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LONDON, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --?Frost & Sullivan released the results from its customer survey with several hundred companies conducted in December 2011, executed to find out the top predictions for 2012 for the global automotive and transportation market. Market growth in all regions except Europe, accelerated introduction of plug in hybrid and battery electric vehicles due to increasing fuel prices, mobility and integrated transportation as well as the integration of the smart phone with dedicated application stores and innovative HMI concepts will be the key topics in 2012 and beyond.
"Data and opinions of key stakeholders, combined with analysis and commentary from Frost & Sullivan industry experts, have been used to present key market highlights, hot growth topics, global and regional hot spots, areas of market convergence, and bold predictions for 2012," explains Krishnasami Rajagopalan, Global Programme Manager Automotive & Transportation at Frost & Sullivan.
The themes outlined below are the key industry predictions in Frost & Sullivan's automotive and transportation research programme for 2012.? Another key driver for the research is the work Frost & Sullivan has been conducting around Mega Trends which are driving new and emerging market segments for key industry participants.
According to the survey, automotive and transportation industry participants expect that the auto market in 2012 will grow in all regions of the world by 5 ? 10 per cent except Europe, where it is estimated to decline by 7 ? 8 per cent.
It is also expected that increasing fuel prices will accelerate the introduction of plug in hybrid and battery electric vehicles. In 2012 alone, the industry will witness about 15 new electric vehicle launches in the global market.
Mobility and integrated transportation are going to be the key trends defining the long term strategy and outlook of the automotive industry. New business models such as car sharing and integrated urban mobility as well as electric vehicles will create new business opportunities.
Transport companies like NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in the Netherlands and leasing companies like LeasePlan have already started to offer integrated mobility services to its customers and regard them as a channel to generate recurring revenue and a tool to increase the penetration and customer satisfaction.
From a technological point of view, integration of smartphone will also help bring seamless connectivity inside cars, driving the next gen connected infotainment services and auto centric application stores. In car connectivity plays a crucial role in connected navigation, offering services like eco driving, dynamic routing, real time traffic information and plethora of other services which are crucial for offering an effective integrated mobility solution. With the introduction of numerous interactive features, Automotive HMI will play a key role in how a driver is able to use these features adhering to "hands on wheel and eyes on road" mantra.
The convergence between automotive and the electronics, information and communication technologies as well as energy markets finally is also highly significant and relates primarily to the emergence of the smartphone, electric vehicles and e-mobility driving innovation in connectivity, batteries, energy storage, transmission and distribution infrastructure, battery charging and integration of mobility into the smart home.
Frost & Sullivan's insight into the four predictions for automotive and transportation for 2012 and beyond is available on SlideShare.
To know more about Frost & Sullivan predictions and to find out where the global hot spots are in the automotive and transportation industry, please contact Katja Feick, Corporate Communications, at katja.feick@frost.com
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Despite early doubts, the iPad has proven to be an incredibly valuable tool for education, both in the classroom and in homes around America. By offering students, from elementary school all the way up to the university level, the chance to do some hands-on learning, exploring, and sometimes even educational gaming, the device makes education fun and exciting, something that isn?t always easy to do.
With schools falling behind in math and science education and companies unable to find enough qualified professionals to fill jobs in science and technology fields, pushing STEM education is more important than ever. Educators and parents can help get kids interested and perhaps even hooked on STEM no matter their age with the help of the iPad and the myriad great educational applications it offers. Here, we share some of the best applications for STEM education, and with selections that work for students of all ages and abilities, you?re bound to find something that?s the perfect companion to any STEM lesson.
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These applications address STEM more generally or act as amazing tools and reference guides for learning.
Fans of the Mythbusters TV show can get even more myth-busting action with this iPad app, filled with videos, games, and much more.
Get access to the great stories in Science Illustrated when you get this app, paired with a subscription to the magazine. Stories range from green tech to biology to anthropology, hitting on just about everything else in between, too.
Dan Menelly, a science teacher at the UN International School, provides the short videos at the center of this app, teaching students about all kinds of scientific concepts.
Practice math, science, and computer science skills by watching the videos and completing the activities offered through the always-free Khan Academy.
Get a quick lesson in earthquakes by checking out this seismograph application that can help you to measure any vibration, shaking, or movement.
The ideal accompaniment to any lab work, this timer lets you easily time experiments with accuracy and record your results.
Wolfram Alpha is the ideal reference tool for problems in mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, biology, computer science, and much more.
Look up the names of famous scientists, scientific terms, and other essential information in this free reference application for iPhone and iPad.
Through the PLoS Reader app, learners can access articles from the seven academic journals published by the Public Library of Science.
Exploriments is all about providing students with fun, simulation-based learning units on science topics. Through their apps, students can learn about topics like motion, fluids, electrostatics, force, and electricity.
The National Science Foundation provides this app, filled with science and engineering images, videos, and news from around the world.
Science 
Download one of these apps to start learning about biology, astronomy, medicine, or physics.
The National Geographic Society has put together an incredible dinosaur reference tool in this application, letting paleontological enthusiasts of any age get a look at their favorite reptiles.
Here, you?ll find an app that allows you fascinating access to information about our Sun, with a 3D view, satellite images from NASA, and the latest updates on solar activity.
Explore the surface of the Moon with this amazing app. Interactive features allow users to zoom in, find out the name for lunar features, and more.
If a real-life dissection turns your stomach, then try out this digital version instead. It?s just as educational, but without all the frog carnage.
Gain a better understanding of how the muscles in the body work and how they?re all working together in this great anatomy app.
Encyclopedia Britannica has put out a great collection of apps for kids, covering topics like snakes, rainforests, the solar system, volcanoes, and dinosaurs.
Get up close and personal with a molecule when you get this application. You can download molecules from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, and use the app to see them from all angles.
This fun and engaging game will have kids of all ages dying to learn more about the principles of physics, as they solve a wide range of physics-related problems.
Elements is perhaps one of the most visually-striking apps available for the iPad. Through it, users can see amazing photos of the elements and get a look at the periodic table that?s truly unique.
With this app, students can ask astronomy questions and get answers, as well as having the ability to track the planets and stars through the night sky.
This 3D guide to the solar system is the perfect tool for an aspiring astronomer, helping in learning the constellations, planets, and moons.
NASA provides a wealth of learning tools through its application. Download it to get access to loads of interactive features on the solar system, space exploration, and much more.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin helps students of all ages learn more about space exploration, whether to the Moon or to Mars, in this must-see app.
The human brain is an incredibly complex organ, but you can start learning the basics of how it functions with some help from this anatomy-focused application.
Adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine have never looked better than in this application that lets students (and scientists) see models of DNA in great detail.
Want to know what a certain gene is for? Then get this amazing reference tool, which lists information about every gene in humans, as well as offering news and scholarly articles on the subject.
D. Bones is the perfect way to teach younger learners about the human skeleton, with games, quizzes, and tutorials that make learning fun.
Technology 
These iPad applications can be the perfect accompaniment for a course on web design or computer science.
For those who are just starting out in learning about computer science, this application will fill them in on the basics.
High school and college students will appreciate this reference app to help them with PHP programming.
Uploading websites and maintaining online information is a whole lot easier with this FTP app that lets you log into a server from anywhere.
Improve your knowledge of the BASIC programming language, by downloading and checking out this application.
From HTML to Python, you?ll be able to do all the coding you need for web design courses right from your iPad.
Engineering 
From the professional level all the way down to the elementary level, these fun and practical engineering apps are among the best out there.
Make it easy to convert between units used in engineering by keeping this app on hand.
Want to pursue a career as a mechanical engineer? Then download this app. It?s loaded with more than 300 important mechanical engineering formulas and hundreds more conversions.
This app expands on the information found in the Mechanical Engineer app, adding formulas for chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, and hydrological engineering.
You might not have the full function that other CAD programs offer, but this iPad app makes it fun to use your hands to draw everything from houses to bridges to simple geometric figures.
This application is a great tool for teaching basic engineering concepts, asking students to play games created around physics and engineering problems.
Space enthusiasts young and old will appreciate this application from NASA. It allows users to get an idea of what it?s like to control a lunar rover, offering up a series of missions on the moon to complete.
Can you figure out the correct combination of gears to get this machine going? This fun and challenging game will steal hours of your time as you try to figure out increasingly more difficult mechanical puzzles.
In this educational game, players have to engineer a bridge that will carry vehicles from point A to point B, without collapsing.
With this game, users can play with LEGOs without even having them on hand, building trucks, helicopters, and other vehicles to deliver cargo to a given destination, without getting derailed along the way.
Math
Practice your math skills using some of these fun math games and learning tools.
Never wonder about conversions or the correct mathematical formulas again when you carry around this fully-featured reference application.
Teachers can make use of this educational app (it?s designed for schools only) that helps boost student performance in math and reading.
Developed by NASA?s Ames Research Center, this application asks players to use problem solving and math skills to ensure that a series of planes is safely landed at a very busy airport.
This interactive geometry software allows users to make geometric constructions that would normally require a compass, ruler, or other special tools.
Younger learners will get a fun but challenging look at fractions in this app from the Stanford School of Education.
Blast off to math mastery with Mathstronaut, an educational game that asks players to complete a variety of math puzzles in order to travel through space.
This incredibly popular math game is fun even for adults, asking players to pair up equations and their solutions at an ever faster pace.
Ninjas make everything better, even math! This application is a fun way for learners to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills as they battle giant tomatoes and cat-bots.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers.
But an Associated Press analysis of enforcement data over the past decade finds that's not the case. In fact, the EPA went after producers more often in the years of Republican President George W. Bush, a former Texas oilman, than under Obama.
Also, the agency's enforcement actions have declined overall since 2002 and reached their lowest point last year, the review found.
Accusations of EPA overzealousness peaked in April. That's when a regional administrator resigned after a two-year-old video surfaced in which he compared enforcement of oil and gas regulations with how the Romans used to conquer villages, by finding "the first five guys they saw and they'd crucify them."
GOP critics publicized the video of Al Armendariz, who headed the region that includes Texas and other major oil- and gas-producing states, as an example of what was wrong with an agency that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney calls "completely out of control."
"We have a genuine concern that his comments reflect the agency's overall enforcement philosophy," six Republican congressmen from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana said in a joint statement the day Armendariz stepped down.
Romney has expressed distaste for the EPA's tactics. The agency, he said late last year, "is a tool in the hands of the president to crush the private enterprise system, to crush our ability to ? to have energy, whether it's oil, gas, coal, nuclear."
Actually, the U.S. produced more oil in 2010 than it has since 2003, and all forms of energy production have increased under Obama, but he can't take credit for all of it.
Armendariz' territory, which also includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma, has more oil and gas wells than any of EPA's nine other regions. But the number of enforcement cases against companies working those wells has been lower every year under Obama than any year under Bush.
That trend extends to the rest of the country, where the number of enforcement actions against oil and gas producers dropped by 61 percent over the past decade, from 224 in 2002 to 87 last year. The decline came despite an increase in the number of producing wells and despite the EPA's listing of energy extraction as an enforcement priority under Obama. So far this year, the administration has filed 51 formal enforcement cases against energy producers.
While there has been an uptick in the average fine against companies producing oil and gas since 2007, when the penalty reached a low in the decade evaluated by the AP, the average is still lower than during some years under Bush, who was viewed as sympathetic to the oil and gas industry. The year 2011 was an exception; the average soared due to a $20.5 million fine against a BP subsidiary in Alaska. That was the largest penalty against an oil and gas producer under Obama, but it was for a pipeline spill that happened five years earlier.
States usually take the lead on oil and gas enforcement, and federal regulations make clear that is preferred. The EPA's role is mostly limited to ensuring that state rules are in line with federal regulations designed to protect drinking water, waterways and the air.
EPA officials said the lower enforcement numbers reflect a strategy that focuses on the violations that pose the most significant risks to human health and the environment. Many of those occur not at well sites, but at other points in the oil and gas process, such as collection sites and refineries.
The agency, struggling with constant budget cuts in recent years, also doesn't have the manpower to police all the wells nationwide. The states often have more inspectors on the ground than the feds.
In Texas, for example, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has 500 inspectors, all of whom do some work with the state's nearly 400,000 oil and gas wells. The Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that oversees drilling, has 153 inspectors. The EPA in all of Region 6 has two oil and gas inspectors.
EPA critics say the problem is bigger than enforcement. They point to regulations that they say hamper oil and gas production and raise refining costs, while giving an advantage to renewable fuels.
"It is this whole mentality that this administration continues to have as they try to pick winners and losers in the marketplace, as they force consumers off oil and gas," said Charles Drevna, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade group that represents the refineries and chemical plants that process oil and natural gas.
In articles, Drevna has written that "resignation or not, Obama and the EPA are determined to pursue policies that Armendariz so accurately described."
Critics also say that the data only tell part of the story, since it doesn't include violation notices or emergency orders ? such as the one that Armendariz issued in 2010 to Range Resources to stop contaminating a drinking water well and to supply residents with clean water within 48 hours. The order was later withdrawn after a state court ruled that the evidence linking the company's hydraulic fracturing to the well's contamination had been falsified.
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Plushnick-Masti reported from Houston.
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Online:
EPA: http://www.epa.gov
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers: http://www.afpm.org/
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Follow Dina Cappiello's environment coverage on Twitter (at)dinacappiello.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com//RamitMastiAP
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