International Law—Treaty Stating That Jurisdiction Over the Disposition of Movables Is to Be Determined by Their Situs Considered to Mean That Movables Must Be Disposed of by the Law of Decedent’s Domicile

Matter of Rougeron, 17 N.Y.2d 264, 217 N.E.2d 639, 270 N.Y.S.2d 578, cert. denied, 385 U.S. 899 (1966)

Project management in the Apollo program Interim report

Project management in Apollo progra

European Union - Reforms - Hungarian interests. What kind of European Union would we like?

The lecture deals with broad topics. First, it addresses some questions related to the current state of the EU integration regarding institutions and common policies. Second, it discusses the continued importance, the main results and hindering factors related to the Lisbon Programme, with a special emphasis on the educational system in Europe and Hungary. Third, the lecture deals with some possibilities in changing the EU’s rather limited external relation models to more flexible instruments

Ratcheting of granular materials

We investigate the quasi-static mechanical response of soils under cyclic loading using a discrete model of randomly generated convex polygons. This response exhibits a sequence of regimes, each one characterized by a linear accumulation of plastic deformation with the number of cycles. At the grain level, a quasi-periodic ratchet-like behavior is observed at the contacts, which excludes the existence of an elastic regime. The study of this slow dynamics allows to explore the role of friction in the permanent deformation of unbound granular materials supporting railroads and streets.Comment: Changed content Submitted to Physical Review Letter

Manned space flight in transition

A study was conducted to analyze the reorientation of NASA programs in the post-Apollo period. The study is an external view of NASA by unbiased observers as an input to and aid in the decision making process concerning near and long term planning. The subjects discussed are: (1) the near-term NASA scenario; (2) organization of field centers; (3) planning activities; and (4) operational activities. A summary of the recommendations arising as a result of the study is presented

The Management of Technology Transfer Plenary Paper

The future world economic development as well as the improvement of other aspects of the quality of life depends to a very large extent on technological development, which again depends essentially on the successful application of the process of technological innovation. This process with its various stages of research, development, engineering, and marketing cannot function without effective communication for the purpose of technology transfer, i.e., transferring knowledge between the stages.It is important not only to understand the process of technological innovation and to realize that technology transfer is an essential part of it, but also to understand that technology transfer is the transferring of knowledge rather than of goods and services, and is dependent on successful communication. Further, technology transfer should be managed as part of the package of managing technological innovation, which should be purposeful and continuous rather than a response to haphazard demands.One of the aims of the National Timber Research Institute is to promote the more efficient use of the South African wood resource as a reliable and economical structural material. Research results in this field have been successfully transferred to the South African forest products industry where 90 low cost stress-grading machines are now in use, and where stress-graded timber is selectively used in glulam products and 20% of all roof trusses.The low cost grading machine, the grading system, the design data, the roof truss design method and computer program, as well as the glulam manufacturing systems, were developed by the National Timber Research Institute and transferred to industry by way of research steering committees, symposia, publications, industry-sponsored development contracts, and direct assistance in factories

GeoInfo: modelo de gestão da informação geoespacial da Embrapa.

Os objetivos do projeto são: Fortalecer a gestão da informação geoespacial da Embrapa por meio da implantação de uma estrutura de armazenamento e gerenciamento de dados e metadados em consonância com as diretrizes da INDE. O projeto envolve também a capacitação de recursos humanos na gestão da geoinformação, a catalogação de dados e metadados, a definição de diretrizes para boas práticas de gestão da informação espacial e o desenvolvimento de modelos de representação do conhecimento geoespacial para alinhamento do repositório de dados e metadados espaciais aos modelos dos sistemas de informação em recursos naturais da Embrapa.bitstream/item/123035/1/4460.pd