...The Analysis of Impact of Irrigation Water Quality on Human Health: a case study in Musi River in Hyderabad, India Jeena T. Srinivasan and V. Ratna Reddy have conducted this research project in Hyderabad, India. Srinivasan has worked at Research Unit for Livehoods and Natural Resource (RULNER) which is promoted by the Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad, India. Reddy has worked at Livelihoods and Natural Resources Management Institute which is also promoted by CESS. Srinivasan is the corresponding author who leads the whole research. By taking six villages with wastewater for irrigation along with Musi River and one control village with normal quality water (Srinivasan & Reddy, 2009, P.2800), the researchers tried to evaluate the difference of human health risks level between the two groups villagers. Besides, the researchers used the term “Morbidity Rates” associated with cost of illness to explain the different health risks exposing to individual family members in a household. Thus, there is a need for government to take several responsibilities to break the vicious circle which contaminated wastewater discharges from urban users to inflict harm on rural residents, and in turn as crops and meats for urban consumption (P. 2802). On the other hand, the researchers also tried to figure out determinants of morbidity. They classify households into high or low risk groups with four factors: location, the degree...
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...Data-Driven Entertainment/Education Friberger et al. defines data games as “games where gameplay and/or game content is based on real-world data external to the game, and where gameplay supports the exploration of and learning from this data.” They also use a taxonomy to explore the categories of such games. They propose to use open and linked data to procedurally generate game content. One of their examples was Open Trumps based on the popular card game Trumps. The data source for the game content is a UN database of countries and demographics indicators. However, procedural content generation entails some transformation of data into the game content. As the authors caution, we must be careful of transformations that “lead to an unacceptable loss of veracity in relation to the original source.” In our work, the game content is the original data [1, 2, 3]. Moreover, our perspective in this endeavor to foster understanding is general instead of a game focused. Thus, it is from this general point of view that we classify data-driven applications. The figure below illustrates the classification matrix: rows represent data velocity (static or dynamic) and columns the goals of the application. The first type of goals is informational: the application just provides specific information to the user usually through visualization; interaction with the data is minimal. The second type of goal focuses on interaction with the data for sensemaking; applications in this case are usually...
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...MIT Portugal Program on Sustainable Energy Systems – Energy, Environment and Sustainability, 2011-2012 1 ENERGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Cristina I. F. Andrade FEUP University of Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465, Porto, Portugal. Phone: +351225081895, Fax: +351225081503 Summary: In this paper it's done an approach of the different kind of concerns of developing and developed countries to lead to sustainable development. It has a first chapter about the roles for development, after one about sustainable development with an analysis of a triangle of sustainable development and indicators. It‟s also talked the main utilizations of the energy, about the points where we can act and another chapter about energy on households on developing and developed countries. In the end there are presented some proposals and case studies about energy on households. 1. INTRODUCTION Being energy one of the most important cornerstones of the world development, through energy we can determine the development state of each country. Sustainable development would be the greatest goal to achieve on the global world, but we have some setbacks to understand, in one hand we have social concerns to resolve on the developing countries, that need energy supply to develop their economies and provide better lifestyle and on another hand we have environmental problems on developed countries due to the big demand of energy, consequently less clean energy. Due to social behaviors, the inequalities...
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...Have you ever wondered where you could find a great happy-hour bar recommended by your closest friends, or how far away you are from the nearest hotel and their website, or the nearest Latin American restaurant while you're on vacation? Location-based services allow you to access this information even when you are miles away from home. These services have a magnitude of uses in social networking, and they are largely accessible through mobile device networks. They use information on the geographical position of a mobile device and enable the user to find the nearest business or service. In addition, the combination of mobile apps and location-based services allows marketers to reach out to their customers to send them more targeted content. Not only do location-based services help the consumer, but they also help advertise the company through social media networks. Stating location is no longer just a form of showing the public what you have seen and where you have been. It is like a free advertisement or commercial for people that view that picture (instagram) or status (Facebook). It has created an extra column in the marketing aspect of the business both for future consumers as well as systems that try to adapt to the users preferences. Applications such as Foursquare, Wikitude, and Yelp are widely used by many people, but the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) community is still in search for the "killer app" that will become so widely used in society that GIS...
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...Study and Research Skills Immigration to the European Union An issue or a solution? Polet Boglarka Julianna HPA8B6 BA in International Business, year 1 07\11\2013 Table of content Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………… pg3 1. Immigration…………………………………………………………………………………………… pg3 2.1 What is migration?..............................................................................................................pg3 2.2 Reasons for migration……………………………………………………………………………pg4 2.3 European Policy about migration…………………………………………………………pg7 2. Immigration: Costs and Benefits………………………………………………………………..pg8 3.4 Analyze of the social-economic and political effects on the EU by migration ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….pg 8 3.5 Cost and Benefit Table………………………………………………………………………pg10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………...pg12 Introduction Migration is an actual...
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...smaller clusters around water bodies. Hence over a period of time due to the demands of urbanisation, development has slowly crept up to the banks of these lakes thereby converting the once sprawling water bodies in to mere water tanks which are prone to degradation through development pressure, eutrophication and solid waste disposal Recently, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has taken tremendous efforts to revive the natural resources of the region and improve the environment in totality. One of the initiatives is the Lake Conservation Programme.. The program not only included cleaning and bioremediation of the lakes but also took steps for creating lakes as the hub of economic activity, thereby providing an indirect source of livehood for many people. This...
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...빅데이터로 인한 기회 보다 빠르고 스마트한 맞춤 정부 만들기 크리스 유 빅데이터로 인한 기회 보다 빠르고 스마트한 맞춤 정부 만들기 크리스 유 목 차 ●●●●●● ●●●●●● ●●●●●● Ⅰ. 요약 ················· 1 ················· ················ ················ Ⅱ. 빅데이터로 인한 기회 ··········3 ········· ········· ········· Policy Exchange 및 저자 소개 ········ 5 ········ ······· ······· 디지털정부유닛에 대하여 ··········· 6 ·· · · · ·· · · · · · · · ·· · · · ·· ·· · · · ·· · · · 감사의 글 ················· 7 ················· ················· ················ 요약 ··················· 8 ··················· ··················· ··················· 1. 어디를 가도 데이터 천지 ········· 12 · ·· ·· ·· ·· · ·· ·· ·· · · ·· ·· ·· · 2. 빅데이터 개요 ············· 13 ·· ···· ··· ···· ···· ··· ···· ·· ·· ··· ···· ··· · 3. 공공부문에서 빅데이터가 왜 중요한가 ····18 ··· ··· ··· 4. 실용적인 아이디어 소개 ········· 24 ·· · ·· · ·· · · · ·· · ·· · · · ·· · ·· · ·· 5. 노력의 결실 ·············· 30 ·············· ·············· ·············· 6. 빅데이터에도 엄격한 판단이 필요하다 ····33 ··· ··· ··· 7. 역량 ················· 36 ·············· ··· ······ ··········· ·············· ··· 8. 권한(Power)과 책임 ··········· 41 ·· · ·· ·· ·· · · · · ·· ·· ·· · · · ·· ·· · ·· ·· 9. 권고 ················· 44 ·············· ··· ······ ··········· ·············· ··· 덧붙이는 말 : 지도자들이 해야 할 질문 · · · · 49 ···· ··· ··· 요약 ������ 1 ������ 요 약 ������ ������ 보편화된 모바일 기기 사용 및 SNS 이용 확산 등에 따라 빅데이터 (Big data)가 글로벌 이슈로 급부상 ๐ 미국과 일본 정부는 이미 빅데이터 활용을 통한 정부 서비스 개선 전략1)을 추진 중이며, OECD는 빅데이터의 경제적 가치 측정을 주요 의제2)로 채택하여 논의 ������ 주요 선진국을 중심으로 빅데이터 전략이 추진되고 있는 가운데, 영국의 연구기관인 팔러시...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1. The Tanzania Development Vision foresees that by the year 2025, “Tanzania should have created a strong, diversified, resilient and competitive economy, which can effectively cope with the challenges of development and, which can also easily and confidently adapt to the changing market and technological conditions in the regional and global economy”. The challenge is therefore to mobilise human and other resources towards that goal. 2. Economic Reform Programmes implemented by the Tanzanian Government have been based on the philosophy that Tanzania is committed to a market economy whereby the private sector will take the lead in creating incomes, employment and growth. On the other hand, the State will be a producer of public goods, play a regulatory role to level the playing field and create conducive environment for the private sector to take the lead in driving economic growth. This philosophy is evident in almost all policy statements made since 1986 and in particular after 1996. The private sector has started playing an ever- increasing role in creating incomes and employment. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) account for a large share of the enterprises active in Tanzania. In fact Small and Medium Enterprises are the emerging private sector and do form the base for private sector-led growth. 3. SMEs, important as they are to the economy, have been facing a number of problems despite the on-going reform programmes. This...
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...SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Prepared for: Professor Christopher Selvarajah Prepared by: Thanh Tuan Nguyen Student ID : 100010779 Prepared for: Professor Christopher Selvarajah Prepared by: Thanh Tuan Nguyen Student ID : 100010779 Exploring Justice, Fairness and Organizational sustainability in the international environment: The case of 2010 Gulf of Mexico Exploring Justice, Fairness and Organizational sustainability in the international environment: The case of 2010 Gulf of Mexico Abstract This study leverages insights from the literature of organizational sustainability, stakeholder theory as well as the notion of organizational justice and fairness to help answer the question as to how companies should morally prioritize corporate social responsibility, corporate accountability and stakeholder claims. In this paper, I also utilized the concept of corporate social responsibility as well as the triple bottom line in order to form my own model of sustainability. This model is used to analyze the case of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spills which was claimed as the responsibility of British Petroleum. I also addressed the strong relationship between organizational justice and organization sustainability with the conclusion that by enhancing organizational justice and fairness, organizations will be able to obtain its sustainable development in the long terms. Moreover, it is important to note that this article...
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...Introduction to Islamic Insurance K. M. Mortuza Ali 1 K. M. Mortuza Ali Managing Director Prime Islami Life Insurance Limited 29 Dilkusha C/A Raj Bhaban (6th Floor) Dhaka – 1000 Phone – 9560889, 9570729 (Off) 8353552 (Res) Mobile – 019-366617 Fax – 880-2-9564390 Email – plicl@bdonline.com kmortuza@bdmail.net 2 Chapter (I) Basic ideas about Risk & Insurance 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is Risk? How do we distinguish between pure risk and speculative risk ? How risk is handled? Why every risk is not insured? What are the characteristics of Insurable risks? What are the requisites of Insurance for Covering Risk? What are the Principles of Insurance contract? What are the different types of Life Insurance policies? How Insurance is different from Gambling? 10. What is the main function of insurance? 11. What is the greatest value of insurance? 12. What is the Purpose of Life Insurance? 13. How insurance protects value of life? 14. How life Insurance schemes meet the saving needs? 15. What are the social and economic values of Insurance? 16. What is the Actuarial principle of Life Insurance? 17. What is reinsurance? 18. What are the different methods of reinsurance? 1. What is Risk? Risk has been defined as the uncertainty as to the occurrence of an economic loss. It is the passivity of adverse result from a desired outcome. Risk and probability are not synonymous. We must understand the difference between risk and probability. The terms hazard and peril are...
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...MASTERING O’LEVEL ISLAMIAT The only book you will ever need to excel MUHAMMAD BILAL ASLAM 1 All rights reserved No portion of this book may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means without written permission of the author. Book’s Name Author Printer : : : MASTERING O’LVEL ISLAMIAT MUHAMMAD B I LAL ASLAM MAKTABA-JADEED PRESS 14-Empress Road, Lahore. TARIQ NAJIB CORPORATION 16-Temple Road, Lahore. ANEES BOOK CORNER Main Market, Gulberg, Lahore Phone: 042-5751683, 042-5757971, 0300-4498313 1999 2001 2006 2008 Publisher : Stockist : First Edition Second Edition Third Edition Fourth Edition Price : : : : : Rs. 300/- 2 Preface This fourth edition of `Mastering O Level Islamiat’ has been updated in line with the requirements of 200ave tried to make this version as complete and well-rounded as possible by adding a number of new sections and chapters so that students have all the possible information they require under one cover. I have also included in this new version ten standard maps to enable the students to better comprehend a situation and to know where exactly the event took place at the given point of time. Judging by the feedback I have received since this book was first published in 1999, I have very high hopes that Insha Allah it will be as helpful to students as it was then. Amen! Muhammad Bilal Aslam 3 4 Table of Contents • Preface Passages from the Holy Quran History and Importance of the Holy Quran Arabia...
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...M. K. Gandhi AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR The story of my experiments with truth TRANSLATED FROM THE GUJARATI BY MAHADEV DESAI GANDHI BOOK CENTRE Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal 299, Tardeo Raod, Nana Chowk Bombay - 7 INDIA 3872061 email: info @ mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org www: mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org NAVAJIVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE AHMEDABAD-380014 Chapter 1 BIRTH AND PARENTAGE he Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grandfather, they have been Prime Ministers in several Kathiawad States. Uttamchand Gandhi, alias Ota Gandhi, my grandfather, must have been a man of principle. State intrigues compelled him to leave Porbandar, where he was Diwan, and to seek refuge in Junagadh. There he saluted the Nawab with the left hand. Someone, noticing the apparent discourtesy, asked for an explanation, which was given thus: 'The right hand is already pledged to Porbandar.' Ota Gandhi married a second time, having lost his first wife. He had four sons by his first wife and two by his second wife. I do not think that in my childhood I ever felt or knew that these sons of Ota Gandhi were not all of the same mother. The fifth of these six brothers was Karamchand Gandhi, alias Kaba Gandhi, and the sixth was Tulsidas Gandhi. Both these brothers were Prime Ministers in Porbandar, one after the other. Kaba Gandhi was my father. He was a member of the Rajasthanik Court. It is now extinct, but in those days it was a very influential body for...
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