02.02 HMS Challenger Journal of a Scientist December 30th: First day at sea and already the sea sickness is starting to get to me‚ but it’s not that bad‚ because this is for science. We are off the coast of Vigo and it’s raining real badly today. The boat is rocking back and forth but we still tried to do some research. A dredge took samples along the surface of the seafloor while being dragged across the bottom. We got some samples of mud‚ and collected small organisms off the bottom. January
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1. Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT) a. Medical teams assembled to assess‚ triage‚ and provide medical supportive care for patients with acute primary care needs while updating the patient’s electronic health record into the system to ensure medical records will be retrieved at the final destination of the patient. Their duties are to stabilize life during emergency events for up to 72 hours without external assistance and determine the appropriate destination for patients. The teams consist
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The Cultural Tale of Two Shuttles 1. What factors in NASA’s culture contributed to the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters? a. The main guys said everything was fine to go ahead with the launch. Their basic assumptions were skewed to what they thought was perfect. The Decision-making style is corrupted they need to get involved and listen to everyone besides their group. They did not believe they could fail and that the success of the mission took precedence over cost and
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The book Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman follows a paranoid schizophrenic teenager as he struggles through the obstacles of his mental illnesses. For the most part‚ the book is written in the first person perspective‚ although occasionally it strays into second person perspective. In some parts of the book‚ the teenagers real struggle with mental illness is described and illustrated‚ while in other parts of the book‚ an elaborate hallucination from the schizophrenia is played out. Throughout the
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Is NASA’s Space Program Worthwhile to Continue Funding? The world has anxiously followed the Mars arrival of the space vessel Curiosity. Recently‚ on October 31‚ 2012‚ Curiosity ’s analysis of Martian soil found it to be eerily similar to that of Hawaii. This mission‚ like so many before it‚ exemplifies NASA’s commitment to acquiring knowledge about the worlds beyond ours. NASA‚ though struggling with budget cuts and the end of the shuttle mission‚ is still making great progress with its current
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Instructor: Institutional Affiliation: Case Study of A Place: Human Dimension of Space I carried out an extensive study as part of the fulfillment of the semester coursework. The study was based in South Africa‚ Kwazulu Natal province‚ Eshowe town where I was staying in during the 2013 school holidays. The place is rich with the culture of the Zulu people‚ greatecotour
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The Space Travel and Research Introduction Space contains the planets‚ countless galaxies and milky ways. Man has been able to go to space and collect pictures of the sun‚ the planets and the moon. Man has landed on the moon and he is trying to find out the existence of life on other planets. Telecommunication‚ weather forecasting‚ radio and television programmes etc. are all monitored by satellites in space. There are also military stations and spy satellites in space which pose a threat
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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A Case Study on Tsunami Damage in India Natural Disaster: A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard that affects the environment‚ and leads to financial‚ environmental and/or human losses. Or Any natural phenomenon that causes great damage and loss of life; The emergency situation that is the consequence of such an event. A natural disaster is a disaster caused by nature‚ such
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CASE STUDY: THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS ON THE GDP OF THE PHILIPPINES In Partial Fulfillment Of the course requirements In ECOMET2 Submitted By: Inacay‚ Giancarlo Submitted To: Dr. Cesar Rufino School of Economics De La Salle University-Manila December 16‚ 2014 Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Review of Related Literature III. Theoretical Framework IV. Data V. Methodology VI. Results VII. Appendix VIII. Bibliography Abstract The Philippines is located in a region
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