This is a less important human cause as it doesn’t affect how quickly water reaches the river. With large floods, no matter how well the rivers are dredged, it is still likely floods would occur. A physical cause of the Somerset level floods is that they occurred over winter months, but soil moisture recharge had already occurred in October. Any excess rainfall after October would be surplus and would not infiltrate. This was not helped by the fact there were 8 storms in just 2 months.Also, over 407 years there have been 4 major floods, the frequency being 101.5 years per flood.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated a 13% decrease in car fatalities in 1975-2008 saving approximately 27,052 lives since then. Not only the cons of lowering the Legal Drinking Age, our country does not support the idea overall. A 2007 Gallup poll showed that 77% of Americans would vote against the act of lowering the minimum drinking age. Through the years Americans have shown support for the minimum age being 21. Bar graph showing 77% of Americans opposed to lowering the drinking age to 18 nationwide, polled July 12-15, 2007.
Discuss the effectiveness aimed at reducing addictive behaviour (10 marks) The most dramatic public health intervention in recent years has been the ban on smoking in all public places introduced in England in 2007 (following the introduction in Scotland a year earlier). However, there is no evidence as yet that smokers have given up smoking in huge numbers because of the legislation, suggesting that whilst the ban has reduced second-hand exposure levels by over 70%, it has not caused any decline in the numbers of smokers in the UK. Public health education interventions also have had little success in reducing addictive behaviour. The message “Hey kids, just say ‘No!’” does not work. Similarly, the use of scare tactics, such as pictures of overdoses, has failed to bring about reductions in drug use.
It has taken ten years to achieve a 5-percentage point decline. Smoking rates among low socioeconomic status subpopulations and in several PHUs are not noticeably decreasing. There has been no significant change at the population level in key cessation outcome indicators (intentions to quit, quit attempts, successful quits). The prevalence of overall tobacco use is 22%, unchanged in recent years. The use of alternative forms of tobacco appears to be on the rise.
The scientific evidence on the E-cigarette is not final; it doesn’t prove or show medical evidence on how they will affect a person’s health. They have surfaced at a prime time and hit the shelves when people are automatically viewing them as being much safer over a regular cigarette. The marketing
In Flores’s mind Salem Data Services could serve as competition with other computer service organizations while having non-regulatory prices. The only way for this idea to come to fruition was by making sure the monthly charges for services provided by Salem Data Services to Salem Telephone Company did not exceed the $82,000 mark. Through all of the reassessment of business for the company, three years after the reorganization, the company still was not as profitable as president Peter Flores estimated. Once the quarterly reports came in Flores called the meeting with Wu because the reports served as evidence as to how and why Salem Data Services was not driving high revenues. 1.
Express has a slower decline of 1% but a decline nonetheless beginning at 7% in 2012 ending at 5% in 2014. Macys has again held the same profit margin of 5% since 2012 which lets us know that Macys isn’t bigger for no reason. They possess more control over their costs making them overall more profitable than their
Daylight Saving Time also known as DST is when the clocks are set one hour ahead during the spring time and set back one hour in the fall. There is a debate to whether DST has a positive or negative effect. From what I have read in these articles there is more negative arguments against DST. The studies say DST has many beneficial outcomes but others disagree. Such as in California they have seen little or no effect during DST.
That gave them a current ratio of 1.42:1. When assessing a current ratio most people look for a ratio of 2:1 or greater. Although Home Depot did show improvement from 2013 to 2014 in their ratio, they still did not reach the 2:1 ratio in either year. This could be a red flag for analysts, creditors, and investors. (Principles,
In general, a 57-year-old person has a better sense of smell and overall better health than an 85-year-old. Thus, having more 85-year-old people in the study will not generate the same results as having more 57-year-olds. Criticism 3: The article did not state where the study was conducted. For example, a certain country may have a certain culture where the majority of its people have a common habit, say smoking, which decreases his or her ability to sense certain smell that may or may not cause an earlier death. This definitely does not represent another society where smoking is unpopular.