, 2016 This piece is a side-by-side review of two books: Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar, and Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill. Both books are concerned with the question of whether we should try to live as morally good a life as possible ...
Simpson, Robert Mark
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DrownBaseTM – Identifying at risk factors: Strategies and issues around Māori practices and activities towards water safety [PDF]
, 2008 Aotearoa has some of the most extensive and beautiful waterways in the world. The seas, rivers, beaches, and lakes provide endless opportunities for Māori to enjoy water activities, such as gathering kai, swimming, hoe waka, diving and fishing (Haimona &
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Health, Environment and the Burden of Disease: A Guidance Note [PDF]
, 2003 This guidance note examines the conditions which determine whether an environmental hazard is responsible for a substantial amount of disease and whether feasible measures are available to prevent it.
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Two cases of severe pneumonia after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2012 In 2011, during the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, 90% of victims died from drowning. We report on two tsunami survivors with severe pneumonia potentially caused by Legionella pneumophila. Both victims aspirated a large quantity of contaminated
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The Flood Last Time: ‘Muck’ and the uses of history in Kara Walker’s ‘Rumination’ on Katrina [PDF]
, 2010 Kara Walker describes her book After the Deluge (2007) as “rumination” on Hurricane Katrina structured in the form of a “visual essay.” The book combines Walker's own artwork and the works of other artists into “a narrative of fluid symbols” in which the
Clyde, Deak, Hayden, MICHAEL P. BIBLER
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The Masculine Sea and the Impossibility of Awakening in Chopin's the Awakening [PDF]
, 2012 Kate Chopin has a firm place in American women's writing. A persistent theme in her works is said to be women's emotional liberation. The Awakening (1899) as a feminist novel is no exception.
P, A. (Abbasi)
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On the peritidal cycles and their diagenetic evolution in the Lower Jurassic carbonates of the Calcare Massiccio Formation (Central Apennines) [PDF]
, 2015 This paper shows the environmental changes and high-frequency cyclicity recorded by Lower Jurassic shallow- water carbonates known as the Calcare Massiccio Formation which crop out in the central Apennines of Italy.
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Pneumomediastinum and bilateral pneumothorax following near drowning in shallow water
Clinics and Practice, 2011 We report pneumomediastinum, bilateral pneumothorax and acute respiratory distress syndrome in a victim of near drowning who was intoxicated and did not have thoracic or neck trauma.
Santhiya Govindaraj, Stalin Viswanathan
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Skating on Thin Ice: Hypothermia and Near-Drowning Simulation
MedEdPORTAL, 2013 This simulation case, intended for medical students and residents in emergency medicine, features an 18-year-old male who presents to the emergency department after falling through thin ice on a pond.
Luan Lawson, Leigh Patterson
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Geology and Jurassic paleogeography of the Mt. Primo-Mt. Castel Santa Maria ridge and neighbouring areas (Northern Apennines, Italy) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents the results of a geological mapping project across the Mt. Primo ridge and neighbouring areas (Umbria-Marche Domain – Northern Apennines), where a thick Meso-Cenozoic carbonate succession is exposed.
Fabbi, Simone
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