The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since …
the German government called upon agricultural and health experts to hold an emergency meeting on January 22, following a report of the confirmation of the nation's first case of bse (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) or the
in september 1995, 84 nations met in Geneva at the third conference on the Basel Convention and agreed to ban the export of toxic wastes. The convention will come into force on January 1, 1998, if 63 of these 84 states including 24 oecd (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) …
environment-technology is "nice to have but ugly to pay for', in the words of Peter Fritz, managing director of Preussag Noell, a German company which deals exclusively with green technology. His grouse reflects the sentiments of an increasing number of German producers who believe that the market for such products …
Pipelines have to be continuously monitored and checked in order to estimate damage. Uptill now this was done by installing flowmeters inside the pipe. Now, using a technique developed by Rostock University, Germany, it is possible to discover what is going on inside a pipeline from outside. Ultrasonic transducers are …
THE days of pointing at a phrase book and loudly asking the way to the railway station in a foreign city - hoping someone would know your language - could soon be over, thanks to a translating computer that Siemens of Germany is set to unveil next month. The Siemens' …
New research on migraine headache shows that it follows a cyclical pattern. Discovering a pattern would help the sufferers anticipate such headaches and take pain relievers in advance to mitigate the suffering. Stephen Evars of the University of Munster, Germany, has just described experiments in which brain waves of people …
Germany has developed a new computer which projects an image of a pc desktop on a plain, flat background. Users select files and applications by holding their hand above the flat surface and pointing to the command they want to activate. These movements are picked up by a camera mounted …
an international project to supply large quantities of hydrogen for use as a transport fuel and to generate electricity will go into operation by the end of the century. Experiments are taking place on hydrogen-powered engines for motor vehicles and for the Airbus, the European aircraft. The project called Euro-Quebec …
in western Europe today, Green parties are an integral part of parliamentary politics; in Germany, whose case has been analysed here, the Green party is a ruling party in coalition governments in some provinces. But Green party politics was significant not for capturing power, but for being radical-ecological, alternative in …
These are not the best of times for azo dyes. Germany had banned the import, trade and use of certain azo dyes in textiles in April; France and the Netherlands have followed suit now. Azo dyes, possessing a chemical group derived from diazonium salts, are commonly used for colouring textiles …
doomsday predictions with respect to the Black Forest in Freiburg, Germany, seem to have backfired. Back in the '80s, hysterical cries of imminent death of the forest had reached a crescendo. Thousands of trees then showed an unsightly yellowing and massive needle loss. The present state of the forest, however, …
A recent discovery of the 26 million year old fossil of Eomys quercyi , in Enspel, Germany, has revealed that it was a four-inch long gliding animal with a membrane, similar to that of flying squirrels. The elbow on the E quercyi's forelimb had a bony spur which is common …
The process of cryo-recycling of plastic wastes has recently been developed by Harry Rosin, director of the Hygiene Institute in Dort- round, Germany. The method uses freezing rather than burning techniques for treating mixed plastic wastes. Wastes are frozen at temperatures as low as -160
ANTI-NUCLEAR feelings ran high in northern Germany, when a 40-tonne shipment of-plutonium and nuclear waste recently arrived at the Gorleben nuclear storage 0ant near Hanover. A series of clashes between protesters and armed policemen left several injured and reopened the old disputes about the country's nuclear policies. The shipment of …
A polymer coating designed to protect electronic components like microchips has been developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Germany. The film -which is about 100 nanometres thick -is produced by electrodeposition in which the amino resins are broken down chemically by an electric current. The polymers are …
AIRSHIPS (dirigible powered balloons having a rigid elongated structure) are all set to take on the skies. The lighter- than-air craft is being manufactured by Zeppelin Luftschifftech1:1ik at Friedri- chshafenin southern Germany. During the '20s and '30s, airships were the fastest means of crossing the Atlantic - doing so in …
Two accidents at Germany's largest chemical group, Hoechst AG, in the last week of January this year, has led to nearly one tonne of toxic powder escaping into the environment and another 1.5 tonne of an unnamed substance spilling into the Main River, near Frankfurt. The powder used to make …
Scientists working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Germany, have devised an 'intelligent window' which can automatically modulate the amount of sunlight entering a room. Just as sunglasses block light, the window's glass surface has a coating which is transparent at cool temperatures but becomes opaque when the …
