Earth’s four spheres Hydrosphere - dynamic mass of liquid that is always on the move Oceans - the most prominent feature of the hydrosphere 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean which is 97% of Earth’s water Only 3% is fresh water - streams‚ lakes‚ glaciers and underground supplies Water Cycle - constantly recycles water Atmosphere Provides us with the air we breathe Protects us from the sun’s intense heat and radiation Protects us from space Biosphere Includes all life on Earth Interacts and
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EMERGING ROLE OF UN IN FUTURE CONFLICT EMERGING ROLE OF THE U.N. IN FUTURE CONFLICTS CHAPTER I We the people of the united nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind‚ and in the dignity and worth of the human person‚ in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small‚ and to establish conditions under which justice and respect of the obligations arising
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Zomi Zomi | Total population | c. 2‚500‚000 | Regions with significant populations | Northeast India · Bangladesh Myanmar (Burma) | Languages | Zomi language Tribes Tedim · Lusei · Paite · Zou · Simte · Vaiphei ·Kom · Gangte · Mate · Thadou/Kuki · Haokip · Kipgen · Sitlhou · Lhouvum · Anal · Maring · Muyon · Monsang | Religion | Christianity | Related ethnic groups | Chin · Mizo · Kuki · Naga · Hmar · Tibetans | Zomi is the name of a major tribe found
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-1- Sociology Among the Social Sciences Mattei Dogan Source: Encyclopedia of Sociology‚ 2nd Edition‚ E. Borgatta and R. Montgomery (eds.)‚ pp. 2913-2927 The relationship between sociology and the other social sciences is in reality relationship between sectors of different disciplines‚ not between whole disciplines. Sociology is one of the most open disciplines toward other disciplines. This openness is manifested in the citation patterns in academic publications‚ which allow one to measure
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Over the last few years the world of free and open source geospatial software has experienced some major changes. For instance‚ the website FreeGIS.org currently lists 330 GIS related projects. Besides the advent of new software projects and the growth of established projects‚ a new organisation known as the OSGeo Foundation has been established to offer a point of contact. This paper will give an overview on existing free and open source desktop GIS projects. To further the understanding
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mosaicing‚ weather forecasting‚ integrating information into GIS)‚ in medicine (combining CT and NMR data to obtain more complete information about the patient‚ monitoring of tumor growth‚ comparison of the patient data with anatomical atlases)‚ in cartography (map updating)‚ and in military applications (target localization‚ missile navigation). Keywords: Image registration‚ feature detection‚ feature matching‚ mapping function‚ resampling Part I: Survey 1 Introduction Image registration is the process
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Why Use GIS in Petroleum? A free eBook from Exprodat Version 1.0 (May 2012) | download latest version | | | .. .... 000000 000000 exprodat www.exprodat.corn Why Use GIS in Petroleum? Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction to GIS 5 Welcome 5 What is GIS? 5 What Can GIS Do? 7 Why You Should Care 9 Benefits of GIS 9 GIS in Petroleum 10 When Bad Stuff Happens 11 GIS Vocabulary 12 Section 2: GIS in the Petroleum Industry 14 A Brief History 14 GIS and
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study With the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs)‚ and electronic Government (e-Government)‚ it is possible to improve efficiency and effectiveness of internal administration within government and to re-locate government service from government offices to locations closer to the citizens (Davies‚ 2002). Examples of such locations are cyber cafe‚ telecenters‚ a personal computer at home and offices‚ while the benefits
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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Image registration methods: a survey Barbara Zitová‚ ‚ Jan Flusser Department of Image Processing‚ Institute of Information Theory and Automation‚ Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Pod vodárenskou věžı́ 4‚ 182 08 Prague 8‚ Czech Republic http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00137-9‚ How to Cite or Link Using DOI Abstract This paper aims to present a review of recent as well as classic image registration methods. Image registration is the process of overlaying images (two or
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