. S Census Bureau s Annual Survey of Manufacturers (ASM) [10], the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), the U. S Geological Survey...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2016, 10:42

... findings answer the research questions Part 3: Conclusion summarizes the findings of the study, giving concluding remarks, implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies ... the discourse will help them understand more comprehensively the political discourses Scope of the study The linguistic features of the inaugural address made by President G.W Bush in the U. S election ... we may summarize as: (1) The addressor is a person who produces a piece of discourse (2) The addressee is a person who is the recipient of the discourse, thus possibly including the audience...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... timber based on the superstructure material for the main span Values shown in the “Total” columns include bridges constructed using other materials such as masonry, aluminum, cast iron and wrought ... “Year Built” for each structure Where applicable, the “Year Reconstructed” is also given If the superstructure of a bridge is replaced, but the substructure is reused, “Year Built” remains the year ... original substructure construction “Year Reconstructed” would then indicate the year the superstructure was replaced Such a situation can lead to apparent inaccuracies in the analysis of NBI...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... host country In this study we use data from two national birth cohort surveys, the American Fragile Families Study (FFS) and the U. K Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), to address several questions ... support systems, which are a product of both the resources that migrants bring with them as well as their circumstances upon arrival Specifically, we examine three aspects of support systems: ... across nativity groups Sociodemographic Characteristics Table displays the distribution of sociodemographic characteristics for the total sample, as well as across nativity groups The size of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... Assumes missing values not undergo procedure Assumes missing values undergo procedure 47 22 14 48 23 15 10 Biopsy Assumes missing values not undergo procedure Assumes missing values undergo procedure ... years was used as the definition of overdiagnosis in this analysis Key Question 2b What are the harms associated with CBE? Harms associated with CBE include false-positive results and subsequent ... for screening average-risk women Several study Adverse effects have been studied designs and data in various ways, most studies are sources including descriptive RCTs, observational studies, surveys,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... Section compares the U. S credit-liquidity crisis and the subsequent Irish banking crisis highlighting the substantial, somewhat surprising, differences between them Section discusses the nationwide ... prices over a much longer time period as a “housing bubble”? The sobering answer is that the US “housing bubble” is defined to some extent ex-post by the subsequent occurrence of the crisis The ... purchased shares as collateral Since the loans were without recourse to the borrowers, Anglo was the at-risk investor in the shares, and was essentially using €300 million of its depositors’ funds...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20

... Loans: Assumptions Underlying the 2012 Subsidy Estimates Table - Loan Guarantees: Assumptions Underlying the 2012 Subsidy Estimates 13 Table - Direct Loans: Assumptions Underlying ... GUARANTEES: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING THE 2012 SUBSIDY ESTIMATES—Continued (In percentages, unless noted otherwise) Composition of Subsidy Agency, Bureau, Program and Risk Category Subsidy rate Defaults, ... LOANS: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING THE 2013 SUBSIDY ESTIMATES—Continued (In percentages, unless noted otherwise) Composition of Subsidy Agency, Bureau, Program and Risk Category Subsidy rate Defaults,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20