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Storm Surge Low Lying
979 wordsHurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are a major hazard in the Tropics. Every year, some 80 occurrences claim, on average, 20 000 lives and cause immense damage to property, natural vegetation, and shipping. A hurricane is a large rotating storm around a centre of very low pressure with values of 950 mb or lower. Most systems have a diameter of about 650 km, less than half that of a mid-latitude depression. Wind speeds often exceed 33 m per second (119 km per hour) and, in the most intense hurrica...
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Bank Of The United States Federal Reserve
1,059 wordsA common definition of a bank is a financial intermediary that accepts, transfers, and, most important, creates deposits. This includes such depository institutions as central banks, commercial banks, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks. Banks are most frequently organized in corporate form and are owned either by private individuals, governments, or a combination of private and government interests. Although non corporate banks-that is, single proprietorships and partnership...
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Carbon Dioxide Sugar Cane
1,791 words... been, as well as the cause and prize of wars, an object of political activity. The industry has often been early on the list for expropriation in newly independent countries and has been nationalized in many cases. There are many reasons for this. Sugar is an attractive commodity which also provides a simple means of collecting taxes. It supplies a livelihood for countless thousands of people throughout the globe. And in a world whose population is rapidly growing it is important, because th...
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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases
827 wordsCarbon dioxide is a gas comprising less than 0. 04 % of the atmosphere. It is used by plants to make, directly or indirectly, all of the food that we eat. Increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide generally increase the growth rate of plants and decrease their water use. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, mostly as a result of burning of coal, oil, gas and forests. Its concentration may double by the end of the next century. Carbon dioxide also significan...
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Nuclear Power Plants Chemical Weapons
1,909 wordsThis paper will discuss the moral and ethical issues concerning how and why Locally Undesirable Land Uses (LULUs) and Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (Tsdf's) are located. A LULU, or TSDF, can be a power plant, a munitions factory, a county landfill, a medical waste incinerator, a hazardous waste storage facility, a military base, an airport or any number of other facilities that people need, but do not want to live next to. The siting of these types of facilities is thought to be dri...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Memory
589 wordsMemory is the process of storing and retrieving information in the brain. Memory is viewed as a three-step process, which include sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Along with memory there is also forgetting. There are two types of forgetting, availability and accessibility. Sensory memory is memory that continues the sensation of a stimulus after that stimulus ends. The two major types of sensory memory are iconic and echoic. Iconic memory occurs when a visual stimulus pro...
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Saddam Hussein Atomic Bomb
1,603 words... ing for cover in fall out areas and under ground shelters. After the completion of the atomic bomb, the United States has been trying furiously to develop a more powerful nuclear weapon during the early 1950 's. The United States new that after the two horrific explosions in Japan, countries all over the world have been trying to develop there owns type of bomb. The U. S. also new that the Russians where competing with the U. S. over nuclear power. During the late 1950 's and early 1960 's t...
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Recorded Using Analog Benefit Of Compact Discs Vinyl
935 wordsAt the beginning of the last decade of the Twentieth century a new media for the storage and playback of music came into the picture. The compact disc was a phenomenon of sorts, causing people to completely rebuild record collections that had taken years to build. It was a situation of, "out with the old in with the new. " There seemed to be no place for the vinyl records that had been so true to so many for so long. Compact discs do have several benefits over the vinyl records of the past, but ...
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January 1 2000 Year 2000
1,710 wordsThe year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you don't own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a "bug" or "virus, " but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC's, mainframes, and software out there are not designed or programmed to compute a future year ending in double zeros. This is goi...
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Technological Advances Collar Workers
2,724 wordsIT Security Today, few managers can ignore the importance and impact of how information is handled by their organization. Information systems play a critical role in todays business organization and society. Since the emergence of the global economy, the success of firms today and in the future depends on their ability to operate globally. The economy depends on imports and exports. Globalization of the worlds industrial economies greatly enhances the value of information to the firm and offers ...
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Saddle River Nj Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River Nj Prentice
1,718 wordsTerm Paper Data Mining in Financial Decision Making Table of contents Abstract... 3 Introduction... 4 Data mining... 6 Functions... 6 Classification 6 Associations... 7 Clustering/Segmentation... 7 Cluster Analysis 8 Conclusion... 10 Bibliography... 11 Abstract With many companies competitive pressure increasing, new technologies and computing power ability improving, they want to use some technology to increase revenues. Among many technologies, recently, they trend to use data mining to dig ou...
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Ip Addresses Focus Attention
1,052 wordsInformation Security Database is the main component of the major applications based on the web. It gives a possibility to present various dynamic contents. In so far as such database can contain sensitive important and secret information, it is worth-while to focus attention on database security. Every person who works with database needs first to connect to it, then send a request, process an answer and close the connection to get or save information. A Structured Query Language SQL is used ver...
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Carbon Dioxide And Water Organic Compounds
1,157 wordsI. Introduction A. The Carbon Carbon I. Introduction A. The History of Carbon II. Occurrences in Nature A. Diamond B. Graphite C. Coal and Charcoal D. Amorphous Carbon III. Carbon Compounds A. Inorganic B. Organic IV. The Carbon Cycle V. Conclusion Carbon, an element discovered before history itself, is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. It can be found in the sun, the stars, comets, and the atmospheres of most planets. There are close to ten million known carbon compounds, many ...
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Cd Rom Data Storage
248 wordsWhoops, there goes another CD-ROM by Laura Tangled This article discusses the durability and longevity of some of todays modern forms of data storage. There is a big problem with the way data is being stored. The new forms of data storage, such as the CD-ROM and Magnetic tapes are not withstanding the test of time. The Magnetic tape has been around for some thirty some years and there have already been many problems with the preservation of these tapes. NASA and many other government organizatio...
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John W Mauchley High Speed Electronic
999 wordsThere have been few inventions that has grown an attached itself to as many lives as the invention of the computer. Computers can be found in almost every aspect of our lives, if not direct, indirectly. When I think of the different ways I come in contact with computers in one day its astounding. When I wake in the morning its usually by the assistance of an alarm clock that I program to alarm at a specific time. When I use my Metro Card to gain entrance to the train, a computer reads the funds ...
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Ideas Small Scale
1,777 wordsDNA Computing, The Future or the End? The future of computers is in the hands of the next century. The evolution of the Computer Age has become a part of everyday life, and as time proceeds, people are depending more and more on computer technology. From controlling a small wrist watch to the largest super-computers that can calculated the center of the universe, computers are essential for everyone in modern societies. Even most societies outside of the civilized world are not immune to compute...
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1 And 2 Virtual Reality
950 wordsThe world of mathematics usually tends to be thought of as abstract. Complex and imaginary numbers, real numbers, logarithms, functions, some tangible and others im perceivable. But these abstract numbers, simply symbols that conjure an image, a quantity, in our mind, and complex equations, take on a new meaning with fractals a concrete one. Fractals go from being very simple equations on a piece of paper to colorful, extraordinary images, and most of all, offer an explanation to things. The imp...
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Nail Polish British Airways
1,222 words? Miles to go before I sleep and Miles to go before I sleep? REMEMBER: The flight was on the April 26, 1996 from Ahmedabad, India via Kuwait to London and then to Orlando. We flew in British Airways and the flight duration was 22 hours. The people traveling were my mum, dad, me and my little sister (Binal). I was 14 years old. The preparations (i. e. : packing, moving furniture, throwing away things that had been stored for a decade! had gone on for weeks and months, clothes that were stored sin...
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Tightly Sealed Container Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon Apples
550 wordsThe fruit I am reporting on is the apple. The apple is classified as a Pome. Pomes are fruits that have a core, and belong to the rose family Rosaceae. Their Genus is Malus, and there are 25 existing species of Apples. Apples are available all year round. They are mostly grown in the northern Temperate Zone in both hemispheres. The apples that are harvested in the summer are too tart to eat and are used for cooking. They don t store well, so must be consumed right after they are harvested. Apple...
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Websters New World Netscape Navigator
1,317 wordsCOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE WHY I OWN A COMPUTER What can a computer do for me? At my age, why do I need to learn about the Internet? Answers; a lot, and yes. Computers are capable of doing more things every year. There are many advantages to knowing how to use a computer, and it is important that everyone know how to use them properly. Using the information I have gathered, and my own knowledge from my 12 years of computer experience, I will explain the many advantages of owning a computer ...
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