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has been declining at the rate of about 5% per decade [4]. A slight recovery in the sea ice cover was observed in 2008/2009, following a major decline of the ice in 2007 [4]. In February 2016, Arctic sea ice extent averaged 14.22 million square kilometres, the lowest February extent in the satellite record [11] (see figure 4). Reductions in glacial ice mass have been observed; there was a 30% reduction in the glacier length between 1950 and 1990 [8]. The glaciers of the Gulf of Alaska lost…

Introduction The world is moving towards an integrated and independent global economy. We are moving towards a world in which cross-border trade barriers and investments have started to decline, distance as perceived is reducing due to the advancement in transportation and telecommunication, material culture is beginning to look similar all over the world and also national economies are becoming interdependent, integrated global economic system. This world is where the amount of goods and…

Does anyone really know what is right and what is wrong? Everyone thinks they do know, but really no one knows what is right and what is wrong. No? Let’s say an insecure teen is struggling to ‘fit in’, and he/she meets two friends; one is popular, but a drug addict, and the other is quiet and despised for his/her intelligence (the two candidates loathe each other, so the struggling teen has to decide on which friend to choose). Now being an insecure teen, he/she will choose the more popular one…

a very wide range of applications, notably in the electrical, electronics, aerospace engineering, photography and audio-visual sectors. CG-PPI Adhesive Products Limited , which is located at Kundaim Industrial Estate of Goa, is approximately 17 kilometres from Panaji, the Capital of Goa. It is built on 17853 square metres of land and has a built up area of around 3600 square metres. The factory is well equipped with state of the art machinery and laboratory facilities and a dedicated team to…

Part 1: Doomsday Global warming is real, and, on this track, is bound to kill us. With average temperatures rising over the past years, many plants and animals will die, killing off any sustenance for us. Fortunately, with the correct care, we still may be able to, deter the burning, flooding, and killing of the earth. You may be informed, but you are definitely not alarmed enough. Often believed to be a hoax, global warming has done nothing but rise over the past few decades. Because of global…

Haida Gwaii is often referred to as the “The Canadian Galapagos” with over 6800 species of flora and fauna and presence of more unique subspecies than any other areas in Canada of equal size (Gaston, Golumbia, Martin & Sharpe, 2008). Haida Gwaii is located 80 km west of the mainland of British Columbia and is the largest and most isolated archipelago located on the west coast of Canada (Stockton, Allombert, Gaston & Martin, 2005). As the archipelago is within close proximity of the Pacific Ocean…

Global warming is arguably the largest threat facing humanity today, since 1880 the world 's average temperature has gone up by 0.8 degrees Celsius, and already the effects can be seen with an increase global of cyclones, forest fires, drought and floods. Within the United Kingdom, an increase of 1 degree has occurred since the 1970’s, (Naomi Hicks et al 2013). with this increase in average temperature, the main impact predicted to affect the UK is an increase in the amount of rain in the winter…

Introduction The reason I chose this topic was when I was a kid, my grandfather had to walk many kilometres to go to the bank and he had leg pain. Since M-Pesa was released, my grandfather doesn’t have to walk anymore and he easily sends and receives money. I got intrigued by M-Pesa and I wanted to know if it impacted other people as it impacted my family. Another reason why I chose this topic is because according to the World Bank, 75% of the world’s poor population do not have access to some…

On both occasions, Galileo mistook Neptune for a fixed star when it appeared very close—in conjunction—to Jupiter in the night sky;[20] hence, he is not credited with Neptune's discovery. During the period of his first observation in December 1612, Neptune was stationary in the sky because it had just turned retrograde that very day. This apparent backward motion is created when the orbit of the Earth takes it past an outer planet. Since Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle,…

Oscar, saying goodbye to Hilda in Tallinn ferried to Sweden and boarded the ship Gripsholm in the port of Göteborg at the beginning of April, 1929 and set sail for the newly opened, and to become famous, Pier 21 of Halifax. On April 14, 1929 he officially became an immigrant to Canada and headed towards Winnipeg. The trip took 3 to 4 days via a locked wagon, sitting on wooden seats, for the 3300 km trip from Halifax to Winnipeg. Once there Oscar was placed in an immigrant barrack which was a…