Posted on May 28, 2008 by moattari
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Environmental management systems (EMSs) are tools that corporations and some government agencies use to manage environmental issues. These systems may vary from facility (or agency) to facility but the basic premise is to implement the broader concept of sound and proactive [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by moattari
In some countries, people feed caws like this!
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Posted on January 20, 2008 by moattari
Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for a global health burden similar to malaria and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and Malaria are in the international global agenda and receive enough attention in media and political community, but Road Traffic Injuries are ignored by most of health policy makers and it doesn’t receive enough attention even from academia.
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Posted on January 14, 2008 by moattari
Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful computer-aided database management and mapping technology that uses for organizing and storing large amount of multi-purpose information. GIS provides an interface between the data and a map. For example by using GIS maps we can show visually the trends of disease or injuries in a particular geographical region, [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2008 by moattari
Are you happy? When do people feel happiness? If they don’t have anything to eat make them happy, or if their babies are dying from pneumonia is a happy situation. If they live under Bomb and there is no hope in their country makes them feel as developed and happy nation. Of course, normal human [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2008 by moattari
Dr. George Lakaoff a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley believes that “Global warming” is the wrong term: “Warm” seems nice. So people think, “Gee, I like global warming, Pittsburgh will be warmer.” “Climate change” is the attempt to be scientific and neutral. “Climate crisis” would be a more effective term. [...]
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