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Wave size is determined by wind speed and fetch, the distance over the oceans surface which the wind travels. Favorable wind energy sites are generally western coastlines facing the open ocean such as the Pacific Coast of North America and the Atlantic Coast of Northern Europe. Norway, Denmark, Japan, and the United Kingdom are the world leaders in wave energy technologies. 

He liked to travel, and he undertook numerous lecture tours, which led him to France, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and he talked at length about the experiences he had had and the customs he had observed. In Holland, he visited the place that his ancestors had come from in the eighteenth century. 

The sample consisted of 1012 respondents of whom just over half (57%) were Australian, 22% were from United Kingdom and the rest (21%) were from other Western countries. The percentage of male (47%) and female (53%) respondents was quite closely balanced. Slightly more than half (53%) were relatively younger respondents under 36 years of age. Nearly one quarter (23%) of the sample held professional or technical positions and more than half (56%) had completed their tertiary education. For the respondents travel experience, nearly half (47%) were quite experienced in their domestic travel, indicating at least 26 separate travel events each while more than 53% had travelled overseas five times or more. 

Qll Although low-dose aspirin can be safely used for prevention of intravascular coagulation, it is not currently licensed in the United Kingdom for prevention of travel-related DVT. 

Select Committee on Science and Technology (SCST), 2000. Fifth Report Air Travel and Health, United Kingdom Parliament. 

Historical Perspective The phenomenon of acid rain appears to have been present at least three centuries ago. Sulfur dioxide emitted from industry in the United Kingdom was traveling far downwind and even causing bleaching of dyed cloth in France (U.S. NAPAP,... 

Within the United Kingdom, Bell was well known amongst carbohydrate chemists. He was a meticulous examiner of Ph. D. theses, as some candidates found to their dismay, and an active member of the British Carbohydrate Nomenclature Committee, where he had a particular interest in branched-chain sugars. He served as a member of the Publications Committee of The Chemical Society from 1951-1955, and as Senior Reporter for the biochemistry section of the Annual Reports of The Chemical Society. He frequently travelled to Europe, notably to the foreign meetings of the Society for Experimental Biology, and he particularly valued his contacts with the carbohydrate biochemists at the Institut Pasteur. 

The HDCs have shown low figures in traffic risk despite the fact that they have a large growth in the number of vehicles, population and kilometres travelled by vehicles. For instance, the current traffic risk in Sweden and United Kingdom is less than 2. In countries like the Philippines and Vietnam the comparable rate is something like four to six times higher. 

The smoke and gas from coal-fired power stations is usually released into the air from very tall chimneys. For the people who live close to the power station this is beneficial but the acidic oxides can travel many hundreds of kilometres in the winds higher in the atmosphere. The oxides then give rise to acid rain in regions far from the power station. The death of lakes and forests in Germany and parts of Scandinavia (e.g. Sweden) were blamed on coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom, which, at that time, had inefficient purification systems. Reducing this problem in the 1980s required international political cooperation. 

TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) http //www.trl.co.uk/ (accessed September 13, 2010). TRL is an independent organization in the United Kingdom that provides research and testing and publishes reports. Research areas include safety, sustainability, travel time, and infrastructure management. 

Another peroxide-based explosive is hexamethylene triperoxide (HMTD), which, again, can be made simply and cheaply from common liquids (hydrogen peroxide, hexamine and citric acid). It, too, is extremely sensitive to shocks, heat and friction, and can detonate when put into contact with most common metals, which makes it very dangerous to make under non-lab conditions. HMTD (along with TCAP) were implicated in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot, in which terrorists aimed to blow up 10 airliners traveling between the United Kingdom and... 

British prime minister Winston Churchill to get his backing. Bohr then traveled to the United Kingdom and met with Churchill, who rejected the idea. See also BOHR-HEISENBERG CONVERSATION. 

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