...approaches & needs. INTRODUCTION What is required to assess accurately the environmental impact of oil spill: No loss of time, no loss of information • set-up the framework defining initial measures and research that can be implemented as realistically as possible in terms of human, technical and financial resources quickly decide and implement the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) programme What should be surveyed, how and to what end? • Post-spill environmental impact assessment: approaches & needs. INTRODUCTION What can we learn from past experience? 3 actions carried out at Cedre : • management aspects (i.e. funding, setting up, etc.) • technical procedures (i.e. approaches, methods…) 1997 A survey with French scientists (30) A feedback about the EIA of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill (1978) A comparative study on EIA of 6 major oil spills A workshop on EIA on marine benthic...
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... | | |reporting of data. |reasonable. | | |-Reporting data consist of supplying |-A hypothesis is needed to begin research. | | |readers with participant information, data |- The researcher is ideally an objective | | |patterns, recognition of biases, and |observer that neither participates in nor | | |further research to be conducted |did influence what is being study (Barnes, | | |surrounding the topic. |2005). | |Qualitative Research |-Requires the collection, analysis, and |-Research is inductive, leading on or | | |reporting of data |employing mathematical or logical...
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...variations, that human actions are responsible for the rapidness of recent growth, and that we need to start taking action now. What is Global Warming? Global warming is a trend that shows is that the earth is warming. Global average temperature data based on measurements that date back to 1880. “Based on data from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the 27 warmest years since 1880 all occurred in the 30 years from 1980 to 2009; the warmest year was 2005 followed closely by 1998” (Turk, J., & Bensel, T.,2011, sect. 7.2). Over the past 50 years, the data on extreme temperatures have shown similar trends of rising temperatures: cold days, cold nights, and frosts occurred less frequently over time, while hot days, hot nights, and heat waves occurred more frequently. The Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases (United States Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.). The main gasses that are emitted are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases. “The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation” (United States Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.). According to data from the EPA, The primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States from 2010 are: • Electricity...
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...concerned with the ultimate healthiness of the food choice, as long as it does not involve killings. “Soy sausages and “Fib Ribs to Tofurky jerky and mock lobster” that PETA is citing as its meat alternatives, do not sound too ingredient-friendly. On the other hand, people choosing vegetarian or meat diet for its health-related advantages are faced with dire straits of scientific burden of proof because health is a long-term domain of high science. ‘Compelling scientific evidence’ appears to be a strong word sequence with almost magical powers, practically an idiom, but, of course, it has to be handled carefully. In many examples of bad or ‘yellow’ journalism, the phrase “British [American, sometimes on gets Chinese for exoticism] scientists have discovered” often validates, or at least serves as modality qualifier for the stories with unchecked or altogether invented facts.’ Trust of popular reader in omnipotent Science is of course a wonderful legacy of the European Enlightenment – the Scotts of the 17th and the French of the 18th centuries. The Enlightenment Project with positivism at its core has put The Science on the Olympus higher than that of the Greek gods. Unprecedented authority of the positivist method of science, naturally, still serves many good...
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...DRUG DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE Obstacles and Opportunities for Collaboration Among Academia, Industry and Government January 13–14, 2005 Washington, DC David Korn, M.D. Donald R. Stanski, M.D. Editors DRUG DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE Obstacles and Opportunities for Collaboration Among Academia, Industry and Government Report of an Invitational Conference Organized by The Association of American Medical Colleges Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Development Science, at the University of California, San Francisco January 13-14, 2005 Washington, DC David Korn, M.D. Donald R. Stanski, M.D. Editors DRUG DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This is the report of a conference convened by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Food and Drug Administration in response to the FDA white paper entitled “Innovation or Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Product Development”. The conference was partially supported by the FDA. The AAMC acknowledges with gratitude the additional support provided by Abbott Laboratories, Cephalon, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmith Kline, Merck & Co. Inc., and Pfizer, Inc. The conference planning committee consisted of Drs. David Korn, Joel Kupersmith, Carl Peck, Donald Stanski, and Janet Woodcock. Figures 1 and 2 are taken from the FDA white paper. The back cover composite is derived from charts presented at the conference by Dr. Peter Corr, Pfizer, Inc. The report was designed by Douglas Ortiz, AAMC...
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...skill for the scientist • Observations may be qualitative or quantitative • Distinguish an interpretation from an observation: an interpretation is a conclusion based on observations • It is important for the scientist to record all observations during the experiment, not later • Set up a data table in your lab notebook before beginning the procedure Procedure: 1. Record qualitative and quantitative observations of the 3 different size candles before lighting. Be sure to include the diameters (cm) of the candles. 2. Light the first candle and record its height every 60 seconds. If the candle is still burning after 15 minutes, blow out the flame and stop recording measurements. 3. Repeat the experiment with the other candles. Questions: 1. What is the accuracy of the ruler used in this lab? 2. Identify the dependent and independent variables. 3. Explain how to calculate the average burning rate. 4. Is the relationship between time and height inverse or direct? Explain. Name : _______________ Partner :_______________ Date : _______________ 1) Do the experiment [Measuring – 5pts.] 2) What is the Purpose/Objective? [Formulating Scientific Questions – 2pts.] State the objective (purpose/problem) 3) How will I conduct the investigation (include a brief summary of the procedure)? [Data Collection – 3pts.] 4) Data/Graph? [Communicating...
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...Archie B. Bairoy 1-B ACT Summary of Independence day Movie On July 2nd the communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. Aliens arrive in a gigantic mother ship and prepare to invade earth. Huge daughter ships get sent to hover above major cities all over earth. They use earth's satellites to communicate and time their attack which messes up TV signals. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day... Cite/mention/describe explain two scenes in the movie in which data communication is involved 1. RADAR Is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to...
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...JAYPEE BUSINESS SCHOOL Assignment on – Getting Value from Your Data Scientists Submitted To: Submitted By: Prof. Ashok Kumar Wahi Aishwarya Alagh (14609116) Plagiarism Report (Screenshots from www.smallseotools.com) Plagiarism Report (Screenshots from www.smallseotools.com) Data Science is an interdisciplinary field about procedures and frameworks to concentrate learning or experiences from information in different structures, either organized or unstructured, which is a continuation of a percentage of the information investigation fields, for example, insights, information mining, and predictive examination, like Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Data science utilizes systems and hypotheses drawn from numerous fields inside of the expansive ranges of arithmetic, statistics, chemo metrics, data science, and software engineering, including sign handling, likelihood models, machine learning, statistical learning, information mining, database, information building, example acknowledgment and learning, representation, prescient analytics, uncertainty displaying, information warehousing, information pressure, PC programming, counterfeit consciousness, and superior processing. Strategies that scale to Big Data are exceptionally compelling in information science, in spite of the fact that the control...
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...Joseph Niehl Baron (李健雄) College of Social Science Department of Economics B00303118 Dear Professor or whoever may concern, Due to lack of fund I was not able to buy our syllabus yet, and I was not able to complete the suggested homework. So, instead of doing nothing, I have decided to hand in my personal simplified summary. I will get my syllabus as soon as possible, I apologize for your inconvenience. Best regards, Joseph Niehl Baron *********************************************************** Chapter II: Thinking like an Economist Principle of Economics 1. Every field has it’s own language and it’s own way of thinking. 2. The Economist as Scientist a. Economists two roles: Scientists / Policy advisors b. Devise theories, collect data, analyze data to verify or refute c. Scientific method: Observation and theory 3. Assumptions and models a. Assumptions can simplify the complex world and make it easier to understand b. Use models to learn about and illustrate the world. c. First model: The circular flow diagram: is a visual model of the economy that shows how dollars flow through markets among households and firms. d. Second model: The production possibilities frontier: is a graph that shows the various combinations of output that the economy can possibly produce given the available factors of production and the available production technology 4. Microeconomics and Macroeconomics a. Microeconomics:...
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...BA3 Short-Term Effects of an Oil Spill on Marsh-Edge Fishes and Decapod Crustaceans Summary 1- The article is about the Barataria Bay estuary in the state of Louisiana. The article talks about the short term effects of an oil spill in the estuary. The article then goes on to explain how out of all the organisms located in the estuary fish were the most mobile and left the area when the spill occurred. Decapods and crustaceans on the other hand are far less mobile and were left behind to endure the spill. The authors then explain how overall the ecosystem recovered relatively fast. The article then dives into how louisiana handles over fifteen percent of all the oil going into the United States. The article goes further and explains that Louisiana is home to twenty six percent of the united states fisheries which is dominated mostly by crustaceans. The authors then explain that since the oil and fisherie industries operate in the same space it damages the organisms that the fisherie thrives off of. In this particular passage the author explains that the harm is done when these organisms either get smothered in the oil or accidentally ingest it. This source is...
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...socialist multi-millionaire. Today, the idea is still going strong, for no good reason. Climate change is not catastrophic so there is no need to fret over it. The first reason is that many of the numbers that climate change supporters tell you are exaggerated. Secondly, there is so much information saying that climate change is not real that it can not be ignored. My first reason against climate change is that a great amount of “data” about climate change is exaggerated or flat-out made up. For example, according to globalclimatescam.com it claims that in reality most scientists do not agree with artificial catastrophic climate change. “ 75 scientists said they believe in global warming on the other hand over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying they do not believe in catastrophic manmade global warming.” You have probably heard of the 99% of scientists believe in global warming, but this proves that the opposite is true. Also, a lot of scientists say that warmer weather causes more carbon dioxide causing warmer weather. But really, using a summary of answersingenesis.org a hotter climate will create more evaporation, making more clouds,...
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...The Historicity of Adam A hotly debated topic among evolutionists, creation scientists, and evangelicals is the historicity of Adam. These people’s views can be summarized into four basic positions [1]. The most liberal view, evolutionary creationism, holds that there was no historical Adam. This view has been expounded upon by Denis Lamoureux, a well-known professor who has lectured widely on the topic of evolutionary creationism. Evolutionary creationism posits that God used evolution to create man and used ancient views of science to impart specific inerrant truths [2]. This idea of using ancient science to give truth is called the “Message-Incident Principle” [3]. The second position is the archetypal view. Those who hold this view, such as John Walton, an influential scholar who has written several books on the topic, believe that Adam was a real man, but was used biblically as an archetype, or a representation of humanity as a whole. According to this view, Adam may or may not have been the father of mankind, and that the Bible should not be used as an argument against scientific evidence about human origins [4]. The third position, old-earth creationism, suggests that Adam was the real “[headwater] of humankind” but argues that the Bible does not limit the timeline of history to a young-earth perspective. This view has been vocally promoted by a seminary professor named C. John Collins, who has also written a famous book on the subject entitled Did Adam and Eve Really...
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...URL: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07philippines/welcome.html Title: Exploring the Inner Space of the Celebes Sea 2007 Date: September 27 – October 16, 2007 Mission Summary: The 2007 mission to explore the Inner Space of the Celebes Sea became an exclusive opportunity to connect explorers and scientists from America and several Philippines universities and research agencies south of the Philippines Islands in search of fishes, jellyfish, squids, and shrimp that live in the dark deep waters. The Celebes Sea was picked for the mission because this sea is located just north of equator and is called the center of the most biologically diverse area of the world’s ocean. It is 5,000 meters deep but is surrounded by much shallower ocean waters, and as a result these waters became the home for species living in isolation from other surrounding waters, and waiting to be discovered using new exploration tools. A ship Hydrographer Presbitero designed only for 40 people, gathered sixty-one, including 28 scientists and researchers. They worked together for almost two weeks to collect samples, videos, images, and data to increase our understanding of the biological composition and the nature of the deep mid-water environment of the Celebes Sea. Scientists wanted to compare the samples and all information with what is known about other deep-sea regions around the world. The expedition has begun in the Port of Manila and then continued south through the Sulu Sea...
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......11 Who can benefit from memo plus gold? .………………………………….. 12 Bacoppa Monniera……………………………………………………………….13 What’s in bacoppa and how does it work? …………………………………14 Mice (Mus musculus)……………………………………………………………16 Mice Protocols.………………………………………………………………....17 General Principles……………………………………………………………....18 The type of maze and what it is used for? ………………………………….20 Chapter III. Methodology A, Research Design…………………………………………………………….21 C. Procedure……………………………………………………………………22 Maze Test………………………………………………………………………..23 D. Flow Chart…………………………………………………………………...24 Chapter IV. Results and Discussion Table 1…………………………………………………………………………..25 Table 2…………………………………………………………………………..26 Chapter V. Summary, Conclusion, Findings, and Recommendation A. Summary…………………………………………………………………….27 B. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..28 C....
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...positive characteristic of a theory. 8. Discuss various components for a concept of humanity. 9. Define reliability and validity and explain why both concepts are important in personality research. Summary Outline I. Overview of Personality Theory From the investigations of Freud during the last decade of the 19th century until the present time, a number of personality theorists have (1) made controlled observations of human behavior and (2) speculated on the meaning of those observations. Differences in the theories of these men and women are due to more than differences in terminology. They stem from differences on basic issues concerning the nature of humanity. II. What Is Personality? The term personality comes from the Latin word persona, meaning the mask people wear or the role they play in life. However, most psychologists use the term to refer to much more than the face or facade people show to others. Personality can be defined as a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to human behavior III. What is a Theory? The term theory is often used quite loosely and incorrectly to imply something other than a useful scientific concept. Theories are used by scientists to...
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