Crude‚ a documentary by Joe Berlinger‚ provides an eye-opening look into the highly controversial battle between Texaco and the Amazon Jungle of Ecuador. The film follows the lawyers’s fight to improve the jungle’s living environment and restore the original beauty of the Amazon. Texaco has been contaminating the rainforest for around three decades‚ poisoning the water‚ air and land. The pollution has created a ‘death zone’ that has been increasing the rates of cancer‚ leukemia‚ birth defects‚ and
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According to the data received by the Registrar General of India‚ in 2007 to 2009 the maternal mortality rate in India is 212 per 100‚000 live births. The country needs to reduce the maternal mortality rate to less than109 deaths by 2015 to achieve the United Nations-mandated Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Every ten minutes there is one maternal death in India as reported by the United Nations and at this rate India is unlikely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. What is Maternal Death?
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Table of Contents Crude oil......................................................................................................................................1 Ancient Civilisation ...................................................................................................................1 Politics of Black Gold.................................................................................................................1 Physical attributes of crude ...........................
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Facing Mortality Brad Gillam ENG 125 October 10‚ 2011 In this paper I have been asked to compare and contrast literary works involving the topic of my choosing. For this paper I chose the topic of death. Death can be told in many different ways‚ and looked at the same. This paper is going to decide how you feel about death‚ is it a lonely long road that ends in sorrow‚ or a happy journey that ends at the heart of the soul? You decide as we take different literary works to determine which way
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Assessing Impact of Health Oriented Aid on Infant Mortality Rates Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality‚ using data from in total 135 countries (for the purposes of this study‚ developing countries)‚ between 1975 and 2010. Utilizing both conventional Instrumental Variable and System GMM approaches‚ a tentative conclusion can be drawn that aid comes to have a statistically
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A Review of: A Crude Awakening The documentary A Crude Awakening is a very descriptive and informative film that helped me further understand the degree of dependence that we have on crude oil and why we became this way. Most points made in the film are facts that I could look up and prove on my own because they were‚ for the most part‚ historical or factual. The film describes how our dependency on oil became very large during and after the industrial revolution due to fast production and high
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Increasing Maternal Mortality‚ and The Problem Is Especially Severe In Marginalized Communities Such As Low-Income Households‚ IDPs‚ Refugees And Women In War Zone. [J.Peter and A.Wolper.1995] Maternal Mortality Is Defined As Death Among Women Who Are Pregnant Or Who Have Been Pregnant During The Previous Forty-Two Days. [R.Cook‚B.dickens and M.Ffathalla.2003] There Are Many Causes That Contribute To Maternal Mortality And Some Combine With Other To Compound The Risk Of Maternal Mortality‚ Inadequate Funding
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Cholera in Haiti This paper will discuss the various different aspects of Cholera in Haiti and will outline the history of such a disease in terms of its epidemiology‚ natural reservoirs and vectors associated with it. The paper will describe how cholera is manifested‚ and what actions are recommended to manage‚ treat and help prevent the disease‚ and the important role nurses’ play in this process. History and Characteristics of the Vibrio Cholerae Micro-organism
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with sustainability. Haiti is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. Natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes destroy Haitian homes and structures‚ and many Haitians do not have the money for constant reparations. Disease and unsanitary conditions are problems in Haiti. Without a central water filter system‚ a lot of the water in Haiti is polluted which makes it easier to contract a disease. Many Haitians leave in order to find cleaner‚ safer locations. PULL: Haiti has a negative net
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Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related
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