Decision-Making on Black Carbon Mitigation Introduction There have been myriad of findings over the past couple of years suggesting that climate change may be happening far faster than we originally anticipated. Climate change has the potential to trigger abrupt transitions such as the release of carbon from thawing permafrost, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss. The world has warmed by about 1.5°F, and by 2100 it is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F (Karl et al., 2009)…

Carbon Cycling AS: 90953 By: Isobel Ryan, 337481 -The Carbon Cycle- The carbon cycle, according to the Oxford Dictionary is “the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and it’s return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.” However before we understand Carbon Cycling we have to understand…

who require them wouldn’t be living in the country. While balancing the budget it occurred to me why congress would have so many problems balancing the actual budget; it is difficult to keep everyone happy while maintaining a balanced budget. My cuts were largely from the foreign affairs, the rich and corporate America. The problem is those areas in this current day and age hold a lot of influence and it runs the risk of making a whole lot of people very angry. Congress has to try its’ hardest…

Group Project Joint Paper: Balancing the Federal Budget Luis A. Santiago-Gaetan, Abby Baumann, and Erin Kirchner University of Massachusetts-Amherst Introduction This is Red Team’s joint paper on balancing the budget of the government of the United States of America. Red Team’s (from here on we/our) position regarding balancing the budget and reducing the federal deficit varies slightly. In many ways some team members believe that the federal budget is much like any other budget, with a set amount…

Load Balancing in Cellular Network through Cell Breathing network structure being much dispersed, mobile AbstractIn cellular network, teletraffic continues to grow at a proliferating rate. Thus existing networks often encounter undesirable phenomenon like call drop due to overloading of cells. To overcome this problem, this thesis aims to perform load balancing using the technique of cell breathing in a novel way. Unlike previous works on cell breathing, where the radius of the overloaded cell was…

Virgin Australia Airline Report Report on external environment and management functions Taffy Ghozali, Hafizhah Chandra Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to examine Virgin Blue’s external environment followed by its impacts to the organization as well as how management functions could help overcome the external environment for the organization to compete properly in the domestic airline market. Virgin Australia is Australia’s second largest domestic airline, commenced in operations…

Carbon Tax A carbon tax is a fee on the emissions released from burning fossil fuels. According to carbontax.org, it is an “antidote to rigged corporate energy pricing”. So unlike cap-and-trade, it does not “create complex and easily gamed ‘carbon markets’ with allowances, trading and offsets”. It is implemented by placing a tax on carbon emissions. So carbon that is within products such as plastics will not be taxed as it does not get burned and release emissions into the atmosphere. The tax will…

an effective airline fleet planning is of the utmost importance in order for an airline company to be profitable and thrive. Considering how airline fleet planning is directly related to the manner in which an airline company purchases new aircraft and decides its routes, it is imperative to evaluate all the factors involved in such planning. Profitability is one of the main goals of an airline company and can be attained by means of a carefully planned aircraft selection. Airline routes are also…

Balancing the Environment Does the implementation of government policies in order to decrease negative environmental effects violate individual rights? Immanuel Kant—one of the most recognized names in deontological theory— proposed a theory that is based on determining if you are using someone or something as a means or an end. In essence stating that in order for a decision to be made one must take into account whether a person is being manipulated against their consent or they are being foster…

Balancing the Federal Budget Luis A. Santiago-Gaetan, Abby Baumann, and Erin Kirchner University of Massachusetts-Amherst Introduction This is Red Team’s joint paper on balancing the budget of the government of the United States of America. Red Team’s (from here on we/our) position regarding balancing the budget and reducing the federal deficit varies slightly. In many ways some team members believe that the federal budget is much like any other budget, with a set amount of money coming in, a set…