Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia
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incident in West Germany‚ Greece and Belarus. These children were likely exposed to high dose of radiation which can damage genes and chromosomes. Thyroid cancer is very rare in children‚ this rapid increase was surely related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This occurred among people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the accident accordingly lived in the most contaminated areas of Belarus‚ the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Many adults exposed also suffered from thyroid cancer
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster It is a silent enemy‚ it has no odor‚ no smell‚ no shape‚ yet it is one of man’s deadliest foes. Radiation is not something most people face on a daily basis‚ but for the town of Prypiat in the Ukraine it is a barren wasteland because of it. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster was the worst nuclear catastrophe to have ever occurred and‚ is a perfect example of what can happen when the blind and unmasked furry of atomic power is left unharnessed
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University of Leicester MSc. in Risk‚ Crisis & Disaster Management Module 4 - Case Studies Essay "Given that disasters create opportunities for active learning - why do they repeat? Michael Lübke Student No.: 109023384 Intake: September 2010 MODULE 4 - CASE STUDIES !1 MICHAEL LÜBKE Institute of Lifelong Learning University of Leicester Plagiarism Declaration This form must be completed‚ signed and submitted with each assessment
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How important was the New Deal to the economic recovery of the USA in the years 1933 to 1941? (24 marks) The First New Deal in 1933 to 1941 had three broad aims. The first aim was relief‚ giving immediate aid to those worst hit. The second aim was recovery‚ to get the struggling economy back on its feet. Finally‚ the third aim was reform‚ to change the financial systems and introduce regulations. It can be argued that the New Deal was important in recovering the economy in the USA due to the alphabet
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Many workers got hurt while working in the factories and mines. The Cherry Coal Mine Disaster created a need for the Workers Compensation Act‚ which compensates workers who are harmed while working. On November 13‚ 1909‚ at 7:00 a.m.‚ 481 workers‚ men and boys‚ descended into the Cherry Coal Mine near Cherry‚ IL‚ a few miles northwest of La Salle‚ IL on Illinois Highway 89. Some sections of the mine where 500 feet below the surface. That day the electrical system broke down‚ and the mine was lit
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of Asynchronous Checkpointing and Recovery Keywords: asynchronous checkpointing‚ recovery‚ maximum consistent state In this paper‚ we present a high performance recovery algorithm for distributed systems in which checkpoints are taken asynchronously. It offers fast determination of the recent consistent global checkpoint (maximum consistent state) of a distributed system after the system recovers from a failure. The main feature of the proposed recovery algorithm is that it avoids to a good
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people into giving him their user IDs and passwords to their Amazon.com accounts. What are some of the ways that a hacker might accomplish this? What crimes can be performed with such information? [10] 2. Some companies prefer not to have disaster recovery plans. Under what circumstances does this make sense? Discuss. [5] 3.A body scan at airports created a big debate. Debate both points of this issue and relate it to EC security. [10] 4. . Your B2C site has been hacked. List
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gloves‚ safety shoes or masks. However‚ even the chemicals are under several instructions‚ but people may have made some serious mistakes which caused a huge damage and large amount of death to people. In this essay‚ I am going to write about the two disasters that caused a lot of injures by the explosion of poisonous chemicals‚ which located in India and Italy. According to Shrivastava (1996)‚ on the night of 2/3 December 1984‚ an enormous accident happened in Bhopal‚ India‚ the highly poisonous and
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1986‚ the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch‚ taking the lives of six astronauts and one teacher. Questions arose about what factors led to this disaster. I will discuss these factors in terms of general engineering disasters. In an article “Explaining Disasters” (Harris 1995)‚ three factors are discussed which cause disasters: bad management‚ engineering faults and bad ethics. Success for any company depends on good management. A communication gap between management and the employees
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