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Uninvited guests were treated to boiling water, tar, arrows, rocks, and other early weapons of mass destruction rained down on them from overhead.

Compact, integrated unit designed specifically for ease of use and robustness in high throughput Asphalt binder (bitumen) test environments.

Integrated fluid immersion cell specifically based on patented principle for temperature control of highly thermally-sensitive asphalt or bitumen samples.

Reduced expenditures were partly offset by increased requirements for upgrading the airport infrastructure in N’Djamena and Abéché under the Technical Arrangement with the European Union Force in order to comply with the internationalaviation safety standards and expand the tarmac surface to accommodate the European Union and United Nations aircraft, as well as additional requirements in respect of freight and related costs owing to the shipment of strategic deployment stocks equipment from the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi.

A prototype using copper piping pointedto an average asphalt temperature drop of around 10°C. The next step for the researchers will be to experiment with different materials for the piping, while different conductive aggregates will also be added to the asphalt in a bid to improve the overall rate of heat absorption.

For example, at one school children who were not allowed on the grass ‘would take great delight in taunting the supervisors by jumping on and off the edge of the field, or walking with one foot on the grass and one foot on the tarmacadam’ (ThompsonWhile play may appear at times to follow and imitate wider cultural constructions, children will also invest and embellish it with their own meanings.

The idea is simple: the sun-warmed asphalt can be used to heat up water, which is pumped through tubes embedded a few centimetres below the road surface.

MR TOMMY CHEUNG (in Cantonese): Deputy President, many academics and organizations have pointedout inrecent years that such construction materials as concrete and tarmac absorb a huge amount of heat energy during daytime and as there is no plant or vegetation to absorb the heat energy that they release at night, the urban temperature has therefore surged and created the heat island effect.

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These savings stem from the provision of more cost-effective ground handling services in-house in Khartoum and El Obeid for the full period rather than contracting out to commercial vendors, the reduction of air flight hours, as improvements in maintenance and repairs to helipads have allowed for more efficient air fleet management that result in lower requirements for helicopters to position or reposition in Kadugli, the reduction in the holding of spare parts as major maintenance work for ageing medium and heavy vehicle fleets, as accident repair and painting is outsourced, the reduction in vehicle replacements, as vehicles are redeployed from Khartoum to the sectors and team sites in support of Comprehensive Peace Agreement-related activities, and dispatch service is outsourced in part in Khartoum to accommodate the increase in demand, as fewer vehicles are available.

[...] adjustmentsof local oil product prices are always quick in going up but slow in coming down and the pace of price adjustments byvariousoil companies tends to be synchronized, while oil product pump prices often fail to truly reflect import costs, this Council urges the Government to actively consider introducing a fair competition law and other effective measures for the oilindustries, including requesting the Competition Policy Advisory Group to take heed of any unfair mode of competition that may emerge in the local oilmarket,and entrusting the Group to monitor and study the situation, with a view to increasing competitionin the oil industries and enhancing the transparency of product prices, thereby avoiding oligopoly, promoting fair competition and safeguarding commercial clients and the public against high oil prices.