The document discusses tourism in Kenya and renewable energy sources. It asks the reader to answer questions about physical features that attract tourists to Kenya, types of holidays available there, and disadvantages tourism may bring to LEDCs. It also asks the reader to provide an example of a renewable energy source and reasons for its location. The overall purpose seems to be assessing the reader's understanding of tourism and renewable resources in various countries and areas.
This document discusses factors that influence the location of industries. It asks the reader to identify primary industries from a list and describe features of primary industry shown in a photograph. It also discusses reasons for the location of industry in Northern Italy based on a sketch map. The document examines how governments try to reduce pollution from heavy industries and explains how factors like transportation, markets, raw materials, and labor availability affect industrial location according to a diagram.
The document provides instructions for candidates taking a geography exam. It instructs candidates to write their identifying information in the spaces provided, answer all questions, and write answers in the spaces in the booklet or continue at the back if needed. It also notes that examiners will assess the quality of extended written answers. The document contains a practice exam with six themes and multiple questions to answer under each theme about topics in geography.
Flooding regularly occurs in Bangladesh due to several factors:
1) Bangladesh has a low-lying delta region with 70% of land under 1m above sea level, making it prone to flooding from rivers and monsoon rains.
2) Heavy monsoon rains from May to October cause rivers like the Ganges and Brahmaputra to overflow their banks.
3) Melting snow from the Himalayas in spring adds additional water to rivers flowing through Bangladesh.
Inequality in the peak district & intro to field & case studywhiskeyhj
The document discusses rural inequality in the Peak District of England. It finds that inequality is highly concentrated in specific villages, with wealth most concentrated in villages closest to major urban areas that function as commuter towns. The Peak District demonstrates deprivation particularly in the category of "barriers to housing." A key issue is the growing gap between many rural jobs and inflated housing prices, exacerbated by the loss of social housing and difficulties developing new housing due to planning restrictions as a national park.
The document discusses land use and urban issues in large cities in MEDCs. It includes questions about identifying land uses in a central business district and describing problems caused by urban sprawl and shanty towns. Responses are requested to describe issues associated with each, including problems in shanty towns and attempts to address those problems.
This document discusses urbanization and the growth of cities. It examines factors that influence urban growth, including migration, and the effects of rapid urban growth in less economically developed countries. The document also looks at how some cities have addressed issues arising from urbanization through policies aimed at improving infrastructure and living conditions.
This document discusses managing resources and tourism development. It addresses:
- Unequal distribution of resources between countries and the need for recycling.
- Causes of global warming like increased greenhouse gases.
- Reasons tourists are attracted to areas like the Maldives and rules for sustainable tourism development.
- Benefits and disadvantages of tourism for LEDCs and how MEDCs also gain from tourism in developing countries.
- Renewable energy production and reducing carbon dioxide emissions through international agreements.
This document discusses secondary industries like steel-making in Great Britain. It examines the location of steel mills and defines secondary industries as those that process raw materials. The document also looks at the Cambridge Science Park, discussing its layout and factors that influenced its location. Some advantages of developing science parks for local areas are also mentioned.
This document discusses factors that influence the location of industries. It asks the reader to identify primary industries from a list and describe features of primary industry shown in a photograph. It also discusses reasons for the location of industry in Northern Italy based on a sketch map. The document examines how governments try to reduce pollution from heavy industries and explains how factors like transportation, markets, raw materials, and labor availability affect industrial location according to a diagram.
The document provides instructions for candidates taking a geography exam. It instructs candidates to write their identifying information in the spaces provided, answer all questions, and write answers in the spaces in the booklet or continue at the back if needed. It also notes that examiners will assess the quality of extended written answers. The document contains a practice exam with six themes and multiple questions to answer under each theme about topics in geography.
Flooding regularly occurs in Bangladesh due to several factors:
1) Bangladesh has a low-lying delta region with 70% of land under 1m above sea level, making it prone to flooding from rivers and monsoon rains.
2) Heavy monsoon rains from May to October cause rivers like the Ganges and Brahmaputra to overflow their banks.
3) Melting snow from the Himalayas in spring adds additional water to rivers flowing through Bangladesh.
Inequality in the peak district & intro to field & case studywhiskeyhj
The document discusses rural inequality in the Peak District of England. It finds that inequality is highly concentrated in specific villages, with wealth most concentrated in villages closest to major urban areas that function as commuter towns. The Peak District demonstrates deprivation particularly in the category of "barriers to housing." A key issue is the growing gap between many rural jobs and inflated housing prices, exacerbated by the loss of social housing and difficulties developing new housing due to planning restrictions as a national park.
The document discusses land use and urban issues in large cities in MEDCs. It includes questions about identifying land uses in a central business district and describing problems caused by urban sprawl and shanty towns. Responses are requested to describe issues associated with each, including problems in shanty towns and attempts to address those problems.
This document discusses urbanization and the growth of cities. It examines factors that influence urban growth, including migration, and the effects of rapid urban growth in less economically developed countries. The document also looks at how some cities have addressed issues arising from urbanization through policies aimed at improving infrastructure and living conditions.
This document discusses managing resources and tourism development. It addresses:
- Unequal distribution of resources between countries and the need for recycling.
- Causes of global warming like increased greenhouse gases.
- Reasons tourists are attracted to areas like the Maldives and rules for sustainable tourism development.
- Benefits and disadvantages of tourism for LEDCs and how MEDCs also gain from tourism in developing countries.
- Renewable energy production and reducing carbon dioxide emissions through international agreements.
This document discusses secondary industries like steel-making in Great Britain. It examines the location of steel mills and defines secondary industries as those that process raw materials. The document also looks at the Cambridge Science Park, discussing its layout and factors that influenced its location. Some advantages of developing science parks for local areas are also mentioned.
The document discusses tectonic activity and includes several questions. It describes the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and its effects on the natural environment and local people. It asks about the formation of young fold mountains and the physical features of a range studied. It describes the distribution of major earthquakes shown in a figure and asks about locations of greatest loss of life from an earthquake. It also asks about short and long-term responses to an earthquake or volcano eruption that was studied.
The document discusses tectonic activity including earthquakes and volcanoes. It provides information about a 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale that was centered off the coast of Sumatra. It then discusses the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Italy and advantages and disadvantages of living near volcanoes. Finally, it discusses the distribution of volcanoes globally and features of the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mount St. Helens.
The document discusses restoration works along the River Skerne in Darlington. It includes a figure showing changes to the river channel, including widening the channel and creating floodplains. The restoration scheme aims to attract visitors to the area by creating a natural environment. The document also discusses the formation of oxbow lakes when a meander is cut off from the main river channel. River flooding is examined, including describing the causes of a flood that was studied. Flood plain zoning is discussed as a sustainable management strategy to reduce flooding impacts.
1. The document discusses river landscapes and processes such as meanders, flood plains, and flooding. It includes diagrams of river features and flooding case studies.
2. Flood plains are formed through hydraulic power and erosion of the outside bend of river meanders. Meanders also migrate downstream over time. When the river floods, silt and sand are deposited building up the flood plain.
3. Flooding can have severe effects if water cannot drain back into river channels due to high levees that are formed by sediment deposition during repeated floods.
The document discusses coastal landscapes and processes. It includes figures and questions about coastal defense schemes, the formation of coastal landforms, and methods of protecting coastlines. Specifically, it addresses a planned coastal defense for Lyme Regis, how stacks may form at the end of headlands, features of coastlines formed by erosion, and descriptions of coastal defenses shown in photographs.
This document discusses coastal landscapes and processes. It contains information about:
1) A photograph of Flamborough Head on the east coast of England, identifying rock stacks (X) and cliffs (Y).
2) How wave-cut platforms are formed by destructive waves eroding cliffs through attrition and corrasion, forming a wave-cut notch that gets larger until the cliff retreats.
3) Coastal defenses shown in a photograph of sand dunes, suggesting they are needed to protect the coastline from erosion.
The document discusses the structure and composition of the Earth, including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. It also discusses plate tectonics and the different types of plate boundaries: constructive, destructive, conservative, and collision. At destructive boundaries, oceanic plates are subducted under continental plates, forming volcanoes. At collision boundaries, continental plates push together to form mountain ranges. At constructive boundaries, plates move apart and new crust is formed.
Montserrat is a small Caribbean island where the Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting in 1995, destroying much of the southern half of the island. The most intense eruptions occurred in 1997, covering over 2/3 of the island in ash and forcing over half of the population to evacuate. The eruptions closed the airport and port, destroyed infrastructure like schools and hospitals, and devastated the island's economy by ruining the tourism and agriculture industries. In response, the British government provided aid funds, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory was established to monitor future volcanic activity, and the capital was relocated to the safer northern side of the island.
The document provides information about various renewable and non-renewable energy sources. It discusses the North Hoyle offshore wind farm located off the coast of Wales, including that it has 30 turbines that provide enough energy for 40,000 homes. It also discusses the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric project in the world, which will generate thousands of megawatts of electricity but required the relocation of over 2 million people.
The document summarizes problems and solutions in Sheffield, England. Key problems included traffic congestion, lack of parking, declining retail, poverty, unemployment, and derelict housing and land especially in the inner city. Solutions involved demolishing old buildings, attracting new offices, improving parks, roads and public transport, regenerating areas, and creating new housing, jobs, and cultural/retail opportunities through large investments starting in the 2000s. The Sheffield Development Corporation helped clear derelict land and improve communities, though high rise housing caused further issues and unemployment remained high in some areas.
Volcanoes occur at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as divergent boundaries where plates move apart or convergent boundaries where they move together, or at hot spots where the Earth's crust is thinner. When two plates are pushed together at a convergent boundary, one plate may be subducted under the other due to its greater density, melting rock and forming magma. Pressure builds as magma rises into the magma chamber until an eruption releases gases and material.
This document discusses types of resources, problems with non-renewable energy, and methods to reduce pollution and conserve resources. It defines renewable and non-renewable resources and examines fossil fuels, pollution, acid rain, and global warming. Suggested solutions include using alternative energy sources, reducing pollution emissions, improving energy efficiency, and recycling resources.
Coastal areas face problems of erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels and increased storm activity. This threatens homes, businesses and tourism. Coastal defenses use hard engineering like seawalls and groynes, or soft engineering like beach nourishment and managed retreat, to protect coastlines. However, all methods have disadvantages such as visual impacts or increasing erosion elsewhere. Coastal resorts also struggle with declining visitor numbers from overseas competition and require solutions like improving attractions to revitalize their economies.
Tourism is an important industry in Kenya, providing jobs and foreign income. Popular tourist attractions include wildlife reserves like the Maasai Mara and coastal beaches. While tourism has economic benefits, it also has social and environmental costs like disturbing wildlife, pollution, and forcing some tribes off their lands. Some efforts are being made for more sustainable eco-tourism like the Bamburi Nature Trail and Basecamp Masai Mara which support local communities and conservation.
Managing The Physical Environment 2 1200425132497774 3whiskeyhj
The Peak District National Park in the UK has experienced significant growth in tourism due to factors like increased leisure time and wealth. This has created pressures from traffic, overcrowding, and development. Honeypot sites like Castleton attract large numbers of visitors. While tourism provides economic benefits, it also causes issues like congestion, high housing prices, and damage to the natural environment. Sustainable tourism aims to allow current and future visitors to enjoy the area by managing development, traffic, and respect for the local community.
Acid rain is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases released from burning fossil fuels react with water and oxygen in the atmosphere. These acids can be transported long distances and affect areas far from where the emissions originated. Acid rain damages forests and fish populations by making soils and waterways too acidic. It also erodes buildings by accelerating the chemical breakdown of stone. Methods to reduce acid rain include installing flue gas desulfurization systems in power plants, increasing the height of smokestacks, improving energy efficiency, using cleaner-burning fuels, and developing renewable energy sources.
Rapid urbanization is occurring in cities in less economically developed countries (LEDCs) due to rural-urban migration. This causes megacities and expansion of informal settlements known as shanty towns. Rio de Janeiro is used as a case study, where rapid growth has caused issues like lack of adequate housing, sanitation problems, and increased crime. Solutions implemented in favelas like Rocinha include self-help housing schemes providing materials for residents to upgrade homes.
The document discusses urban land use models and zones. It provides information on the concentric zone model and sector model, describing typical land uses like commercial, residential, and industrial that tend to group together in urban zones moving from the urban center outwards. Key zones discussed include the central business district, inner city, inner and outer suburbs, and rural-urban fringe at the edge of cities.
There are several ways to manage and control flooding, including controlling water levels with dams and pumping stations, building barriers like embankments and levees, altering river channels by straightening or widening them, and controlling land use around rivers through zoning and afforestation. Hard management strategies involve large-scale engineering works like dams, levees, dredging, and channel alterations. Soft strategies work with nature and are more sustainable options like afforestation, flood plain zoning, and flood warning systems.
The document discusses river drainage basins and flooding. It defines key terms related to the water cycle within a drainage basin such as precipitation, infiltration, interception, surface runoff, throughflow, evaporation, evapotranspiration, percolation, and the water table. It also explains the components of a flood hydrograph including the rising limb, falling limb, peak discharge, peak rainfall, storm flow, and normal base flow. Factors that influence the shape of a hydrograph are described such as land use, geology, soil, vegetation, and topography.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
The document discusses tectonic activity and includes several questions. It describes the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and its effects on the natural environment and local people. It asks about the formation of young fold mountains and the physical features of a range studied. It describes the distribution of major earthquakes shown in a figure and asks about locations of greatest loss of life from an earthquake. It also asks about short and long-term responses to an earthquake or volcano eruption that was studied.
The document discusses tectonic activity including earthquakes and volcanoes. It provides information about a 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale that was centered off the coast of Sumatra. It then discusses the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Italy and advantages and disadvantages of living near volcanoes. Finally, it discusses the distribution of volcanoes globally and features of the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mount St. Helens.
The document discusses restoration works along the River Skerne in Darlington. It includes a figure showing changes to the river channel, including widening the channel and creating floodplains. The restoration scheme aims to attract visitors to the area by creating a natural environment. The document also discusses the formation of oxbow lakes when a meander is cut off from the main river channel. River flooding is examined, including describing the causes of a flood that was studied. Flood plain zoning is discussed as a sustainable management strategy to reduce flooding impacts.
1. The document discusses river landscapes and processes such as meanders, flood plains, and flooding. It includes diagrams of river features and flooding case studies.
2. Flood plains are formed through hydraulic power and erosion of the outside bend of river meanders. Meanders also migrate downstream over time. When the river floods, silt and sand are deposited building up the flood plain.
3. Flooding can have severe effects if water cannot drain back into river channels due to high levees that are formed by sediment deposition during repeated floods.
The document discusses coastal landscapes and processes. It includes figures and questions about coastal defense schemes, the formation of coastal landforms, and methods of protecting coastlines. Specifically, it addresses a planned coastal defense for Lyme Regis, how stacks may form at the end of headlands, features of coastlines formed by erosion, and descriptions of coastal defenses shown in photographs.
This document discusses coastal landscapes and processes. It contains information about:
1) A photograph of Flamborough Head on the east coast of England, identifying rock stacks (X) and cliffs (Y).
2) How wave-cut platforms are formed by destructive waves eroding cliffs through attrition and corrasion, forming a wave-cut notch that gets larger until the cliff retreats.
3) Coastal defenses shown in a photograph of sand dunes, suggesting they are needed to protect the coastline from erosion.
The document discusses the structure and composition of the Earth, including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. It also discusses plate tectonics and the different types of plate boundaries: constructive, destructive, conservative, and collision. At destructive boundaries, oceanic plates are subducted under continental plates, forming volcanoes. At collision boundaries, continental plates push together to form mountain ranges. At constructive boundaries, plates move apart and new crust is formed.
Montserrat is a small Caribbean island where the Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting in 1995, destroying much of the southern half of the island. The most intense eruptions occurred in 1997, covering over 2/3 of the island in ash and forcing over half of the population to evacuate. The eruptions closed the airport and port, destroyed infrastructure like schools and hospitals, and devastated the island's economy by ruining the tourism and agriculture industries. In response, the British government provided aid funds, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory was established to monitor future volcanic activity, and the capital was relocated to the safer northern side of the island.
The document provides information about various renewable and non-renewable energy sources. It discusses the North Hoyle offshore wind farm located off the coast of Wales, including that it has 30 turbines that provide enough energy for 40,000 homes. It also discusses the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric project in the world, which will generate thousands of megawatts of electricity but required the relocation of over 2 million people.
The document summarizes problems and solutions in Sheffield, England. Key problems included traffic congestion, lack of parking, declining retail, poverty, unemployment, and derelict housing and land especially in the inner city. Solutions involved demolishing old buildings, attracting new offices, improving parks, roads and public transport, regenerating areas, and creating new housing, jobs, and cultural/retail opportunities through large investments starting in the 2000s. The Sheffield Development Corporation helped clear derelict land and improve communities, though high rise housing caused further issues and unemployment remained high in some areas.
Volcanoes occur at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as divergent boundaries where plates move apart or convergent boundaries where they move together, or at hot spots where the Earth's crust is thinner. When two plates are pushed together at a convergent boundary, one plate may be subducted under the other due to its greater density, melting rock and forming magma. Pressure builds as magma rises into the magma chamber until an eruption releases gases and material.
This document discusses types of resources, problems with non-renewable energy, and methods to reduce pollution and conserve resources. It defines renewable and non-renewable resources and examines fossil fuels, pollution, acid rain, and global warming. Suggested solutions include using alternative energy sources, reducing pollution emissions, improving energy efficiency, and recycling resources.
Coastal areas face problems of erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels and increased storm activity. This threatens homes, businesses and tourism. Coastal defenses use hard engineering like seawalls and groynes, or soft engineering like beach nourishment and managed retreat, to protect coastlines. However, all methods have disadvantages such as visual impacts or increasing erosion elsewhere. Coastal resorts also struggle with declining visitor numbers from overseas competition and require solutions like improving attractions to revitalize their economies.
Tourism is an important industry in Kenya, providing jobs and foreign income. Popular tourist attractions include wildlife reserves like the Maasai Mara and coastal beaches. While tourism has economic benefits, it also has social and environmental costs like disturbing wildlife, pollution, and forcing some tribes off their lands. Some efforts are being made for more sustainable eco-tourism like the Bamburi Nature Trail and Basecamp Masai Mara which support local communities and conservation.
Managing The Physical Environment 2 1200425132497774 3whiskeyhj
The Peak District National Park in the UK has experienced significant growth in tourism due to factors like increased leisure time and wealth. This has created pressures from traffic, overcrowding, and development. Honeypot sites like Castleton attract large numbers of visitors. While tourism provides economic benefits, it also causes issues like congestion, high housing prices, and damage to the natural environment. Sustainable tourism aims to allow current and future visitors to enjoy the area by managing development, traffic, and respect for the local community.
Acid rain is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases released from burning fossil fuels react with water and oxygen in the atmosphere. These acids can be transported long distances and affect areas far from where the emissions originated. Acid rain damages forests and fish populations by making soils and waterways too acidic. It also erodes buildings by accelerating the chemical breakdown of stone. Methods to reduce acid rain include installing flue gas desulfurization systems in power plants, increasing the height of smokestacks, improving energy efficiency, using cleaner-burning fuels, and developing renewable energy sources.
Rapid urbanization is occurring in cities in less economically developed countries (LEDCs) due to rural-urban migration. This causes megacities and expansion of informal settlements known as shanty towns. Rio de Janeiro is used as a case study, where rapid growth has caused issues like lack of adequate housing, sanitation problems, and increased crime. Solutions implemented in favelas like Rocinha include self-help housing schemes providing materials for residents to upgrade homes.
The document discusses urban land use models and zones. It provides information on the concentric zone model and sector model, describing typical land uses like commercial, residential, and industrial that tend to group together in urban zones moving from the urban center outwards. Key zones discussed include the central business district, inner city, inner and outer suburbs, and rural-urban fringe at the edge of cities.
There are several ways to manage and control flooding, including controlling water levels with dams and pumping stations, building barriers like embankments and levees, altering river channels by straightening or widening them, and controlling land use around rivers through zoning and afforestation. Hard management strategies involve large-scale engineering works like dams, levees, dredging, and channel alterations. Soft strategies work with nature and are more sustainable options like afforestation, flood plain zoning, and flood warning systems.
The document discusses river drainage basins and flooding. It defines key terms related to the water cycle within a drainage basin such as precipitation, infiltration, interception, surface runoff, throughflow, evaporation, evapotranspiration, percolation, and the water table. It also explains the components of a flood hydrograph including the rising limb, falling limb, peak discharge, peak rainfall, storm flow, and normal base flow. Factors that influence the shape of a hydrograph are described such as land use, geology, soil, vegetation, and topography.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
AI in the Workplace Reskilling, Upskilling, and Future Work.pptxSunil Jagani
Discover how AI is transforming the workplace and learn strategies for reskilling and upskilling employees to stay ahead. This comprehensive guide covers the impact of AI on jobs, essential skills for the future, and successful case studies from industry leaders. Embrace AI-driven changes, foster continuous learning, and build a future-ready workforce.
Read More - https://bit.ly/3VKly70
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
Managing Resources Higher
1. Managing resources
(a) Study Figure 13, on the insert, which shows information about tourism in Kenya.
(i) Using Figure 13, give three physical features which may attract tourists.
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(ii) Describe two different types of holidays available for tourists in Kenya.
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(b) Using one or more examples of places in LEDCs, describe the Disadvantages tourism may bring.
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(c) Choose an example of renewable energy in an area or country you have studied.
(i) Suggest two reasons for its location.
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(ii) Explain the disadvantages of this source of energy.
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Explain how sustainable development can be achieved other than using renewable sources of
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(a) Study Figure 9, on the next page, a picture of a car with information on recycling.
(i) Give two examples of materials reclaimed when a car is recycled.
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(ii) Describe what might happen if people continue to rely on non-renewable resources.
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(iii) Why do MEDCs consume resources at a higher rate than LEDCs?
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(i) Suggest how one of the environmental problems caused by tourism in a national park may be
reduced.
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(c) (i) Explain why some environments encourage tourism.
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(ii) Describe the advantages and disadvantages of tourism to the economies of LEDCs.
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(a) Study Figure 13 on the next page, which shows part of an Italian city.
5. (i) Use figure 13 to suggest why this Italian city has developed an important tourist industry.
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(ii) What disadvantages can the tourist industry bring to an area such as the one shown in Figure 13?
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(iii) For an area of the UK that you have studied, explain why the tourist industry has developed there.
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(b) Study Figure 14, which shows Antarctica, a continent which in resources.
(i) Describe what Figure 14 shows about the claims on Antarctica and its resources by different
countries.
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7. (ii) Explain why there is an increasing demand for resources such as those found in Antarctica.
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(c) (i) explain how the burning of fossil fuels may lead to global warming.
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(iii) What is sustainable development?
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(iv) Describe how sustainable development can be achieved.
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a) Study Figures 11b
What do the cartoon suggest are the issues concerned with recycling?
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Study Figure 12.
Using Figure 12, explain the possible causes of global warming.
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(c) The Maldives is an island republic which is an LEDC in the Indian Ocean.
(i) Suggest two reasons why tourists are attracted to the Maldives.
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(ii) What is the meaning of the term ‘green tourism’?
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(iii) Since 1970, the government of the Maldives has made rules that have to be followed when building any
new tourist development.
The table below lists some of these rules.
Choose three of these rules, and suggest why each was felt to be important.
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(iv) Using one or more examples, explain why the growth of tourism may bring disadvantages to an LEDC.
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11. (a) Study Figure 11, below, a map extract of part of Thailand, an LEDC in South East Asia.
12. (i) Using Figure 11 only, explain why the area attracts many tourists.
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(ii) Explain how MEDCs gain from the development of tourism in an LEDC.
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(b) Choose one location where renewable energy is produced.
Explain the advantages of the location for the production of renewable energy.
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(ii) Explain how agreement between countries may help to control pollution.
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13. (a) Sustainable development can be achieved in different ways.
Choose two of the following ways.
Resource substitution Conservation Recycling
Circle the two you have chosen.
Explain how they may contribute to sustainable development.
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(a) Study Figure 9, on the insert, an atlas extract showing world energy production and consumption.
(a) (i) Compare the patterns of energy production and consumption shown in Figure 9.
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(a) (ii) Explain why there is an increasing demand for resources such as energy in the world.
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(b) Study Figure 10, a photograph which shows Benidorm, an important tourist area in Spain, an MEDC in
Europe.
(b) (i) Add four labels to the photograph to show evidence of tourism in Benidorm.
An example has been done for you.
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(b) (ii) Explain why some local people may be for and some against the development of tourism in an MEDC
like Spain.
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(c) Describe the physical and human attractions of a named tourist area in an LEDC.
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