ORIGINAL PAPER The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue into the foreseeable future‚ heat waves are very likely to increase
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EIntroduction: Morton Rhue’s the wave is a novel based on the true events of Ron Jones‚ in 1969. The main character is Ben Ross a history teacher who wants his students to realize the importance of democracy and individual conscience in the face of mass‚ manipulation and indoctrination. He first shows the students a video on the Nazi camps and what happened to the Jews that were forced to live there. Allot of the students became uncomfortable after watching the film. Mr. Ross then conducts an experiment
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The Wave Composers use a number of techniques to make stories more meaningful. The Wave is a book published in 1981‚ it is a story based upon actual events that took place as a result of a history class experiment. In the novel ‘The Wave’ Martin Rhue uses a wide range of techniques such as repetition‚ vernacular and visual imagery to entirely highlight ‘what begins as a small movement can often become out of control and destructive’. Therefore this portrayal of the characters‚ themes and setting
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with life’s challenges‚ as it was displayed in the book The Wave’ written by Morton Rhue. There were a majority of students who were not resilient with the wave and the challenges that emerged from it‚ such as Amy‚ Robert and David. The student that was surprisingly resilient was Laurie‚ who was also the main character of the story. Laurie was mentally and also physically strong at dealing with the consequences that upshot from the wave Such as the isolation from the entire school and her best friend
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physics and chemistry‚ heat is energy transferred from one body to another by thermal interactions. The transfer of energy can occur in a variety of ways‚ among them conduction‚radiation‚ and convection. The SI unit of heat is the joule. Heat can be measured by calorimeter‚ or determined indirectly by calculations based on other quantities‚ relying for instance on the first law of thermodynamics. In calorimeter‚ the concepts of latent heat and of sensible heat are used. Latent heat produces changes of
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HEAT GENERATED IN APPLIANCES Why do some appliances produce more heat than the others? Most appliances with high power rating are heating appliances.The heating appliances has a heating element like resistors. The resistorsconvert electrical energy into light and thermal energy . It depends on the resistance of material if how much heat can be produced from electricity. Those devices who produced heat‚ the Nichrome wire is an element who is responsible for heating . when we say nichrome
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Vibrations and Waves 1) A wiggle in time is a A) vibration. B) wave. C) both D) neither Answer: A Diff: 1 Topic: Vibrations and Waves 2) A common source of wave motion is a A) wave pattern. B) harmonic object. C) vibrating object. D) region of variable high and low pressure. E) none of these Answer: C Diff: 1 Topic: Vibrations and Waves 3) Like
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Chapter-1 One Dimensional Wave Equation Introduction Wave equation in one dimension Chapter-2 Three Dimensional Wave Equation Total energy of a vibrating particle Superposition of two waves acting along the same line Graphical methods of adding disturbances of the same frequency Chapter – 1 Introduction: The branch of Physics based on the wave concept of light is called ‘Wave Optics’ or ‘Physical Optics’. Mathematical representation of a wave:
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Characteristics and Nature of Waves In physics‚ a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time‚ usually accompanied by the transfer of energy. Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another‚ often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is‚ with little or no associated mass transport. They consist‚ instead‚ of oscillations or vibrations around almost fixed locations. For example‚ a cork on rippling water will bob up and down
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sound waves Sound is a series of compression waves that moves through air or other materials. These sound waves are created by the vibration of an object‚ like a radio loudspeaker. The waves are detected when they cause a detector to vibrate. Your eardrum vibrates from sound waves to allow you to sense them. Sound has the standard characteristics of any waveform. Sound is a waveform that travels through matter. Although it is commonly in air‚ sound will rapidly travel
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