Temporal scales

More than 150 years ago, the invention of the camera, a now every day item, was made and its later counterparts would be the technology to predict deadly catastrophes and save millions of people. This modern technology is known as remote sensing. The term “remote sensing” was used first by Evelyn Pruitt of the U.S. Office of Naval Research in the 1950s. It is “commonly used to describe science-and art-of identifying, observing, and measuring an object without coming into direct contact with it”…

History has shown that when new technologies have been introduced, many claim utopian ideals and fantasies about how they are going to shape the future. The words ‘life-changing’, ‘revolutionary’, and ‘radical’ are often thrown around. In 1989, Landgon Winner even coined a term describing this phenomena, “mythinformation: the almost religious conviction that a widespread adoption of computers and communications systems and communications systems along with easy access to electronic information…

wants of man to succeed. For Sartre relationships theoretically cannot work, for the freedoms of man cannot coexist in the same space, they begin to compete and cannot survive an extended period of time. Inherently the pour-soi cannot be bound by temporal feelings, eventually the freedom will break the ties that were made if they are inconvenient. Oddly enough, for Sartre relationships are not theoretically possible but in practice, are somewhat successful, but that is due to the submission as a…

People need to discuss plastic surgery more and need to know all the facts that evolve this specific procedure. Why is this information and need for talk important? The reasons are endless, and the discussions will lead to new discoveries and insight that many people will never realized. Not everyone will see the amazing, mind-blowing discoveries. They will keep the mind set that plastic surgery, the procedure to permanently or temporarily one’s physical appearance, is this and only this. They…

Creativity and Childhood Adversity In a relatively recent study looking to examine the cognitive effects of adverse conditions in childhood, 103 adult participants were tested for inhibition and shifting, an aspect of cognitive flexibility thought to underlie creativity. The participants’ childhoods were assessed in terms of harshness, related to socioeconomic status, and in unpredictability, related to lots of random change such as people often moving in and out of his or her home. A condition…

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems composed of small animals known as coral polyps, the skeletons of dead corals, and the various plants and animals that take refuge in the rich environment they produce. Sadly, the world 's coral reefs are dying. Ocean acidification, rising water temperatures, and disruption in the balance of sea life combine to form a lethal threat to these beautiful natural wonders. But what is really killing coral reefs? We are. Pollution, physical destruction, and…

Jang Sun Woo’s A Petal (1996) and Lee Chang Dong’s Peppermint Candy (1999) are two films that confront the highly traumatic Gwangju Democratization Movement in unique ways… Arguably the most well known ould be considered ???? Give a new perspective, …. two influential Korean New Wave directors. (Depending on 1st sentence However, (?)It was only following the relaxation of censorship laws that enabled filmmakers to look back at the movement and tackle its sensitive issues through cinema. A Petal…

The Stroop effect is a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. It is the finding that naming the color of the first set of words is easier and quicker than the second. When the name of a color (e.g., "blue", "green", or "red") is printed in a color not denoted by the name, (such as the word "red" printed in blue ink instead of red ink), naming the color of the word takes longer and is more prone to errors than when the color of the ink matches the name of the color. In his…

The understanding of the human mind and its superior ability to those of other species has been a grand scientific anomaly for generations. The mind 's ability to perceive different stimuli and produce different emotions based on that stimuli is truly remarkable. The question is how do a human 's senses and perceptions relate to their emotion? What kind of emotions are evoked in people as they are exposed to different stimuli? Why can what people see, hear, or taste make them feel emotions…

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Basic Concepts of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change According to (FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), 2000; Gregorio, 2005) land cover refers to the biophysical cover of the earth surface or land for instance vegetation cover such as forest, shrub/bushland, and grassland and water. Whereas land cover can be defined as the attributes of the earth’s land surface covered by vegetation, desert, water bodies like lake, sea, ocean, bare soil and ice (Chrysoulakis…