Smog can form in almost any climate where industries or cities release large amounts of air pollution‚ such as smoke or gases. However‚ it is worse during periods of warmer‚ sunnier weather when the upper air is warm enough to inhibit vertical circulation. It is especially prevalent in geologic basins encircled by hills or mountains. It often stays for an extended period of time over densely populated cities or urban areas‚ such as London‚ Atlanta‚ Houston‚ Phoenix‚ Las Vegas‚ New Delhi‚ New York
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of 2.5 million children‚ annually. •Poor indoor air – 4 million people annually die from acute respiratory infections (ARI) •Malaria – 1 to 3 million people die annually‚ 80% of them are children. Other less lethal diseases (dengue and yellow fever) affect millions. Early Theories of Disease •Humoral Theory – oAncient Greek medicine was based on their understanding of the cosmos: everything organized through the elements: Earth Air Fire Water oHippocrates’ teachings influence
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Assignment: Inverted Index October 19‚ 2012 1 Introduction Today‚ top search engines like Google and Yahoo use a data structure called Inverted Index for their matching of queries to the documents and give users the relevant documents according to their rank. Inverted Index is basically a mapping from a word to its position of occurence in the document. Since a word may appear more than once in the document‚ storing all the positions and the frequency of a word in the document gives an
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across the following information- : The 8.68% rise in the number of vehicles during 2011-12 has taken its toll on city’s ambient air quality. As a result‚ there is no let-up either in the air pollution or the noise pollution levels. The increase in the number of vehicles has also led to a rise in the concentration of fine particulate matter in the air. The ambient air quality assessment report released by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research on Tuesday‚ shows rise in pollution levels for residential
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Aim:- To investigate the effect of changing the temperature of glycerin on the index of refraction. In this experiment I will be using a simple method‚ which needs the following materials 40ml of glycerin in a beaker‚ protractor‚ a pencil‚ a laser‚ a paper to draw boundaries‚ circular plastic plates‚ hotplate‚ ruler and a digital thermometer. In this experiment 1 trial will be conducted for glycerin with 70 Celsius degrees ‚66‚62‚58‚ and another trial with 10 Celsius degrees. Scientific Background:-
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For my book report I have chosen "Into Thin Air: A personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This non-fiction book is written by Jon Krauker‚ who is a journalist. In this book‚ Krauker talks about the events which led him to participate in an expedition to Mt. Everest and what happens during this expedition. This expedition to Everest of 1996 is considered to be one of the deadliest season in history and Krauker tells the story of it. Krauker is a writer and a climber who is put on an assigment
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Taj Mahal - The Taj - is the "King Emperor" amongst the World Wonders. The Taj is the final achievement and acme of the Mughal Art. It represents the most refined aesthetic values. It is a fantasy-like grandeur. It is the perfect culmination and artistic interplay of the architects’ skill the jewellers’ inspiration. The marble in-lay walls of the Taj are amongst the most outstanding examples of decorative workmanship. The elegant symmetry of its exterior and the aerial grace of its domes and minarets
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dollars invested in or benchmarked to capitalizationweighted market indexes such as the S&P 500 Index or the Russell 1000 Index. Many academic papers‚ however‚ have rejected the idea that cap-weighted indexes are good CAPM market proxies‚ which is equivalent to rejecting the mean–variance efficiency of those indexes.1 It also suggests that more efficient indexes exist. The effort to identify a better index may be moot‚ however‚ if ex ante identification is impossible or if cap-weighted equity market
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H A B I T A T INTL. Vol. 19‚ No. 3‚ pp. 279-292‚ 1995 Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain 0197-3975/95 $9.50 + 0.00 0197-3975(94)00071-9 Sustainable Development and the Construction Industry* ROBIN SPENCE and HELEN MULLIGANt Cambridge University‚ UK and tCambridge Architectural Research Limited‚ UK ABSTRACT The construction industry‚ together with the materials industries which support it‚ is one of the major global exploiters of natural resources‚ both physical
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largest increasing factor in our world. This factor is the cause of many events in our world. Poverty hunger and war are just some of the immediate effects of increasing population. Among these extreme causes the less immediate events will be seen with air pollution‚ land degradation‚ which is the effect that’ll have the longest term effect on the world. But how can these events are avoided? Is there any hope of stopping this from occurring any further? The largest‚ most identified reason for pollution
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