Abstract Open-Source Mobile Application Development for Emergency Data Collection This Master degree project identified disasters and emergencies as a global humanitarian and technological challenge. Emergency management organizations ’ need for access to accurate and up-to-date information about the emergency situation‚ to help respond to‚ recover from and mitigate the effects of disasters and emergencies‚ present a challenge to the field of Geomatics. Today the use of remote sensing
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People tend to view tragedy in cataclysmic and catastrophic terms. Every night on the news we hear murders‚ assassinations and bombings referred to as Atragedies.@ Tragedy need not be an event which affects the community at large. Rather‚ any event which teaches an important lesson to a specific person or a group of people can be viewed as a type of tragedy. While the Greek tragedies focused upon the catastrophic nature of tragedy‚ The Biblical Book of Genesis provides the reader with another
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What Caused World War 1? During World War 1‚ there were many things that caused it. Imperialism is a structure where a powerful nation takes over or controls over someone‚ something‚ or a place and utilizes one or many colonies. During World War 1‚ Britain was one of the world’s most powerful nation that anyone could ever imagine. Britain took over in the late 1800’s over; Canada‚ India‚ Ceylon‚ Burma‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Hong Kong and other Pacific and Caribbean Islands‚ South Africa‚ Rhodesia
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North and South The United States of America‚ the great democratic experiment‚ was just that. Not since the great Greek culture had a government of‚ for‚ and by the people existed. The entire world felt‚ that on a large scale‚ democracy would inevitably lead to anarchy; our founding fathers were determined to prove them wrong. But as the political stand off with the British became a secession issue‚ a great issue split the future nation. Slavery‚ a southern necessity‚ both social and economic‚ threatened
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see their fallen homes and shattered lives‚ they wonder how this catastrophe could have happened. Some argue that hurricanes are unpredictable phenomena that cannot be controlled‚ and that our government responded to the best of its ability. Others‚ however‚ realize that controlling a storm is completely different than preparing for one. While President Bush may not have control over the weather‚ he had experts predicting a catastrophe like Katrina years before it developed. The Gulf Coast region was
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Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is‚ among other things‚ a meditation on morality‚ what makes human life meaningful‚ and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas‚ it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel‚ The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral
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Case Study Questions ADM 624 Public Governance 11/13/12 The Katrina Breakdown Case Study Questions August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. A plan of action was created only hours ahead of time. One can say the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina and the poor execution is a lesson learned for all officials who are the head of Natural Disaster Preparedness. Unfortunately 1200 lives were lost and the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States in over 75 years. With the
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been adapting to new challenges all the time weather it would be on land or water and even both‚but all of a sudden they were no longer capable.This was the most adapting creature in the world and it was dying could this be a sign that a major catastrophe was going to happen.Kelbert wrote “amphibians are among the world’s great survivors. The Ancestors of these reptiles crawled out of the water some four hundred million years ago”(Kolbert 9). Furthermore‚ Kolbert explains that amphibians have been
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objective of this project is to create interactive components in the Catastrophe room of the ACC. The development team must create an interactive game in accordance with the present theming in the challenge center as well as the existing storyline of the multi-room missions. The scope of this project includes the design‚ programming and installation of the Landmine game for the Catastrophe room as pictured in Figure 1. Figure 1: Catastrophe Room In the Landmine game‚ participants enter the room and
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There Will Come Soft Rains The short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” from “The Martian Chronicles” written by Ray Bradbury after the second world war deals with a futuristic house which is uninhabited due to a nuclear catastrophe and completely controlled by a computer so that everything works fully automatically. Furthermore it is about uncontrollable nature which cuts its own path - no matter whether there is mankind any longer - and causes a fire to break out which destroys the house completely
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