The Yangtze River‚ or Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia‚ and the third-longest in the world. It flows for 6‚300 kilometres (3‚915 mi) from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest‚ central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the biggest rivers by discharge volume in the world. The Yangtze drains one-fifth of China’s land area and its river basin is home to one-third of China’s population.[5] Along with the
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Asia facing worsening water crisis: ADB MANILA: Asian countries‚ including India‚ are facing a worsening water crisis that threatens to curtail food production while taking an increasingly heavy toll on the region’s economies‚ the Asian Development Bank said. Governments‚ industries and people around the region urgently need to stop wasting so much of the precious resource if they are to limit the shortage‚ ADB infrastructure advisor Arjun Thapan said. "It needs to shrink and Asia needs to become
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Available online at www.academicpaper.org Academic @ Paper International Journal of Automotive Engineering and Technologies Vol. 1‚ Issue 1‚ pp. 1 – 15‚ 2012 HYDROGEN USE IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE: A REVIEW Murat CİNİVİZ1‚ Hüseyin KÖSE1* 1 Technical Education Faculty‚ Mechanical Education Department‚ Selçuk University‚ 42003 Konya‚ Turkey Accepted 14 July‚ 2011 ABSTRACT Fast depletion of fossil fuels is urgently demanding a carry out work for research to find out the viable
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and Starvation Released under the provisions of Section 19CU of Part 2A of the Air Navigation Act 1920. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is an operationally independent multi-modal Bureau within the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services. The ATSB’s objective is safe transport. It seeks to achieve this through: open and independent no blame investigation; safety data analysis; and safety communication and education. As the ATSB believes that safety information
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Analysis of AF 447 AF447 represents a very extreme situation with catastrophic consequences (The Case of AirFrance 447). However frequently an Organisation is under pressure (deadlines‚ clients‚ crisis etc) and in these moments the Decision-making process and its core Sense-making must be clinical and efficient to avoid collapse and to maintain Organization Intelligence and Team Effectiveness. What can we learn from the case? What are the key-pillars of Sense-making which can lead team to effectiveness
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Christianity in East Asia When Europeans started sailing the globe looking for new land they wanted to colonize they had many tools that they could use‚ ships‚ the astrolabe‚ muskets and cannons for showing their military might‚ manufactured goods to show their economic power‚ and their last tool was religion‚ specifically Christianity of the Catholic and Roman Catholic denomination to counter the spread of the Protestant movement in Europe. Dominican‚ Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries successfully
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[Date Place INDOOR AIR POLLUTION Children’s Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization www.who.int/ceh July 2008 version 1 Indoor Air Pollution Indoor LEARNING OBJECTIVES LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND‚ RECOGNIZE AND KNOW: Hazards of indoor air pollution to children’s health Different toxicants in indoor air‚ according to sources‚ settings and activities Characteristics and issues relating to indoor air pollution in industrialized
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Microeconomics Analysis of microeconomic factors affecting thermal power industry in India 1. Power as a commodity "The power network demands cooperation from all its members. It expects its beneficiaries to huddle together and hold on to one another’s arm to enhance reliability and security of the public utility service rendered by the network. All those hooked on to the synchronous system have to bear in mind that the efficient operation of electric networks is subject to the classical
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people affecting their culture. Buddhism started approximately in the 6th century BCE‚ starting with the birth of the Buddha in India. The religion then spread through Central Asia‚ East Asia‚ and Southeast Asia (Keown). Among many branches of Buddhism‚ Mahayana has been diffused from first west‚ north‚ and east throughout East Asia (Skilton). The fundamental principles of Mahayana are liberation from suffering and the belief in the existence of Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva is someone who achieved Nirvana
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and abroad. Although formulation of the Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ and the Berlin Airlift suggested that the United States had a particular concern with the spread of communism in Europe‚ America’s policy of containment extended to Asia as well. Indeed‚ Asia proved to be the site of the first major battle waged in the name of containment: the Korean War. In 1950 the Korea Peninsula was divided between a Soviet-backed
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