【典例2】El Nino is thought to occur due to changes inthe normal patterns of trade wind circulation. Normally, these winds movewestward, carrying warm surface water to Indonesiaand Australiaand allowing cooler water to rise along the South American coast. For reasonsnot yet fully understood, thes...
In the last section, we saw that rip currents occur when water rushes through a low point in a sandbar. Since waves keep pushing more water into the basin between the sandbar and the beach, the rip current may continue for several minutes, or even several hours. Some rip currents are bri...
For a put writer, the wrong strike price would result in the underlying stock being assigned at prices well above the current market price. That may occur if the stock plunges abruptly, or if there is a sudden market sell-off, sending most share prices sharply lower. Strike Price Points t...
Annually, sepsis affects almost 50 million people and contributes to or causes more than 11 million deaths.[4]This number of deaths corresponds to 1.3 times the entire population of New York, the most populous city in the US. While many of these deaths occur in low-income countries, sepsis ...
Jack: "No - yet this caused many playful arguments with my grandmother who swore by it." Lou: Are there any conditions you are seeing right now that are cause for alarm or excitement? Jack: "Hard to say. We’re heading into a stronger El Nino this year, but that doesn’t ...
On a world scale coral reefs are in decline. Over the last 30-40 years 80% of coral in the Caribbean have been destroyed and 50% in Indonesia and the Pacific. Bleaching associated with the 1982 -1983 El-Nino killed over 95% of coral in the Galapagos I
In the last section, we saw that rip currents occur when water rushes through a low point in a sandbar. Since waves keep pushing more water into the basin between the sandbar and the beach, the rip current may continue for several minutes, or even several hours. Some rip currents are bri...
On the other hand, although a strong host response (and/or effective antimicrobial therapy) might induce microbial clearance, host damage can occur due to ongoing inflammation. These scenarios each call for immune modulation. For example, patients with disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection ...
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Only after 1949 did real modernisation occur throughout the whole country. In China, there was no hope of the landlords doing anything on their own. No hope of them being anything other than a burden on society. I’ve seen critics of land-reform methods complain that they were not many ...