Guidelines

India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has issued a fresh set of directives for airport operators to check incidents of collision of planes with birds and other animals in the wake of such incidents recently. The DGCA guidelines said that aerodrome operators are required to deploy wide range of methods and techniques to minimise the collision between wildlife and aircraft which includes carrying out routine patrols in random patterns, informing pilots whenever there is any wildlife…

Federal health officials’ move this week to relax pandemic precautions gave business leaders the momentum many have been looking for to return to pre-Covid behaviors.The new guidelines, issued Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, generally bring the federal guidance in line with policies that had already shifted at companies, schools and public transportation, among other settings. The agency said it no longer recommends that people quarantine after being exposed to the virus, as long as they don’t…

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has come out with guidelines for medical examiners for aero-medical evaluation of transgenders. The guidelines came following recent controversy over the regulator denying medical approval to a pilot, a trans person who was on hormone therapy. As per the guidelines, the transgender applicants undertaking initial Class 2 or Class 3 medical examination will register on e-GCA with the gender as per their ‘Certificate of Identity’ issued by the government of…

Humans are filling the world with trash, but not all of our waste is visible to the human eye.While plastic litter on the beach is easy to spot, microplastics and 'forever chemicals' have leached far and wide without our barely noticing.  Both forms of pollution are now so ubiquitous in the environment, they are falling with the rain. But while the potential threat of microplastics is a regular point of discussion, some researchers argue the spread of other persistent synthetic compounds is comparatively overlooked.A…

Myanmar issued new health guidelines for incoming travellers through airport effective from Monday, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH). Under the new guidelines announced on Saturday, travellers are required to present proof of vaccination with an MOH-approved vaccine and a negative Covid-19 RT-PCR test issued 48 hours before arrival. Children aged under 12 years travelling with fully vaccinated parents or guardians are exempted from the vaccination requirement, Xinhua news agency reported. As per the health…

The IRCTC will soon ban single-use plastic from the catering department of the Indian Railways. Items such as plates, spoons, cups, glasses, trays, and other essentials will be replaced soon. The decision has been taken against the backdrop of a ban on single-use plastic by the Ministry of Environment. Officials of railways have started to prepare guidelines for the ban on plastic. Alternative resources are also been explored by the Railway Ministry. The ministry may opt for wooden or cardboard-made utensils for the…

Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines today, this is an update from the October 2021 update. You can download the full 167-page PDF raters guidelines over here. This version has refreshed language in the new overview section, a refined YMYL section, with more on low-quality content, YMYL, E-A-T, and more. What is new. Google posted these bullet points on what is new on the last page of this PDF. Refreshed language to be aligned with the newly published Search…

Neeva has revealed how it instructs human evaluators to rate its search results, specifically for technical queries.  Like Google (which, coincidentally, updated their quality rater guidelines today), Neeva uses human raters to assess the quality of its search results. The guidelines break down into three key areas: query understanding, page quality rating and page match rating.  Query understanding. This is all about figuring out the intent behind the user’s search query.…

Google has made a variety of significant updates to its Search Quality Rater Guidelines. The most significant overhauls were to Google’s definitions of YMYL (Your Money, Your Life), and the extent to which E-A-T matters as a matter of page quality. Google provided new, clear definitions for what it means for content to be YMYL, mostly framed around the extent to which the content can cause harm to individuals or society. Google also provided a new table establishing clear…

An extensive study, involving records from more than 116,000 people over the course of 30 years, has found that moderate amounts of physical activity for between 300 and 600 minutes could be the sweet spot when it comes to reducing mortality risk.  And if you make those workouts a little more intense, you can tap out at just 150 to 300 minutes per week, while being satisfied your body will likely reap the same rewards.We're all going to die of course – it's just a question of when. But according to the new research, that…