ISDR Briefing Note 01 Geneva‚ September 2008 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Weather‚ climate and climate change Defining climate change For most people‚ the expression “climate change” means the alteration of the world’s climate that we humans are causing‚ through fossil fuel burning‚ clearing forests and other practices that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG)1 in the atmosphere. This is in line with the official definition by the United Nations Framework Convention
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HARD DRIVE IMAGE ACQUISITION One hard-drive was removed from the desktop computer that was brought to the Colorado Technical University Computer Forensic Lab. The drive was a Fujitsu MPA3035ATU model and had a storage capacity of 3.2 Gigabytes. I connected the drive to a computer running Windows 8 Professional 64bit using a Kingwin EZ-connect USI-2535 (IDE/SATA-300-ATA storage controller). This is a USB to IDE/SATA storage controller with SATA and IDE connectors. The software used to create a
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leanna 11 December 2008 2Y Abortion has been a controversial topic in the U.S. for a long time. There are people always debating whether it is right or wrong. There are many different “truths” in this topic‚ for religion‚ a person’s upbringing‚ and personal experience come into play. I personally do not know what is true and what is not because of what I have been told all my life about how abortion is bad. The importance of this topic to me and the many versions of the truth and my life depending
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Corona Extra Corona Extra is the leading brand in the domestic market‚ the number one imported beer in the United States and the fourth most valuable brand in the world‚ is the best-selling Mexican beer in the world‚ beer‚ and their marketing is focused on a market for relaxing and looking for refreshment and that why their slogan says “Miles Away From Ordinary” That’s Corona its so easy to drink‚ they made a clear‚ see-through bottle Because when you ’use only the finest ingredients‚ you
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MUS 354: The Beatles After the Beatles (Fall 2012) You are signed in as: Da Yin Top of Form Sign Out Bottom of Form Home Classroom Exams/Assignments Grades Help Exam #1 Time Limit 50 minutes Starting Time 9:40 pm Arizona time Top of Form 1 Beatle ______________ sings lead on this syncopated melody. Paul Ringo John Yoko George 2 One writer describes this 1971 John song as "leaping right out of the radio" with its dramatic‚ unaccompanied vocal choir opening and powerful funky rock bass and
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In this essay I will explain the strategies used within health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal skills. Staff training in communication skills Employers need to make sure that they have given employees full training. It is the employer’s job to make sure that the employees are fully qualified with the correct training. Employees would have to go on training courses to prevent communication barriers between service users. Staffs who receive
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Title of Work: The Importance of Being Earnest Author: Oscar Wilde Date of Publication: 1895 Genre: Social satire/Drama/comedy in mannerisms Writing Style: Epigrams‚ puns‚ repetition Point of View: third person omniscient Setting/Atmosphere: London‚ England‚ ends in country side‚ Hertfordshire Plot Development: Act I: Jack visits Algy in city‚ he’s in love with Gwendolen (Algy’s cousin)‚ Algy brings up cigarette case‚ jack reveals his true identity ‚ tells who Cecily is‚ Algy like cesily just from
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Drivers who may drive drunk‚ argue that they have the right to drink and or consume alcohol. Although each and every person has the freedom to do what he wants‚ it should also be considered that the actions should not violate rights of other people or be harmful to anyone
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STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM‚ PROVIDING FOR THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN‚ APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010”. Sec. 2.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS‚ VOL. 11‚ NO. 4‚ AUGUST 2003 429 Noise Reduction by Fuzzy Image Filtering Dimitri Van De Ville‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Mike Nachtegael‚ Dietrich Van der Weken‚ Etienne E. Kerre‚ Wilfried Philips‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Ignace Lemahieu‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE Abstract—A new fuzzy filter is presented for the noise reduction of images corrupted with additive noise. The filter consists of two stages. The first stage computes a fuzzy derivative for eight different directions
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