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Quick response research report volume 122
Pub. Date
[1999]
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In a sample of 300 victims, data were collected on the extent of damage, emergency responses, equity of relief, and physical, health, and psychological problems reported by respondents.
Pub. Date
2015.
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Public transit is an integral part of Colorado's multimodal transportation system providing mobility to thousands of residents and visitors throughout the state. Not only does transit connect residents, employees, and visitors to major activity centers for jobs, schools, shopping, medical care, and recreation, but it also promotes greater personal independence. Provision of transit services contribute greatly to the economic, social, and environmental...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Public transit is an integral part of Colorado's multimodal transportation system providing mobility to thousands of residents and visitors throughout the state. Not only does transit connect residents, employees, and visitors to major activity centers for jobs, schools, shopping, medical care, and recreation, but it also promotes greater personal independence. Provision of transit services contribute greatly to the economic, social, and environmental...
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Quick response research report volume 129
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Research undertakes a preliminary socioeconomic assessment of the effects of Hurricane Floyd and related flooding on the students of East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina.
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When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist...
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2022.
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"Scientific methods, tools, and discoveries have shaped modern civilization and created the landscape we've built for ourselves on which to live, work, and play. Tyson shows how an infusion of science and rational thinking renders worldviews deeper and more informed than ever before-and exposes unfounded perspectives and unjustified emotions. With crystalline prose and an abundance of evidence, Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Do you feel in control of your life or enslaved by your devices? Have you risked your life texting and driving? Do you sympathize with a test group of students who endured painful shocks rather than be separated from their phones? Digital technology is wonderful, but it's making us miserable, say former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. There's a reason Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Guardian he won't let his nephew on social networks....
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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Quick response research report volume 102
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
City and medical officials were interviewed regarding the emergency medical response to the Kobe quake to determine the extent and role of lay person's response to the injured.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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Quick response research report volume 98
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Surveys for samples of persons killed and persons in the paths of the tornadoes but survived determine whether there were differences in personal characteristics, behavior, or location between the two groups.
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