Assignment: Inverted Index October 19‚ 2012 1 Introduction Today‚ top search engines like Google and Yahoo use a data structure called Inverted Index for their matching of queries to the documents and give users the relevant documents according to their rank. Inverted Index is basically a mapping from a word to its position of occurence in the document. Since a word may appear more than once in the document‚ storing all the positions and the frequency of a word in the document gives an
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Introduction: Statement of the Problem Generally speaking in Western society‚ the incidence of eating disorders is on the rise‚ and no longer limited to the teenage female demographic. Startling statistics now indicate that onset of anorexia nervosa in females is beginning at a much earlier age and across more racially and ethnically diverse lines (Grover‚ Keel‚ & Mitchell‚ 2008). While the characteristics of the afflicted population are changing‚ so too are some of the theories about the
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CHAPTER 1 The Problem and its Setting Introduction Cholesterol is a chemical compound that is naturally produced by the body and is structurally a combination of lipid (fat) and steroids. Cholesterol is a building block for cell membrane and about 80% of the body’s cholesterol is produced by the liver‚ while the rest comes from our diet. The main sources of diet cholesterol are meat‚ poultry‚ fish and dairy products. After meal‚ dietary cholesterol is absorbed from the intestine and stored in
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Environmental problems‚ ranging from Antarctic Ozone hold to global warming‚ are becoming severe and urgently needed to be tackled with. It has gone beyond national boundaries and become an issue that can be only solved by the cooperation of all the countries in the world. Firstly‚ the seriousness of the environmental problems has gone beyond the individual country’s ability to solve. The environment has been polluted for hundreds of year by all the people in every county. Due to lacking of capital
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Environmental problems have been growing alongside with human’s development for centuries‚ and the impact of human on the environment is getting greater by the matter of new inventions and technologies that keeps evolving to replace labor. When it gets to the point that we [human] realize that we cause those problems and are the one who is suffering from the consequences‚ we also realize that environmental problems is our problems. Because it is undeniable that human kind exists‚ or in the matter
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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND GLOBAL SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS. Global environmental problems involve one or more of the following: 1. Deforestation 2. Desertification 3. Rapid Population Growth 4. Food Production and Equitable Distribution 5. Global Warming 6. Depletion of the Atmospheric Ozone 7. Acid Precipitation and Air Pollution 8. Ocean Pollution Characteristics of International Environmental Problems: 1. Many of the international problems involve the use
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In many cases‚ most people in the United States; even around the world do not acknowledge that our planet is being polluted by coal plants and other industrialized nations. Climate change is a problem and threat to the world. In the reading of “Environmental Warriors Going To The Root Of The Problem” by Greg Jobin- Leeds and AgitArte‚ it talked mainly about the Earth being polluted and the reasons for that. The people that aren’t wealthy are affected by the plants that are built in the cities around
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Pongsakorn Prohdeengam #5480995 Section 4 How Environmental Problems Can Affect Health Problems in Thai Society Many people say that the environmental issues in Thailand are chronic problems. According to Ping (2012)‚ irregular environmental catastrophes have occurred more frequently than ever recently. Due to inadequate responsibility‚ people keep ignoring the environment that absolutely causes climate change and the severe pollution. In October 2011‚ the catastrophic flood hit the central
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APPLICATION AND REFORM NEEDS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS IN BANGLADESH Syeda Rizwana Hasan* 1. Development of Environmental Law at the Global Level The Agenda 21 of United Nations Convention of on Environment and Development (UNCED) in its Chapter 8‚ 38 and 39 emphasized on the need to develop capacity in the legal and institutional areas for sustainable development in developing countries. Chapter 8.13 of the Agenda noted that laws and regulations suited to country-specific conditions are
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Gold Mining inevitable damage to the environment‚ to induce a variety of negative effects of geological environments. Currently‚ the shortage of resources‚ population growth‚ environmental pollution and other issues facing humanity increasingly prominent‚ visible‚ in-depth study of mining development and its negative effects induced comprehensive treatment is necessary‚ its far-reaching. Gold mining-induced negative effects of geological environment‚ gold mining-induced negative
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