How to dissolve plastic bags and the utilization of modified Polyvinyl Alcohol or PVA to produce plastic is particularly important in the plastics industry. PVA is derived from natural gas or calcium carbide and dissolves over time. PVA-based plastic can be dissolved in water, causing no danger to life forms while also decreasing pollution in bodies of water throughout the world.

During this pandemic, people can’t live without technologies like phones, internets, computers and others. Almost everything that people do can be done online nowadays like studying, shopping, and even paying bills. You can study, shop, and pay bills in the comfort of your own home without worrying about the people you are interacting with. Technology benefits mostly students during this pandemic especially during online classes or even during the summer break because there are free online courses, free web seminars, free ebooks, free educational videos, and such. 

   

     What is it that makes life fulfilling and worth living? It was the question Martin Seligman, the pioneer of positive psychology, popped in with his colleagues in 1998 when he chose this topic to be the theme for his presidency at the American Psychological Association. 

With this, scientists ran researches but none of them seemed to measure the most obvious and easiest topic, which is happiness.

Ever since, scientists responded to this that by the year 2014, studies about happiness were over 10,000 per year. 

Positive Psychology seeks to study how one person could live a good life. Happiness was the most prominent subject studied along with this and even became the face of this branding. 

Up to this day, positive psychology has emerged with therapy, schools, businesses, even the U.S. Army, character strengths, optimism, life satisfaction, wellbeing, gratitude, compassion, self-compassion, self-esteem & self-confidence, hope, and elevation, aside from happiness. 

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https://schools.au.reachout.com/articles/building-a-positive-learning-environment-through-positive-psychology 

https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/martin-seligman-psychology/  

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One of the most important senses is the sense of touch. The sense of touch conveys important social information, which aids in the strengthening of interpersonal bonds. The sense of touch enables us to do many things even when we are blind, such as grasping objects or walking. It also enables us to receive data about our internal and external environments. But what if we've lost our ability to feel?

Bionic Skin made possible for people who lost their sense of touch feel their missing limbs again. This helped them to feel again something they haven’t felt for many years and go back to their old life. It also helps people who was born with missing limbs to feel complete and enjoy their life. This invention gave back the life of people’s sensitivity not only through the way of just a prosthetics but it lets people feel like it is their own hands and skin. 

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In today's generation, refrigerator is one of the most common appliances that can be seen in almost every houses. But even before it is already existing but not as high tech as what we have now. Through research in 1913, American Fred W. Wolf invented the first electric generator that was called the Domelre. And at 1940's freezers where invented where it was used in grocery markets and such.  And as years passed by the refrigerators and freezers were advancing and becoming more high tech and easier to use. 

Scientists were able to discover Shape Memory Alloys or SMA,  a material that can be utilized in buildings or infrastructures. It can withstand heavy strains and return to its original shape that scientists and even engineers find promising. Engineers are planning to implement these materials as a replacement to current constructions knowing that it outperformed traditional construction based on a conducted experiment. If implemented, less families would experience loss of their home and would ensure their safety when natural disasters such as earthquakes strike.

The main difference between the two is a gas stove is better than an electric stove in terms of total energy consumption. Although, gas stoves can potentially create more indoor pollution than electric stoves if it's not ventilated to the outside, and the fracked gas that fuels your stove is a threat to water quality, public health, and the climate. 

In conclusion, one of them is more efficient while the other is potentially cleaner, which makes it tricky to recommend a "best choice." 

Stoves are one of the most important cooking appliances there is today. This technology helped us have an easier way to cook food which greatly helped in our survival. Although stoves cannot replace the traditional way of creating fire, it will still be of great help to people.

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It has numerous advantages to the environment and society. First, it helps in the preservation of water. Due to its name, people can get the wrong impression that it uses excessive water. However, it actually preserves water because water used for the plants can be recirculated; contrary to when it is being seeped by the soil. More so, the use of harmful chemicals that can ruin the plants and environment (such as pesticides) can be avoided. Since soil is not used, soil-related diseases, bugs, and pests cannot infect the plants. It also saves a lot of money due to its low maintenance nature and lesser need for labor. Furthermore, it facilitates a micro-climate which means that it has its own house or structure away from harmful pests. Conditions inside this hydroponic house can be controlled, hence crops can be grown throughout the year. Lastly, it produces higher quality fruits and vegetables, and grows more crops than normal farming.

If AuREUS will be developed and supported even more in the long run, not only will it bring advancements on a nationwide scale, it may even be a worldwide breakthrough that could help answer the world’s looming waste management issues and give aid to agriculture that is a sector which is very vulnerable to financial losses due to typhoons and even climate change. 

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As someone who had dengue before, the dengue vaccine and dengue virus research itself, helped me to get better. It affects the human system itself, making it weaker and prone to other illnesses. Having dengue vaccines that provide a cure for dengue patients, cleaning drives that prevent the spread of the dengue virus, which make it safer for the community. 

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