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d like wildfire over Indonesia. Again, activities that did not account for sustaining nature caused a delayed backlash that whipped havoc over Indonesia’s society. Accounting for both direct deaths from the blaze and indirect deaths from the lingering smokey haze, 100,000 people were estimated to have died from the dis...
nings of potential collapse and ordered workers to continue as normal. Only hours after the cracks appeared, the entire building crumpled, killing 1,138 workers and injuring 2,600. The world’s attention turned to the human cost of cheap, fast fashion. Brands associated with the Rana Plaza such as Mango, Primark, and H&...
cts of doing so are substantial. Honesty in its campaigns means Patagonia gains trust from its consumers. Taking a charitable sentiment by investing in the environment builds a strong brand that people will support, and often pay more to do so. Patagonia’s healthy environmental stance has positive social effects for th...
e study – Patagonia – as an example. Adopting sustainable actions heightens Patagonia’s brand value, thereby providing them with loyal customers who are willing to financially support a brand which aligns with their own ethics and values. In fact, 81% of consumers suggest they will make a personal sacrifice to address ...
save money, and benefit from increased productivity, engagement, and innovation. Ultimately, being a sustainable business won’t just result in benefits that take years upon years to reap; there are plenty of short-term advantages that directly result in profitability. How you can be a sustainable business In this post...
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ripple down to society and finally our economy. Focusing on the final bullet point, it is becoming more and more important for companies to adopt sustainable actions. With looming climatic changes, mass overexploitation of resources, habitat destruction, and extinction, we are pushing environmental conditions to their...
Beverly Gaventa has spent her career gleaning what we can get from these ancient texts. For historical purposes, there really is nothing quite as useful for understanding early Christianity – the first generation of early Christianity – than the letters of Paul. They are the first evidence we have. When I talk with stu...
Who needs coffee in the morning when you can just shine an orange light in your eyes? A team of European scientists has shown that exposure to an orange light improves alertness and cognitive brain function. Light, both natural and artificial, affects our circadian rhythms, causing alertness and sometimes upsetting our...
wanted to find out how melanopsin affects the human brain, what effect different wavelengths of light had on melanopsin and how this influences executive brain responses – cognitive brain functions such as anticipation, working memory, sequencing (breaking tasks into smaller units and ordering them), problem-solving an...
osed to 10-minute blasts of either blue (at 461 nm) or orange light (at 589 nm – strictly speaking, quite a yellowy orange light). They were blindfolded at all times when not undergoing light exposures or their scan and brain tasks. The researchers were able to show that executive brain responses were influenced by the...
psin, which may confer a form of ‘photic memory’ to human cognitive brain function,” write the researchers in their published paper. In a press release from INSERM, the researchers write, “Ultimately, these findings argue for the use and design of lighting systems to optimize cognitive performance.” Given melanopsin’s ...
About Forensic Dentistry As we enter a new millennium, society is faced with fresh challenges in every conceivable area. Despite leaps in modern technology, medical breakthroughs and the geographical changes that the last century has brought, crime still persists in all aspects of our lives. Violent and heinous activit...
remains of a decedent and a person represented by antemortem (before death) dental records are the same individual. Information from the body or circumstances usually contains clues as to who has died. Secondly, in those cases where antemortem records are not available, and no clues to the possible identity exist, a po...
in natural and manmade disaster situations and in particular the mass casualties normally associated with aviation disasters.
Seven point framework aims to improve government use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems. According to recent surveys by the EU and the British Computer Society, there is a distinct distrust in the regulation of advanced technology. A review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life found that the go...
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has a manuscript with the earliest image of English people playing something that looks like cricket. It dates from 1344 CE. One of the players is a woman. She actually looks rather more proficient, preparing to release the ball underarm, than the batsman who seems to have made...
from them at first hand. But England’s women also had to battle against prejudice and neglect. Until very recently, they never got paid and met all their expenses, including overseas tours, without sponsorship or support. They were expected to be grateful to men, especially husbands and employers, for the chance to pl...
red the early cricket training he and his brothers received from their mother, Martha, and indeed the cricket played by his two daughters at school. Eventually private girls’ schools gave some experience of cricket to pupils from wealthy families. Some enjoyed it so much that they formed their own clubs to continue pla...
reatly in early twentieth-century Britain, for girls as well as boys, but very few girls in state schools got any chance to play it. Some enlightened factory owners provided cricket facilities for their women workers but generally English women’s cricket remained the preserve of wealthy English women with supportive hu...
’s Cricket, and became the first woman anywhere in the world to become a radio commentator on cricket. The Second World War brought millions of English women out of home into the services and factories – but it did not make much difference to women’s cricket afterwards. Another major expansion of state education contin...
t-war great players broke the mould of genteel women amateurs grateful to play cricket on terms set by men. The all-rounder Enid Bakewell had a better Test match batting average than Javed Miandad (although from only 12 Tests, which were much rarer than men’s in her time and have become much rarer now.) A miner’s daugh...
n’s cricket, she will follow Grace in having gates named after her at Lord’s. In the late 1990s under government pressure, the WCA dissolved itself and women’s cricket was subsumed into the England and Wales Cricket Board. As with similar mergers in other countries including Pakistan this change had big consequences. E...
not stage a women’s match until 1976 and the present fixture list is virtually a male preserve. This may change under Claire Connor, former England women’s captain, as the first female President. T20 has given English women’s cricket a huge stimulus, especially the proliferation of overseas T20 competitions, which has ...
ct endorsements (although still unequal to men’s). But there are clouds over England women’s cricket as over men’s and indeed over cricket worldwide. Linked barriers of class and race continue to make the game far more accessible to white privately educated girls than to minority ethnic girls and those from low-income ...
er Of Rubato Towers is an increasingly crazed account of lockdown life in London without cricket.
Posted by Jamie Canterbury on June 18, 2018 • flint and steel In the late 19th Century the government passed the homesteading act and really fueled the desire for Americans to get their own little piece of this nation. So, families packed up important tools, like their guns, tools, flint and steel all began migrating w...
anitizing water and cooking food. It might also be a means of keeping warm, depending on the time of year. The interesting part about the pioneer’s fires was that they used brush, cow pies and fat to sustain fires because parts of the trail were very low on wood. Still, without that flint and steel they weren’t getting...
and their families. This was also the best way they could provide viable fresh meat for their party. The shotgun would be their best method for hunting big game like bison and deer. They would then be able to cook this big game using flint and steel to spark a fire; any remaining parts animal, such as the fur, would be...
During the Iron Age, the Cairns Broch—a tower-like stone building of monumental proportions—dominated the landscape of Windwick Bay, a rocky cove in the Scottish archipelago of Orkney. Equal parts house, fort and status symbol, the broch stood at the center of an ancient settlement until some point between the later 1s...
ng an intact roof and stone-cut steps leading down into the heart of the chamber, which is filled with muddy silt. The chamber appears to have been sealed in an anaerobic state, or without oxygen, meaning that bacteria were unable to damage the items. Given that the chamber was sealed around the same time the broch was...
iously recovered human remains—mainly teeth—from the site, the hair represents a unique opportunity to learn more about the lifestyle and health of the broch’s inhabitants. As Richard Gray wrote for the Telegraph while reporting on the discovery of 200,000-year-old hair back in 2009, soft tissue such as hair, skin and ...
rns Cog” in honor of the region’s traditional wedding cog, an alcoholic drink passed around in a wooden vessel at marriage receptions. “In appearance, the bowl is similar in shape to certain of the pottery vessels of the period, and in particular it looks like the sort of vessel we suspect to have been used for serving...
nds and a glass bead. “There is still much work to do in The Well, and there are other amazing remains to be recovered from the silts there, as well as across the site,” the UHI blog states. “The excavations are ongoing and more waterlogged items are likely to be raised during that time. The next steps will be to conse...
Morse's 1837 telegraph receiver prototype, built with a canvas-stretcher. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives A crowd of hushed spectators packed into the small red factory house at the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, unsure of what to expect next. Samuel Morse, along with his colleagu...
inventions, the telegraph was the result of an unusual mix of personal circumstances, artistic influences and pure happenstance. For the first four decades of his life, Morse was first and foremost an artist. “He was a painter of modest renown,” says Wallace. “Not top tier, perhaps, but his name was known.” Morse was ...
Morse became convinced that he could somehow send a message along a wire by opening and closing an electrical circuit, which could be recorded by an electromagnet on a piece of paper via a written code. Back in the U.S., he moved forward with his idea, meeting with Joseph Henry, another scientist working in electromag...
rd the fluctuations in an electrical circuit. “The most interesting thing about the prototype is that he took an artist’s canvas stretcher and made it into a telegraph receiver,” Wallace says. “So right there, you can see the shift from painter to telegrapher, all in one piece.” With a means of recording electromagneti...
or long-distance lines, he turned to the U.S. government, and after a small-scale demonstration with wires strung between different committee rooms within the Capitol, he was awarded $30,000 to build a 38-mile line from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. On May 1, 1844, Morse’s communication device was finally met with wide...
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When a fire broke out in 58-year-old Sim Buay Piak’s Tampines flat last year, firefighters had to struggle to get through stacks of hoarded items that towered to the ceiling. When they finally got to Sim, it was too late to save the elderly man and he was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene. In 2019, at least tw...
nd in some cases, become a dangerous fire hazard. Considering the potential harm caused to the individual and society, what can we do to help curb the phenomenon and how can we better support sufferers? Spotlight on hoarding Hoarding refers to an excessive acquisition of objects and inability to part with apparently va...
wasteful to discard them. As for ‘sentimental’ value, items take on heavy emotional significance, making it difficult for hoarders to throw them away. There is also evidence that ethno-cultural factors may predispose people to think and feel this way. In Chinese culture for example, the emphasis on thriftiness normali...
leaving seniors in greater social isolation. In Lin’s study, all the interviewees were living alone and had little to no social support to speak of. Finally, hoarding is known to be a chronic and progressive condition – life events and ageing-associated factors may introduce stressors and increase the severity of hoard...
back into old habits. This calls for a community-based approach aimed at alleviating these factors. To this end, Singapore has established a Hoarding Task Force that brings together the expertise and respective powers of multiple agencies such as the Ministry of National Development (MND), Ministry of Health (MOH), Mi...
a non-profit organisation, which runs Project HomeWorks. The initiative is aimed at improving the living conditions of the elderly, sick and disabled in one- and two-room rental flats in Singapore. They deal with two to three cases of hoarding every month, going in to check up on hoarders regularly and respectfully hel...
ourse assessment: “Ageing in Multicultural Contexts” by Lin Sng Hock, a PhD student in Gerontology with Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).
Dambadeniya is the third kingdom of Sri Lanka. It was situated in the Udukaha Western Korale of the Dambadeni Hatpattu in the Kurunegala district. As a result of the invasion of Rajarata by the Indian invader Kalinga Magha, the natives of the country were confronted with an unstable political atmosphere. At first, this...
dom associated with several important occurrences of the country’s history, it is important to study the historical significance of the Dambadeniya kingdom. Below are the Kings who were ruling in Dambedeniya:- King Vijayabahu III is the first king of the Dambadeniya kingdom. Native Sinhalese began to move to the South ...
Kalikala Sahithya Sarvagnana Panditha Parakramabahu”. It was given because he was a great poet and was very experienced in literature. Kavi Silumina is one of his great creations. Then he renounced his throne in favor of his eldest son Vijayabahu and he was sent for the completion of the recovery of Polonnaruwa and Anu...
iya was maintained as a Kingdom only for a short period from 1232-1273. Yapahuwa became the capital with the end of the Dambadeniya era. Claim listing is the best way to manage and protect your business. Singup to our Newsletter and recieve amazing information about the attractions, Things to Do, Travel Deals, Hotels, ...
Weather forecasts in the US could be in trouble, as the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – the guys in charge of flogging off the wireless spectrum for the 5G network to be developed – are being warned by meteorologists that it could make weather reports around the world. It’s a tough situation for the FCC, a...
at this means. Related: What is 5G? When asked for examples, Jacobs suggested that the reduction in capabilities could lead to inaccurate predictions of storm paths, and even two or three fewer days of preparation time for coastal residents faced with hurricanes. The reason behind it is a real moment of weird science: ...
temperature (50.2 – 50.4 GHz), rain and snow (36 – 37 GHz) and clouds and ice (80-90 GHz) so the problem isn’t a simple fix. This will come to the world stage in October, with a world radio conference taking place in October for nations around the world to come together and hash out the interference level. However, whi...
The Death of Moses 1Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 3the Negeb, and the Plain, that is,...
US Pharm. 2018;43(9):14. National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) data indicate that 15.5% of all women who intend to become pregnant are infertile (unable to conceive after 1 year of trying) and 6.7% of married women aged 15 to 44 years are infertile. Fecundity is impaired (i.e., physical difficulty in conceiving or ca...
d that 11.9% of women (7.3 million) aged 15 to 44 years received infertility services from healthcare professionals. The types of services provided were advice (6.3%), medical help to prevent miscarriage (5.4%), testing (5.2%), ovulation drugs (4.2%), and artificial insemination (1.4%). Among infertile women, 44% sough...
ed with the intention of freezing the embryos for the future. Demand for ART has doubled over the last decade, and currently 1.7% of all infants born every year are conceived via ART. Emotional Impact of Infertility: Fewer than 50% of women who could benefit from medical/behavioral services received such services. In c...
The lens is a normally clear structure that acts as a focusing device for the images projected on the retina in the back of the eye. Cataracts are opacities that develop in the lens, preventing image projection, which can eventually lead to vision loss. Veterinary Referral Center (VRC) is welcoming Dr. Zachary Badanes,...
ver, Labrador retriever, and cocker spaniel. - Diabetes — About 75 percent of diabetic dogs develop cataracts. When the dog’s blood sugar rises, the sugar level in the eye fluids also increases. The lens absorbs this excess sugar, which ultimately results in cataract formation. Early referral to a veterinary ophthalmol...
nd disophenol, have been linked to cataracts. - Electric shock — The exact cause is unknown, but receiving an electric shock can cause cataracts. Cataract signs and diagnosis in pets A cataract causes the lens in the center of your pet’s eye to appear white, gray, or cloudy. Cataracts can affect only part of the lens, ...
l assess whether they are a good candidate for cataract surgery. Diagnostics include: - Blood work — Screening blood work will be performed, to ensure your pet is healthy enough to undergo general anesthesia. - Ultrasound — An ocular ultrasound will be performed to assess the back of your pet’s eye, since an advanced c...
as lens luxation and glaucoma. Medical management cannot restore vision, but for pets who are not surgery candidates, this approach is the best way to keep their eyes pain-free. Regular monitoring by a veterinary professional is important to evaluate for secondary complications. Potential long-term management protocol...
ight in the hospital, and they will wear an Elizabethan collar to prevent them from rubbing their eyes. You will need to administer three to four topical eye medications to your pet for several weeks. Initially, the drops should be given four times a day, with the frequency decreasing over time. Dr. Badanes will need t...
y, but persistent inflammation requires long-term management. Cataracts can significantly affect a pet’s vision, but when caught early and managed appropriately, their vision can be salvaged. If you think your pet may have cataracts, contact our VRC team, so Dr. Badanes can evaluate your pet and determine whether they ...