miles from the populated city‚ Floridians didn’t have much to fear. At age four‚ I was one of them. But we and the residents of New Orleans‚ Louisiana and Mississippi didn’t know just how wrong we would be. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane in the United States history‚ claiming over a total of up to 2‚000 lives. Not only did it claim lives‚ but it claimed minds‚ skyrocketing the amount of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)‚ anxiety disorders‚ depression and frequency of heart
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middle-class‚ educated perspectives. This led to the creation of ethnically specific or multiculturalist forms of feminism.[6] Feminist activists campaign for women’s rights – such as in contract law‚ property‚ and voting – while also promoting bodily integrity‚ autonomy‚ and reproductive rights for women. Feminist campaigns have changed societies‚ particularly in the West‚ by achieving women’s suffrage‚ gender neutrality in English‚ equal pay for women‚ reproductive rights for women (including access to
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however‚ surgical mistakes occur and result in worsened medical conditions or death for patients. In many cases‚ these potentially life-threatening errors are preventable. LiveScience reports that unintentional foreign objects‚ such as sponges‚ being left inside patients occur in about one out of every 10‚000 surgeries. Furthermore‚ surgeries are performed on the wrong site in approximately one out of every 100‚000 procedures. What are surgical never events? Surgical mistakes that
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Distributed Database Systems PHILIP A. BERNSTEIN AND NATHAN GOODMAN Computer Corporation of America‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02139 In this paper we survey‚ consolidate‚ and present the state of the art in distributed database concurrency control. The heart of our analysts is a decomposition of the concurrency control problem into two major subproblems: read-write and write-write synchronization. We describe a series of synchromzation techniques for solving each subproblem and show how to combine
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HISTORY OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM With the progress in technology in the areas of processors‚ computer memory‚ computer storage and computer networks‚ the sizes‚ capabilities‚ and performance of databases and their respective DBMSs have grown in orders of magnitudes. The development of database technology can be divided into three eras based on data model or structure: navigational‚ SQL/relational‚ and post-relational. The two main early navigational data models were the hierarchical model
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How to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy Each year the United States is acknowledged for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the industrialized world. We have clueless teenage females of every race having children while they are in high school. Sex is on the minds of so many teenagers that they forget that they are not yet at a stage of having children. Since it is difficult for adolescent girl to resist the temptation of having sex; a while abstinence is the best form of prevention‚ birth
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Autumn Gabrielson Image Analysis WBIS 019 Professor Deering 11/5/12 We Can Do It! “All the day long whether rain or shine‚ She’s a part of the assembly line‚ She’s making history‚ working for victory‚ Rosie the Riveter.” These are a few lyrics from Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb’s “Rosie the Riveter” song. This song came out in 1942‚ and was the first time the term Rosie the Riveter was used. Representing the women who worked in factories during WWII‚ Rosie is a cultural icon of the U.S. Many
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8 Ways to Prevent Eating Disorders Eating disorders are dangerous‚ complex disorders that arise from a variety of issues. One of the best ways to prevent eating disorders in yourself and others is to adopt healthy attitudes and behaviors about body shape and weight. Here are eight tips from the National Eating Disorders Association (www.nationaleatingdisorders.org) on how to prevent eating disorders. 1. Get rid of the notion that a particular diet‚ weight or body size will automatically lead
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Integrity is a quality we all should have‚ but often many people lack. It can be defined as being honest and having strong moral principles. It’s a difficult trait to possess‚ for it means to do the right thing‚ regardless of others and their thoughts and actions. It means to be honest‚ to be truthful. It means to be loyal to yourself and your beliefs‚ and not compromise your loyalty of either for another person. Your integrity grows as you mature and come to a realization on the rights and wrongs
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Do the benefits of study abroad justify the difficulties? Studying abroad has become very popular amongst students in today’s globalized world. No wonder why‚ after all‚ it offers many attractive benefits. However‚ there are two sides to every coin and studying abroad is not an exception. More often than not‚ students encounter difficulties during their stay abroad. This brings out a question whether the advantages of study abroad justify the difficulties. In the first place‚ studying abroad
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