Friday, March 9th, 2012
A lot has been written about digital cartography over the years. Most of it relates to the advantages that digital cartography provides as compared to non-digital mapping including improved collaboration, less redundancy, greater efficiency in production etc. As mobility technologies develop, the need for ‘going digital’ increases. This is becoming the case as we begin
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By tracking the dynamics of the dominant antigenic clusters, we not only find that dominant antigenic clusters change more frequently in China than in the United States/Europe, but also characterize the antigenic patterns of seasonal H3N2 viruses within China. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the coupling of large-scale HA sequencing with PREDAC can significantly improve vaccine
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The first emergency rescue center on Russia’s Arctic coast will open in August, the head of the Russian emergencies ministry’s firefighting and rescue department said. “The first center will open this year in August in the city of Dudinka in northern Krasnoyarsk Territory,” Maxim Vladimirov said. Read More
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
An enormous solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, satellite navigating systems and aeroplane flights. Forecasters at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre said the sun erupted yesterday evening and the effects should start smacking Earth today. They say it is the biggest in five years and
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The City of Helsinki is experimenting for the first time with a new way of visualising what the planned 33-storey tower hotel in the Jätkäsaari former docklands neighbourhood would look like from various directions. Before their Tuesday meeting, the members of the City Planning Board will pay a visit to the area. They will tour on a bus
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Real freedom of information is about “the money that goes in, the results that come out”, as opposed to “FOI requests that are all about processes”. That’s the view of David Cameron, which he expressed yesterday at the end of his evidence session in front of a House of Commons committee. He distinguished between the increased transparency that derives
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
In the SmartSenior research project, 28 partner companies and organizations from research and industry will be cooperating under the leadership of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs). The project began in 2009: In nine sub-projects, innovations were developed for integrating communication and services, including assistance in case of emergencies, household safety solutions, systems for social networking, and
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Locaid, the largest Location-as-a-Service company, today announced commercial availability of Locaid Global Cell-ID™. This new feature, accessible via Locaid’s Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, allows enterprise mobile developers to acquire carrier-certified, permission-based location on their devices in over 165 countries around the globe.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
It is Norway´s view that the increase in global mean temperature has to be limited to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial level in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the UN Convention on Climate Change of preventing dangerous climate change. Today emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries amount
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
By all accounts the late Francis Alexander Garraway was a man well ahead of his time. The consummate professional land surveyor, Garraway’s resourcefulness, creativity and insatiable desire for knowledge will be memorialized through a special endowment established in his name at The College of The Bahamas.
