Country report : Serbia
This report has been produced by the CITSEE project (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the former Yugoslavia) in close cooperation with EUDO CITIZENSHIP. CITSEE is a project based at Edinburgh University Law School and funded by an Advanced Investigator Award for basic research made to Jo Shaw by the European Council.
State of Mediterranean forests 2013
During the first Mediterranean Forest Week held in April 2010 in Antalya, Turkey, members of the Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions-Silva Mediterranea requested to FAO, to prepare a report on the state of Mediterranean forests. It was agreed to use the already-available data collected by regional and international institutions in the context of other environmental assessment processes, such as the state of the environment and development in the Mediterranean process (PLAN BLEU, 2009) and FAO’s five-yearly Global Forest Resources Assessment (FAO, 2010). Therefore, under the coordination of Plan Bleu and FAO, scientific institutions (EFIMED in Barcelona, JRC/EFFIS in ISPRA, INRA in Avignon, Centre for Agricultural Research in Arezzo, etc.), technical institutions (Mediterranean Institute on Cork, Haut Commissariat aux eaux et forêts et à la lutte contre la désertification, Centre technologic forestal de Catalunya, Office national des forêts in France and Corpo Forestale dello Stato in Italy, etc.) and non-governmental organizations (Mediterranean Model Forests Network, Association internationale forêts méditerranéennes, and the Mediterranean offices of the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature) contributed to this first State of Mediterranean Forests (Fig.1). The opening of the 3 Mediterranean Forest Week, which was held in Tlemcen in Algeria in March 2013, was the opportunity to present the first State of Mediterranean Forests. This report, coordinated by FAO and the Blue Plan involved many scientific and technical institutions and NGOs. A highquality work, supported by a dynamic cooperation between all countries of the Mediterranean, and which should be updated every 5 years. III Mediterranean Forest Week Tlemcen
Fully Integrated Bidirectional CMOS-MEMS Flow Sensor With Low Power Pulse Operation
Leveraging More-than-Moore technology, we demonstrate an integrated CMOS MEMS flow sensor via a very compact system on chip (SoC) that can sense the bidirectional N2 gas flow. Our SoC features a very low-noise instrumentation amplifier that is implemented on a CMOS wafer and serves as a readout integrated circuit for a thermoresistive micro-calorimetric flow sensor which is fabricated on a MEMS wafer. A compact heterogeneous integration is achieved by combining the two wafers via the proprietary InvenSense AlN process. The measured sensitivity of our CMOS MEMS flow sensor is 98 mV/sccm which is three times better than the state-of-the-art counterpart. The flow range measured by our SoC is from −26 to 26 m/s (from −50 to 50 sccm). Moreover, the pulsed heater operation makes this proposed SoC flow sensor a very low power (<9 mW) and, thus, a promising candidate for the Internet-of-Things applications in smart home/green buildings.