lalt101summer09

Final Project LALT 101 Summer 09

2009-07-14T00:08:00.000-07:00

-What are the Effects of Global Warming?

-Book
Paterson, Matthew. Global Warming and Global Politics. London: Routledge, 1996.

-Film
An Inconvenient Truth. Davis Guggenheim. Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns; executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.]. Paramount Classics and Participant Productions, 2006.
-Website
"World View of Global Warming: Home Page." 7/13/2009 <http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/>

-Popular Non-News Article
Allagui, Slim. "Global warming impacting Greenlanders' Daily Lives". Agence France-Presse. Access World news. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 july 2009.

-Scholary Articles
Khandekar, M. L., T. S. Murty, and P. Chittibabu. "The Global Warming Debate: A Review of the State of Science." Pure & Applied Geophysics 162. 8/9 (Aug. 2005): 1557-1586. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009.

Frolkis, Victor A., Igor L. Karol, and Andrey A. Kiselev. "Global Warming Potential, Global Warming Commitment and Other Indexes as Characteristics of the Effects of Greenhouse Gases on Earth’s Climate." Ecological Indicators 2.1/2 (Nov. 2002): 109. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009.

-Current News Article
Hallegatte, Stéphane. "Strategies to Adapt to an Uncertain Climate Change". 19/2 (May 2009): 240-247. ScienceDirect. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 july 2009

Final Project LALT 101

2009-07-13T23:57:00.000-07:00

-What are the effects of global warming?

-Book
Paterson, Matthew. Global warming and global politics. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

-Film
An inconvenient truth. Davis Guggenheim. Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.].Paramount Classics and Participant Productions, 2006.

-Website
"World View of Global Warming: Home Page." 7/12/2009 <http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/>

-Popular Non-News Article
Allagui, Slim. Global warming impacting Greenlanders' daily lives. Agence France-Presse. Access World news. AUC library, Cairo, egypt. 13 july 2009.

-Scholary articles
Khandekar, M. L., T. S. Murty, and P. Chittibabu. "The Global Warming Debate: A Review of the State of Science." Pure & Applied Geophysics 162.8/9 (Aug. 2005): 1557-1586. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009.

Frolkis, Victor A., Igor L. Karol, and Andrey A. Kiselev. "Global warming potential, global warming commitment and other indexes as characteristics of the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s climate." Ecological Indicators 2.1/2 (Nov. 2002): 109. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009.

-Current News Article
Hallegatte, Stéphane. Strategies to adapt to an uncertain climate change. Volume 19, Issue 2, May 2009, pages 240-247. ScienceDirect. AUC library. Cairo. Egypt. 13 july 2009

2009-07-13T00:04:00.000-07:00

-What are the effects of global warming?

-Book
Paterson, Matthew. Global warming and global politics. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

-Film
An inconvenient truth. Davis Guggenheim. Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.].Paramount Classics and Participant Productions, 2006.

-Website
"World View of Global Warming: Home Page." 7/12/2009 <http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/>

-Popular Non-News Article
Allagui, Slim. Global warming impacting Greenlanders' daily lives. Agence France-Presse. Access World news. AUC library, Cairo, egypt. 13 july 2009.

-Scholary articles
Khandekar, M. L., T. S. Murty, and P. Chittibabu. "The Global Warming Debate: A Review of the State of Science." Pure & Applied Geophysics 162.8/9 (Aug. 2005): 1557-1586. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009.

Frolkis, Victor A., Igor L. Karol, and Andrey A. Kiselev. "Global warming potential, global warming commitment and other indexes as characteristics of the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s climate." Ecological Indicators 2.1/2 (Nov. 2002): 109. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 13 July 2009

-Current News Article
Hallegatte, Stéphane. Strategies to adapt to an uncertain climate change. Volume 19, Issue 2, May 2009, pages 240-247. ScienceDirect. AUC library. Cairo. Egypt. 13 july 2009

Final Project

2009-07-12T00:23:00.000-07:00

-What are the effects of global warming?

-Book

Paterson, Matthew. Global warming and global politics. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

-Film

An inconvenient truth. Davis Guggenheim. Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.].Paramount Classics and Participant Productions, 2006.

-Website

"World View of Global Warming: Home Page." 7/12/2009 <http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/>

-Popular Non-News Article

-Scholary articles

-Current News Article

LALT 101

2009-07-09T00:04:00.000-07:00

In this course LALT 101, I learned how to use different and useful databases, that I've never used before or even knew about. I learned how to narrow searching for a specific topic and how to evaluate the credibility of different websites. Also I got the way of citing different sources. Before this course, I thought that all sources, books, articles, videos... have the same way of citation.

Nothing is confusing now, I just wanted to learn more about credible websites.

I think that blogging is an organized way in posting the assignments, and it enables you to have a general look at all what you did so far.

Search for news

2009-07-08T00:02:00.000-07:00

1. What is the latest story on this topic in Google News?
-The latest article is "Al Gore Compares Fight Against Global Warming to Struggle Against Nazi Germany". It is published 8 hours ago.

-The citation in MLA style

-Baier, Bret. "Al Gore Compares Fight Against Global Warming to Struggle Against Nazi Germany.".Fox News(2009). http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530503,00.html. 8 July 2009.

2. What is the latest story on this topic in Lexis Nexis?

-The latest article is "Is climate the new asbestos?; JUST MANAGING". It is published today 08-07-2009.

-The citation in MLA style

-Gettler, Leon. "Is climate the new asbestos?; JUST MANAGING." BUSINESS; Opinion & Analysis(2009): Pg. 12. LexisNexis, AUC library, Cairo, Egypt. 8 July 2009.

Comparison between the databases

2009-07-07T00:19:00.000-07:00

Science Direct and BioOne are both databases that provides good amount of information about different areas in science, but they differs in some points. Science direct provides you with more than one way to search for your topic. you can search, by the first letter of the topic (alphabetically), by the name of the author or by the subject that your topic falls into. It provides also two ways to search, quick search and advanced search. It covers information from different sources books, journals..., and it covers the full text of some sources. the database provides sources from 2500 journal and 6000 books and that enables you to get many results and sources for the topic you search for. the database also classifies the topics by subject in a very organized way that gives you chance to find your goal easily. when I searched on global climate change and greenhouse gases, I recieved a lot of sources (19 volume that each of them contains approximately 20 articles) that approximately all of them have the full text

BioOne provides search using the author's name, the date, the type, the title... when I searched on global warming, I recieved 3898 results. I think most of them are scholary. The database covers sources from 1920 to 2009. It provides full text for most of the essays. Although I think that search on Science Direct is easier, but the information provided on BioOne are more relevant to the topic I searched on.

The four questions

2009-07-06T00:02:00.000-07:00

1. What is your research question?
-What is the effect of global warming on Egypt and the Red Sea?

2. What academic disciplines relate to your research question?
-Life sciences, chemistry and earth sciences.

3. What AUC majors and minors relate to your research question?
-Biology and chemistry.

4. What are two databases that might help you research this topic more in-depth (please include the name)? How can you tell?
-The two databases are
1-Science Direct: it covers huge areas in science and environment.

2-Access Science: because it includes all kinds of science, it provides useful information about global warming, and that information is presented in a good claccification (encyclopedia articles, research updates, news, dictionaries...)

-Another one is
3-Access World News: I think it can help because it has a part about the world environment that contains a good amount of information about global warming.

The effects of global warming

2009-07-05T00:02:00.000-07:00

-What are the effects of global warming?
-Mendelsohn,Robert ed. Global warming and the American economy: a regional assessment of climate change impacts.Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar,2001.HC106.8 .G594 2001.

-Another article (2002 : 2004)
-Maslin, Mark. Global warming : a very short introduction. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.QC981.8.G56 M38 2004.

-A video
An inconvenient truth. Davis Guggenheim. Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.]. Paramount Classics and Participant Productions. 2006. QC981.8.G56 I53 2006.

Research topic

2009-07-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

-The effect of global warming on sea-ice extent.
-There were 49747 results.
-The citation of the article in APA style
Saenko, O., Eby, M., & Weaver, A. (2004, June). The effect of sea-ice extent in the North Atlantic on the stability of the thermohaline circulation in global warming experiments. Climate Dynamics, 22(6/7), 689-699. Retrieved July 1, 2009, doi:10.1007/s00382-004-0414-0

-Using scholary journals, there were 116 results.
-The citation of the article in MLA style
Levermann, A., et al. "The Role of Northern Sea Ice Cover for the Weakening of the Thermohaline Circulation under Global Warming." Journal of Climate 20.16 (15 Aug. 2007): 4160-4171. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 1 July 2009 .

-The citation of the article written by Lucy Jones in MLA style
Jones, Lucy. "Clinton's Last Push for Peace." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 20.2 (Mar. 2001): 33. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 1 July 2009 .

Research questions

2009-06-30T00:21:00.000-07:00

1-What is the effect of global warming on Egypt and the Red Sea?

2-global warming and the red sea

3-The two articles

"News Summary." New York Times (04 Feb. 2006): 2. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo, Egypt. 30 June 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=28239943&site=ehost-live.

Rosenberg, Eugene, and Yael Ben-Haim.. "Microbial diseases of corals and global warming." Environmental Microbiology 4.6 (June 2002): 318-326. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo, Egypt. 30 June 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=6831954&site=ehost-live.

The two articles

2009-06-29T01:06:00.000-07:00

Article 1
Rosendorff, B. Peter; Sandler, Todd
The Political Economy of Transitional Terrorism.
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Apr2005
Vol. 49 Issue 2
p171-182
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=6&sid=7f69145a-49f6-44a6-a79c-d817afcab1c8%40sessionmgr109&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=16618855
Terrorism; international cooperation; international offenses
Article 2
Brainard, Lael
A Turning Point for Globalisation? The Implications for the Global Economy of America's Campaign against Terrorism.
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Jul2002
Vol. 15 Issue 2
p233-244
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=7&sid=7f69145a-49f6-44a6-a79c-d817afcab1c8%40sessionmgr109&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=10909927
Terrorism;globalization; international economic relation

About myself

2009-06-29T00:52:00.000-07:00

1-First name: Fatma
2-Major: economics
3-Year in AUC: freshman, third semester
4-Favourite website: http://www.google.com