Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Department of Cadastre of Real Estate creates geometric plans, documents of land boundaries setting-out, land development projects, registers of renewed registration of lands, vectorisation and digitising of maps, documents for property rights settlement of construction works. Read More
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Net income from operations rose 4%; gross revenues above €2 billion • Net revenues grew 5%, aided by an organic increase of 3% • Growth mainly came from the US environmental market, South America and Asia • Margin remained at a good level, despite weak government market in Europe and US • Dividend proposal €0.47
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Phasing down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty is one of the most effective climate protection strategies available to the world today: it could substantially eliminate emissions of one of the fastest growing greenhouse gases globally. Low-climate-impact substitutes for HFCs are already available and could be quickly adopted.
Monday, February 27th, 2012
The National Park Service uses AutoCAD software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, to help document American engineering and industrial achievements as part of an historical program started more than 40 years ago.
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Clearly cities will play an increasingly important role in our future survival. Cities offer easier access to services, and urban dwellers are more efficient consumers of limited resources. Cities are human destiny. But as our cities become more populated and more numerous, how do we best manage this complexity? Read More
Monday, February 27th, 2012
A catapult, a 3-D virtual reality system for use in training doctors, and a microscope that can magnify an almost invisible object to 200,000 times its size, were among the equipment on public display this afternoon inside the UAB School of Engineering. Equipment was displayed in a carnival like atmosphere, with balloons, popcorn, and games, in rooms
Monday, February 27th, 2012
U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson has nominated Ken Kane, a native of McKean County, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced its new forest planning rule in January, which included the formation of the committee to
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Broadband data transmission from the imaging equipment of the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully started on February 23. Survey results were delivered in real-time on High Rate Data (HRD) radio-link. To get access to data transmitted via HRD radio-link at 15Mbps for free the user only needs to have an X-band receiving
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
With a growing sense in the science community that climate change is real—the National Academies of Sciences in the United States, and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom were just two among many scientific organizations issuing statements about human-caused warming—the devastating 2005 hurricane season hardly seemed coincidental. Warming climate was worsening tropical cyclones, right?
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Beijing : China launched a navigation satellite early Saturday.The orbiter was successfully launched into space at 12.12 a.m. It is China’s 11th homemade navigation satellite, also called Beidou or Compass system. A Long March-3C rocket carried the satellite into space from Xichang launch centre in southwestern Sichuan province, Xinhua reported. Read More
