Essays on Conversion

Introduction

Biomass is a biological material obtained from a living organism or a recently living organism. The word biomass is derived from two Greek words; bio meaning life, and maza meaning mass (Demirbas, “Fuels from Biomass” 43). Biomass means non-fossil and bio-decomposable organic matter (originating from plants, animals and microorganisms). The products, byproducts, residues and waste from agricultural processing, all constitute biomass. Bio-waste simply means non-fossil and biodegradable waste that is composed of organic matter. Bio-wastes include food and kitchen wastes, garden and park wastes, and wastes from food processing plants. Bio-waste is therefore an element of biomass.
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C.S. Lewis
- Introduction
C.S. Lewis was one of the most renowned Christians in the early 1900s. Various history magazines at this time compared him to influential individuals such as Luther King Jnr and Pope John XXIII. Lewis’s popularity as a Christian rose because of his conversion from atheism to become one of the most ardent supporters of Christianity. This paper will look at how C.S. Lewis found God and converted to Christianity.
- C.S. Lewis Background
Lewis was referred to as Jack by his close friends and members of his family. Lewis was a university professor. He Continue reading...

Introduction

Waste biomass is usually in the form of manure, agricultural residues, municipal sewage sludge, municipal solid waste, and industrial bio-sludge which can be converted to animal feeds, alcohol fuels or industrial chemicals. There are various processes which are employed to convert this waste into the respective useful end products rather than being dumped away. The complexity of these processes depends on the kind of technologies being used. Conversions of waste biomass into renewable energy forms play a major role in reducing the dependence on crude oil and thus promote economic growth. The process of waste biomass conversion to useful Continue reading...

This report describes a nutrition trial in which broiler chicks were divided into separate, randomly-positioned pens and reared under controlled conditions in which each of four batches was fed on a different diet treatment during the trial, which started on 18th August and ended 14th September. There was a control diet with no DDGS, two further treatments with 15% and 30% DDGS content respectively, and a fourth treatment also with 30% DDGS content but with added amino acid in the formula. The birds and feed consumed were monitored and weighed every third day, keeping records throughout. Continue reading...

Article # 1 - How to Get More Visitors to Click, Buy or Promote on Your Site:

When we talk about perfection in a website, there is no such thing. In other words, it means that there is always a room for improvement and betterment. The point to ponder is how to improve one’s website. The first step is to determine the primary goal of website. What purpose does it serve to the target audience? Is the purpose of the page to promote it on social media, encourage people to call you, get chances to fill out a form or to generate online sales? Once a person understands what the goal is all about, the Continue reading...

Introduction

With the rise in globalization pressures, it has become necessary for businesses to expand their operational activities and serve more targeted audience or population to capture more market share. Additionally, businesses do this activity to create more shareholder wealth as wealth. In this regard, one of the biggest challenges which financial managers come across is the maintenance of the liquidity position of the business. It is important to every organization to keep itself liquid to keep its credit and counterparty risk to a sustainable level .
One of core concepts in this situation is the investigation into the Cash Conversion Continue reading...

Abstract

The essay looks into how the Greek and Roman culture developed the idea of the hero into the idea of a saint, during the process of conversion and totalization. The paper studies Saul of Tarsus and Augustine of Hippo, their conversions, and how they relate to the stature of hero and saint.

Introduction

We find two metaphors in Professor Ambrosio lectures, the hero, and the saint. These personified ideas carry different approaches to seeking the meaning of life. There are explicit metaphors of hero and saint, and these two figures carry different worldviews and in the human situations. Heroes are Continue reading...

Executive Summary

The oil industry is one of the most dynamic and robust sectors that contribute to the economic growth of a country. Due to the lucrative nature of the oil industries’ production performance, oil producing organizations have continued to attract a wide array of personnel. Employers have the obligation to provide remunerations that are commensurate with the demands of the job. Since oil industries have been identified to be one of the most hazardous, risks have to be assessed, managed, and appropriately controlled.
One of the largest and most productive oil organizations in the world is Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Continue reading...

The customers for our firm may be any individuals who may require custom made garments since the standard size may not fit them. This will be known as the Business-to-Consumer transaction. It involves direct interaction between the business entity and their customers. In this situation, the customers will place the order from any country. Timely delivery and accuracy of their order should be checked by the management.
Another form of customers will be the wholesalers and retailers. They are interested in making bulk orders and are willing to have an extra lead time. This will be their Business-to-Business transactions. Continue reading...

Operating cycle for a firm is the average time it takes from the receipt of raw materials for production to collection of cash from the sale of finished goods (Megginson & Smart, 2008). On the other hand, cash conversion cycle for a firm is the average time it takes from the payment to suppliers of raw materials to the collection of cash from the sale of finished goods. The difference between the two emanates from credit trade agreements between a firm and its suppliers such that the firm pays for the raw materials received at a later date. The difference Continue reading...

Abstract

Over the years, we have come to recognize the importance of a healthy environment in our lives. Nature has provided us with valuable resources to have the freedom to breathe fresh air, drink pure water and appreciate the beauty around us. But with all the scientific and technological innovations of man, as well as the luxury and convenience it brings, our environment has suffered deterioration which resulted to poor quality of life and even massive death. As residents of this Earth, our survival largely relies on our environment. It is our responsibility to combat destruction in which the well-being Continue reading...

Question 1

A float is a sum of money that is supposed to be transferred from the account of one party to another after a transaction but it is reflected in both accounts before the process of transferring is over. A float occurs when there is a delay in deducting the required amount of money from the paying party’s account causing a short-term double counting of the amount. It is the objective of every management to reduce these delays on collections.

There are four components of a float that affects both collections and payouts. A Continue reading...

African continent has experienced changes in its religious practices and people’s behaviors from the effect of religious conversion. African region left its traditional beliefs at the incoming of new religion (Isichei and Thomas, 2010). African indigenous religion, which was community- based had no basis to sustain itself from the influence of conversion to other religions. Majority of the African continent has ended up converted to other religions of the world. Christianity is the most spread religion on the African continent today with significant impacts. The paper describes the Christian religion conversion in Africa. Christianity arrived in Africa through Continue reading...

Carbon dioxide is an odorless, non-combustible gas that could be both beneficial and threatening to the environment. This gas is inherently part of the earth’s biogeochemical cycle and is as equally important as other naturally occurring gases in the earth’s atmosphere. While carbon dioxide provides benefits to plants via photosynthesis, its effect on the atmosphere at high levels may induce modifications in the naturally occurring changes in climate all over the world. To date, carbon dioxide has been put into a spotlight as the main cause of anthropogenic climate change.
Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have Continue reading...

Management Accounting for Business Decisions

Executive Summary
This report is very important from the management’s point of view because of the reason that it thoroughly focused on all the major organizational structure, system and the policies of the business. In this report, full analysis of the repair segment, conversion segment, administration department, existing services and inventory management procedures has been made. Moreover, weak areas have been identified, and full recommendations have been made at the ending part of this report in order to convert the weak sections into the stronger section. Overall, this report will provide a clear cut guideline regarding what is Continue reading...

Introduction

Alternative renewable energy continues to grow popularity because of the upsetting climate change caused by greenhouse gases, exhaustion of non-renewable energy resources and rising global demand for energy. Renewable resources of electricity production are vital progress and are fundamentally motivated by cost.
Solar energy is clean and profuse that is why it is the best among the available substitutes. The modern solid-state photovoltaic (PV) technology began in 1954 upon the discovery of silicon (Si) diodes photovoltaic effect . Crystalline Si and a wide range of thin film solar cells, which are inorganic, are the prevailing photovoltaic technologies employed nowadays .
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Background Information

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) is a state-owned oil organization of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Figure 1) . Saudi Aramco was founded in the early 1930s with headquarters at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The President and Chief Operating Officer is Khalid A. Al-Falih since 2009. A total of 3.4 billion barrels of oil were produced in 2013 or 9.4 million barrels per day (bpd) . Forbes ranked Saudi Aramco as number one in the list of the world’s biggest oil companies .

Aramco Operations

There are different stages in oil operations. The current section expounds on oil exploration, production, refining and marketing, and Continue reading...

Metric units verses customary units

One finds metric units easier to convert because they only contain seven basic quantities. These include length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount of substance, and light intensity. This means that all other units are derived from the basic units. Conversions of metric units are quite easy because the other smaller or larger units of metrics are expressed using prefixes that are powers of ten (Customary & Metric Systems of Measurement, n.d). For example, one gram = 103 kilogram. Therefore, converting 15 kilograms to grams ;
15 kg x 1000 = 15000g
On the other hand, customary units are not easily defined for Continue reading...

Plant and Solar cell

The sun plays an extremely vital role in sustaining the life on earth, exhibited through the emission of solar energy that aids in the cycling of matter, and maintenance of gravity (Miller & Spoolman, 2007). The solar energy reaches the earth through radiation. It flows through the biosphere, warms the atmosphere, evaporates, recycles water, generates winds and support plant growth (Miller & Spoolman, 2007). Further, the energy from the sun also supports photosynthesis, the process by which green plants use natural light to make compound such as carbohydrates that maintain their lives also feed other organisms (Miller & Spoolman, 2007). On the Continue reading...

Introduction
There is no other dramatic turn in the Christian literature and history far greater than when the Roman Emperor, Constantine, converted to Christianity. Cohen (p. 1) described Constantine as a successful general. His father was a successful general as well and he was trained for military leadership. He led the army at the West. He inched his way to the Roman Empire by his leadership and military might.
Constantine claimed to have had a vision of a Chi Ro (p. 1). This is a symbol of Christ, shining above the sun. Recognizing it as a divine sign, Constantine Continue reading...

Introduction

Most advancement in sciences and technology would not be possible without the use and conversion of energy from one form to another. Thus, thermodynamic principles are considered fundamental laws of energy and relevant to the development of the society at large. This study considers thermodynamics as it concerns different forms of energy, their conversion, and usage.

Laws of Thermodynamics

The laws of thermodynamics emphasize on particular phenomena that describe the relation of energy with matter (Kanoglu, Cengel, & Dincer, 2012). Thermodynamics laws define the amount of physical parameters such as temperature, entropy and energy that characterize a thermodynamic system. These laws also refer Continue reading...

With reference to the goals that management avenues will try to explore, one of their concerns will be the periods of time that they will take in making money literally. This can be noted as an accounting concern that details to the application of the necessary data in attempting to discover and influence the company’s conversion and turnover cycles. Essentially, these cycles are some of the very important metric computations (Bragg, 2010). Likewise, these are based on the questions that management might have on the functionality, performance and the success of the company. It will equally be important Continue reading...

Introduction

Cultural institutions like museums, archives, historical societies and libraries home reasonable collections of various artifacts and documents. These institutions are endorsed with the responsibility of preserving, protecting and providing mature stewardship for all available materials so as to ensure a continued long period accessibility. Advanced technology allows institutions to offer expanded education and access but there are essential priorities which ought to be addressed before embarking on the digital conversion of archival management. Digitization and archival management includes doing a physical job on top of analoging items. Digital documemts are imported to other files and controlled with the usage Continue reading...

The scientific method involves making an observation, making an explanation of the observation, testing the explanation in order to see whether it is valid and either accepting or rejecting the explanation. Once an explanation is rejected, a better explanation is developed and then tested. The exact steps that are followed in a scientific method depend on the number of times the method is broken down. However, there are five major steps that are followed in a scientific method. These steps are making observations, proposing a hypothesis, designing an experiment and performing it to test the hypothesis, analyzing the data Continue reading...

Introduction

Before the declaration of Christianity as the official religion in England in 312 A.D., there were prior contacts between Christianity and Insular Celtic paganism. The Georgian Mission of Christianity in 596 A.D., which declared the conversion of all pagans to Christianity as well as the Christianity take-over of Ireland by 600 A.D., accelerated the rise of Christianity and the fall of paganism (Lunn-Rockliffe, p. 12). By 1100 A.D., Christianity had gained sufficient control over the Celtic region, thereby replacing the former religion, paganism (p. 17). However, since most of the people that drafted literature about the interaction between Paganism Continue reading...

How Religion Was Affected with Slaves before the Civil War

Introduction
At the beginning of American slavery, before the Civil War, either Christianity was forced upon the African slaves or it was denied completely. The white man's religion gave purpose to American domestic religious missionaries in their intent to Christianize the earliest of slaves predominantly in the southern states.
Numbers of the white slave masters believed allowing slaves any type of religion gave them, unwanted ideas about autonomy and thus, made them troublesome, lazy, and therefore, the slave masters would beat any slave professing their Christian beliefs. Holding secret gatherings to practice their religion – Christian or the numerous types Continue reading...

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Introduction

A balanced diet refers to the food intake, which incorporates all the dietary needs of an organism in the right proportions. This is unlike the adequate diet, which includes the energy that is sufficient energy for the need of an individual. A balanced diet, therefore, includes both sufficient energy as well as all the dietary requirements that are needed by an individual at the right proportion. The main components that make up a balanced diet include carbohydrate, proteins, vitamins, fats, dietary fiber, water and minerals. Carbohydrates as a source of nutrients in the body are usually broken Continue reading...

Energy Conversion is Critical to the Study of Energy

Energy is an integral component of a society. Energy is used in homes, industries and various sectors of the economy. Though energy is derived from many sources and is usually in many forms, it is the conversion of energy from one form to another that makes it usable. For example, energy from coal cannot be useful if it is not converted to electricity. Much of the energy that is used is usually converted from fossil fuels. According to key figures by the European Commission (2011), fossil fuels account for about three quarters of the EU’s energy mix. For Continue reading...

• Assuming a constant rate for purchases, production, and sales throughout the year, what are Casa de Diseño exists operating cycle (OC), cash conversion cycle (CCC), and resource investment need?

The existing Disenos’ operating cycle (OC)    

  =average collection period + average age of inventory = (75+ 110) days = 185 days Existing Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) 
= OC - average payment period = (185 – 30) days = 155 days Resources needed    
=cost of operating cycle investment ×CCC365= ($ 26,500,000 ×155)/365= $11,253,425
• If Leal can optimize Casa de Diseño’s operations according to industry standards, what will the company’s operating cycle (OC), cash conversion cycle (CCC), Continue reading...

Scenario One

Sebastian commits this offense when he dishonestly buys business class tickets with the intention to sell them. Evidence of further dishonesty is illustrated by his travelling in economy class while the company records indicate that he travelled in the business class. Even though no harm results to the company from his actions, the case of Attorney General’s Reference (No. 3 of 2003) held that the key determinant in the offense is the conduct, not the results. Accordingly, Sebastian has committed the offense regardless of the outcome of his conduct.
It is however imperative to note that it may Continue reading...

Any firm should pay attention to its inflows and outflows of the cash in order not to become a bankrupt. Thus, focusing on operating cycle and cash conversion cycle, which include all cash flows in and out of the firm, its financial situation can be easily estimated.
Regarding operating cycle, it is the period of time from the moment the firm spends money to buy raw materials till it receives money from sales of products (Baker, p. 163). Also, it includes the duration of work-in-process and finished goods and time needed to sale these products. As for the cash Continue reading...

Cash Conversion Cycle – Home Depot Inc. versus Lowe’s Companies Inc.
In the section, the cash conversion cycle of two companies is compared which reflects the financial performance of these publicly traded businesses to collect cash, generate sales and pay their creditors. In the below mentioned table, the cash conversion cycle is computed by the addition of Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) ratio to Days in Inventory (DI) and exclusion of the Payable Period (PP) ratio from that sum.
It is also clear that liquidity management and cash generation, “Lowe's Companies” tends to outperform “Home Depot” because it is paying Continue reading...

Although Cash and Operating Cycle are both the measure as in what time period, money flows back into business, but they both differs marginally in terms of aspects of cash flow they measure:

Operating Cycle:

This metric indicates the amount of time it takes for the company to get the money invested in inventories back into cash. The metric is purposely called operating cycle as the process of purchasing raw material, processing it, selling the items and using the cash recovered from customers and then again using the cash generated to purchase the raw material will go on until the company Continue reading...

Movie Review “I'm in love with a church girl”

Biographical and a Cultural Criticism
The movie shows Miles Montego trying too hard to change his lifestyle within a short period. Having been a major drug dealer for a while, and while still maintaining strong contacts with his former colleagues the conversion to Christianity is a tall order for Miles. He is in love with a strict church girl, has just gone through a traumatic loss of mother, faces criminal challenges from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and has to handle the accident of his girlfriend Vanessa. Miles’s conversion to Christianity ends up not being a climax or Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Apple is an American corporation that designs, develops, and sells computers, electronic devices and various software. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded it in 1976. For over 20 years Apple mainly were manufacturers of personal computers. However, at the beginning of 2000s, Apple presented a new line of MP3 players, mobile phones and tablets. Apple’s CEO claims that the company obtains the following core values: “we live to make great products, we believe in simple, not in complex, we only participate in markets where we can make a significant contribution, we say no to a thousand of projects Continue reading...

Ireland Army Community Hospital

289 Ireland Avenue,

Fort Knox,

Kentucky
40121-5520
As a long-time admirer of the outstanding work that your hospital has done in the community, I have been enthralled to get a chance to see how your hospital is setting benchmarks of quality and services. As you indicated in your request for this proposal, your needs have grown to a point when your hospital is in needs of upgrading its imaging function so that it can continue to serve effectively.
This letter is about the complete scope of work you had requested for, including equipment, procedures, finding the responsibilities, and the estimated cost Continue reading...

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Part 1. Solar Panel History

The history of Solar panels takes it beginning from the 7th Century B.C. Now, the energy sector of economy has the greatest impact on our lives. Power supply is the basis of the normal functioning of any production, and, consequently, the entire human civilization. Heat and light homes, work machines and units in production, traffic and rural suffering - all these many faces of Energy. Various technological advances have already become part of life for us, but they are possible only when adequate and affordable energy supply, due to the development of alternative energy sources, Continue reading...

Answer 1)

Since at 40% debt and 60% equity, WACC is minimized and stock price is maximized, the 40(debt):60(equity) is the optimal capital structure for Jackson.

Answer 2)

a. Expected EPS for Firm C:
E(EPSC) = 0.1($2.40) + 0.2($1.35) + 0.4($5.10) + 0.2($8.85) + 0.1($12.60)
= $0.24 + $0.27 + $2.04 + $1.77 + $1.26 = $5.58.
b) According to the standard deviations of EPS, Firm B is the least risky, while C is the riskiest.However,this analysis does not consider portfolio effects—if C’s earnings increase when most other companies’ decline (that is, its beta is low), its apparent riskiness would be reduced. Continue reading...

Extinction of species is a natural process that has occurred since the beginning of life on earth. Organisms most suited to the current environmental conditions survive and reproduce whereas those less poorly suited either do not survive or contribute little or nothing to the genetic capital of the next generation. This process is known as natural selection or survival of the fittest. Anthropogenic influences on this process, especially in the last century has effected this process through habitat or ecosystem conversion and the input of pollution in the air, water and soil (text book, year).
For example, the input Continue reading...

St. Augustine and Western Civilization

Augustine has been a central figure both on Christianity as well as western civilization. In this paper, I shall seek to examine the life of this profligate professor with a view to understanding his conversion to Christianity, the effect of his earlier attachment with Platonist and Machinean philosophy and his views on salvation among others. It is the object of this paper to explore the views of Augustine on a number of issues especially revolving around human nature, God and evil and his enormous influence on western civilization. In a bid to achieve the purport of his study, I Continue reading...