Executive Summary The report demonstrated the creative design of The Popoboom Balloon Exhibition China Tour, which enhanced audiences' experience. ... This report offered an analysis of event design categories in relation to the event theme, layout, atmospherics and décor to show its creative design elements that are effectively applied to enhance audience experience. ... To coincide with the theme, organisers design 10 diverse adventure scenes which include Jurassic Park, League and Legends, Underwater World, Primeval Forest and Illusory Louvre etc(Figure.3). The exploring them...

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In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned. It is reported within surface weather observations and METAR  code either in meters or statute miles, depending upon the country. ... Various weather stations report this as haze (dry) or mist (moist). ... The same can happen in a sandstorm in and near desert  areas, or with forest fires. ... Visibility degradation is caused by the absorption and scattering of light by  particles  and gases in the atmosphere. ...

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When tropical forest is cleared for pasture land, there is an immediate loss of carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. ... An upward trend in global surface temperatures began in about 1920, and temperatures are reported to have been especially high since 1980. Ocean temperatures are now reported to be rising as well, based on a study just released covering the past 40 years. One current report states that the last three winters represent the warmest trend ever in North America. ... This layer normally filters out a harmful form of ultraviolet light from the sun, known as UV-B. ...

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We are also adding small particles and droplets called aerosols that reflect light back into space and tend to cause some areas to cool. ... In addition, the clearing and burning of forests causes the pool of carbon which has been tied up in trees to be released. ... Satellite photos show smoke from the smoldering fires that are rising into the air over the forest. The desire of developed countries for inexpensive meat and forest products is another major contributor to deforestation. ... It is also released as a result of forest clearing, venting in association with oil production, an...

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Ultraviolet light affects humans adversely in two specific ways: by damaging the retina, and by altering skin cells so that they become cancerous. ... Dangers of Ozone Depletion Ultraviolet light consists of the "fastest-moving- photons: this refers to their periodic or wave-like speed rather than their objective speed, which, like all other wavelengths of light, is around 3x108 m/s. ... The human body has a system in place to protect somewhat against ultraviolet light, which involves the release of melanin and pigments into the epidermis. This blocks most UV light from reaching cells deep...

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The origin of the Santo Daime religion The Santo Daime religion emerged in the Amazonian basin in the early 1920s when Raimundo Irineu Serra, a rubber tapper from the Amazon, was walking in the forest and was visited by a feminine spirit claiming to be a representation of the Virgin Mary and an embodiment of Mother Earth. She told him that he should remain in the forest, refrain from eating and then drink a hallucinogenic brew called Ayahuasca, which he had already experimented with among the indigenous peoples of the jungle. ... When Mestre Irineu died in 1971, the religion split into three ...

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The irony of Y6B and Y2K is that while the world waited in agony in light o a computer meltdown at the turn of the new millennium, the genuine problem was and is nonetheless everyone - the multiplying population. ... By depleting available resources, the planet's landscape is abandoned and tarnished with pollutants "toxic drainage into fresh water aquifers, forests mowed into deserts, and an atmosphere housing high levels of carbon dioxide. ... A U.N. report: By 2050, the population of the 48 poorest nations, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, is expected to triple, from 658 million ...

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Introduction In this report I am going to discuss the adaptations of 3 plants groups: xerophytes, hydrophytes and mesophytes relating to plant water balance and I will discuss how these adaptations allow the plant to survive in it's ecological niche. An ecological niche can be defined as the way of life of an organism in it's ecosystem, which allow it to survive and live successfully. 1Each of the three plant groups listed above have different ecological niches for example: xerophytes are able to survive in dry and humid conditions such as deserts, mesophytes can survive in habitats ...

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In 1753, Benjamin Banneker was very instrumental in engineering the first striking clock that was made from indigenous wood from American forests and hand carved the moving parts. ... It was reported in the Georgetown Weekly Ledger on March 21, 1791 that George Washington, himself, appointed Banneker to a three man team of surveyors charged with surveying the new District of Columbia. The Georgetown Weekly Ledger also went on to report that Banneker was "an Ethiopian whose abilities as surveyor and astronomer already prove that Mr. ... In writing this paper, I hope to have helped to shed some...

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According to the Haaretz newspaper (Haaretz, 2014), "Several incidents of Jewish reprisal attacks against Arabs were reported through Monday night. ... A separate case found a young Arab hospitalized in light condition, claiming he was attacked by a number of Jewish youths in Jerusalem". ... The Police found his body a few hours later in a nearby forest. ... Threat narratives also played very powerfully through media reports especially the showing of the autopsy which "revealed that the child was still breathing when he was burntwhile his skull was fractured, indicating he was ...

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Andhra Pradesh is an important region as far as cultivation of cotton is considered and in the last few years, several cases of suicides of cotton farmers were also reported from this region. ... Few deaths of farmers and laborers are also reported due to pesticide poisoning at the time of spray. It is worthwhile to mention here that several of the deaths may not be reported. ... Our experience that farmers are keen to adapt to GM technology is also corroborated by reports from distant states of India like Punjab also (Singh 2002). ... Need for appropriate technology - Requirement for a "n...

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An Inconvenient Truth Reaction Paper for "An Inconvenient Truth" The movie was composed of many documented events narrated and discussed by the former U.S Vice President Al Gore. The data gathered and the trends of different climatological graphs were well introduced to the public for better comprehension. The documentary also provided a deeper understanding regarding the most sensitive issue about the environment which is the Global Warming.             It was alarming to see the various effects of the dramatic increase in carbon emissions by the world since carbon is one o...

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The Penan implemented blockades and roadblocks, while receiving international help from the European Parliament, Australian dock workers, the Japanese Tropical Forest Action Network, and a host of other industries and governments who banned the use of tropical timber (Wilmer, 2000: 192). ... There are children as young as three and as light as four kilograms. ...

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When you strip away all the layers that have been influenced by society, family, friends and self-interests, what do we find at the core of human nature? That is, are we naturally inclined to act cooperatively towards other people or do we only act in our self-interests, even if that includes underm...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied history of military success. She had the largest, most nimble navy the world had ever seen, spread throughout the globe. Britain's economy was strong, prominent among nations in all areas of commerce, banking, and agriculture. ...

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Many see it as a primarily economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technolog...

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