Adaptive Radiation An example of adaptive radiation occurring after a mass extinction is the extinction that killed off the dinosaurs. What caused this mass extinction was when a massive comet hit earth‚ off the Yucatan Peninsula. However‚ the mammals that survived this catastrophic event for the most part‚ survived because they could burrow in holes for shelter. Regardless‚ about 90% of all life on earth was destroyed. This led to an opportunity for the surviving plants and animals to disperse
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knowledge and understanding on confidentiality. There are different types of confidentiality. It is the right of every parents/carer that information about them is respected‚ kept in confidence‚ safely‚ securely and in the accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. A teaching assistant needs to understand how important it is to respect confidentiality if we went to gain and keep respect of other adults and parents in the settings‚ although it is the most difficult to maintain. There is also legislation
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CIS333 CIPA Omar K. Coley June 3‚ 2012 Strayer University “The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools
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Sense keeps records such as daily logs‚ lesson plan‚ medication sheets‚ accident sheets‚ incidents sheets‚ behaviour forms and many more that related directly to day to day running of the resource centre. All of these records are under the data protection Act and are only allowed to be forwarded or given to people or organisations that are directly involved with the students and the organisation. Lesson plans‚ evaluations‚ achievements and expenses are the most important ones because these are the
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Data protection act 1998: The data protection Act 1998 came into force in 2000 and aims to protect an individual’s right to privacy in relation to their personal data. This includes things like the person’s medical information‚ information about their current employees‚ their address‚ pay‚ bank detail etc. Santander has to make sure the information of their employees is kept secret and no one can access it. Businesses like Santander need information about people to increase the chances of people
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rights • secure • not transferred to countries outside European economic area unless country has adequate protection for the individual Anyone processing personal information must notify the (ICO) Information Commissioners Office that they are doing so. Within a school setting‚ all information which concerns pupils must be treated confidentially‚ as stated in the Data Protection Act 1998 any information must be stored as stated in the act. All staff who work in a school need to be aware
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TASK 1 1.1 The current legislation for home based childcare and the role of regulation body. As I childminder I must be register with the regulation body before I can care for other people’s children. All the regulation bodies in the UK publish standards and procedures that every childminder have to meet in order to be register. The regulator body (ofsted ) control in home based childcare in the following ways: registration‚ investigation‚ enforcement. Legislation Outlines legislation Every
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Nuclear Radiation There are many ways that the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" are similar. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story that deals with nuclear radiation and what the future world would be like if there was an atomic bomb. This short story is a good example of what could happen in the future. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a movie that also has the same genre‚ that it is science fiction. It helps
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Uses of Radiation in Medicine Nuclear Chemistry and the Field of Medicine: A Union Shan Gupta‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Jul 2‚ 2009 "Contribute content like this. Start Here." Applications of Radiation in the Field of Medicine Overview: With the discovery of radiation in the late 1800’s by Antoine Henri Becquerel‚ Marie Curie‚ and Pierre Curie‚ the powers of the atom were seemingly multiplied greatly. With this new power of the atom also came new uses for it‚ especially in the
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have leaked significant amounts of radiation that have affected ecosystems in the region. On March 21‚ 2011‚ TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) investigated the seawater near the southern discharge port of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS‚ revealed that radioactive substances significantly exceeding safety standard values were detected. According to National Geographic‚ Joseph Rachlin‚ director of Lehman College’s Laboratory for Marine and Estuarine Research says “radiation can hurt ocean animals in several
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