Measures taken to reduce pollution. National efforts. Developing proper waste disposal methods 1. 2009= Singapore has 4 incineration plants to burn solid waste. 2. Incineration plants can produce electricity and reduce volume of waste= emit air pollutants and costly to build. 3. Singapore green plan 2012= aims to reduce amount of solid waste generated How? 1. Reducing waste going through incineration plants and landfills. 2. Promoting waste recycling and minimisation. Measures taken to
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In Puerto Rico‚ 3.4 million Americans are without electricity after Hurricane Maria‚ like a 50-mile wide tornado‚ virtually obliterated the island’s infrastructure. Essentials like food and water are nearly impossible to distribute‚ especially to the parts of the island that were hit the hardest. Local officials worry they may not reach everyone in time. Yet Donald Trump remained silent all weekend on the worst U.S. humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans. Instead‚ the president
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The Cold War‚ a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Though the two nations fought indirectly‚ the tensions between these two former allies invited all the world’s countries to watch the events of this war closely because its outcomes could have changed the world and sent it towards a destructive future. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in
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Scientists often do not see the consequences which may occur by playing God. The medical practices of today’s society as come a long way sine 1987‚ but as one develops more knowledge the more experimental one becomes. What people don’t seem to understand is that it is the actions which causes the consequences whether it’s good or bad and an example of this can be seen in the film Frankenstein. The fact of humans disrupting God’s ability to satisfy their own needs is unbiblical. People are taking
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Institute of graduate studies &research Information technology department Database systems Report on: (Comparison between Relational database & object oriented database) By: Mohammed Hussein Mahmoud Mustafa khedr To: Dr. Saad Darwish Introduction A database is a means of storing information in such a way that information can be retrieved from it. Thus a database is typically a repository for heterogeneous but interrelated pieces of information. Often a database contains more than one
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Shirley Lozano Prof. Fonts ENC 1101-1 16 March 2011 Fast Food and Obesity Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. What causes obesity is when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. For many people this boils down to eating too much and exercising too little. On the other hand‚ there are many factors that play a role in obesity such as age‚ gender‚ genetics‚ physical activity
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TOP 10 INCREDIBLE STORIES OF SURVIVAL While managing a decent job‚ to feed our families‚ and ourselves is the kind of survival‚ we face‚ there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors. 1. LANSA flight 508 On 24th December 1971‚ the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even
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Different cultures treat the prospects of dissolution of marriage differently. In Roman Catholicism marriage is treated to be sacrosanct and not to be allowed to be terminated easily. In the Muslim religion it is not considered to be so rigid; if the union is not a happy one‚ it is better to terminate. But termination is often unilateral‚ the option being vested with the husband who can pronounce irrevocably the dissolution of the marriage by mere repetition of a particular word three times. No doubt
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Conflict creates physical and mental consequences on individuals. Society devised these conflicts not only to displease one person‚ but to allow an individual’s identity to grow and develop while learning from the decisions made during a conflict. The decisions that were produced does not just explore one’s path to solving the situation‚ but leads to others triumphing through adversities‚ or discovering corrupt identities. In the play‚ Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ Iago demanded revenge
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Table of Contents 1.Introduction on Learning Management System 2 1.1 Introduction on Blended Learning 2 1.2 Problem System……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 1.3 Objective……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 2. Use Case Diagram 3 3. Intermediate Description of Learning Management System 3.1 Flow of activities for use case Lecturer upload course material.....................................4 3.2 Flow of activities for use case Student Save File Online.................
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