...My Le Professor Robb A. Bajema EL 100 April 26th, 2013 Air pollution in China Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems in China. According to a new analysis, approximately 1.2 million people die prematurely from exposure to outdoor air pollution in China. A study by Greenpeace and Beijing University focusing on four Chinese cities estimates the number of people dying prematurely from air pollution is close to three times that killed by traffic accidents. The air has been classified as hazardous to human health, at its worst hitting pollution levels 25 times that considered safe in the US. The entire city is blanketed in a thick grey smog that smells of coal and stings the eyes, leading to official warnings to stay inside. The majority of the air pollution in China is generated by the burning of coal to generate electric power. China gets 80 percent of electricity and 70 percent its total energy from coal, much of it polluting high-sulphur coal. Around six million tons of coal is burned everyday to power factories, heat homes and cook meals. Jerry Goodell wrote in Natural History magazine: “In China coal is everywhere. It’s piled up on sidewalks, pressed into bricks, and stacked neat the back doors of homes. It’s stockpiled into small mountains in open fields, and carted around behinds bicycles and wheezing locomotives. Plumes of coal smoke rise from rusty stacks on every urban horizon. Soot covers every windowsill and ruins the collar...
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...Read the scenario. Using the information provided in the references and lesson, arrive with your best possible solution. You are a squad leader in “Sapper” platoon, Special Troop Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. Your unit will deploy to Afghanistan to conduct operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. One of your critical tasks in preparing for your deployment is to train your squad on the laws and regulations that we must implement to protect our environment from being damage and contaminated. The 586th Assault Float Bridge (AFB) Company will conduct a five-day FTX in the Anatuvak training area of Camp Yukon. The unit will depart Fort Chilly and convoy 120 miles on limited-access highways. The commander establishes several rest areas and tactical refueling and maintenance points along the route. Reconnaissance team indicated the trip to take approximately 8 hours. Upon arrival at Camp Yukon, the unit will move into the Anatuvak training area and set up a bivouac site, preceded by their quartering party. During the FTX, the company will conduct tactical-bridging operations on the Yukon River. The FTX will involve normal operations (12 to 16 hours a day), with some night and limited visibility operations. The operations will include the use of pyrotechnics and blank munitions. The FTX will not include live fire due to budgetary constraints. The area has hills, wetlands, several winding streams, and one large river. Signs in the area identify and mark...
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...phần F trang 11 H & T: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. H: My name is Hoai. T: My name is Trang. Today we would like to present to you about skills in making a successful telephone call. H: I will play Lochlin Plc’s receptionist and Laurie Thompson, Trang will play Ernesto Badia. Reng… Reng…. H: This is Lochlin Plc. May I help you? T: Good morning. Could I speak to Laurie Thompson, please? H: Please hold on. I will put you through… Sorry, I am afraid she is not at her desk right now. Would you like to leave a message? T: Yes, please. This is Ernesto Badia from KMV. I am calling about applying for a job in the advertisement. Could you ask her to call me back? My phone number is 0909 666 123 H: OK. I will tell her as soon as she comes back. T: Thank you. Goodbye. H: Not at all. Goodbye. T: Ernesto Badia is speaking. Can I ask who is calling, please? H: This is Laurie Thompson. I took your message. How could I help you? T: Yes. Could you tell me how to apply for the job in the advertisement, please? H: OK. I will send you an application form. After you fill in this form, pleasr send completed application profile to me. T: Could you tell me when the deadline for application is? H: The closing date for applications is on August the twentieth. T: Thank you very much. Goodbye. H: You are welcome....
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...TASK. 1. Discuss five challenges facing ESD in Kenya. 2. Highlight any five key factors of ESD in Kenya and discuss the teaching approaches used by them. Introduction Education for sustainable development aims at preservation of environmental integrity economic viability and a just society for present and future generations.ESD addresses these objectives through the establishment of broad teaching and learning process that emphasizes and interdisciplinary and holistic approach that promotes critical and creative thinking in education. In order to ensure that everyone gets this knowledge several actors play very vital roles in promoting education for sustainable development. Actors of ESD 1. Government agencies like NEMA, TARDA etc. It defines what type of information is needed and how this information will be used. The government provides information of ESD through workshops, seminars and trainings where policy makers will share issues pertaining to education for sustainability development. For instance, NEMA Provides technical resources and the know how in managing pollution. This is done through seminars and workshops organized to educate people on the essence of a clean and healthy environment. For example, conservation of wetland seminar held February 2016 in Kericho County. The government has also provided resources used in promoting ESD such as adopting of information technology. This facilitates efficient and effective communication between...
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...Course Outline 1. Introduction and History History Life Cycle Software and Process Qualities 2. Object-Oriented Modeling Concepts of Object Orientation Modeling and the Unified Modeling Language 3. Requirements and Early Life-Cycle Engineering Requirements Elicitation Software Specification Object-Oriented Analysis 4. Software Design Classical and Object-Oriented Design Architecture and Patterns (Components) Software Engineering - Summer 2004 5-1 © Stefan Leue 2004 Course Outline 5. Software Quality Assurance Testing Inspections (Reliability) (Software Metrics) 6. Software Production Process Evolutionary Models Spiral Model Unified Process Maturity Assessment (Agile Process) 7. Software Project Planning and Management Project Structure and Staffing Effort Estimation Scheduling Software Engineering - Summer 2004 5-2 © Stefan Leue 2004 Life-cycle Model: Waterfall Module Implementation and Test • translate design modules into code modules • test modules in isolation SRS Design Design Implementation System design Requirements Software Quality Assurance • did we build the model right? Software Engineering - Summer 2004 5-3 © Stefan Leue 2004 Life-cycle Model: Waterfall Integration and Testing • integrate tested module to form system • integration testing (incremental or big bang) • validation • customer acceptance testing Design Implementation System design Requirements SRS Design Integration Software Quality Assurance • did we build the model right? Software...
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...If you were to turn on your TV, you would most likely be greeted by a commercial telling its viewer to eat healthy. In order to achieve a better lifestyle and become more healthy the advertisement would suggest that its viewers convert their diets to consuming more organic food rather than conventional foods. Then only problem with this is there are no truly hard-hitting facts that can prove one production method of food is significantly superior to the other in promoting overall wellness. In this essay, I am going to explain some of the issues and ideals with organic production, so that you may have a better understanding of the struggle between deciding to eat organic or to continue eating conventionally grown food. Many people do not even know the difference between organic and inorganic food, they only go by what they see on the label of the food they are purchasing. The major difference in farming organic food as opposed to conventional is the limited use of pesticides. Conventional farming relies heavily on pesticides, growth hormone usage, and applying other chemicals that may be potentially harmful to the consumer of the plant or animal meat. The biggest issue with the conventional farming is the use of the pesticide DDT, which has been proven to be the cause of the widespread thinning of bird eggs, and a sudden drop in the bald eagle and peregrine falcon population (Organic Food Exposed). Rather than using pesticides, organic farmers allow plants to produce their own...
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...Environment assignment number one Beluga whale case study Omar Soliman The degradation of beluga population at the St. Lawrence Estuary derives as a direct result of Anthropogenic factors. Severe and sudden changes in climate are undesirably affecting the oxygen saturation within the waters, and hence negatively affect beluga respiration patterns. The main concern with the experiment is that there might be other organisms that are newly introduced and flourish on behalf of the native beluga whales, and as a result deplete their current oxygen saturation levels. In this experiment, different kinds of algal groups will be observed. The reason why algal groups were chosen was because of their ability to considerably affect oxygen saturation levels, and the fact that they favor warmer climates. The following measurements must be taken. Primarily, a sample of deceased carcasses will be sufficient to measure oxygen intake. Blood samples and extracts will determine exactly if they are respiring naturally or not, and even indicate whether the quality of oxygen saturation has been affected. Secondly, devices that should measure oxygen saturation within the habitat must be deployed. This will give a much more reliable answer, in the case that the sampled whales show significant distortion in results. This could be in the case that the whales had a respiratory disease that affected them, or their blood stream might have been polluted with toxins that might have lowered the oxygen concentration...
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...6Critical Sociology http://crs.sagepub.com Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee Crit Sociol 2008; 34; 51 DOI: 10.1177/0896920507084623 The online version of this article can be found at: http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/1/51 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Critical Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://crs.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations (this article cites 30 articles hosted on the SAGE Journals Online and HighWire Press platforms): http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/34/1/51 Downloaded from http://crs.sagepub.com at LA TROBE UNIVERSITY on April 21, 2008 © 2008 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. Critical Sociology 34(1) 51-79 http://crs.sagepub.com Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee University of Western Sydney, Australia Abstract In this article I critically analyze contemporary discourses of corporate social responsibility and related discourses of sustainability and corporate citizenship. I argue that despite their emancipatory rhetoric, discourses of corporate citizenship, social responsibility and sustainability are defined by narrow business...
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...1.1 Statement of the problem Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) loan investment is the financial support Small and Medium sized enterprises and represents a major function of the general business financial market. BRAC Bank Limited was founded with the major objective of establishing develop economy for balanced economic growth by ensuring reduction of SME Investment Loan disparity and equitable distribution of income. In view of the above, Branches of the bank have been encouraged to grant their loans in their respective areas and in particular for the economic enlistment of the loner people. A accordingly a scheme in the name and style of small and medium Enterprise (SME) loan scheme has been introduced to cater to the investment needs of the several sector to create opportunity for generation of employment and raising income of the several people with a view to alleviate poverty. Banking Industry is one of the most promising industries of our country. The importance of the sector revealed through its contribution in the economic growth of the country. This sector accelerates economic growth through mobilizing funds from surplus unit to the deficit unit. Banking Industry is moving towards rapid changes due to technological innovation and diversified needs of its customers. Banks deal with the most important factor of the economy i.e. Money. It flows funds from surplus unit to deficit unit and through this it facilitated the efficient allocation of the resources as well...
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...Name: Lan Anh Huynh Student number: 13686 Essay: IELTS Topic: Styles of learning Word count: 379 Generally speaking, every human being in this world is unique and each individual has different ways in which they learn. According to one schoolar has said that " a learn who is aware of his or her learning styles will be more successful at learning independently". In this essay, i am going to discusses about whether a person who are aware of their style of learning which can help them to enhances learning and take control of their study. Indeed the experts and lecturers in schools always try to find unique ways to learn. Because they recognize that their students succeed only when school aware and find out how to learn more in line with them. For instance, some students learned how to record, but what they have heard from their teachers at school to be able to listen to and record from all the main ideas learned. And according to " The kolb learning style inventory". It have a four stage cycle of learning is feeling, watching, thinking and doing and four separate learning styles such as diverging, assimilating, converging and accommodating. On the whole, if the students cognitive and choose appropriate learningn, they can enhance learning ability. And so, you can rely on the theory of Kolb to choose a way that suits you best to learn so that you are able to study independently with the most efficient way or you can create your own learning from the amusing to you. As an...
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...TASK. 1. Discuss five challenges facing ESD in Kenya. 2. Highlight any five key factors of ESD in Kenya and discuss the teaching approaches used by them. Introduction Education for sustainable development aims at preservation of environmental integrity economic viability and a just society for present and future generations.ESD addresses these objectives through the establishment of broad teaching and learning process that emphasizes and interdisciplinary and holistic approach that promotes critical and creative thinking in education. In order to ensure that everyone gets this knowledge several actors play very vital roles in promoting education for sustainable development. Actors of ESD 1. Government agencies like NEMA, TARDA etc. It defines what type of information is needed and how this information will be used. The government provides information of ESD through workshops, seminars and trainings where policy makers will share issues pertaining to education for sustainability development. For instance, NEMA Provides technical resources and the know how in managing pollution. This is done through seminars and workshops organized to educate people on the essence of a clean and healthy environment. For example, conservation of wetland seminar held February 2016 in Kericho County. The government has also provided resources used in promoting ESD such as adopting of information technology. This facilitates efficient and effective communication between...
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...TRƯỜNG: ĐẠI HỌC BÁCH KHOA TP.HCM KHOA: KĨ THUẬT HÓA HỌC ĐỀ TÀI: NHÓM : 3 THÀNH VIÊN 1. LÊ DƯƠNG QUA (61303147) 2. ĐỖ TUẤN THANH (61303587) 3. VŨ NGUYỄN TỐ NHƯ (61302835) MỤC LỤC I. Lời nói đầu……………………………………………………………Trang 3 II. Tiểu sử và cuộc đời của Charles Darwin………………Trang 4 III. Hành trình tìm ra cơ sở học thuyết của Darwin……Trang 7 IV. CáChọc thuyết cơ bản của Darwin về loài……………..Trang 10 V. Tài liệu tham khảo………………………………………………Trang 15 DANH MỤC VIẾT TẮT -CLTN: chọn lọc tự nhiên LỜI NÓI ĐẦU Trái Đất của chúng ta được biết đến như một hành tinh duy nhất tồn tại sự sống và vô cùng phong phú. Số động thực vật và sự đa dạng chủng loài là rất đáng kinh ngạc. Số lượng ước đoán về các chủng loài khác nhau dao động từ 6 triệu đến 100 triệu loài. Không ai biết được có bao nhiêu loài động vật trên Trái Đất này. Dù nhìn ở đâu bạn cũng sẽ thấy sự sống. Thường có những bầy đàn khác nhau của cùng một chủng loài, ví dụ như: 200 loài khỉ khác nhau, 315 loài chim ruồi, gần 100 loài dơi, 35 nghìn loài bọ cánh cứng hay 250 nghìn loài hoa... Sự đa dạng sinh học quả thật đáng kinh ngạc. Nhưng tại sao lại có sự đa dạng sinh học này và làm sao để chúng ta cảm nhận được một vùng rộng lớn mà sinh vật đang sinh sống. 200 năm trước, đã có một người được sinh ra để giải thích về sự đa dạng sinh học của sự sống. Ông đã có bước cách mạng hóa giúp chúng ta nhìn ra nhìn ra thế...
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...Prison Environment Autumn Smith CJS/230 September 1, 2013 Fred Waltz INTRODUCTION Prisons have many differences however the environment is always similar. In the passage below I am going to define this environment and how it influences the institutional management ad custody. I will also discuss the changes if any are needed to improve institutional management. As the reader you will learn what secure custody methods are and how it is affected by the environment. If there are any improvements that can be made I will discuss them also. THE ENVIROMENT Not at all like home, is prison not the place to enjoy life. Inside the overcrowded, dirty, concrete walls danger lurks. Hundreds of troubled people are housed together living their lives. Prisoners always have to protect themselves from other inmates whom are violent and have no care for others. The management and custody is influenced by the environment in many ways. Most of the contraband that is found in prisons is from too close of relations between inmates and staff. There is also mare leniency given to some inmates in these situations. It is certain that drugs weapons and sexual relations can change the safety and structure of the prison environment. There are things that can be done to ensure this type of misconduct is seen less. There will always be criminals and people being sent away to jail/prison. It’s very expensive to keep building facilities to hold all the inmates. Going back to faculty having close...
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...Organizational Environment By: Lucinda Richmond BUS-322 Keith A. Graves Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University. The company was officially launched in September, 1998 in a friend’s garage. In one of the most anticipated Initial Public Offerings (IPO) Google raised $1.67 billion in August of 2004. Today, Google has over 12,000 employees in offices throughout the world. Google’s mission statement and corporate culture reflect a philosophy that you can “make money without doing evil” and that “work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun”. These beliefs dominate life at Google. The official mission statement of the company is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” In 2006, Google was selected by MBA students as the ideal place to work. In 2007 and 2008 Fortune Magazine named Google the Number 1 employer in their annual 100 Best Companies to Work For. * Google Company Culture Google is a high-energy, fast paced work environment. While the dress code might be “casual” the company attracts and retains some of the brightest minds in the technology industry. There is a work hard, play hard atmosphere. The Google Mountain View, CA headquarters (aka “the Googleplex”) is a campus-like environment. There are workout facilities, a café, well stocked snack rooms, and a dorm like environment. View the Google Office Descriptions for more details. In my opinion...
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...Monique Hall English 101 LOU Actions that Christians Should Take to Preserve and Restore the Environment Claim The topic of discussion weighs heavily on anthropologist, activist, politicians and those whose movement is geared to the preservation of the environment. As a result of the decomposing environment, the question of whose responsibility has moved from environmentalist those driven by scientific finding to Christians those whose love for Christ must now include the earth and inhabitants. God has supplied all our needs on completion of creating the earth, now the environment is at risk due to advance technology, pollution and climate control. As a believer of Christ there has to be a way that we can protect and restore what is being done to the Holy land. Forest are being destroyed to build up communities to meet the needs of our growing population. In which the land is suffering from the loss of trees that produce oxygen and keep the animals safe. According to Tikell, if something happens rapidly it is hardly recognized, but if it happens at a slower rate that is when it is noticed. (Tickell, 1990) The growth of a tree does not happen overnight, there is a process from seed time to the full development of a sprouting tree. In the same manner, the decomposition of the earth through decades of unfiltered toxins, fuels, limited regulations on air quality has sparked the...
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