Understanding Natural Disaster Risks: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and More
Understanding Natural Disaster Risks
Risk Assessment: Risk level depends on several factors:
- Hazard (Peligrosidad): Probability of an event occurring.
- Exposure (Area Afectada): The value and number of people or assets in the affected area (ecological, economic, and cultural zones).
- Vulnerability: Percentage of susceptibility to damage and potential for victimization.
The risk can be calculated as: RISK = Hazard * Exposure * Vulnerability
Types of Natural Disasters
Geological (Endogenous and Exogenous)
- Endogenous
Fricatives and Affricates: Articulatory Phonetics
Fricatives and Affricates: Parameters
Parameters
- Voice: voiceless, voiced
- POA: Dental, Alveolar, Post-alveolar, Glottal
- MOA:
- Degree of construction: fricative (vs. approximants vs. ‘stops’)
- Speed of release of the closure: affricate (vs. plosives)
- Laterality: median (vs. lateral) fricatives/affricates
- Tongue shape: grooved fricative/affricate vs. slit fricative/affricate
Fricatives are produced by forcing air through a narrow channel. This channel is made between the active and passive articulators drawn
Read MoreMastering the Passive Voice: Structure and Examples
Passive Voice: Key Concepts
Active and passive sentences usually have the same meaning, but the focus is different.
In the active voice, the subject performs the action, and the focus is on the agent that does the action.
Adam cleaned the kitchen.
SUBJECT ACTION OBJECT
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action expressed in the verb. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. We use a passive verb to say what happens to the subject. The focus of the sentence
Read MoreMinstrelsy Epic: Origins, Evolution, and Poema de Mio Cid
The Master of Minstrelsy: The Epic
It is a popular character; the Renaissance and the Baroque are cultured.
Epics: Origins and Characteristics
Epics have their origin in the barbaric chants sung before the battle to inspire courage. The term refers to sung tales of facts and events that were sung or recited by bards. These are for information and news, which derives one of its characteristics: realism. The word epic refers to featuring the exploits of heroes in the community who are identified, and
Read MoreNietzsche’s Critique: Traditional Values and the Death of God
Nietzsche’s Critique of Traditional Values
A) Criticism of Traditional Values.
This is an attack on Platonism and all consequences of this philosophy, especially as taken over by Christianity. To further clarify the concepts, we distinguish within the critique of traditional values: moral criticism, criticism of religion, and the critique of philosophy.
I. Criticism of Morality
Nietzsche’s criticism is a deep critique of Western culture. The fundamental error of traditional morality has been going against
Read MoreLate Modernity: Social Context, Resonance, and Alienation
Tema 4: Social Context in Late Modernity
HTML Forms, AngularJS Examples, and TypeScript Login
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Read MoreCryptography Fundamentals: Encryption, Authentication, PKI
Cryptography Fundamentals
1. General Model for Communication
- Alice wants to send a message m to Bob.
- Eve is an adversary who may try to eavesdrop or modify the message.
- The goal of cryptography is to ensure that Eve cannot read or alter the message without authorization.
2. Encryption: Preventing Eavesdropping
- Encryption is used to prevent Eve from reading the message.
Key Concepts:
- Secret Key (Ke): A shared key between Alice and Bob. The longer the key, the higher the security.
- Plaintext (m): The original
Animal Classification: Questions and Answers
3) Progressive Changes in Animal Classification
Answer: Aristotle is known as the father of classification. Then came Carolus Linnaeus, who gave the two-kingdom classification: Plantae and Animalia. After this, Ernst Haeckel proposed the three-kingdom classification: Plantae, Animalia, and Protista. Later, Whittaker introduced the five-kingdom classification: Monera, Protista, Animalia, Fungi, and Plantae.
4) Grades of Organization vs. Symmetry
Answer: Grades of organization describe the types of cells,
Read MoreDon Quixote: A Timeless Tale of Adventure and Sanity
Don Quixote: A Masterpiece of Literature
Don Quixote narrates the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a gentleman of La Mancha who, driven mad by books, sets out in search of adventure. This work holds universal significance.
External Structure: A Work in Two Parts
The first part, entitled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, consists of 52 chapters that narrate Don Quixote’s first two sallies.
- In the first sally, Don Quixote is knighted by an innkeeper and returns home.
- In the second, Don Quixote