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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

There were 36 million FTTH subscribers in Japan in 2021. Against this background, Japan established a “Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT)” in 2008, intending to further expand optical fibre transmission capacity. References R. Sakaime, K. Watanabe and T. IWCS2012, 17-2 (Nov.,

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Then again, there is a tension and balance for corporations between permeability and security (e.g., Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed. I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

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