Compulsory voting papers. Compulsory voting is increasingly resented by citizens in some countries such as Brazil, the largest country where compulsory voting is enforced: at the last presidential election in 2014, some 30 million voters, about 21% of registered voters, did not vote, despite the fact that Brazil has some of the most severe penalties enforced against non voters. A study of a Swiss canton where compulsory voting was enforced found that compulsory voting significantly increased electoral support for leftist policy positions in referenda by up to 20 percentage points. Another study found that the effects of universal turnout in the United
Catalytic combustion Catalytic combustion Catalytic combustion is a chemical process which uses a catalyst to speed desired oxidation reactions of a fuel and so reduce the formation of undesired products, especially pollutant nitrogen oxide gases (NO) far below what can be achieved without catalysts. The process was discovered in the 1970s at Engelhard Corp. Catalysts may be used to control combustion reactions in the following ways: Catalytic combustion was developed by Dr. William C. Pfefferle of Engelhard Corp by 1975. He co-founded a company, Precision Combustion, in 1986 to develop catalytic combustors for gas turbines. Pfefferle holds more than ninety United States