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    Passive smoking, is known as “second hand smoke” or “environmental tobacco smoke(ETS)”. Passive smoking occurred when the non-smoker people breathe in the chemical that released from surrounding smoker’s cigarette, or being exposed in smoke environment. It also comprises “sidestream” smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and “mainstream” smoke which is smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker. It is a real threat to public health, however, people ignore or look down upon this

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    PASSIVE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION:1 The last two decade has witnessed a severe energy crisis in developing countries especially during summer season primarily due to cooling load requirements of buildings. The energy consumption in buildings is quite high and is expected to further increase because of improving standards of life and increasing world population. Air conditioning use has increasingly penetrated the market during the last few years and greatly contributes in the upsurge of

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    both government and the Individual together needs to work to overcome this problem. Firstly, smoking not only harm the person who is smoking but also affects the people around the smoker. Passive smoking is destroying many families health. Several types of research on cancer patients have proved that passive smoking is one of the major reason behind throat cancer.

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    important to write in an "Active Voice vs. Passive Voice"? I believe active voice is important because it allows us to write a lower grade level that our intended audiences can understand and relate to. Active voice creates clear action it is less wordy, which is direct to the reader or to the audience. Also, the writer uses a common and present language to connect with the readers so they can better understand the written material. On the other hand, passive voice is indirect and has weak verbs and

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    The Costs of Passive Fund Investing By Joe Barbieri | Submitted On March 26, 2015 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Joe Barbieri There are many options for buying a group of securities in

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    Introduction Passive and eco-friendly housing is becoming increasingly popular, and as more and more structures arise, learning provides scope for innovation, further cost saving and optimization. The rise of passive housing could have a possible impact on Global warming, an increasingly important topic, as housing contributes vastly to the cause: in 2009 buildings accounted for 43% of all the UK’s carbon emissions (gov.uk). Therefore, the UK Government aimed to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emission

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    When you are dealing with a person that is passive-aggressive, you have to deal with a person that lacks the inability to cope with confrontation. Passive aggressive people need to get their point across behind the scenes and not in front of the whole group. When viewing the video the person points out that a passive aggressive person will voice his or her issues after the meeting instead of with everyone present. Their behavior appears to be underground and will feel that they will get their point

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    languages belong two different groups. One of the most difficult problems is passive voice. Take these sentences as example : “ The rice is cook” and “ Cơm chín rồi”. We can see that these two sentences have the same meaning but one in passive form and the other in active form. Thus, It makes learners confused about using passive form properly when translating because sometimes an active sentence in Vietnamese can be a passive sentence in English. As a teacher-to-be of English, a Vietnamese learner

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    machines today I can pursue my lifelong dream of involvement in the new aviation world. An organization with these same dreams that has been making them reality for many years is called [Passive voice ] the Experimental Aircraft Association. The Experimental Aircraft Association was founded [Passive voice ] by Paul Howard Poberenzy in January 1953. In what started out as a group who gathered together to aid and assist amateur aircraft builders quickly became the go to organization

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    1. Introduction 2. Optical OFDM for Passive optical networks The high-speed broadband penetration and ongoing growth of the Internet traffic among customers have been the key reasons that are driving the rapid emergence and deployment of optical access networks as a basic bearer network that supports hybrids services for multiple customers while bearing huge capacity. Passive optical network is the most interesting solution for the optical access network to cope with the increasing bandwidth demand

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