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The study was funded by the CDC which is a government organization of the United States of America.
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UNSCEAR 2013 Report: The Fukushima Accident This report is published by The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). It is to evaluate and report the levels and the effects of exposure on the ionising radiation.
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The main narrative of the film “In the Shadow of Ebola” is to show the impact from the top to bottom of the disease and the response to that disease. This includes international decisions affecting the nation of Liberia, the national government’s actions affecting the local communities and families there. Disease awareness and infrastructure are the main focus.
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This convention has instructed clear enough for the first responders (i.e. the involving states) to get into action with any possible nuclear hazards reporting. For the technical professionals, the main webpage of the convention documents has a related resources column that assist them to gain relevant information with emergency responses via updated visualized data etc.
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1) “It has been six months, and nobody knows who is responsible for what. It is a disgrace.”
2) “Six months after the World Trade Center collapse, the greatest structural disaster in modern history, people were still seeking to answer the question: why exactly had the Towers collapsed?”
3) “With the exception of federal oversight, Iroquois set the tone for investigation of modern disaster from the Baltimore Conflagration (1904) to the World Trade Center collapse.”
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The program itself is mainly funded by Handicap-International and USAID. For the other projects related to Haiti’s aftermath reconstruction are supported by AFD, ECHO, UN etc.
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The article’s arguments are supported by case studies and statistics.
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The product is designed in the way that the portable bridge can be expand from a folded mode to a bridge length takes up to across a river. It expanded in a scissor-like (90° turned scissor lift) action, then slides out the decks with end-to-end to provide platforms for vehicles.
This design is “Made of aluminum alloy and steel, it’s lightweight and easy to transport, yet sturdy enough for cars to cross.” [1]
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1) ‘New Orleans offers an example of the perpetuation of a “state of emergency” that was initiated by Katrina but has been sustained by ongoing politicoeconomic machinery—a machinery that ultimately needs to “have a disaster” to justify its existence.’
2) “…the idea that they had to stay in a state of heightened response to the pending ‘crisis’- a state they had to already been in for over two years- produced huge anxiety and exhaustion.”
3) ‘This chain of events prompted residents to say things like: We all asked, “Who was meaner: Katrina, Rita or FEMA? And everybody’s pointing at FEMA.” ‘