Palmer Drought Index

supplying milk, fish and meat to nearby peoples. The land the Nuer people live in, stays flooded nearly half of the year while in a drought the rest of the year. These dramatic climate changes cause for the people to change living standards multiple times a year. During the flood season the families live in houses on higher ground known as villages, and during the drought season they move down to live in camps made in the river—closer to the water.…

Land degradation due to deforestation and frequent drought due to variation in rainfall can lead to desertification. This is where arid lands lose productiveness and become more desert like. The Sahel of West Africa is located just south of the Sahara desert is an example of a region that underwent desertification beginning in 1968. The desertification of the Sahel lead to failed rains and a long period of drought, resulting in famine in this region. This famine lead to a major loss in…

As most everyone knows, California is currently experiencing a severe drought; but, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, so is “over 36 percent of the continental U.S.” not to mention that “a fifth of the world’s [population], [that is,] more than 1.2 billion [people], live in areas of physical water scarcity.” Living in the United States, it can be easy to disregard a drought and the importance of water conservation because we always manage to obtain the water necessary to supply…

ensure uniform interview processes. Completed interviews were obtained from 90% of eligible patients (Evans et al, 1985). The responses to these interview questions was then compared to the existing indexes: the index of Physiological Effect, the Index of Overall Life Satisfaction, and the Index of Well Being (Evans et al, 1985). Within the Evans study observational study methods were used to extract medical…

walkability index (WI) to measure the characteristics of the physical environment that contribute to walkable neighbourhood design. Leslie et al. (2007) adapted the WI to Australia. WI for these studies contains four main data components. The first component is residential density which is the number of residential units per particular areal unit within a neighbourhood. A high residential density value shows that more people live in the area. The second data component of the walkability index is…

convert this input into constraint input format, the index of each value must be known. Table 3.6 shows the index of each parameter value of pizza ordering system. Table 3.6 System index information System Configurations Pizza Options (parameters) Pizza Type (0) Index Toppings (1) Index Size (2) Index Vegetarian Cheese 0 Roasted Chicken 0 Large 0 Meat Lover 1 Ground Beef 1 Medium 1 Mushroom (Mu) 2 Small 2 Now, based on parameter value index, these constraints was input as {0:0:x,…

In all businesses and organisations, Databases are used to store all the core activities/information and often when there a major changes or restructure of the business the first process of many businesses is to change their databases to realign with their goal which makes them a valuable asset to any organisation. (Margulies, Pfleeger, Pfleeger 2015). Databases stores and maintain data at one central location so users can easily access it whenever needed. Through the use of Queries, databases…

I am in the position of supporting the requirement for learning cursive in school. I may be biased because as a child, in early grades such as first and second, I was taught both printing and cursive. I remember my second grade teacher allowed us to choose between printing and cursive to finish standard writing assignments; though when sending us home with assignments specifically designed for learning cursive, we were required to complete those in cursive. My experience with using cursive…

eliminate them. One man in particular made this his full-time job for the sake of the American people. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer was born on May 4, 1872 in Moosehead, Pennsylvania.1 He was the most known anti-Communists during this time period and his goal was to wipe out any rumored Communists along the West Coast of America. To take…

Should public school students be taught how to write in cursive as a requires part ot the curriculum? I think so, cursive is used throught life, why would you not want to know it. Medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with fine motor-skill developement and stimulates both the left and right parts of the brain. Learning cursive helps make the brain stronger. Those are my three reason why I think cursive should be taught as a required part of the curriculum.…