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    Which is better to live in a country or in a city? There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city. First I would like to speak about the advantages. If you know a city you are living in quite well‚ you sooner or later find some positive aspects of living in it. Imagine yourself on an overcrowded street of a modern city… Imagine cars passing you by‚ people scurrying about… Try to picture shops open 24 hours a day and restaurants serving food from all over the world. Isn’t

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    Chemical Hazards

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    Index Back Next xxii Index Back Next National Disaster Management Guidelines Chemical Disasters (Industrial) i Index Back Next ii Index Back Next National Disaster Management Guidelines Chemical Disasters (Industrial) National Disaster Management Authority Government of India iii Index Back Next iv Index Back Next Member National Disaster Management Authority Government of India ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am thankful

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    Critically discuss the extent to which multinational corporations can be viewed as a positive source of employment and foreign direct investment for less economically developed countries. Word Count: 2516 Do multinational corporations really have a positive impact on less economically developed countries? I will be investigating this through analysing a range of sources which will enable me to come to a final conclusion on the question above. The key points throughout will be how multinational

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    Mid-Level Talent Development

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    The Strategic Development of Mid-Level Talent (A Project on MakemyTrip.com) Prof. Jenny Benoy and Ms.Apeksha Poojary KEYWORDS: Talent pipeline‚ Talent Management‚ Strategic Development ABSTRACT: Organisations are made up of people creating value through proven business processes‚ innovation‚ customer service‚ sales and many other important activities. As an organization strives to meet its business goals‚ it must make sure that it has a continuous and integrated process for recruiting

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    Earthquake Loads & Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings 1. 1 2. Summary 2 3. Earthquake Design - A Conceptual Review 2 4. Earthquake Resisting Performance Expectations 3 5. Key Material Parameters for Effective Earthquake Resistant Design 3 6. Earthquake Design Level Ground Motion 4 6.1. Elastic Response Spectra 4 6.2. Relative Seismicity 5 6.3. Soil amplification 6 7. Derivation of Ductile Design Response Spectra 7 8. Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design Principles 8 8.1. The Basic Principles

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    SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

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    STUDY ON THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE OR THE GREAT SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE ECONOMIC‚ POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CHINA China is located in East Asia. It is bordering the East China Sea‚ Korea Bay‚ Yellow Sea‚ and South China Sea‚ between North Korea and Vietnam. Officially China is the People ’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ founded in 1949 after the Communist Party defeated the previously dominant nationalist Kuomintang in a civil war. The country however‚ was not unified

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    Enviromental Hazards

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    The four categories of human environmental hazards include cultural‚ physical‚ chemical‚ and biological hazards Environmental cultural hazard is the risk of damage to the environment involving air pollution form all of the massive factory’s and mills that are placed around the earth. Water pollution is a main hazard because it kills a lot of the aquatic life that we as humans feed on and it also kills the food that the food we eat feeds off to survive. Toxins like all of our trash that is getting

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    the developing world. So we need to know what urbanization is and what is sustainable development in LEDCs (Least Developed Countries)? Urbanization means to make area into town and make country person move to city‚ and sustainable development consists of finding a proper path towards social‚ economic and ecological evolution. Urbanization has brought enormous social and economic changes in developing-countries. As far as people are trying to have significant growth and improvement in their lives

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    Earthquakes In Japan

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    Investigating Earthquakes – Japan Gurjit & Ashwin Preliminary questions: a. Why do earthquakes happen in this location? b. Does this location fall on any fault lines? c. What are they doing to prepare themselves? d. How often earthquakes happen in this location? e. The last earthquake? f. The strongest earthquake? g. What are the hazards of earthquakes in this area? h. How are the structures built in this area Investigation: i. Japan is located in an area where several continental

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    Kobe Earthquake

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    Kobe Earthquake – Case Study Kobe Earthquake – Case Study In the early morning of January the 17th 1995 instruments in a lab in western Japan picked up a burst of intense electro-magnetic radiation. It was the signature of a massive earthquake which had just struck the City of Kobe from its epicentre 20 kilometres to the south west. There was no warning‚ 180‚000 buildings were destroyed‚ an urban area 20 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide was totally wrecked. Nothing moved in or out of Kobe

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