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Birth Rates

Among 221 countries, Italy is on place 207 and Germany on place 218 measuring birth/population. How can they pretend to survive without Immigration??

the first link shows the crude birth rates

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html#top

the second link shows the derived population growth

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The Coolest New Solar Manufacturing Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

The Coolest New Solar Manufacturing Technology You’ve Never Heard Of - Humble "process innovations" like the DOE's new Optical Cavity Furnace don't get much attention, but are in fact among the most important parts of the solution to climate challenges. [Science Progress]

agINFRA KickOff

agInfra-1st_Project_Meeting The first agINFRA project meeting has taken place in between 8-10 November in Rome, Italy and it was hosted by FAO in their premises.

“To develop an infrastructure for scientific agricultural data and to improve service deployment for data bytransferring scientific and technological results from the agricultural field into real outcomes. Moreover agINFRA is proposing to create a high interoperability between agricultural and other data resources”.

The AIMS team at FAO has a leading role in the agINFRA project representing main usercommunities and bringing the requirements of theses user communities into the project

The project website: https://www.aginfra.eu/en/the-project/vision

International Forum on Climate Change opens in Beijing

The Chinese see the handling of Climate Change as a "carbon reduction" problem. This is deeply flawed and will not resolve the problem. No carbon reduction plan will ever stop the increase of CO2 in the next 30 years significantly. There are other ways to go......

Gastarbeiter-Zug: Baglama, Tanz und zwei dicke Kumpel

This is in German, but absolutely to be read. It shows from several points how integration takes place and always took place

Presentation at the meeting on Global Research Data Infrastructure in Brussels October 2011

In October 2011 I was invited Speaker at:

GRDI2020 Workshop "Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big data Challenges" 18-19 October 2011, Brussels, Belgium

You can find my presentation at:

2011 11 grdi-presentation

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Dublin Core Conference 2011

Page Header Image As member of the DC Advisory Board I participated in the DC 2011 Conference in The Hague from 21-23 September 2011.

AGROVOC published as Linked Open Data

In September 2011 our team published the multilingual Agricultural Concept Scheme AGROVOC in the Linked Open Data Cloud. This was the fruit of a year long restructuing of the traditional thesaurus into a concept based scheme that represents knowledge in the area of agriculture and related areas. Within very few weeks 1000 s of out and inlinks from other vocabularies were produced to link to AGROVOC.

DARPA Seeks to Transform Manufacturing With Biology

DARPA Seeks to Transform Manufacturing With Biology - DARPA’s new $30 million project on “engineering biology” exemplifies how defense research should be leveraged for broader economic benefits. [Science Progress]

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