Q. I have some acquaintances who are coming to visit New Orleans. They are internet business people from Seattle who think that New Orleans is on the same level as Haiti for technology. What would you point to in order to show examples of engineering or technology?
A. Across from the Univ. of New Orleans Lakefront campus, you will find a small industrial park in which the U.S. Dept. of Defense has set up a computer center called SPAWAR SYSCEN NOLA. OK, ready for this? Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Three buildings and hundreds of contractors working together to run personnel-related data centers for various parts of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Air National Guard, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Dept. of Energy. I'll avoid too many specifics, but they use several different kinds of blade servers, virtual machine technology, high-speed switching, data kept on Storage Area Networks with automatic data replication to remote sites... heavy-duty disaster recovery techniques, high-speed Xeon and SunFire machines, the occasional HP Alpha, and quite a few other machines of various flavors.
NASA has a vehicular assemble building in New Orleans East. They make the external fuel tanks for the space shuttle, to very find tolerances. That is a high-tech manufacturing center. Then there are the guys who do audio engineering work at some recording studios around the city.
How high-tech do you have to be before someone gets their nose out of the air? If these folks are that stuck up, I hope they are only casual acquaintances. They don't sound like someone I'd care to know. An elitist attitude does no one any good.
Three buildings and hundreds of contractors working together to run personnel-related data centers for various parts of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Air National Guard, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Dept. of Energy. I'll avoid too many specifics, but they use several different kinds of blade servers, virtual machine technology, high-speed switching, data kept on Storage Area Networks with automatic data replication to remote sites... heavy-duty disaster recovery techniques, high-speed Xeon and SunFire machines, the occasional HP Alpha, and quite a few other machines of various flavors.
NASA has a vehicular assemble building in New Orleans East. They make the external fuel tanks for the space shuttle, to very find tolerances. That is a high-tech manufacturing center. Then there are the guys who do audio engineering work at some recording studios around the city.
How high-tech do you have to be before someone gets their nose out of the air? If these folks are that stuck up, I hope they are only casual acquaintances. They don't sound like someone I'd care to know. An elitist attitude does no one any good.
Where can I find a sample psychology research article?
Q. The research should include the method used, findings and discussion.
A. WHERE CAN I FIND A SAMPLE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH ARTICLE?
National Institute of Mental Health: Science News About Statistics
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/science-news-about-statistics.shtml
An example on this link:
Mental Disorders Persist Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Method used:
Ronald Kessler, PhD, of Harvard University and colleagues compared survey data from 815 respondents who were polled about their mental health five to eight months after the disaster, and again one year after that.
Findings:
Rather than declining, the occurrence of certain mental disorders had increased. For example, the prevalence of serious mental illnesses increased from 11 percent to 14 percent. The prevalence of suicidal thoughts increased from 2.8 percent to 6.4 percent, and the prevalence of people with actual suicide plans increased from 1 percent to 2.5 percent.
Discussion:
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increased as well, but only among those respondents living outside of the New Orleans metro areaâup from 15 percent in the original survey to 21 percent in the follow-up survey. The prevalence of PTSD in the New Orleans metro area increased slightly but not significantly (from 24 percent to 26 percent). Mood and anxiety disorders followed a similar upward pattern, but the change was not statistically significant either (from 30.7 percent to 34 percent).
However, hurricane-related stress decreased for people in the New Orleans metro area (from 98 percent to 78.3 percent) and even more so for respondents living outside of the New Orleans area (from 90 percent to 51.7 percent). The discrepancy between decreasing stress levels and increasing PTSD among the respondents living outside of the New Orleans metro area suggests that other unknown stresses or vulnerabilities are at work. Additional research will be needed to identify these stresses and reconcile this apparent contradiction, according to the researchers.
The study results underscore the negative impact of the slow pace of recovery on Katrina-affected communities and survivors. The high rate of hurricane-related stress and the increase in some forms of mental illness nearly two years after the event suggest a continued need for practical and health-related assistance for the survivors. And because more people outside of the New Orleans area appear to be battling PTSD, they may need special attention.
Reference
Kessler RC, Galea S, Gruber MJ, Sampson NA, Ursano RJ, Wessely S. Trends in mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane Katrina. Molecular Psychiatry. online ahead of print Jan 8, 2008.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2008/mental-disorders-persist-among-hurricane-katrina-survivors.shtml
National Institute of Mental Health: Science News About Statistics
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/science-news-about-statistics.shtml
An example on this link:
Mental Disorders Persist Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Method used:
Ronald Kessler, PhD, of Harvard University and colleagues compared survey data from 815 respondents who were polled about their mental health five to eight months after the disaster, and again one year after that.
Findings:
Rather than declining, the occurrence of certain mental disorders had increased. For example, the prevalence of serious mental illnesses increased from 11 percent to 14 percent. The prevalence of suicidal thoughts increased from 2.8 percent to 6.4 percent, and the prevalence of people with actual suicide plans increased from 1 percent to 2.5 percent.
Discussion:
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increased as well, but only among those respondents living outside of the New Orleans metro areaâup from 15 percent in the original survey to 21 percent in the follow-up survey. The prevalence of PTSD in the New Orleans metro area increased slightly but not significantly (from 24 percent to 26 percent). Mood and anxiety disorders followed a similar upward pattern, but the change was not statistically significant either (from 30.7 percent to 34 percent).
However, hurricane-related stress decreased for people in the New Orleans metro area (from 98 percent to 78.3 percent) and even more so for respondents living outside of the New Orleans area (from 90 percent to 51.7 percent). The discrepancy between decreasing stress levels and increasing PTSD among the respondents living outside of the New Orleans metro area suggests that other unknown stresses or vulnerabilities are at work. Additional research will be needed to identify these stresses and reconcile this apparent contradiction, according to the researchers.
The study results underscore the negative impact of the slow pace of recovery on Katrina-affected communities and survivors. The high rate of hurricane-related stress and the increase in some forms of mental illness nearly two years after the event suggest a continued need for practical and health-related assistance for the survivors. And because more people outside of the New Orleans area appear to be battling PTSD, they may need special attention.
Reference
Kessler RC, Galea S, Gruber MJ, Sampson NA, Ursano RJ, Wessely S. Trends in mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane Katrina. Molecular Psychiatry. online ahead of print Jan 8, 2008.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2008/mental-disorders-persist-among-hurricane-katrina-survivors.shtml
how did hurricane katrina effect technology,economic,political,domestic, society?
Q. the title and if you could show me sources would help mucho
wikipedia is not a source
wikipedia is not a source
A. Here is a great source of data involving the recovery of New Orleans:
http://www.gnocdc.org/
It should get you started on some of the economic and social effects.
http://www.gnocdc.org/
It should get you started on some of the economic and social effects.
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