On 12 January 2010 at 4.50 pm local time (the middle of the night in Europe), the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault awoke. The earth began to shake, thick white dust rose above Port-au-Prince while a terrifying noise echoed out. Complete silence followed only to be broken by the screaming and crying of hundreds of thousands of Haitians. When the news reached us at Groupe URD we were in the proce...

The reliability of a transmission and distribution system can be significantly improved by employing a predictive maintenance program. For such a program to succeed, the condition of the total system must first be established. This has been accomplished by applying a totally passive diagnostic technique that analyzes radio frequency (RF) pulses emitted by a cable system while it is energized in...

The presence of the enzyme lipoxidase in alfalfa has been reported (3, 5, 6). However, the properties of this postulated alfalfa lipoxidase are quite different from the well known properties of soybean lipoxidase. Strain (5) showed that the alfalfa enzyme acts on oleic and ricinoleic acids, however it is known that soybean lipoxidase acts only on linoleic, linolenic and arachidonic acids. -Mitc...

T h i s trip was pan of a study mission sponsored by the Technology Transfer institute. urd co-sponsored by the Construction Robotics Laboratory at Camegie Mellon University. T h e study mission visited six of the largest construction firms in Japan. a University, md a Robotics Rexarch Assmiation. Perhaps the most important finding i s that a11 the major Japanese construction cornpanics have la...