Thursday, November 30, 2006

ISO 9000 document suite

ISO 9000 is composed of the following sections:

ISO 9000:2000, Quality organization systems - Fundamentals and language. Covers the essentials of what quality organization systems are and also contains the core language of the ISO 9000 series of values. The latest version is ISO 9000:2005.

ISO 9001 Quality running systems - Requirements is planned for use in any organization which designs, develops, manufactures, installs and services any product or provides any form of examine. It provides a number of necessities which an association needs to accomplish if it is to achieve customer satisfaction through reliable products and services which meet customer prospect. This is the only execution for which third-party auditors may grant certifications. The latest version is: 2000.

ISO 9004 Quality management systems - Guidelines for presentation improvements. Covers repeated improvement. This gives you advice on what you could do to enhance a grown-up system. This standard very specially states that it is not intended as a guide to accomplishment.


Monday, November 27, 2006

Nutrition

Animals are consumers that get their power from producers, who in turn derive their power from a number of sources.

Most animals grow by ultimately using the energy of daylight. Plants use this energy to change carbon dioxide into simple sugars using a procedure known as photosynthesis. Initially with the molecules and water, photosynthesis converts the power of sunlight into compound energy stored in the bonds of glucose and releases oxygen. These sugars are then used as the structure blocks which allow the plant to rise. When animals eat these plants, the sugars produced by the plant are used by the animal. They are either used straight to help the animal grow, or busted down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the animal the energy required for movement.

Many animals that live secure to hydrothermal vents and cold seeps on the ocean floor are not needy on the energy of sunlight for their food. Instead, chemosynthetic archer and eubacteria form the bottom of the food chain. These creatures use the energy from compounds seeping from the vents to control the manufacture of sugars and other molecules, and animals live by either intake those microbes them within their tissues.





Thursday, November 23, 2006

Atmosphere

The Earth's atmosphere has no definite edge, slowly becoming thinner and vanishing into outer space. Three-quarters of the atmosphere's mass is contained within the first 11 km of the planet's surface. This lowest coating is called the troposphere. Further up, the atmosphere is usually separated into the stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. Away from these, the exosphere thins out into the magnetosphere. A vital part of the atmosphere for life on ground is the ozone layer.

The atmospheric stress on the surface of the Earth averages 101.325 kPa, with a scale height of about 6 km. It is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with trace amounts of other gaseous molecules such as water steam. The atmosphere protects the Earth’s life forms by captivating ultraviolet solar emission, moderating temperature, transporting water vapor, and provides useful gases. The atmosphere is one of the principal mechanism in determining weather and climate.

Because hydrogen gas is light and based on Earth's signify temperature, achieves break out velocity, unfixed hydrogen leaves the Earth. For this cause, the Earth's environment is oxidizing, with consequences for the chemical nature of life which developed on the planet.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Leather in modern culture

Leather, due to its exceptional abrasion and wind struggle, found a use in rough occupations. The durable image of a cowboy in leather chaps gave way to the leather-jacketed and leather-helmeted aviator. When motorcycles were invented, some riders took to exhausting heavy leather jackets to protect from road rash and wind explosion; some also wear chaps or full fur pants to shelter the lower body. Many sports still use leather to help in live the game or protecting players: due to its stretchy nature it can be formed and flexed for the occurrence.
As leather can also be a metonymical expression for things made from it, the term leathering is as reasonable as tanning in the sense of a physical penalty applied with a leather whip.
Leather fetishism is the name commonly used to describe a fetishistic magnetism to people wearing leather, or in definite cases, to the garments themselves.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant sculpture of the god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos, between 292 BC and 280 BC. It was approximately the same size as the Statue of Liberty in New York, although it stood on a lower platform. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Alexander the Great died at an early age in 323 BC without having had occasion to put into place any plans for his succession. Fighting broke out among his generals, the Diadochi, with three of them ultimately dividing up much of his empire in the Mediterranean area. During the fighting Rhodes had sided with Ptolemy, and when Ptolemy eventually took organize of Egypt, Rhodes and Ptolemaic Egypt formed an alliance which controlled much of the trade in the eastern Mediterranean.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Crop improvement

In industrialized agriculture, crop "improvement" has often concentrated nutritional and other qualities of food plants to serve the interests of producers. After mechanical tomato-harvesters were developed in the early 1960s, agricultural scientists bred tomatoes that were harder and less nourishing. In fact, a most important longitudinal study of nutrient levels in several vegetables showed significant declines in the last 50 years; garden vegetables in the U.S. today contain on average 38 percent less vitamin B2 and 15 percent less vitamin C.
Very newly, genetic engineering has begun to be employed in some parts of the world to speed up the selection and breeding process. The most widely used alteration is an herbicide resistance gene that allows plants to tolerate exposure to glyphosate, which is used to control weeds in the crop. A less frequently used but more controversial modification causes the plant to produce a toxin to reduce injure from insects.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Membership and function

International organizations differ in function, membership and membership criteria. Membership of some organizations is open to all the nations of the world. This category includes the United Nations and its specialized agencies and the World Trade Organization. Other organizations are only open to members from a particular region or continent of the world, like European Union, African Union. Finally, some organizations base their membership on other criteria: cultural or historical links level of economic development or type of economy Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries.
In the nineteenth century, France was the finest origin of many international organizations: This means that much of the driving force to form such bodies such as those which maintain the SI came from the French, and that their headquarters is in France, often in Paris. The motivation was that to keep France a republic and not slip back into a monarchist or Bonaparte regime, the republicans would underscore their inheritance of the crusading nature of the French Revolution against feudal cultural remnants within France, Some conclude from this example that internationalism often has national origins, at the difference of globalize.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Indians

The Native American Indians who were in the southwest region lived in areas of Arizona and villages in New Mexico, mostly the southern states of USA, southern Colarado and Southern Utah. Those Pueblo people belonged to many different communities.They can also speak six different languages. They were previously named in the 1500 by Spanish explorers. The Spaniards who found them living in the villages that resembled the Spanish towns and the word Pueblo in spanish means town. Most of those people lived in New Mexico, the majority of the people lived in Rio Grande, in areas between Taos and Albuquerque. The Others were lived in deserts or high plateau areas that were called Mesas in Laguna and Acoma in west-central New Mexico. The climate of this region was cold in the winters with snow, and dry, hot summers because of the deserts.