The annual cargo throughput of the Port of Piraeus in Greece has increased to above 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), making it the fourth largest TEU port in Europe and a leading TEU port in the Mediterranean. The Gwadar Port in Pakistan has seen major progress and is marching...
Moderate and vigorous physical activity was defined as ≥ 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity, or 75 minutes/week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activities. All participants underwent a 75-g ...
Those who do not qualify will need to pay an amount equivalent to one year premium or the total premium covering the missed and unpaid quarter/s of the calendar year to utilize the medical entitlements. A timeline of the enacted maternity protection provisions is presented in Fig. 1 and ...
Two groups of pots were treated with basal applications of ammonium sulphate to simulate field applications equivalent to 60 or 150 kg N ha−1. The amounts of fertilizer added to the pots were calculated based on the estimated weight of top soil in a hectare of paddy (2000 t),...
A case is defined here as the Gini for a given year, country area (rural, urban, or total), sharing unit, equivalence scale (per capita, equivalent scale, unadjusted), and resource (income or consumption).1 When there is more than one reported Gini per case, the average is computed. ...
The equivalent terms on the Kyushu Shinkansen are Kodama, Sakura and Mizuho. Ordinary class or Green Car? Japanese trains usually have two classes, ordinary and green car which is the Japanese term for 1st class. Green cars are indicated by a green clover symbol next to the entrance door. ...
almost equivalent to the company’s agricultural footprint. Doing so, Pepsi asserts, would remove a minimum of three million tons of greenhouse gas emissions at the end of the decade. As a result, the lifestyle of more than 250,000 people in this agricultural supply chain would...
On the other hand, most developed countries report to the UNFCCC at face value for all financial instruments, with reporting in grant-equivalent values being voluntary only. The latter can be prohibitively complex when multiple financial instruments and financiers are combined, but reporting at face ...
high school equivalent education from an alternative school or homeschool program that abides by state laws and regulations. Courts have also made special exemptions for a child who fears for his safety at school and for children whose religious beliefs are violated by subject areas taught in ...
Worse still, sewage spilled into UK waters for double the amount of time in 2023 that it did in 2022: a whopping 3.6 million hours, or the equivalent of over 400 years. There were fewer “well behaved” overflows, as well. Those that spilled fewer than 10 times in a year were down ...