too many fatalities on our roads and highways. The Dangerous State of Micro-Sleep Is it possible to force yourself to stay awake by continually drinking coffee‚ playing loud music‚ and using truck driver tricks such as chewing gum? While you may succeed at sitting in an upright position and doing some amount of driving this way‚ parts of your brain will start taking short naps lasting a few seconds. Scientists call this micro-sleep. When this
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concerns and conflicts have surfaced throughout human history‚ from the earliest settlements to the latest headlines. This comes as a surprise to many people because our emphasis in history has all too often been on war and politics‚ rather than environment‚ culture and development. The evidence for a longstanding concern for environmental issues has been readily available in manuscripts‚ publications and historical archives. It can be found under labels like conservation‚ public health‚ preservation
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Today‚ as working environment has been changing a lot‚ more people are taking different jobs in a period of time to finance their life. This essay shall discuss numerous reasons for these differences and suggest what a person needs for his career in the future. The first cause is the development of technology. For example‚ the Internet established creates a more convenient working environment for employees. It helps them to complete the assignment in flexible places‚ instead of staying at the
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Under the financial crisis in 2008‚ India has brought out the following monetary and fiscal policies to alleviate the crisis’ impact and influence on the Indian economy. (I) Monetary Policy To reduce the impact of the financial crisis on India‚ India’s Central Bank has successively resorted to means such as cutting interest rate reduction‚ increasing credit support‚ loosening foreign credit restrictions and boosting financial support for real estate and export etc. to strengthen financial support
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MOZAMBIQUE’S CHALLENGES By Alina Sandra Silvi Abstract Mozambique‚ by its official name the Republic of Mozambique is a country in south-eastern Africa which in 1505 was colonized by Portugal. The country became independent in 1975 but in 1977 a civil war started and lasted for 15 years...by the end an estimated one million lives were lost. However‚ lots of things have changed for Mozambique in a decade; “from being one of the poorest countries on Earth‚ it has joined a rare group of success
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Malaysia and the Challenges of Globalization: An Economic Perspective Mansor Md. Isa Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia mansor@um.edu.my Paper presented at the “10th Biennial Tun Abdul Razak Conference”‚ Multicultural Center‚ Ohio University‚ Athens‚ Ohio‚ USA‚ 11-12 May 2007. Malaysia and the Challenges of Globalization: An Economic Perspective Mansor Md. Isa‚ University of Malaya 1. Introduction One of the main focus of the
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Macro-Environmental Factors Vietnam is a peninsula‚ which located in the Southeast Asia monsoon zone. Its long narrow territory stretches 1700km from north to south and in the center a mere 50km from east to west‚ the territory looks like a dragon stand at east of the Indo-Chinese peninsula. The coastline‚ which extends for 3260km‚ has fine beaches and archipelagos. It not only has beautiful landscape attracts countless tourists and also can get rich seafood‚ provided favorable conditions for raw
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Macro Systems Paper Victoria Torrain BSHS/325 Human Systems and Development May 11‚ 2015 Marianne Bernaldo Macro Systems Macro Systems are the division of the broad practices of Social Work. The divisions of social work are often divided into three practices which include the categories of macro‚ mezzo‚ and micro. Often commended as being a system which provides intervention services that affect entire communities and their systems of care and concern‚ Macro level social
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minority‚ shifted the emphasis from skilful work to credit-worthy consumption. The work is now done by automated processes at home in the domestic market and elsewhere in the global free-market via the intensified exploitation of people and their environment. Capitalists need consumers to buy products. To ensure that this facet of capitalism exists‚ social structures and processes have evolved which support and stimulate acquisitiveness in a specific social culture called the "consumer society" (Jones
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The environment is something you are very familiar with. It’s everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe‚ the water that covers most of the earth’s surface‚ the plants and animals around us‚ and much more. In recent years‚ scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution‚ deforestation‚ acid rain‚ and other problems that are dangerous both to the
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