About ASTMâ¦. Two New Journals. â¢ Advances in Civil Engineering Materials covers topics relating to the. properties and performance of civil engineering materials, such as concrete, asphalt, steel, polymers and polymeric composites, and wood.
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in  connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses.
census. n, pl-suses. 1. (Human Geography) an official periodic count of a population including such information as sex, age, occupation, etc. 2. any offical count: a traffic census. 3. (Historical Terms) (in ancient Rome) a registration of the population and a property evaluation for purposes of taxation.