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2 unusual facts about EMAS


Environmental regulation of small and medium enterprises

It has also been recognised that greater regulatory incentives need to be given for SMEs to adopt ISO 14001 or EMAS.

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) such as ISO 14001 and EMAS seek to provide all businesses (regardless of size and industry) with the means to develop systematic approaches to improving environmental performance.


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Annabel Teh Gallop

Dr. Annabel, in association with Bernard Arps, who is a lecturer in Indonesian and Javanese at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, has contributed a ground-breaking book on Indonesian art, under the name Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia and Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia.

Atlas Autocode

Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame (after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS) was that it had many of the features of the original "Compiler Compiler".

Bernard Arps

Arps, in association with Annabel Teh Gallop, produced a bilingual photographic catalog of Indonesian manuscripts, "Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia" ("Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia" in Indonesian).

BoBoiBoy

The series is also informing of a savings account from a local bank from Kuwait called a Akaun Emas Junior-I of Kuwait Finance House.

Edinburgh Multiple Access System

Such features lead EMAS supporters to claim that their system was superior to Unix for the first 20 years of the latter's existence.

Near the end of its life, the refactored version was back-ported (as EMAS-3) to the Amdahl 470 mainframe clone, and thence to the IBM System/370-XA architecture (the latter with help from the University of Kent, although they never actually ran EMAS-3).

EMAS was a powerful and efficient general purpose multi-user system which supplied all the computing needs of Edinburgh University and the University of Kent (the only other site outside Edinburgh to adopt the operating system).

Engineered materials arrestor system

On October 13, 2006, New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez's private jet was brought to a halt safely by the EMAS installation at Burbank Airport.

ESCO-ZA designs the EMAS beds and manufactures the concrete blocks at a facility in Logan Township, New Jersey.

Proton EMAS

Proton Emas is a range of concept cars designed by Italdesign Giugiaro and developed by Proton.

Wilkhahn

Wilkhahn was one of the first German companies to achieve the environmental accreditation now known as the ISO 14001 Standard and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme).


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