California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.
Copyright Basics
Website with an excellent (and brief) explanation of fair use to copyrighted materials, along with a useful fair-use checklist that can be used to assist in fair-use analysis.
Campus Copyright: Rights and Responsibilities
This policy guide explains the basics of American copyright law as it concerns universities, scholars, and scholarly publishers.
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a_chenSince the article reported that this is the fourth edition of the design, most of the problems are solved during the refurbishment of product. So there are not many problems with the design as they tested with the publics. But they plan to make the bridge “stronger, longer, lighter, more compact and quicker to set up”.
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a_chenThis study has let the news agencies to have a new term to report with the articles that relevant to public health and mass imprisonment when introducing contents to the general publics. The data and observations been made within the epidemiological study has assisted the new articles to explain the incarcerated group in a more colloquial and easy understanding way.
“When public health authorities talk about an epidemic, they are referring to a disease that can spread rapidly throughout a population, like the flu or tuberculosis.
But researchers are increasingly finding the term useful in understanding another destructive, and distinctly American, phenomenon — mass incarceration.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/opinion/mass-imprisonment-and-public-…]
“Since the 1970s, the correctional population in the US has ballooned by 700 percent. This phenomenon is often referred to as mass incarceration.” [http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/Mass-Incarceration-A-P…]
Professional uses citations:
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a_chenFrom the links provided within the article, relevant information about Hurricane Katrina can be viewed with the commentary and archival articles that published in The New York Times that written by other authors.
Also the author has made in contact with Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans to focus on the investigation into the detail situations happened with the floodwaters. Afterwards, gained more information on the lethal injection issues.
[http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/hurricane-katrina?inline=nyt-class…]
[http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/hurricanes-and-tropical-storms-hur…]
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a_chenThis policy is drafted by United State Environmental Protection Agency. And their mission is to protect human health and the environment via the development and enforcement with regulations.
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a_chenDue to the mass destruction of the area, the first few days’ data were not able to collect (not only the destruction, but the rescue was the first priority). Therefore, the scientific committee used models to simulate and analyse the data (might not be accurate on the early stage). After the rescue, many countries have provided data to assist the works. For the long‐live radioactive substances, the data was able to collect with the ground soils. Furthermore, prediction can be made with the pass experiences and the basic models.
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a_chenThe received data can be managed and visualised into charts or map tiles (e.g. open street maps or satellite maps). The data is visualized in the panel of “Visualize Your Story “with four modes of visual features.
- Branded Deployment
- Map Mode
- Timeline Mode
- Activity Analytics Mode
A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."