TIBETAN REFUGEES IN NEPAL There are more than 20‚000 Tibetan refugees living in about 12 settlements across the country. However‚ the true number of Tibetan refugees is not known. Some estimates suggest that 30‚000 Tibetans live in Kathmandu alone. While some Tibetan refugees arrived in Nepal in the early 1950s‚ the first major influx crossed the border in 1959‚ following the Lhasa Uprising. They established camps primarily in the Himalayan border regions of Nepal such
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negative effects on the body. When inhaling smoke‚ tar sticks to the lungs and blackens them. Carbon monoxide chemical in cigarettes is a very poisonous gas also found in the exhaust of cars; this interferes with the respiratory system and circulatory system. This causes the human body to have difficulties breathing. Work performance and productivity decreases. The body feels tired and slower due to lack of oxygen because of the alveoli being covered with tar. Smoking is known to make teeth yellow due to
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Did you know that for every cigarette you smoke you can lose eleven minutes off your life? Smoking can not only leave you with long term affects you may not be able to get rid of but it will leave you poor and maybe dead. Mankind first came in touch with tobacco approximately eighteen thousand years ago‚ when migrant Asiatic people first intersected the Bering Strait and extended across the continents today known as the Americas‚ where tobacco is native (Gately ‚2001). Mayan Indians of Mexico
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade greatly impacted both America and Africa because of the establishment of slave trading posts‚ slave raids in African villages‚ the introduction of African culture in America‚ and slavery. Several European nations such as England‚ France‚ and Portugal set up trading posts‚ mainly along the coast of West Africa in order to ease the process of transporting slaves from Africa to the plantations in America. To obtain slaves‚ soldiers would raid villages and capture villagers
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Some Solutions to Problems (Übungen) to Lecture-1 of Lecture Series “Heat Transfer – 1” Institut für Energieverfahrenstechnik und Brennstofftechnik‚ TU Clausthal‚ SS 2005 1.1 A heat rate of 5 kW is conducted through a cross section area of 20 m2 and thickness of 3 cm. If the inner (hot) surface temperature is 600ºC and the thermal conductivity of the material is 0.5 W/mK‚ what is the outer surface temperature? Solution: Tout = 585 °C 1.2 The heat flux through a wood slab 50 mm thick‚ whose inner
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til stor by. Utkanten menes med de ikke altfor tettbebygde forstedene. Det vil ikke være plass til noen hoppbakke i en stor by men hoppbakker ligger ofte i nærheten av byer. Eksempler på det er Holmenkollen og Skuibakken. Rolf "Brekker’n" Amundsen tar med sønnen som bare kalles "Små Brekker’n" til hoppbakken. Brekker’n vil at sønnen skal bli som han; en uredd skihopper. I dag er det klart for å prøve den store bakken. Sønnen vil ikke og finner o på unnskyldinger for å slippe. "Jeg har uvondt i halsen
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Maintaining A Healthy Body There are a wide range of factors that affect the health of the body. The nutrition of the body is one. The Government recommends that all healthy individuals’ diet should contain plenty of starchy foods such as rice and pasta. Plenty of fruit and vegetables‚ at least 5 portions a day. Moderate amounts of protein-rich foods such as meat and fish. Moderate amounts of milk and dairy. Little saturated fatty foods‚ such as salt and sugar (1). Another factor that works
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Biology of Health and Illness Factors which affect the normal functioning of two body systems TASK 1 The body ’s first line of defence against pathogens uses mostly physical and chemical barriers such as sweat‚ skin‚ tears‚ mucus‚ stomach acid‚ and so on. Our skin and other membranes which line the body passages are fairly effective in keeping most pathogens out of the body. Mucus can trap pathogens‚ which are then washed away or destroyed by chemicals. Tears‚ sweat‚ and saliva have certain
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