Sound Pollution 1.1) Causes of sound pollution 1.2) Effects of sound pollution 1.2.1) Human health effects 1.2.2) Environmental effects 1.2.3) Property effects 1.3) Solutions for sound pollution 5-11 2) Water Pollution 2.1) Causes of water pollution 2.2) Effect of water pollution 2.3) Solutions for water pollution 12-15 3) Land Pollution 3.1) Causes of land pollution 3.2) Effect of land pollution 3.3) Solutions for land pollution 16-20 4) Air Pollution 4.1) Causes of land pollution 4.2)
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Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes a person’s air pathways to be inflamed. It also causes a person’s air pathways to be narrower. The cause of asthma has not been determined‚ but there are some risk factors that can contribute to the reason why someone has this lung disease. The risk factors are parents who have asthma‚ a tendency to develop allergies‚ throughout childhood getting different respiratory infections‚ and exposure to air borne allergies throughout childhood. It
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I just came back from a business trip this weekend. It was the first time I worked as a “coordinator” for my company. I learned a lot and got “business culture shock” as well. I am not sure if there is the term in English. I just felt I was in another world that I had to speak another language and used another way of thinking especially in business meetings. For example‚ my boss blamed me that I shouldn’t have said “sorry” if he hadn’t said that. In my opinion‚ in Japan‚ it’s very common to
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known as air is a mixture‚ not a chemical combination‚ of a number of gases; that is‚ each gas retains its own characteristic properties. It consists of about 78 percent nitrogen; 21 percent oxygen‚ and carries along with it water vapor‚ clouds‚ dust‚ smoke‚ soot‚ and a variety of chemical compounds. The remaining one percent contains all the other gases including carbon monoxide‚ carbon dioxide‚ ozone‚ methane‚ and ammonia that contribute to harmful pollutants that are released into the air. Millions
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Table of Contents Introduction ………………………………………………………………. 3 Overview …………………………………………………………………. 4 What is Asthma …………………………………………………………... 5 What are the signs and symptoms of asthma? ..………………………….. 5 What can make asthma symptoms worse? ………………………………. 6 What is the treatment for asthma? ……………………………………….. 8 Peak flow and its importance ……………………………………………. 9 Asthma Action Plan ……………………………………………………... 9 Patient Information Leaflet ……………………………………………... 10 Summary ………………………………………………………………
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HK’s air pollution is affecting its position as a financial hub and a tourist destination Ask any of the Hong Kong residents. There is no surprise to hear them saying the smog hiding Hong Kong’s once blue skies has been getting thicker over the last decade. Indeed‚ Bloomberg recently reported that air pollution in Hong Kong has been soaring since 2007. In 2011‚ the crowded state recorded 175 days of “very high” pollution– more than double the figure from four years prior. How is the declining
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12 The Effects of Air Pollutants on Vegetation and the Role of Vegetation in Reducing Atmospheric Pollution Iuliana Florentina Gheorghe1 and Barbu Ion2 1Ecological University of Bucharest‚ Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Protection 2Forest Research and Management Institute Romania 1. Introduction The main air pollutants are represented by gases forms‚ particles in suspension‚ different ionizing radiation and noise. The gases forms are: oxidized and reduced forms of carbon (CO2‚ CO‚ CH4)‚ of
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El Paso‚ Air Quality: Pollution‚ History and Community By‚ Luz Medrano‚ Nylea Martinez. SCI/362 Instructor‚ Yussuf Farran In order to comprehend the definition on air quality one must first uncover the definition of air‚ as air is one of the biggest resources our planet has available we must study the conditions and impact that it has in our environment. Air is a precious resource that most take for granted‚ supplying us with oxygen; which is an essential for our bodies to live‚ without
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Asthma is a serious debilitating chronic respiratory condition that affects people from all walks of life and it does not discriminate against who it targets. Bernstein and Levy state that Asthma is defined as a major chronic respiratory condition which alter the respiratory function of the body. (Bernstein & Levy 2014‚ p. 03-04) Within the book Clinical Asthma Theory and Practice asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by episodes of where the patient may
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During his journey through Argentina‚ Chile‚ Peru‚ Colombia and Venezuela‚ with his good friend Granado‚ Che Guevara had many asthma attacks (Richards). These attacks caused for Guevara to be put in medical care time after time. This gave them both time to experience all of the terrible conditions in the hospitals and in all the countries they traveled through. These experiences caused for Guevara to form a negative impression of the capitalists in South America. The major factor that caused for
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