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    Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport is important since it enables trade between peoples, which in turn establishes civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations necessary for transport, and may be roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and

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    chain is the transportation of the raw material or the finished product. Transportation can be done many ways, which include truck, pipeline, air, water, package carriers, rail, and intermodal. Air transportation can have its advantages and its disadvantages. Transporting products by air has advantages such as the speed of travel. Air is the fastest way to transport products across the world in a reasonable amount of time. Another advantage of transporting products by air is the fact that they can

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION With advent of modern high-performance signal processing applications, high throughput is in great demand. Digital Signal Processing is perhaps the most important enabling technology behind the last few decade’s communication and multi-media revolutions. Most recent research in the digital signal processing (DSP) area has focused on new techniques that explore parallel processing architectures for solutions to the DSP problems .DSP is used in a numerous real time application

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    In this paper I will write in opposition to the: S.1-Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. If enacted, this bill would allow the TransCanada corporation to build and manage an oil pipeline across North America. Authorization of the bill will require amendments to energy conservation policy, as well as, established building codes. Essentially, these changes liberate a building owner’s ability to manage energy manage energy consumption, and requires the Department of Energy to actively monitor this consumption

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    the need to build the Keystone XL Pipeline is that the increase capacity and route will allow it to supply crude to more refineries and ability to export for currently the pipeline has no direct access to a port. In addition, the pipelines shorter route to Steel City will shorten the delivery time. TransCanada position is that these reasons are justification of eminent domain. Eminent domain has been used for the building of pipelines for years and this pipeline should not be different. The land

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    Within the last decades, environmental concerns have arisen as state and federal governments see the impact of pollution. The Keystone Pipeline system is a new transportation method for oil from the Northwest of the US down to the South for oil production (“Keystone XL Pipeline: Why Is It so Disputed?”). Alongside environmentalists, Native Americans whose land the pipeline would pass through joined the movement to redirect the system (McKenna). Organized protests in front of the White House and deliberate

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    Physical Distribution Management Part of logistics management, physical distribution is concerned with the transporting of merchandise, raw materials, or by-products, such as hazardous waste, from the source to the customer. A manager of physical distribution must also assess and control the cost of transporting these goods and materials, as well as to determine the most efficient way to store them, which usually involves some form of warehousing. Hence, physical distribution (PD) is concerned with inventory

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    Globalization is the procedure by which all people and societies come to encounter an undeniably basic monetary, social and nature 's turf. By definition, the methodology influences everyone all across the globe. Globalization has been the characterizing pattern in the end decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of new thousand years proclaiming another time of collaboration among countries, economies and individuals. Globalization is an on-going methodology of worldwide mix that includes:

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    both its complexity and controversy. As the pipeline would go through Canada and the United States, approval from the government of each country is required for the project to proceed. Political, economic, and environmental issues in both countries have put pressure on the governments with advocates and opponents for the proposal vying to have their voices heard. Even the Canadian federal political parties do not all agree on whether or not the pipeline should be built. The Conservatives, for instance

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    focuses on how the transport infrastructure (considering both internal and external factors) has impacted the trade activities. Furthermore, it will provide an analysis of the challenges and opportunities Germany will have to face within 2035. 1.2 Germany background Germany is situated in the hearth of Europe and that makes it a fundamental hub for the entire continental international trade activity. Since its unification in 1990, Germany developed an extreme dense transport infrastructure that

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