In observance of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2024, UNICEF released a report entitled Female Genital Mutilation: A Global Concern. The report provides new global statistics on the practice. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) refers to the practice of partially or totally removing the extern...
Israel maintains troops in southern Lebanon and continues to support a proxy militia, The Army of South Lebanon (ASL), along a narrow stretch of territory contiguous to its border. The ASL's enclave encompasses this self-declared security zone and about 20 kilometers north to the strategic ...
there. Tropical Storm Nicole arose when the G20 leaders discussed Putin attending the Summit in Indonesia. A city gate appeared around Tropical Storm Nicole, which struck the gate of the Bahamas before crossing Florida. There is much more to this story that involves prophets, angels, and Satan...
The consistency of the migratory route has been shown to be relatively strong when oceanic crossing is comparatively direct (Broderick et al. 2007) but consistently lower when turtles travel further in open waters (Schofield et al. 2013a). Diving statistics are provided in Table S13 in the ...
which is unlike modern Europe where the border-crossing is unhindered. Anyone entering any Middle Eastern country is subjected to stringent customs and security checks. Therefore, the market in special products from Morocco, Iran, and lately Ethiopia, which flourishes today, will dwindle markedly in...
We used the focal statistics tool of ArcMap with the preferences NbrCircle (60, CELL, MEAN) to interpolate the growing season length at the borders between each zone. The interpolation started at the elevation of 0 m a.s.l. and iterated for intervals of 200 m until the elevation of ...
The statistics about gun ownership regionwide are surprising and the results can be deadly. In Albania alone, for example, analyst Jonuz Kola estimated this summer that 6% to 9% of the population has a weapon in the home. Scores of accidental shootings occur, including that of a 9-year-ol...
The difference of image intensities of the micro ionic current etching region and the photothermal etching region was compared in each border of the crossing area of two etchings (dashed line box). Bar, 50 μm. Right micrographs and intensity profile graphs: Magnified micrographs and intensity ...