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Getting to grips with ECDIS
2014-01-16 01:00:00| Ship Technology
ECDIS is becoming mandatory across the shipping sector for safer navigation, but are operators ready for it? Two ECDIS instructors shed some light on the industry's familiarity with the technology (or lack thereof), and offer tips for a smooth transi
Polar freeze grips United States, disrupting travel, business
2014-01-07 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A blast of Arctic air gripped the vast middle of the United States on Monday with the coldest temperatures in two decades causing at least four deaths, forcing businesses and schools to close and canceling thousands of flights. Shelters for the homeless were overflowing due to the severe cold described by some meteorologists as the "polar vortex" and dubbed by media as the "polar pig." Temperatures were 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit (11 to 22 degrees Celsius) below average in parts of Montana,...
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Getting to Grips with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea
2014-01-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Two new papers indicate the most important biosecurity measures to control Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus and how oral feedback of piglet faeces to the breeding herd may help protect vulnerable newborn litters from the infection. Jackie Linden summarises the main points of this latest research.
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Getting to grips with seizure prediction
2013-11-07 19:10:56| Biotech - Topix.net
Details are to be published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics .
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Most island states have yet to come to grips with the possibilities of relocation
2013-09-07 14:37:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Tony de Brum narrates the watery landscape of his homeland as he passes through it in a motorboat: over here, an island swallowed more than a decade ago by rising seas. There, an atoll where some Bikini Islanders were relocated in the wake of U.S. nuclear testing. Everywhere, shorelines that have receded or disappeared. "Every island, even as small as this one, has a name and someone has land rights on it," de Brum said, pointing toward a sliver of white sand and coconut palms. "Even the loss...