there has been a dramatic increase in the number of road accidents involving child pedestrians. This research proposal will seek to highlight the strategies that can be developed and implemented to improve the road safety of child pedestrians. (ii) Purpose statement and an associated research question Purpose Statement The purpose of this paper will seek to address the strategies that can be developed and implemented to enhance road safety for child pedestrians and thus improve casualty
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THESIS Optimization of Texture Feature Extraction Algorithm Tuan Anh Pham Abstract Texture‚ the pattern of information or arrangement of the structure found in an image‚ is an important feature of many image types. In a general sense‚ texture refers to surface characteristics and appearance of an object given by the size‚ shape‚ density‚ arrangement‚ proportion of its elementary parts. Due to the signification of texture information‚ texture feature extraction is a key function in various image processing
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reality in modernism? Modernism is a rejection of realism‚ which believed that science will save the world and where notion of science and social determinism is idealized. In modernism‚ science explains everything‚ which took away all the power of God‚ He became useless. In a way‚ life had lost its mystery‚ man‚ not God‚ could rule the world. Irving Howe‚ a literary critic‚ once talked about modernism as an "unyielding rage against the existing order". (Van Dusen‚ 1998) Nevertheless‚ modernism is also
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Financial Times discuss the economic argument for extending road tolls across the country. Road tolls cure form of road pricing and have already been introduced by the M6 spur road “M6 Toll road opens‚ the barriers at the M6 Toll booths were raised for the first time at 1010 GMT after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at which Transport Secretary Alistair Darling was the guest of honour” stated in the bbc article online and in the article “M6 toll road around Birmingham opened in 2003” ‚ as it means of correcting
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For centuries the Silk Road has served as a connector between empires‚ countries‚ and cities all over the world. The outposts and cities along the Silk Road became the melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European
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ICRA Rating Feature POULTRY INDUSTRY - BROILER MEAT AND TABLE EGG Analyst Contact Anjan Ghosh aghosh@icraindia.com +91-22-3047 0006 Overview The domestic poultry market size is estimated at more than Rs. 47‚000 crore and the growth trend is likely to continue for the present decade as demand has been growing steadily on back of favourable socio economic factors like healthy GDP growth‚ rising purchasing power‚ changing food habits‚ and increasing urbanization. The poultry sector in India
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conclusions about society. For instance‚ in The Road‚ the man and the son are completely isolated from the rest of the world by their status of being the “good guys;” however‚ this experience shows that although evil is more powerful than good‚ it does not triumph in the end. Cormac McCarthy shows this belief about humankind by proving the two key components of exile‚ alienation and enrichment‚ to be both present and equally important. In The Road‚ McCarthy asserts that while evil is almost always
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Where is the direction in road crash reduction? Number of lives are lost every year all around the globe due to serious crashes on our roads. Australian government is collaborating with the transport engineers in order to introduce new measures to reduce the risk of the road side accidents. This report of mine is based upon Australian road crashes reduction. It briefly explains why and how these road crashes take place. Strict measures taken by the Australian government and restricted speed limits
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Comparative Essay Between Two Ballads Ballad is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship‚ having been passed orally from one generation to the next. Ballads are written for entertainment and meanwhile there is a moral theme. Each ballad has its own characters‚ settings‚ events‚ and theme. Here are two examples of ballads: "Robin Hood and the Three Squires" and "Get up and Bar the Door." Both have similarities and differences. There
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Road accident is a global tragedy with ever-raising trend. In Malaysia‚ it represents a major public problem because of the high number of victims involved and also the seriousness of the consequences for the victim themselves and to their families as well. Accidents are generally classified as single vehicle accidents in which the vehicle is either colliding with fixed objects or with pedestrians or the vehicle may fall in a ditch and multiple vehicle accidents in which two or more than two vehicle
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