Posts Tagged with infrastructure

Creating an Early Warning System for Train Safety

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania. This team is working to devise an early-warning system for train operations which makes use of [...]

Filed under: Community, News, Technology on September 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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China’s Healthcare Reform Sparks Innovation from IBM

With China’s plans to spend billions on healthcare reform, a great deal of financial resources have been set aside to go into technological upgrades. Because of this, companies such as Dell Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have been working to secure the market potential from this development.
Managing medical data has proven to [...]

Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News, Technology on September 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Non-Profit Sector-Based Job Training Shows Promise

A report from Public/Private Ventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and creating programs in low-income communities, shows the immensely positive impact of job training programs on unemployed and low-skilled workers. According to the report, these programs that are developed in collaboration with specific industries such as health care, accounting and even computer maintenance are [...]

Filed under: Community, Expertise, News, Philanthropy on August 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Israeli Desalination Plant Makes The Ocean A Solution To The Region’s Lack Of Potable Water

For the semi-arid country of Israel, the availability of fresh water has long been an issue. However, with the opening of the country’s third desalination plant, a greater abundance of fresh water may soon be available.
This desalination plant, operating in the northern city of Hadera, is being celebrated as the largest reverse osmosis facility of [...]

Filed under: News, Technology on July 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Funding for Nonprofits Continue to Plummet

There was never more need for the mega-wealthy to respond to Bill and Melinda Gates’ call to give up a huge chunk of their assets for charity than now. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, at least forty-five states have imposed cuts in major service areas, which depend on the government for [...]

Filed under: News, Philanthropy on June 29th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Largest Solar Power Plant in the Making

In line with Abu Dhabi’s goal to reach 7 percent renewable energy power generation capacity within the next 10 years, Masdar Abu Dhabi has partnered with the bid consortium of Total S.A., the French petroleum goliath, and Abengoa Solar, a Spanish multinational corporation specializing in sustainable energy development.
Together, Masdar, Total and Abengoa Solar will [...]

Filed under: Environment, News on June 22nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Israeli-Greek Architect Promotes Green Building in the Middle East

As clean technology finds success in the commercial and industrial sectors, green implements are also finding their way closer and closer to home. In order to satisfy the growing demand for green urban architecture in particular, Israeli-Greek architect, Elias Messinas, is organizing a sustainable building workshop for Palestinian and Israeli architecture students.
Inspired by the late [...]

Filed under: Environment, News on June 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Architecture Helps Cure Cancer?

This is what author and founder of Maggie’s cancer centers suggests in his freshly published book, Architecture of Hope. Categorized as an architectural book, the idea of architecture for health dawned upon Charles Jencks when his now-deceased wife, Maggie, was diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer. Dismayed at the environment that she had to spend much [...]

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Healthcare, News on May 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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New Business Coalition Announces 21st Century Job Retraining Program

This week, a business coalition formed by AT&T and the Henry Ford Community College announced the creation of the Michigan Alliance for High-Tech Skills Training, an industry-led job retraining program that will be available to displaced workers and interested students in Michigan this year.
Henry Ford Community College will design a curriculum to develop core competencies [...]

Filed under: News on February 12th, 2010 @ 8:00 am

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Israel’s ‘Time To Know’ Quietly Revolutionizing Classrooms

Time To Know is an enigmatic Israeli startup that has somehow managed to remain under the radar of Israel’s tight knit startup community. What makes this little-known company so amazing is not just the daunting challenge it has chosen to meet, but that it has quietly ramped up 350 employees and no less than $60 [...]

Filed under: News on February 3rd, 2010 @ 8:00 am

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.