C YBER-PHYSIC AL-SOCIAL SYS TE MS Editor: Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, zeng@email.arizona.edu Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief Huiji Gao and Geoffrey Barbier, Arizona State University Rebecca Goolsby, US Office of Naval Research S ocial media has recently played a critical role in natural disasters as an informa- tion propagator that can be leveraged for disaster relief. After the catastrophic Haiti earthquake on 12 January 2010,
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Valley and therefore called Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1300 BCE) contemporaries of Mesopotamia and Egyptian Civilizations. Much lately, it was the great Chandragupta (321 BC) who expanded his Empire to Bengal and Assam in the east, to the Afghanistan and Baluchistan in the west, to Kashmir and Nepal in the north and to the Deccan in the south after defeating Nand Emperor. The trade & commerce was operated to India by land route only. Medieval history witnessed the glory of Indian subcontinent
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POLICY BRIEF SUMMARY SHAPING EUROPE’S AFGHAN SURGE Daniel Korski Unnoticed by many, the last few years have seen something of a European military surge in Afghanistan. Since late 2006, 18 of the 25 EU countries participating in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), NATO’s Afghan mission, have increased their troop contributions, and as a result EU member states now account for 43% of ISAF’s total deployment. This military surge has been accompanied by a steady growth in European
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India Introduction India is located in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan. It is the world's seventh largest country and second only to China in terms of population. India has long been a country plagued with poverty, but is now building itself and its economy. It is accomplishing this with new entries into the world market and a different outlook on economics. The future of India is uncertain for the moment, but the opportunity for growth
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most significant examples of arms control talks positively impacting the superpower relationship are the SALT I and INF treaties. Negotiations for SALT I played a part in bringing the two countries from the nuclear 'brinkmanship' of the Cuban missile crisis to détente. Gorbachev realising the importance of arms control in mutual political accommodation, initiated INF. INF and NST alleviated secrecy and suspicion and began a spirit of cooperation that could not have been achieved without successful talks
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Global Warming General Chemistry I Bret Lynn For millions of years the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. Although, for the last century and a half, Earth’s average temperature has been rising faster than any time in the past 10 thousand years. “We’re on a track to 700 parts-per-million of carbon dioxide on the planet, we haven’t seen that for 50 million years”(1). The signs are everywhere: droughts in the American southwest, rising seas in Louisiana, tropical
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S. election campaign closely, concerned about how the outcome might affect global issues. Europeans can't vote in the U.S. election, but, like people everywhere, they have a stake in its outcome. From economic issues to Iran and the war in Afghanistan, the future of Europe is very much linked to the United States. And the two men who are vying to lead it for the next four years would seem to have very different views of the continent. "I think the president wants to turn us into a European-style
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Harry Truman ecame US president when FDR died in 1945. He was responsible for B dropping the atomic bombs on Japan and ending WWII. Doris Day is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Red China It is a term used for the People's Republic of China, commonly called a Communist country. Johnnie Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. South Pacific Some of the most deadliest battles of World War II were fought in the south pacific.
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Kashmir conflict From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [pic] [pic] The disputed areas of the region of Kashmir. India claims the entire erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmirbased on an instrument of accession signed in 1947. Pakistanclaims all areas of the erstwhile state except for those claimed by China. China claims the Shaksam Valley and Aksai Chin. |[show] | |v
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Cost Cutting in the Military-the Consequences Ripple On http://www.standupamericaus.org/military-news/cost-cutting-in-the-military-the-consequences-ripple-on/ By: Scott W. Winchell and Denise Simon February 7, 2012 Abstract The DoD will reduce military spending by $1.2 trillion within the next decade, and will do so in two parts. The Obama administration proposed a $450 billion cut and because Congress couldn’t agree on a deficit budget by the November Deadline, the Pentagon has to make
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