The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

In Liberty, Texas, embedded into the sidewalk running along the north side of Trinity Street, one block west of the courthouse and opposite of City Hall, is a curious emblem, engraved around its outer ...

As president-elect of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS), I participated in a joint quarterly meeting with the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), the National Society of Professional ...

Motion of the Earth's surface mass, including the atmosphere and oceans as well as hydrology and glacier melting, causes the redistribution of Earth's surface loads, deformation of the solid Earth, ...

Recurring interplate megathrust earthquakes have occurred along the Nankai Trough subduction zone between the Philippine Sea plate and the Amur plate, and the next earthquake in this region is ...

Mass warps space and time, just as Albert Einstein said it would, confirms data from a NASA satellite launched to test two of the great physicist's predictions. One of these effects is called the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1912 the director of the Royal ...

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico uses a system of property taxation evolved from the 1893 Ley Hipotecaria mortgage law of the Spanish Colonial period. Based on 19th century agrarian economics, sugar ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

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The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 135 out of 386 passed the Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Geodetic Engineering in Manila this September 2008.