The 14-year-old winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee shares his 5 strategies for performing under extreme pressure
The National Spelling Bee is intense. Over 11 million kids take part in the spelling bee circuit across the country. Eventually, 200 spellers advance to the national stage. However, it’s not easy to qualify. First, you must win your class, school, and regional bees. You must study tens of…#nationalspellingbee #contestants200 #nt #greek #devshah #largo #florida #tampabaytimes #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
EasyJet says Middle East crisis has cost it more than £40m
Conflicts in the Middle East have cost easyJet more than £40m as a result of flight suspensions and weakening demand, the airline has said. The company said that, while its year-on-year results had improved, the conflicts in Gaza and the Middle East had hit trading. In the days after the 7 October…#middleeast #gaza #israel #jordan #egypt #johanlundgren #ukraine #spain #portugal #greece (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
European human rights court condemns Greece for naming HIV-positive sex workers in 2012
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Greece for violating the privacy rights of a group of women arrested and publicly identified in 2012 as HIV-positive prostitutes who allegedly endangered public health (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Check out Taylor Swift's $150 million real estate portfolio, with houses from Nashville to Beverly Hills
None One of her properties, a townhouse in NYC, was the recent target of an attempted break-in. • None Take a look at the properties she currently owns in Nashville, California, and more. Taylor Swift will never be out of style — or at least out of homes. The superstar has built up a real estate…#nashville #taylorswift #tennessee #kanyewest #mtvvideomusicawards #northumberlandestate #foresthills #greek #guilforddudleyjr #denmark (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Starwatch: The full moon meets celestial twins Castor and Pollux
This month the moon will sit directly below two bright stars in the constellation of GeminiThe full moon meets the celestial twins this week. The chart shows the view looking south-east from London on 24 January at 2000 GMT, when the full moon will sit directly below the stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation of Gemini.The story of the twin half-brothers of Greek and Roman mythology is that Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus. Pollux requested that he be able to share his immortality with his brother, so Zeus transformed them into stars.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Stuart Clark Tags: Science The moon Space Source Type: news
Effective road safety measures in Greece - Yannis G, Laiou A, Dragomanovits A, Nikolaou D, Michelaraki E, Folla K, Kallidoni M, Georgiopoulos S, Parissis M.
The paper presents road safety actions and measures proposed in the framework of the development of the Greek Strategic Road Safety Plan for the period 2021-2030. Five road safety pillars that concern all road crash factors are outlined. For each pillar, a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Assessing driver safety behaviour in Greece - Yannis G, Folla K, Nikolaou D, Chaziris A, Kallidoni M.
The objective of this research is to assess drivers' road safety behavior in Greece in relation to speeding, seat-belt and helmet use and driver distraction and identify the characteristics that are associated with these behavioral patterns. Data were coll... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Association rule mining for island and mainland road crash injuries in Greece - Ziakopoulos A, Michelaraki E, Nikolaou D, Folla K, Yannis G.
The objective of this paper is to implement association rule mining in order to identify the underlying patterns in road crash injuries recorded in Greece, after separating them into subsets concerning the mainland and the island areas. To that end, an ana... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Potential safety outcomes of communication difficulties in mixed nationality crews: a study of Greek and Norwegian vessels - N ævestad TO, Størkersen KV, Laiou A, Yannis G, Michelaraki E.
The study examines potential safety outcomes of communication difficulties in mixed nationality crews on Greek and Norwegian cargo and passenger vessels. The aims are to examine the prevalence of unsafe situations due to language misunderstandings on vesse... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
The comparative evaluation of road safety developments in Greek regions - Folla K, Papadopoulos N, Yannis G.
The objective of the study is to investigate the effects of transport and soc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
PET/CT improves diagnostic biopsy rates in lung cancer patients
PET/CT imaging can serve as a metabolic guide to increase the accuracy of needle biopsies in patients with suspicious lung nodules, according to a study published January 18 in the European Journal of Radiology.A team that included researchers in the U.K., Greece, and the U.S. studied whether F-18 FDG-PET/CT scans showing metabolic activity of suspicious nodules improved the accuracy of CT-guided biopsies, and the group recommended the approach based on the results.“Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author K...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
Greece to Sell ‘Significant’ Stake in Piraeus Bank in Months
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Greece Plans ‘Significant’ Piraeus Bank Stake Sale, PM Mitsotakis Says
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the country's economy is “at the beginning of a long-term growth cycle” as he ...#greek #kyriakosmitsotakis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Top 3 Ways to Play the Coming Comeback for Greece
It’s not easy investing in Greece, but these three investments do the trick A subject you don’t read about a lot in the business media is investing in Greece. Europe? Sure. Even Latin America. But Greece? Not so much. In December, I noticed an article from that discussed why Greece’s turnaround is…#greece #latinamerica #johnpaulson #greek #paulson #nysearca #etf #nationalbankofgreece #otcmkts #adr (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Development of the road safety strategic plan in Greece, 2021-2030 - Yannis G, Laiou A, Dragomanovits A, Nikolaou D, Folla K, Michelaraki E, Kallidoni M, Apostoleris K, Mavromatis S, Georgiopoulos S, Parissis M.
Despite the most significant improvement in road safety performance among the EU countries during the period 2010-2020 and achieving the target of halving road fatalities, Greece still remains behind the EU average in terms of road fatalities per populatio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
