Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay bricks currently used to build rural homes in monsoon-prone countries such as India.
Clay is susceptible to rain, and many homes in India can be badly damaged during the monsoon season, as clay bricks are washed away.
Freelancers and the Internet are a perfect pair. Today, online workplace Elance-oDesk announced it has raised $30 million to help more freelancers work online.
Last December, freelancer marketplaces Elance.com and oDesk merged but kept their separate brands. Elance CEO Fabio Rosati became head of the combined company, while oDesk CEO Gary Swart became a strategic advisor. Both sites focus on freelance jobs that can be conducted remotely, such as software programming, writing, customer service, administrative support, and marketing.
Sólo cuatro de cada diez empresas que se crearon en 2007 sobrevivían cinco años después, según los indicadores de demografía empresarial hechos públicos hoy por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
Halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is “the least on-track target” of the millennium development goals (MDGs), as 2.5 billion people still lack basic sanitation facilities.
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, cloud computing and advanced analytics to help people better design and more efficiently operate
La maladie d'Alzheimer est un processus neurodégénératif, incurable à l'heure actuelle. Le nombre de cas de personnes vivant avec Alzheimer en Espagne s'élève à 600.000. Ce chiffre élevé, conséquence de l'augmentation de l'espérance de vie de la population, pourrait atteindre les 1,5 millions d'ici 2050, avec 40.000 nouveaux cas détectés chaque année, selon la Société Espagnole de Neurologie.
Euskal Herriko eta Espainia iparraldeko (Kantabria, Errioxa eta Asturias) 26 hipermerkatu eta 325 supermerkatu hornituko ditu Elorrioko plataforma logistikoak. Atzo inauguratu zuten ULMA Handling-ek, LKS eta Eroskirekin batera garatutako proiektua.
In a 24/7 world, sleep is increasingly becoming a luxury, to the great detriment of millions around the world. In the US alone one out of every three people will experience an extended period of insomnia at some point in their lives, impacting their health and costing the economy billions due to lost wages and productivity.
Now, an Israeli start-up called SleepRate has a solution that it says will help people sleep more efficiently and take maximal advantage of the hours they do have to sleep, even if they can’t get the full allotment recommended by experts.
The new EU executive will continue to focus industrial policy on so-called key enabling technologies, but is seeking to protect European industry from unfair foreign competition.
Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) cover six areas underpinning a range of products in strategic export markets, including the security, health and energy sectors. They include nanotechnology, micro-nanoelectronics, phototonics, advanced materials, industrial biotechnology and advanced manufacturing.
In June 2012, the Commission tabled a strategy to boost the industrial production of KETs-based products, aiming to keep pace with the EU’s main international competitors, restore growth in Europe and create jobs in industry.
El BOPV publica hoy la orden por la que se convocan ayudas a la Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica con cargo a los fondos previstos para acciones Universidad-Empresa, 2015-2016.
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