Background: In line with zero-waste movement, there is a need for pharmacies to start reducing waste. There is no systematic waste minimization efforts by local pharmacies or studies to evaluate their effectiveness. Aim: Assess behavioral change factors towards waste minimizatio...
municipal solid waste (MSW); zero waste (ZW); national policies; waste-to-energy (WTE); circular economy; sustainable waste management; waste reduction strategies1. Introduction Waste, regardless of it is type or location, is often recognised as an environmental concern. However, it also carries...
Paris targets within reach by aligning, broadening and strengthening net-zero pledges Steps to enhance countries’ emission pledges – early implementation of existing net-zero pledges, inclusion of all countries, and aiming for net-zero 5 years earlier– can close most of the gap between emission...
It does not touch on topics such as cost-effectiveness, implementation issues, public acceptance of interventions, political support etc. Obviously, the aim of ZERO bicycle casualties will not be reached without taking additional road safety measures, but it is of relevance to answer the question ...
Moreover, the paper explores unsupervised techniques, including extractive question answering and zero-shot classification, shedding light on their potential applications. Overall, the results eloquently demonstrate that transformer models can seamlessly incorporate text features into actuarial tasks with minimal...
Through this campaign, more than 900,000 children had received 1 dose or more of the Mosquirix™ vaccine by the end of January 2022 [3,4,5]. The Mosquirix ™ vaccine had an effectiveness of 25.9% (95% CI 19.9 to 31.5) among children between the ages of 6 and 12 weeks and 36.3...
Packaging, food waste and discarded textiles often end up in landfill where they have zero value; in fact, they attract additional costs for collection and disposal. Current recycling rates are significant for only a handful of waste types—mostly those that occur in large, fairly homogeneous ...
The proposed Network Interface (APEni) supports the RDMA semantics, to manage user-level, zero-copy RDMA data transmission to/from the user memory offloading the kernel system. In the current implementation the virtual memory is managed through the IOMMU of the Intel processor. The expected ...
Eric Swinton Founder & CEO, V Cycle 2021 PwC China ESG Report – Transforming to net zero Inspiring our people PwC Green Week – net zero 2030 Green Week is an annual firm-wide campaign to raise awareness and engage our people in sustainability issues. In 2021 it featured the PwC net ...
The policy thrust of this strategy in combating drug problems cannot be overemphasised; it promises effective harm minimisation and significant psychosocial repentance outcomes, with insignificant (if not) zero stigmatisation and rejection of drug users, unlike the custodial and penal policies on drugs....