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Global warming is a term used for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Scientists are more than 95% certain that nearly all of global warming is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other human-caused emissions.

The COVID-19 outbreak was triggered in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, which
is in the Hubei province of China. The virus continues to spread across the world.
Although the epicentre of the outbreak was initially China, with reported cases either
in China or in travellers from the country, cases now are being reported in many other
countries. While some countries have been able to effectively treat reported cases, it
is uncertain where and when new cases will emerge. Amidst the significant public
health risk COVID-19 poses to the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has
declared a public health emergency of international concern to coordinate international
responses to the disease. It is, however, currently debated whether COVID-19 could
potentially escalate to a global pandemic.
In a strongly connected and integrated world, the impacts of the disease beyond
mortality (those who die) and morbidity (those who are unable to work for a period of
time) has become apparent since the outbreak. Amidst the slowing down of the Chinese
economy with interruptions to production, the functioning of global supply chains has
been disrupted. Companies across the world, irrespective of size, that are dependent
upon inputs from China have started experiencing contractions in production. Transport
being limited and even restricted among countries has further slowed global economic
activities. Most importantly, some panic among consumers and firms has distorted
usual consumption patterns and created market anomalies. Global financial markets
have also been responsive to the changes and global stock indices have plunged.

Globalization means the speedup of movements and exchanges (of human beings, goods, and services, capital, technologies, or cultural practices) all over the planet. One of the effects of globalization is that it promotes and increases interactions between different regions and populations around the globe.

Competency Info
This is the second micro-credential in the “21st Century Learning through Global Education” stack. It is encouraged that the micro-credentials in this stack are earned in sequence, as each skill builds on the previous one in the stack.
The educator builds upon the identified considerations for practice by incorporating strategies and activities that support global education practices. The educator reflects and categorizes them according to the four global competencies.

Subsidence, the lowering of Earth's land surface, is a potentially destructive hazard that can be caused by a wide range of natural or anthropogenic triggers but mainly results from solid or fluid mobilization underground. Subsidence due to groundwater depletion (1) is a slow and gradual process that develops on large time scales (months to years), producing progressive loss of land elevation (centimeters to decimeters per year) typically over very large areas (tens to thousands of square kilometers) and variably affects urban and agricultural areas worldwide. Subsidence permanently reduces aquifer-system storage capacity, causes earth fissures, damages buildings and civil infrastructure, and increases flood susceptibility and risk.

Subsidence, the lowering of Earth's land surface, is a potentially destructive hazard that can be caused by a wide range of natural or anthropogenic triggers but mainly results from solid or fluid mobilization underground. Subsidence due to groundwater depletion (1) is a slow and gradual process that develops on large time scales (months to years), producing progressive loss of land elevation (centimeters to decimeters per year) typically over very large areas (tens to thousands of square kilometers) and variably affects urban and agricultural areas worldwide. Subsidence permanently reduces aquifer-system storage capacity, causes earth fissures, damages buildings and civil infrastructure, and increases flood susceptibility and risk.

In the global Internet environment processing of information in multiple languages has a great importance. Intellexer Language Recognizer identifies the language and character encoding of incoming documents. It supports more than 30 languages, covering major European and Asian languages. Intellexer Language Recognizer can be successfully used: - as a pre-filtering step to improve the quality of input text data (because of most natural processing algorithms deal with monolingual texts and inclusion of other languages can decrease the performance of document management systems); - in mining bilingual texts for machine translation from online resources; - for retrieval, grouping and understanding relevant information (user’s texts, emails and etc.) in multilingual environment.Language Recognizer

WHAT IS MIS? | MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Management Information Systems (MIS) is the study of people, technology, organizations, and the relationships among them. MIS professionals help firms realize maximum benefit from investment in personnel, equipment, and business processes. MIS is a people-oriented field with an emphasis on service through technology. If you have an interest in technology and have the desire to use technology to improve people’s lives, a degree in MIS may be for you.

MIS PROFESSIONALS MAKE BUSINESS BETTER
Businesses use information systems at all levels of operation to collect, process, and store data. Management aggregates and disseminates this data in the form of information needed to carry out the daily operations of business. Everyone who works in business, from someone who pays the bills to the person who makes employment decisions, uses information systems. A car dealership could use a computer database to keep track of which products sell best. A retail store might use a computer-based information system to sell products over the Internet. In fact, many (if not most) businesses concentrate on the alignment of MIS with business goals to achieve competitive advantage over other businesses.

MIS professionals create information systems for data management (i.e., storing, searching, and analyzing data). In addition, they manage various information systems to meet the needs of managers, staff and customers. By working collaboratively with various members of their work group, as well as with their customers and clients, MIS professionals are able to play a key role in areas such as information security, integration, and exchange. As an MIS major, you will learn to design, implement, and use business information systems in innovative ways to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your company.

MORE THAN CODING
A common misconception is that MIS only concerns coding (or writing computer code). While coding concepts represent some of the fundamental principles of information systems development, implementation, and use, many jobs in MIS do not utilize coding at all. A large portion of the MIS degree focuses on data analysis, teamwork, leadership, project management, customer service, and underlying business theories. These aspects of the degree are what set the MIS professional apart from a computer science specialist.

Do you enjoy working with people?
Would you enjoy the chance to work on global problems with people from all over the world?
Do you enjoy analyzing and solving problems?
Do you want to create innovative, cutting-edge technology solutions?
Do you want to learn how to make businesses more efficient, effective and competitive?
Then you should consider as your major the field that is experiencing a critical shortage of professionally trained individuals. A field where demand is skyrocketing with projected growth rates of 38 percent – the fastest of any business discipline (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).

WHAT KINDS OF PEOPLE PURSUE MIS DEGREES?
The profiles of MIS professionals are varied, but in general, such individuals possess many of the following traits:

good problem solving skills
ability to effectively manage time and resources
a clear vision of “the big picture” as well as the “small details”
a desire to work closely with other people
excellent communication skills
ability to think strategically about technology
a desire to take responsibility for developing and implementing their own ideas