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    10.0 RESIDUAL IMPACT AND EFFECTIVE MITIGATION MEASURES Residual impact can generally be defined as those impacts that cannot be fully mitigated and thus will still remain during the lifetime of the project. The following sub-sections describe and discuss these impacts with a particular emphasis on the nature of the impacts and the relationship to the environment. Residual Impact Available in The Project : 10.1 Permanent Land Use Change and Intrusion of Man-Made Structures Prior to development

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    Predictive Modeling for Insider Threat Mitigation This project‚ funded by PNNL’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program is conducted under the Predictive Defense focus area of the Laboratory’s Information and Infrastructure Integrity Initiative. The current practice for addressing the insider cyber threat is to monitor the network and individual systems to identify when someone is not following established policy or is abusing their authorized level of access in a way that is harmful

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    The Impact of Hurricane‚ Earthquake and volcanoes on named Caribbean territories. The Caribbean territories are at the mercy of hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcanoes. The region have a history of devastating geographical phenomena such as hurricane Gilbert in 1988 which kill 45 persons in Jamaica‚ 30 in Haiti and 5 in the Dominican republic‚ but the most devastating period for any one country in territories was in 2008‚ where in a three week span Haiti was hit by tropical storm Fay‚ hurricane

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    Chapter 3 VOLTAGE SAG/SWELL MITIGATION USING DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER (DVR) 3.1 Voltage Sag Mitigation Methods Power quality problems cannot be avoided for the consumers (end users) who are directly connected together by the interconnected systems. Therefore‚ consumers must protect themselves from PQ problems with mitigation or power conditioning devices. It is researched by EPRI that 90 % of all power quality problems are voltage sags in the USA and it is assumed that the European power network

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    Energy is one of the world’s greatest inventions of all time. We use energy on a daily basis for just about everything. Our way of life is based upon energy and how we use it. We use large amounts of energy for transportation and electricity. Due to the limited supply of resources available to us we need to make sure that we conserve them wisely so that these resources will be around for future generations. It is imperative that consumer start to take responsibility for their actions. There

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    The two volcanoes from these events are called stratovolcanos‚ meaning they are volcanoes built up of alternate layers of lava and ash(citation)‚ and cone shaped. Neither of these volcanoes are shield volcanoes‚ which are broad‚ domed volcanoes with gently sloping sides‚ characteristic of the eruption of fluid‚ basaltic lava(citation). Both of these volcano’s had a huge impacts on humans‚ human structures and property‚ and had very high damage costs. The major Mount St. Helens eruption was on

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    Climate Change; Adaptation and Mitigation in Himachal Pradesh (HP) The increase in global temperature has attributed to global warming‚ which became one of the major issues towards the end of 20th century. It is said to increase over the next hundred years and even greater increase is expected in Indian sub continent. Torrential rainfall and cloud outburst generate very high magnitude of flash floods in the mountain regions of the Himalayas during rainy season. During the last few years such

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    1: Executive Summary on Risk Mitigation Risk mitigation measures are introduced with the objective to: • Eliminate the risk; or • Mitigate the risk‚ if elimination is not feasible; or • Cope with it‚ if neither elimination nor mitigation is feasible. The identification of appropriate risk mitigation measures requires a good understanding of the hazard and the factors contributing to its occurrence. For this reason‚ a risk matrix needs to be completed. Risk mitigation measures may work by reducing

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    Project Part 1 Task2: Risk Mitigation Plan Victor Sabani ITT Technical Institute Project Part 1 Task2: Risk Mitigation Plan Risk Mitigation‚ in order to mitigate we have to identify the risk. There are many ways that the mitigation plan can happen; the most efficient way is a chart. Risk Impact on Project Success Likelihood of Occurrences Mitigation Plan Natural Disaster Devastating Not Very Have a backup location ready to go in case of Equipment i.e. servers‚ switches‚ routers… Devastating

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    Oil Spill Mitigation Planning and Monetary Recovery Andrew Fossa Saint Petersburg College Administrative Law Kenneth Afienko Abstract FOSSA A (2012) Saint Petersburg College Oil spill mitigation planning and monetary recovery A small Gulf Coast Community in Florida has requested the implementation of a contingency plan in the event of an oil spill that affects the coast line. This paper discusses the regulations‚ and laws that govern an oil spill and who is responsible for monetary and

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