Project Title: Stronger Turbines‚ Weaker Hurricanes Project ID # 970G Abstract Currently‚ fossil fuels plague our planet‚ destroying the environment and increasing the rate of global warming. This increases the frequency in which hurricanes are created‚ contributing to the end of numerous lives and billions of dollars in damages. The systems devised to protect cities from these natural disasters are often flawed‚ costing a large sum of money or requiring an excessive amount of land. However‚ according
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DOCTORAL THESIS TOPIC; Applied relaxation‚ hypnotherapy and ultradian rhythms; as central to the applied healing arts‚ throughout the lifespan. THESIS METHODOLOGY; A literature search and critical analysis‚ with conclusions suited to later peer review by professional psychologists. THE FOCUS OF THE THESIS is to assist in the understanding the psychobiology of mind-body interactions‚ and the application of this understanding to develop practices of hypnosis in the healing of endocrine and affect
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Hurricane Katrina was the most dangerous‚ deadly‚ and horrifying storm to ever hit United States. Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it devastated the lives of the people of New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ as well as other Gulf Coast areas. On August 29‚ 2005 at 8:00 am‚ Hurricane Katrina reached Category 5 status. The storm hit the city hard and was the lead story on the national media stage for a number of weeks. The city was wiped out and the clean up and renovation of what is left of The City Of
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Hurricane Mitch‚ 1998 In October 1998 a tropical storm developed to the east of Central America and began moving towards the countries of Nicaragua and Honduras. As it reached the coast‚ winds of more than 280 km/h were recorded‚ and torrential rain caused large areas to be flooded. Roads and bridges were washed away‚ and in some areas complete villages were destroyed as winds tore down the poor-quality buildings. As rain continued to fall‚ large areas of land quickly flooded. On steeper slopes
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According to scientists‚ hurricanes that are in a higher category of 3 can cause serious damage to the city. If we don’t evacuate more people will get injured or die because of the hurricane. As long as we outrun the hurricane and evacuate we will save more lives than if we stayed in our homes. You’ll see why‚ hurricanes are large‚ spiraling tropical storms that can pick up speeds over 160 miles per hour(MPH)and unleashes more than 2.4 trillion gallons a day. However‚ on September 8‚1900 when a
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If I were to have thirty minutes before a destructive hurricane were to hit. I would be ready for it because I would take the necessary stuff to survive it. It was a warm September weekend when I had heard from the news that a destructive hurricane was gonna will hit in thirty minutes. I was taking a morning run when I came home from receiving an alert from my phone saying that a hurricane was gonna hit. I was running at my fullest I had adrenaline running through my bloodstream which had me running
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In the morning of August 29‚ 2005‚ a Category 3 hurricane‚ named Hurricane Katrina‚ hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. It started forming over the Bahamas on August 23 and peaked at a Category 5 hurricane. Katrina had winds up to 140 miles per hour. It went on for 400 miles. It’s force was felt in 5 states‚ such as Mississippi and Alabama‚ but the biggest hit was to Louisiana. More specifically‚ New Orleans. New Orleans has an average elevation of six feet below sea level. Since many neighborhoods
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a microwave which provides heat by electromagnetic waves that has a high frequency‚ with a wavelength if one millimetre to one meter and an intermediate between infrared and shortwave radio wavelengths (Miffin‚ 2002). This allows fast fixation. Technique: Electromagnetic waves are commonly used for carrying out energy and are said to be powerful for non-invasive processing of materials (Miffin‚ 2002). The microwave energy offers relatively large specimens to have the ability of good preservation
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SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES Several techniques are available to forecast time-series data that are stationary or that include no significant trend‚ cyclical‚ or seasonal effects. These techniques are often referred to as smoothing techniques because they produce forecasts based on “smoothing out” the irregular fluctuation effects in the time-series data. Three general categories of smoothing techniques are presented here: • Naive forecasting models are simple models in which it is assumed that the
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Hurricane Hugo‚ one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history‚ originated from a wave that moved west off of Africa’s coastline on September 9‚ 1989. Throughout the night and into the morning of September 10‚ Hugo had been classified as a tropical depression. As Hugo moved across the warm waters of the Atlantic it gained more and more strength. It wasn’t until September 14th that Hugo gained enough strength to be classified as a hurricane. On September 15th‚ Hugo turned west-north
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