Improving economic indicators ease concerns about consumer demand
CHICAGO, IL --- More than half (54.7 percent) of marine industry participants expect sales to increase five percent to 10 percent this year, according to survey results released today by GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF). That's up from the 43 percent who expected growth in that range last year.
That sentiment tracks closely with CDF's forecast of eight percent growth for the U.S. marine industry in 2014.
SÃO PAULO, February 28, 2014 -- GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced delivery of four new leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft to VRG Linhas Aéreas S. A. to expand its fleet.
The aircraft were part of a purchase-and-leaseback transaction between the airline and GECAS. The first aircraft delivered in December 2012; two delivered in 2013; and the final delivered late last month.
The second most popular beverage in the world, after water, is believed to be tea.
There are different kinds of tea, but green tea carries with it a slew of promised health benefits. And now, scientists have made a new discovery within a simple cup of green tea.
For all the changes in engineering design, the basic principles have remained the same since the time of Ancient Egypt.
In Ancient Egypt there exists evidence of the basic design process of defining objectives, performing research, specifying requirements, iterating while developing solutions, and prototyping before building the final version. The same process is followed today.
Like the faint rumble of a distant battle, the symbol AC/DC lives quietly on millions of power adapters and, more noisily, in the name of an Aussie hard rock band. A century ago, however, it symbolized a titanic clash that pitched Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla in the War of Currents. It was the one big fight that Edison lost.
GE Capital's Telecom, Media and Technology Business Recaps Busy 2013
Provides more than $5.5 billion over 59 deals across TMT spectrum
Engraving microscopic cracks in glass sheets can make it 200 times tougher than normal, McGill University mechanical engineers say. The insight could lead to improvements in regular glass objects like wine glasses or jars that don’t shatter when dropped, instead only deforming on impact.
