Emergency Medical Technicians.

ECOnomic & SOCial Counsil of the United NationsUN agency parenting the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation, and the IMO.

Any person on board other than the master and members of the crew or other persons employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of that ship.

Winds from the four cardinal points of the compass; that is, north, east, south, and west winds.

Liberian (Flag)

A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material.

A wall usually about 3 to 4 feet high located that is placed in the attic of a home, anchored with plates between the attic floor joists and the roof joist. Sheathing can be attached to these walls to enclose an attic space.

The quantity measured by a sound level meter in which the frequency response is weighted according to the A-weighting curve (see IEC publication 651).

Grain

Free In/Liner Out. Seafreight with which the shipper pays load costs and the carrier pays for discharge costs.

A method of streamflow routing which assumes that storage is a linear function of the weighted flow in the reach and is adaptable to a simple mathematical solution.

Permanent Group of Experts (in agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures).

(1) A reduction of the anodic reaction rate of an electrode involved in corrosion. (2) The process in metal corrosion by which metals become passive. (3) The changing of a chemically active surface of' a metal to a much less reactive state. Contrast with ...

42 U.S. gallons (306 pounds of oil, or 5.78 million Btu).

National nature reserve

A graph that indicates the distribution of wind speeds as a function of the cumulative number of hours that the wind speed exceeds a given wind speed in a year.

Microorganisms that live in oxygen deprived environments.

Atmosphere normale de reference. The term ANR is not usually applied to cfm, it is the new European replacement for FAD and usually follows the metric measurement of air flow, such as Cu Meters per Minute

(BOT)The difference between a country's exports and imports over a given period of time.

Panamax ships are all ships that comply with the size and draft limitations of the existing (old) locks; namely, length 294.13m by 32.31m in breadth by 12.04 fresh water draft.