Second life

The second life-cycle phase addresses the capture of requirements and the selection of suppliers. It entails the following main activities, usually conducted sequentially User Requirements Specification (URS), GxP Assessment, Supplier Selection, and Supplier Audits. Getting this phase right is crucial to ultimate success. The issues that have to be managed can be summarized as follows ... 

Jean-Paul Sartre is reported to have said 1 shall die twice the first time physically, and the second time when no one shall read my works. Mikhail Temkin will live a long, long second life, as his name will remain known by new generations of kineticists who will not even need to read the original writings, since the main ideas of Temkin are already in all textbooks and monographs on heterogeneous catalysis. 

Acute kidney injury (ARF) was found to be the second life threatening effect. Hemodialysis had been used as a method of treatment with variable success [27-29]. On the other hand, peritoneal dialysis was used in the treatment of the ARF due to PPD toxicity in other reports [39]. 

Time limits can have at least three effects. First, they stop welfare payments once recipients exhaust their benefits - mechanical effect (Grogger and Karoly 2005). Second, life-time limits, intermittent limits, and work trigger time limits can affect the behaviour of both current benefit recipients and potential benefit recipients (applicants) - needy families not yet receiving TANF benefits (Moffitt and Pavetti 2000). The threat of time limits may cause consumers to reduce their... 

The remaining classes of hydrogen-deficient star are associated with very late stages of evolution, either low-mass stars approaching the horizontal-branch, or more massive stars which have already past the asymptotic-giant branch and are evolving to become white dwarfs, or yet older stars which have been white dwarfs and somehow found a second life. The first to consider are the low-mass supergiants. 

Another perspective is that not only becoming at one with the computer for our health is inevitable, but that it was already the case eons ago (in a sense different to the above, but at least showing that a computational universe is far from impossible). Many theoretical physicists who call themselves cos-mologists or information theorists have argued that the universe already is a computer, and we are immersed in its program. That may come as no shock to a generation so immersed in cyberspace, virtual reality, and business and leisure environments like Second Life (a virtual world developed by Linden... 

There is a rival school of thought when it comes to reuse. The first one is that a product can be reused for the same function until its functional life permits and the other option is that after a product s functional life ceases, it can be reused for a different purpose (maybe inferior to the previous one). The first type of reuse includes usage of a product by the same user or the product is donated or sold by the first user to the second one, accomplishing the same function in its second life as in its first life. Reusability of a product is defined as the ability of an item to be used repeatedly, unlike a disposable product. A similar definition can easily be adopted for textile products. 

E. Culp, Additives Can Give Reclaim a Second Life, Modem Plastics International, 24,9, pp. 59-62 (1994). 

Barry s music has a tendency to reappear in surprising ways. For example, 25 years after its original release, when it wasn t a commercial success, Louis Armstrong s We Have All the Time in the World had a second life on the eharts due to its use in Guiness beer ads. John Bany tributes and coneert performanees eontinue internationally, with his Bond... 

Alaisa, C., Giving a Second Life to Plastic Scrap, Resource Recycling, Feb. 1997, pp. 29-31. 

Compatibilisers are certain to benefit from the recycling trend, but the reuse of polymers for plasties (as opposed to their use as fuel or their conversion to feedstock for chemical intermediates) may be aeeompanied by the reuse of at least a proportion of the additives. Researeh is being earned out to make possible the systematic recovery of additives from used artieles. Several observers believe that energy recovery and feedstock recycling will often be more eeonomie than eonversion to second-life plastics products. 

Tough job, isn t it But as Hemingway taught us in his books and Fleming summed it up in his haiku in the novel You Only Live Twice, your second life begins only when you ve faced death. In a way, when good old James Bond faces death, he s reminding us not to waste any moment of our lives. 

Second Life, another virtual life simulator, created by Linden Lab, had an active online player base of around 500,000 in 2007. 

A thriving industry has been developed using virtual reality. Linden Research s Second Life is one of the most popular virtual reality offerings. Members immerse themselves in a world where they have the opportunity to be someone that they might never be in real life. A number of organizations use Second Life for various purposes, including education. 

The collection of bottles is organized by the consortia and operated by subcontractors who also perform sorting. The sorted bottles are then baled and sent to the regeneration section. After this treatment the material is ready to be reused (second life). The sequence of the purification operations is as follows (see Figure 2) ... 

I liked the NG (Nazarov-Gurov) approach but reahzed that its predictions of the KirkendaU shift were far from experimental. So, my aim was to somehow combine Darken s scheme and the NG theory. My main idea was to introduce the hierarchy of time-space scales. In nanoscale (when the size of a physicaUy small volume is less than the free-waUc distance of a vacancy to the sink) and in the corresponding time scale, the NG theory holds. In macroscale we come back to Darken. Evidently, in nanosystems the characteristic size is often less than the typical mean free path length for vacancies. Thus, nonequiUbrium vacancies generated by interdiffusion obtain a second life in application to nanoshell formation and coUapse, initial stages of SSR, electromigration, coarsening of nanoalloys, spinodal decomposition and so on. 

A very comprehensive and matter of fact consideration of the best way to realise the potential value of scrap plastics as secondary raw materials or as energy has been presented by M T Dennison in a series of papers, see for ex. References [5] and [7]. The paper [5], titled Plastics Recycling Product, Feedstock or Energy - a Future View, considers the finding of the best balance in terms of environmental benefit and overall cost to society between mechanical recycling into second life plastics products, conversion back into feedstock for re-use in either the chemicals or oil industries, or ultimately as replacement for traditional fuels for power generation. 

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