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    Climate change undoubtedly has a monumental effect on countries across the globe, It is becoming increasingly clear that it is the most important challenge facing international relations today. Agriculture and more specifically animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to human made climate change. This is important for international relations because animal agriculture effects trade, global food security and the global economy. With the population growing at a rapid pace the demand

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    Research question (modified): Abstract: In the next few decades, meat consumption is expected to increase. Currently, U.S is the highest meat-consuming nation in the world. In order to produce meat, livestock has to be raised, fed, and slaughtered. At the moment, livestock production is responsible for contributing to the negative environmental effects because livestock production results in greenhouse gas emissions, livestock production requires a lot of water, and livestock production takes up

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    Hundreds of household products are being misused as inhalants. Some of these products include nail polish remover, hair spray, cleaning fluids, spray paint, and the propellant in aerosol whipped cream (“Inhalants“, 2010). Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that users intentionally inhale because of the chemical’s mind-altering effects (National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], 2010). The trend in inhalant abuse is growing among the young community throughout the country. Surveys have shown in

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    underutilized in the United States, nitrous oxide. According to Plenda (2014), between 50-60% of women in Finland, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have been using nitrous oxide as analgesia during labor for generations, yet only 1% of the hospitals in the United State give it as an option. Nitrous oxide should be further investigated and possibly implemented as another option for American women in the labor and delivery setting. Opinion With Rationales Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas

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    Trauma patients often present paramedics with difficult situations to handle. These patients most likely have multiple injuries that the paramedic must treat including internal and external injuries. The main concern in treating trauma patients is controlling the pain that the patient may be experiencing while not compromising the patients hemodynamic and respiratory state. The most common drugs used in pain management in the pre-hospital setting often cause undesirable side effects, such as respiratory

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    Energy choices The environment plays an integral part of offering and sustaining livelihoods to billions of humans around the globe. Without rain, food security is adversely threatened, meaning that humans’ most vital need could be affected. Recently, the issue of global warming has caught many nations’ attention as carbon emissions significantly cause it. Greenhouse gas emissions around the world have been somehow unavoidable, but countries have sought methods to mitigate the inevitable outcomes

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    1. Introduction & Background The built environment as a whole is said to contribute about half the greenhouse gas emissions in the world (UNEF 2007). Specifically, considering the less studied area of construction emissions, research shows that this component accounts for as much as 11.7% of emissions inclusive of direct and indirect emissions (Acquaye & Duffy 2010). As such it has significant impact on the environment and represents a major opportunity to study potential reductions. Life Cycle

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    Throughout American society, there is a divide between the ideologies of vegetarians and non-vegetarians as it is proven that the average American diet of animal based products has had detrimental effects on the well-being of both humans and animals. Humans can live a maximum of 21 days without food in their stomach, therefore supermarkets provide access for individuals to obtain food without going to the nearest farm. The vast aisles of supermarkets are lined with food ranging from vegetables to

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    for this study Nitrous oxide is an important green house gas. The global warming potential for nitrous oxide is 298 times higher than that of carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (Ravishankara, Daniel and Portmann, 2009). Nitrous oxide is also contributing the third largest radiative forcing globally (Oenema et al., 1997). With the recent emphasis on control of global warming, ways to reduce nitrous oxide are highly sought. Natural sources account for 62% of total nitrous oxide emission globally

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    us is certainly acidic. Even though people often think the air around us is neutral, the atmosphere naturally contains acidic oxides of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur that can harm our environment greatly. These oxides can be produced naturally and industrially. Sulfur dioxide is produced when organic matter decomposes and forms hydrogen sulphide which then oxidises to the oxide: 2H2S (g) + 3O2 (g) 2SO2 (g) + 2H2O. The natural sources of sulfur dioxide are in volcanic gases, bushfires, sulfur rich geothermal

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