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Nov 20, 2020

Coca Cola unveils its Christmas advert

Provided by Good Housekeeping UK Coca Cola unveils its Christmas advert, and it s directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi. Find out more about the Christmas advert here.Coca-Cola has released its Christmas advert – and after the disappointing news their Christmas truck tour is cancelled, this definitely makes up for it… The advert

Nov 19, 2020

Dynamic Inventory Planning with Unknown Costs and Stochastic Demand

Generally ordering policies are done by two methods, including fix order quantity (FOQ) and fix order period (FOP). These methods are static and either the quantity of ordering or the procedure of ordering is fixing in throughout time horizon. In real environments, demand is varying in any period and may be considered as

Nov 18, 2020

Employment Struggles for Older Workers

By Bill Ryan It’s happening again. One of the perverse hallmarks of the Great Recession ten years ago was the expulsion of many older workers from the workforce. A significant amount of experienced employees found themselves forced into sudden unemployment or premature retirement. Many never fully recovered financially or emotionally and their careers

Nov 17, 2020

Life-history traits in an evergreen Mediterranean oak

Living organisms respond both to current and previous environments, which can have important consequences on population dynamics. However, there is little experimental evidence based on long-term field studies of the effects of previous environments on the performance of individuals. We tested the hypothesis that trees that establish under different environmental conditions perform differently

Nov 16, 2020

The Middle Stone Age might hold a lesson for today

Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago Drilling 139 meters down to volcanic rock provided scientists with a million-year environmental record. Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institution People thrive all across the globe, at every temperature, altitude and landscape. How did human beings

Nov 13, 2020

Calcium, snails, and birds: a case study

Recent studies have shown that wild birds breeding in acidified areas have difficulties with obtaining sufficient calcium for their eggshells, and that the cause of it is the shortage of land snails. Many birds have to search for Ca-rich snail shells on a daily basis during egg production. Molluscs depend on litter calcium,

Nov 12, 2020

South Asia Has a New Economic Leader. Will the World Take Note?

Bangladesh — the overcrowded, overpopulated flood-prone state that, founded in 1971, is barely older than the internet — is now one of the richest countries in South Asia. The region was rocked by this week’s data that Bangladesh’s GDP per capita will exceed India’s this year, despite India having a 25 percent lead

Nov 11, 2020

Africa Must Lead On Climate Change

To preserve its own survival, and secure its own prosperity, Africa must provide global leadership on responsible environmental stewardship and offer the world a novel model of climate led development. This could also make Africa rich. Nigeria, the country of my parents’ birth, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its independence on October 1st.

Nov 10, 2020

NMED: “Safe drinking water is a basic human right”

News Releases from Region 06New Mexico Environment Department receives EPA grant for water utility operator training in underserved areas DALLAS (Oct. 22, 2020) – The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) was recently selected to receive a $200,000 competitive grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The grant will assist San Juan College