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Synonyms for neap

a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon

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Vale registrar que em media, os enfermeiros que tem circunstancias nao profissionais a afetar a vida correspondem a um IGAP e NEAP superior, em comparacao com os que nao tem circunstancias nao profissionais a afetar a vida, conforme mostra a Tabela 2.
Some researchers have attempted to scientifically answer the question of how modern diet could be changed to restore an alkaline NEAP and conclude that the substitution of 'greens for grains', as frequently put forward by Paleo and alkaline proponents alike, would fail to resolve the issue.
It is important to re-emphasize that a well formulated National Emergency Action Plan (NEAP) for polio eradication exists in the country providing guidance on all the recommended mechanisms and strategies its implementation however is missing in some parts of the country.
NEAP itself suggested that differences between the 2010 scores and those of 1998 were "not statistically significant." A more honest and helpful description would be "stagnant."
"We are on neap tides at the moment and there was enough space for the animal to remain there safely overnight," said coastguard Dave Millar.
Yesterday: Lady Martine, Moerdijk; Norsky, Europoort; Norqueen, Zeebrugge; Don 3, Dunkirk; Clipper Loyalty, Tarragona; Christine Y, Amsterdam; Wilson Aviles, Neap House; Clonlee, Rotterdam; Komet III, Grangemouth.
Samples were taken on board a small wooden vessel during spring tide (05-06 August 2001) and neap tide (11-12 August 2001) at 3-hour intervals over 12 hours for spring tide (n = 32 samples) and 22 hours for neap tide (n = 56 samples).
The smallest tidal differences, called "neap tides," come at the first and third quarters of the lunar month, when the forces exerted by lunar and solar gravity do more to cancel each other.
But the coffee s more than a unique niche for Royall, as a portion of the java sales also goes to neap impoverished coffee farmers in Nicaragua, where he and others involved in Their-Bucks buy the beans.
Not as if I have anything against the humble swede or neap, celeriac just has so many other uses.
Note autografe al Presbeutikos logos nel manoscritto Neap. gr.