Sea Case Studies Samples For Students

The project was to test the salinity of the water in the hotwell. On checking the salinity meter, the readings were unexpectedly high at 500ppm from the normal 0.5 to 2ppm. One possible explanation would be the failure of the meter. The problem that the team faced is that the engineer that had left did not leave any indication of the meter being faulty. This led to the team having to inspect the hotwell to find out what could have caused the problem.
On inspecting the hotwell, there was thick formation of dark sludge, which showed that the ...

Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 1: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 And 4
Question 1
Some of the indicators for mechanical weathering in my area are the following: high number of boulders with cracks and joints, fracturing at the surface of rocks and old buildings, slow disintegration of boulders and statues, and surface fracturing on roads and slopes of various hills. On the other hand, the evidences of chemical weathering are; change in color of rocks, darkening of old buildings made of limestone, and gradual wearing out of rocks and walls of some buildings. The significance of these indicators can ...

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The global sea levels have been on a slow but steady rise over the last two centuries. Global temperatures have been blamed for the rise in global sea levels with research showing that heat expands the volume of water in the sea and melts ice glaciers. The rise in sea level, if not curbed, could have diverse effects especially in regions with a unique topography such as Australia. Encroachment of dry land by salty sea water could cause pollution to seep into fresh water sources as well as render previously lucrative agricultural lands as barren. The issue of the steady rise ...

Sea Level Rise in Australia

Introduction
This case study focuses on the sea level rise in Australia. It is with no doubt that rising sea levels are a major impact of the adverse effects climate change and may affect millions of lives in the coming years. Understanding the causes and effects of the rise in sea levels, would further be able to provide solutions to mitigate and provide solutions to this emerging problem in Australia and the whole world. The purpose of the study is to provide clear information on the direct and indirect impacts associated with sea level rise in Australia, to explain ...

Degrading Nature: Rising Sea level in Caribbean Sea

Lately, rising sea level is among the contentious environmental issues and has become more challenging in environmentalism. Rising sea level has various impacts on both the natural environment and human populations, more especially those living on islands and the coastal regions. It is estimated that the sea level rose by about 1.8 yearly in 1950-2010, and this rate keep on increasing with time. There are a number of factors that are associated with the rising sea level. The Caribbean sea-level rise serves as a good illustration of how the sea-level rise is an environmental challenge (Gallagher, 2006). This paper seeks to ...

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Political risk is the changes regarding the political situation of a place that may largely affect the outcome of business activities in the particular political environment. Investments that require high capital are more vulnerable to political risk while those with low capital requirement are less likely to be affected by the political environment. For instance, companies that intend to explore oil reserves in the Caspian Sea are expected to draw a budget of billions in US dollars. They are approximated to commit capital between a worthy range of 8 billion dollars and 10 billion dollars in exchange for a productivity of four barrels ...

Biography:

Creating a visual language with simple yet stunning white and black pictures seems to flow easy in the works of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Born in 1948 (Tokyo, Japan) he has proved to be a multi-faceted artist who is equally good in painting, installation and architecture apart from photography. His photography tries to capture the time and preserve it for the viewer. He has also explored several other themes such as empiricism, and metaphysics. In his works he tries to bridge the gap between what exists to a layman and how it can be transformed with a picture when laid in ...

PART I

British Petroleum Company Profile
BP plc, formerly known as British Petroleum, is a UK based multinational oil and Gas Company with its headquarters located in London, England, United Kingdom. As of 2012, BP is the world’s sixth largest energy company in terms of market capitalisation, fifth largest company by revenues, and sixth largest oil and gas company by production (BP. Financial and Operating Information, 2008-2012). BP is a vertically integrated organisation and it has a strong presence in all areas of the gas sector, including exploration and production, refining, promotion, distribution, power generation, and trading. The company also operates in the ...

Climate change coupled with global warming remains one of the challenges facing the world. Researchers have established that natural and human factors contribute significantly on this issue, but at different levels (Drake, 44). Human activities such as combustion of fuel fossils, deforestation, and emission of green house gases from industries remains some of the factor fuelling global warming, depletion of ozone layer and climate change. The media has aired and addressed the impacts associated with global warming and climate change and recommended the use of environmental friendly energies. Although the media remains vital in addressing impacts accruing from climate ...

Environmental problems are issues that affect or change the normal setting of natural resources to a level of depletion, or where the rate of use is more than the rate of the resource in question naturally replacing its used part. This has necessitated for actions both from the governments and citizens through Non Governmental Organizations to fully embrace conservation of the ecosystem over the years. Conservation of the ecosystem is the preservation of natural environment with its physical composition which includes animals, insects and micro organisms among others. In central and Eastern Europe, Industrialization and extensive farming using machinery have ...

Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the Japanese ...

There are two hypotheses on the migration of early humans in the New World or the Americas. These two hypotheses are the Land Route: Ice-Free Corridor and the Coastal Route hypothesis. According to the theory of Land Route Theory, humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that were exposed before the start of the Ice Age. It was around 22 to 25 thousand years ago that humans crossed the Bering land where it served as a link to the New World. On the other hand, the Coastal Route hypothesis suggests that humans from East Asia must have traveled ...

Introduction

Moral culpability can be defined as the degree or level of wrongfulness based on moral standards rather than the formulated legal standards. In his book The Ethics of Belief, William Clifford tries to illustrate this concept by giving an analogy to a ship owner and his ship. In the analogy, the ship owner manages to convince himself that his ship is seaworthy and can be sent to sea. He does this without verification and the result is that the vessel sinks and many people lose their lives but he goes ahead to collect his insurance settlement.
The ship-owner can ...

1. Introduction

Climate change is only one of the adverse affects that experts claim would result from global warming if it were not prevented from happening through the decrease or elimination of greenhouse gas emissions. As such, experts have constantly warned governments about the possible risks. Already, we see this happening in the natural disasters that we’ve experienced over the past two decades. One such incident recently happened in Jeddah, particularly in the year 2009, when heavy rains caused an extensive damage to the city.

In this regard, this paper will perform an analysis of the said 2009 ...

It was in January 1986, and Everett’s family were travelers on Carnival's journey ship "Occasion." While strolling along a traveler pavement on the Lido deck of the boat, Mrs. Everett stumbled and fell, maintaining wounds to one side shoulder and upper limb. The boat reached the shore the following day when Mrs. Everett visited the doctor who prompted her to go back to their place to be treated. This family eventually flew back to Pennsylvania where Mrs. Everett was admitted to the hospital (Wyatt 147).
That stuff which she stumbled on remained a metallic limit spread for a ...

Finance

Executive Summary
With growing concerns related to climate change, the farming profession is exposing the farmers to significant risk of low yields or other crop related failure. Moreover, with weather trend highly unpredictable, farmers always live under the cloud of high uncertainty relating to their livelihood.
Therefore, farmers are understanding the significance of crop insurance and how these contracts mitigate the risk factor associated with the farming profession. Important to note, American farmers have two insurance options: Multiple Peril Crop Insurance(MPCI) and Crop-Hail Insurance. While the MPCI is a federal crop insurance program and is run through public-private ...

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Insect bite:
Insect bites are common in tropical areas and can produce skin rash with leg sparing depending on the site of the bite. They can even mount an immune reaction which can cause erythema.

Seabather’s eruption (Monckton et al., 2011)

It is the eruption of the rash and it occurs due to the bite of sea larvae. Two common marine larvae are thimble jelly fish and sea anemone.

Contact dermatitis:

It is the inflammation of the dermis of the skin. There is infiltration of the immunoglobulins and cellular components due to constant irritation of ...

Abstract

Understanding a business may take two forms of case study analysis. That include the identification of what happened and the reasons it did and the other being analyzing the business problems and possible solutions. In that respect, the former is applied in analyzing the Whole Foods Market in 2014 case study. With that, the analysis uses the case information to identify what happened in terms of the firm’s performance and why it did. To achieve that, performance measures, and the business position have been noted in addition to identifying the various strategies that the business used to achieve ...

Managing Risk in a Global Supply Chain

Introduction
The supply chain of a globally oriented organization has a great impact on its financial performance (Wagner, Grosse-Ruygen, and Erhun 340-353). It also happens to be one of the areas that faces the greatest risk. Every aspect of supply chain carry some element of risk. There are many challenges in a global supply chain including but not limited to weather, acts of terrorism, natural disasters, environmental compliance, terrorism, regulatory requirements, piracy, quality issue, and security problems (Global Supply Chain Institute). An organization with a global outlook faces a number of risks such as disruptions in supply emanating from global customs, longer lead ...

Abstract

Hong Kong Disneyland has been opened for over a period of ten years .It is beautiful and attractive place to visit. Being so famous it still has many problems till today. Below discussion describes the issues faced by the Hong Kong Disneyland.

ISSUES FACED BY HONG KONG DISNEYLAND ARE AS FOLLOWS:

- With over emphasis on China market, Hong Kong Disneyland has focussed on China market for a long period. With the opening of Shanghai Disneyland this year, Hong Kong Disneyland predicts that they will lose 50 percent of tourist’s attendance.
- Brand image of Hong Kong Disneyland is diluting because it has created too many issues like ...

Thesis Statement: By ensuring appropriate urban development patterns, enacting the necessary legislation, and controlling exposure to waste water, the authorities in Jeddah can preserve surface water and improve the living conditions of its people.

Overview

- Surface water is scanty in Jeddah region.
- Average amounts of rainfall received are very low.
- Surface water is not adequate to supply the human population in the region.
- Plenty of rainfall experienced on the Hijaz Mountains and in the high Red Sea Escarpment cause flooding.
- The only form of replenishment is precipitation.
- Despite its ...

Abstract

Keystone XL Pipeline is a project proposed that is expected to offer energy security to the US and strengthen its economy. The crude oil pipeline is expected to cover 1,897 kilometers and estimated to be of 36 inches in diameter. The pipeline is expected to run from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele city in Nebraska. The pipeline is also expected to improve the American economy by opening up the American Midwest markets and the markets found along the Gulf Coast of the US. The Keystone system consists of different operational phases that include phase I, II and III, the Gulf ...

Organizations are groups of people who work closely together with an aim to attain some purpose i.e. they have a collective sense of purpose. Behavior, on the other hand, is the response of a person or people to an action, environment, an individual or a specific event. Organizational behavior is the study of how staff members of the organization think, respond, act and feel within the confines of the organization (Stone & Marsden, 2001). Workplace practices influence prospective of human capital. Human capital entails workers skills; knowledge and other abilities that provide competitive advantage by helping uncover opportunities and reduce threats. The study ...

Introduction

Question 1. how and why the incident happened (what conditions allowed the incident to happen)?
Hiroshima is located in the west of the largest Japanese island of Honshu. The town's name translates as "Wide Island". It is so named because the bayou Ota, flowing from the mountains to the plains Chugoku, where the Hiroshima formed at the confluence of the Inner Sea 6 islands protrude into Hiroshima Bay. They located the city. Hiroshima worth almost entirely in the valley, only slightly above sea level; to the north-west and north-east lie the hills, up to 700 feet (Rotter, ...

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Geographically, Japan and China are separated by East China Sea. Although these two counties have close business and trade ties, their relationship is strained by the Japanese country failure of acknowledging the effect past wars between these countries. Japanese leadership has been making unpopular utterances on the impact of the past conflict on Chinese economic progress. In United Nation Security Council, China government has blocked the Japanese bid of having permanent seat thus alleviating the animosity between the two countries. There is also disagreement between the statuses of Taiwan between the two countries (Itoh, 2012). Japan views the status ...

Disney is a diversified American multinational mass media corporation. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney. The company is best known for the production of cartoons, animations and recently a movie Pirate of the Caribbean Sea. In 2006 Disney under the CEO Bob Iger, came up with hit movie cars that generated $462 million worldwide. Then he created Hanna Montana, High school musicals and the Disney princesses.
Bob Iger introductions have broadened Disney’s opportunities in the following ways; the creation of Cars franchise helps in cracking tween boy market which ...

Abstract

Gulf Mexico oil spill also known as the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, BP Oil Disaster or the Macondo Blowout is considered to be the largest oil spill in the history of mankind. Such oil spills cause a lot of environmental as well as economic damages. Laws are in place to urge oil drilling companies to keep provisionary measures on the face of such disasters. But many situations went wrong causing a massive oil spill, a part of which still floats around in the seas. The following article is a discussion of the Gulf Mexico BP Oil Spill incident and what could have been ...

The stakeholders in the scenario are the fishes in the lake. Due to the increased and continuous toxic from the industries that drain in to the river and into the lake, the fish might be declared unsafe for human consumption. This is according to the report quoted in the newspaper from a scientist from the university and an environmental group is watching it. Another stakeholder affected in the proposed application of the new technology is the company. Due to its small budget, implementation of such a project will reduce its profits.
Some ethical question asked is whether the companies should ...

Theory of Global Warming and Climate Change

Theory of Global Warming and Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases and their Sources

Greenhouse gases are chemical compounds that are found in the earth’s atmosphere. These gases allow the sun’s harmful sunlight to enter freely in earth’s atmosphere. Three of the greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
Carbon dioxide is the main contributor to the manmade greenhouse effect. This gas is normally present; however, there are sources that add the carbon gas level in the planet. Humans, animals, and plants release carbon dioxide when they die. Also, smoke that comes out from factories, machines and vehicles add carbon ...

ANSWER # 1: GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE (GRI)

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a non-profit organization which is established to provide guidelines to the businesses to develop business conduct integrating sustainability as key measure. GRI requires businesses to integrate social and environmental justice and care in business core objectives along with profitability as primary objective. GRI is world’s first organization that requires business to develop business model that adheres to the principle of social, economic, and environmental sustainability as designed by global network of sustainability experts. For this purpose, GRI has developed guidelines requiring businesses to provide organization’s strategy and analysis, with management approach towards setting ...

Neoclassical paintings were prevalent during the late 18th century. In France, the era was led by a French painter David Louis who lived between 1748 and 1825. The neoclassical paintings generally put emphasis on austere linear design in depicting the subject matter. During the French revolution, a new style of painting arose. It had a lot of borrowed aspects from the Roman style that was well known for simplicity, austerity, heroism and stoic virtue as it was in the Roman republic. Considering the political environments, there existed parallelism in the way the ideas were used. The neoclassical painters attached more concern to ...

Question 1: Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and logistics costs than L6? Identify costs incurred by L5 and not by L6. Identify any costs incurred to only L6 and not L5.

For better understanding of the question, I will describe both levels of supply. On level L5 motherboards and chassis are manufactured in China in two different factories. Then motherboards are brought to supplier logistics center by air freight and chassis are shipped by sea. Then third party integrator is assembling these parts and further they are sent to Dell manufacturing. On level L6, motherboards and chassis are built in China in two different factories, then assembled in the same country and then shipped by sea to supplier logistics center, from which they are redirected to Dell manufacturing. There are ...