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sian and developing market cities will not achieve the levels of car motorisation enjoyed in the West Energy problem Another way to examine the issue is to look at the number of households without a car.
each have more than 30%of households without a light duty vehicle, says Sivak. In fact, the figures show that 56%of households in New york (which top the list) don have a car. think that will be surprising to most people.
It was surprising to me and I am in the business. Perhaps it is not so surprising in cities like New york,
In Los angeles, only 12%of households are car-less, and in affluent San jose, heart of Silicon valley, it is only 5. 8
I covered in this column and here at BBC Future we have been following it for the past two years. he idea is to make space super-cheap
Jehlik is the man responsible for this green-racing simulator, and he is convinced that planet-friendly technology has a role to play in the future of motorsport.
Would you let your child get on a bus driven by someone on mind-altering drugs? What about having an operation conducted by a surgeon taking stimulant pills?
and narcolepsy#to healthy children from low-income families purely to improve academic performance. Doors of perceptionshift workers
The same could be said, for example, of improved nutrition and family planning. Smart drugs may be character-changing,
A few moments later a flag is waved, red with gold stars on it. This is China's first spacewalk#on 27 september 2008,
The man in the suit, Zhai Zhigang, joined Russia's Alexey Leonov and America's Ed white in the history books as his nation's first space walker.
Senior Curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum,"help to answer some important questions about the origins of the Moon and geologic processes there.#
before placing a flag on its surface. But the flag didn't have the familiar stars-and-stripes pattern.
It was red with gold stars on it. If you would like to comment on this article
medical clinics#and sound the alarm to stop violence from reaching certain levels of severity.#
the potato is the second most important food for families after maize. Smallholder farmers produced around 10 million tonnes of potatoes this year,
which fuels the average family home in Sri lanka for two days. You could also use other electrodes, like magnesium or iron.
but the fact that two-thirds of the world population still doesn have access to the internet means that a large proportion of people are excluded from this.
Last year saw the lowest number of deaths and people affected by disasters for a decade, according to the 2013 World Disasters Report from the International Federation of Red cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
families and companies need to quickly check in with each other, argues Erik Hersman, cofounder of Ushahidi,
an information service which enabled citizens to anonymously report incidents of violence via text, twitter, phone or email, during Kenya 2007-2008 post-election violence.
Distress alert During the Westgate siege, Hersman and I texted multiple times as he searched for his business partner wife and children,
Fortunately, the family escaped unharmed. But the intense worry that many people experienced in the hours of chaos was part of the motivation behind a new service from Ushahidi, called Ping.
which allows people to reassure family and friends that they are safe. However, the Ping website also allows one person to send out a mass text message to a preprogrammed list of contacts, saying, essentially, re you safe?
It not the only new app helping friends and family stay connected during emergencies. For times when victims need to reach people discreetly as was the case for those hiding inside Westgate Mall an app built by Nairobi-based Usalama Innovative Systems may be more suitable.
When activated, it sends an alert to both your family and a private security company, with a location and the discreet isten infeature.
But can a large endowment alone kick-start a culture of innovation? Few have tried seriously. Norway, the world eighth-largest oil exporter, established a sovereign wealth fund (Government Pension fund Global) in 1990 to diversify oil investments
a new government-funded business incubator that is one of many promoting entrepreneurship as a means to new economic growth. f we focus on creating a culture based on entrepreneurs,
physical residence addresses don exist in much of Saudi. Another Badir startup, Yatooq, has developed an automatic Arabic coffee machine (it needs a more complicated process than ordinary coffee.
you can expect results overnight. s a culture, wee a start-up, he says. e are starting somewhere with no history of entrepreneurship, no start-ups.
changing the culture, the economy, the mindset. While Stanford and Harvard universities took decades to become recognised institutions
is not part of Saudi culture. he only industry we have is the government, explains Tuba Ozlem Terekli, cofounder of Qotuf Al Riyadah Development Company,
and build a culture of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom. he society wants innovation from Gen Y to corporate employees,
Many Saudis are supported fully, by family or government, and don work until they graduate from university. n Saudi arabia,
and has launched since several successful gaming start-ups, including Na3m Games. Now many like him, western-educated and exposed to entrepreneurial cultures like Silicon valley, are returning and ringing tons of innovation creating culturally relevant startups solving local problems It may not be the local problems the government
would hope for, like drinking water and energy but these entrepreneurs are building a different economy. audi is the largest consumer of Youtube content per capita in the world,
A culture of risk-taking investors and VCS has yet to emerge among Saudi wealthy.
says it will be hard to end the culture of dependency subsidies, benefits and handouts from the government that have marked Saudi economy. t not simply a matter of buying innovation says Wehry. here still no incentive for private entrepreneurshipand the ambition exceeds the capacity and the reality. t all dreams.
our cultures become more sedentary and rates of obesity and heart disease increase. Cars not only make our cities unhealthy,
#which serve the needs of Asian cultures#accounting for street markets and vendors, auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design.
which can mean anything from the poor street lighting to badly marked crosswalks to high crime.
it's estimated that 78%of the households in China will still not have a car.
It's no coincidence that, around the same time, New york's other poster child for Silicon valley-like success,
adding, in other words, a million miles away from start-up culture. Amid all these legacy industries, New york start-ups are underdogs
not just as religion or passion, says Jen Berrent, a partner at New york law firm Wilmerhale who's worked with start-ups since late 1990s.
Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.
Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,
they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.
which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.
Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.
Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,
they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.
which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.
says Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president of industry body the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)."
But with a tradition of making things to order for foreign companies and a hierarchical corporate culture, a new generation of start-up innovators is facing an uphill battle."
Some say a much bigger problem is that Taiwan lacks a culture of catering to consumers,
The culture of most companies, and many would say society as a whole, seem to work against innovation.
The government's largely hands-off approach means many companies are owned family. They can often be led by hierarchical
"The management culture has been the same since the 1980s,#says Chiang.""It has depended largely on the mentality of the person at the top.
One man who has succeeded in doing so is George Chao. Until 2009 he was earning around double the average wage of a tech engineer at a company that designs integrated circuits.
But the long hours#14 a day nearly every day#was hurting his health and family life,
#Being the one in his family who had to clean the many windows in their four-storey home inspired him to design a window cleaning robot called the Hobot.
After years of helping to solve the nation's major security threats, the challenges of gaming and mobile apps pale by comparison,
Other private insurance schemes cost upwards of 50-80,000 KES ($600-900) to cover a family.
and their families, encourage enrollment and collect premiums. Yet while a culture of saving among the poor is lacking because of low wages, fluid employment,
and extended family emergencies,"saving is understood better than insurance, #Oloo says. So in 2009 Changamka launched a"smart card#that enabled Kenyans to save small amounts over time to cover the costs of outpatient services,
They also have a card for family health care.##Hellen Osteno, of Komarock, a low-income area on the edge of Nairobi, bought a family card in April."
"I chose to get the card because many times I could not save, #she said.#"
the company has sold 12,000 family health plans, 3, 000 maternity plans.##However sometimes saving is not enough."
and take down other details such as a national ID number and family information.#####Similar to their other services, customers save money via M-Pesa transfers.
Once their account hits 12,000 KES,($140), they are enrolled immediately in a family insurance scheme, covering two parents and unlimited children for 180 days.#
"This sort of culture that you see here, the hippy music, we had exactly the same thing in San francisco a few years ago.
The vibrant alternative culture remains in place, and some see it as providing fertile ground for the creation of disruptive technologies
Robert Hornik, Assistant Principal at East New york Family Academy in Brooklyn, remembers weekend trips to far-flung corners of New york city to hunt for old desktops from other city agencies like the Police
East New york Family Academy now has over 100 working computers almost four in every classroom,
along with Ben-Shahar, presented some of his findings at April's Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting in Huntington beach,
#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.
Philip Ball explains how it could help fight crime. One of the big challenges in fighting organised crime is precisely that it is organised.
It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility, different specialised epartments recruitment initiatives and opportunities for collaboration and trade.
Their structures often make crime syndicates and gangs more able to evade attempts by law enforcers to disrupt their activities.
then any associations he has with other individuals can be used to calculate a probable egree of membership The program can also identify onnectorswho are trusted by different gangs to mediate liaisons between them;
which unfolds in a complex netherworld of organised crime gangs, will also take an interest n
Partly spurred by the death of his uncle, 16-year-old scientist and researcher Jack Andraka vowed to find a quick and cheap way to test for signs of the disease.
A spinning disc has a tendency to stay upright, just like a child's spinning top.
I will be looking at that prototype in my next column article. If you would like to comment on this article
a mall, meeting spaces and a museum. Solar panels on the structure top will generate power.
Sub-saharan africa has the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, increasing at an average of 44%annually since 2000, according to the worldwide mobile communications industry association GSMA.
*They performed PET scans on 20 adults with MDD and 20 adults who did not have MDD.
The team wanted to see whether the biological marker of neuroinflammation (called translocator protein) that is visible with the new dye would be elevated in regions of the brain that regulate mood.
"Alkaloids are a family of natural products produced by plants that have biological properties important to medicine.
A dozen multigenerational families in northern Armenia agreed to allow their blood samples to be sent to UCLA,
"We found a significant association between variants of COMT and TPH-2 with PTSD symptoms, suggesting that these genes contribute to the onset
"The team used the most recent PTSD criteria from the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual to measure genes'role in predisposing someone to the disorder.
highlighting the need for an approved drug that can be taken after radiation exposure to protect against organ injury and death.
which can cause cell death and organ injury due to DNA damage. Although some agents tested by the military can provide some protection against radiation sickness when taken prior to radiation exposure,
activates the LPA2 receptor to protect against radiation-induced cell death. The researchers also previously identified an LPA-like compound that protected mice from radiation-induced death
but it did not specifically target the LPA2 receptor or possess the desired drug-like potency required for clinical use.
and has been shown to be a central regulator of cell proliferation, growth, and death. It is of such widespread and fundamental importance that animals cannot live without it.
function, and motion in intact tissues, 3d cell cultures, and engineered tissue constructs, as well as imaging 3d dynamics in microfluidics,
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Yes. And Connell looking at some more reports right now it looks like at this point there were earlier reports that people were trapped in the attic of their home because of the rising waters.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: And keep in mind--we're update after Katrina which unbelievable the coincidence of the anniversary of Katrina here with now Hurricane Isaac barreling virtually the same track.
Last night though he was here in person as his wife testified about the man she married
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Tennessee 58. Romney. DAVIS: Delegates showed their support too earlier in the day with a roll call vote that formally solidified Romney as the GOP's presidential candidate.
"Farmers and their families live near their farms and work in their fields and care deeply about protecting the safety of their workers, neighbors and communities,
The researchers found that hormone therapy plus radiation reduced cancer deaths by nearly 50 percent in men aged 76 to 85 compared to men who only received hormone therapy.
and cause cancer deaths. Hormone therapy lowers or blocks the levels of testosterone and other androgens (male hormones) that feed prostate cancer tumors.
Among men age 65 to 75 years old radiation plus hormone therapy was associated with a reduction in prostate cancer deaths of 57 percent relative to hormone therapy alone
Similarly among men age 76 to 85 years old radiation plus hormone therapy was associated with a reduction in prostate cancer deaths of 49 percent relative to hormone therapy alone
In both groups radiation plus hormone therapy was associated also with about one-third fewer deaths from any cause.
and the time that is lost from work and family. Marginprobe helps us achieve that. i
The SAP Winner Circle is an all-expense paid trip to Hawaii for high-performing employees and their families.
New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire
and it has fallen long to the recruiter to be able to convey the culture (and appeal) of an employee brand to candidates.
but the integrated and multiplatform culture of work means that nothing dwells outside the purview of perception
neighbors and family aren there.""Frid wants to change that by giving startups founded by Israeli Arabs access to money and expertise.
a recruiting and training company. he integration of Israeli investors and entrepreneurs, Arab and Jews alike,
Apple's lawyers are trying to portray a culture of fast following at Samsung and to highlight Apple innovations.
Apparently, the devastating ISIS linked suicide attacks and PKK-linked assassinations of Turkish policemen last week have changed Ankara attitude.
Over the near-term Turkey will face an expanded domestic threat from both ISIS and PKK militancy in the form of persistent violence against the Turkish state.
suicide bombers, and legitimacy as a global caliphate l
#The International Brigade to Be activated in Poland This Year Defence Ministers of of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have agreed to establish an international brigade manned with units from the three armies,
Are we to believe that a country which sent a man to the moon and created the internet can figure out how to integrate alternative power sources into the power grid?
Solartab a new breed of solar charger is the latest hit on Kickstarter Three-Man London Tech Start-up Scores A major Hit On Kickstarter. com With OLARTAB A Solar
what is known as the alley of death, where efficient, low-cost capital is simply not available from institutional investors
Through its subsidiary, Blink Network, Carcharging also provides residential EV charging solutions for single-family homes.
and quality of life, said Lisa Meier, Vice president and General manager at UL Environment. e spend up to 90 percent of our time indoors,
trade associations and international regulatory authorities to bring solutions to a more complex global supply chain.
All-electric Zerobus Fleet Launches Mayor Greg Fischer joined TARC and other local officials today at the Louisville Slugger Museum to kick off the start of Zerobus service in downtown Louisville.
and stop along the way for some of the best Louisville has to offer in restaurants museums
founder Peter Janicki and his family have traveled to Africa and India multiple times so they can see the scope of the problem.
and powerful enough to ensure the electrical autonomy of a family of four. The trees are designed
#Spotting inherited heart disease before it strikes CM affects one in 2500 adults, with an annual incidence of between 5%and 8%per 100 000, says INHERITANCE coordinator Professor Eloisa Arbustini of the Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. t is one of the leading causes
being responsible for 10 000 deaths per year in Europe, and it is the most common indication for cardiac transplantation in adolescents and adults.
Early diagnosis and management of the disease is fundamental, but in spite of the fact that it is inherited in up to half of all cases,
meaning researchers can identify family members at risk before they develop the disease. They have developed also ground-breaking,
family-tailored and optimised clinical and genetic work up, enabling a more cost-effective use of medical resources. ver the course of three years, says Arbustini,
and care for families identified with genetic DCM allows doctors to provide tailored monitoring, treatment and preventive care, reduce discomfort for patients
sensing technologies will allow the introduction of new services for citizens that will benefit quality of life, such as traffic and pollution monitoring,
bringing fresh hope to patients and families around the world. Project details Project acronym: SCHIZDX Participants: UK (Coordinator), Germany, Estonia, Ireland, United states FP7 Proj.
Exposure from legacy asbestos products like insulation is the leading cause of work related deaths worldwide,
#A second chance for injured brains Jouni Salmenjaakko, once a busy executive manager, now spends all his time with his family at their home in Turku in southern Finland.
Rehabilitation has helped improve his quality of life. But problems remain: living with constant pain and with many kinds of difficulties;
Maybe soon I can engage in some kind of voluntary work, maybe when time goes I can engage in some voluntary work with other patients who are in a similar situation, maybe
I can support them. Things like that Project details Project acronym: TBICARE Participants: Finland (Coordinator), France, Lithuania, UK Project Reference N°270259 Total cost:#
and a family of related products are under way which target domestic use as well as commercial/retail applications.
the SME association of Catalonia that represents over a 100,000 Spanish companies. The project ran from November 2008 to October 2011 and received an EU grant of#2. 8 million.
#Developing new weapons in the fight against cancer Cancer causes some 13%of deaths worldwide.
Of these deaths some 90%are caused not by the original cancer but by its spread to other parts of the body.
and cell culture techniques to analyse and understand these cells. Initial tests on very small clinical groups have indicated already that the new device is able to capture the cells with a greater degree of efficiency
chambers of commerce and others to develop an innovation culture in business, "says Medlbtikar's Project Coordinator, Dr. Raimund Bröchler at INTRASOFT International."
and projects and developed an innovation culture for many businesses in the MEDA region. It also helped set up innovation organisations that have supported
#and represents a family of green building blocks for making materials and fuels that can compete on both price and performance with oil based alternatives but
As the pulse travels from one temple to the other, it interferes (in a good way) with the areas causing the seizure,
the intrinsic self-repair mechanism in adults. He found that some activity during the disease compensated for cell death at the hippocampus,
the brain structure involved in learning and memory. e showed that a self-repair mechanism is in place during widespread neurodegeneration,
Behind the development is led by a consortium Loufakis Chemicals SA in association with three SMES involved in water engineering,
Meanwhile the proceeds of counterfeitinggo to feed organised crime possibly eventerrorism and result in huge costs in the formof lost tax revenues.
-safeguarding human health and finallyputting an end to a crime which in thepharmaceutical industry alone is estimatedby the World Health Organisation to cost theworld more than 12 billion a year e
In Italy alone, landslides have caused over 5000 deaths and displaced more than 150 000 people during the last 50 years, at an estimated economic cost of#2 billion annually.
Family problems, for instance. I told many lies, my girlfriend was losing trust in me. I become very withdrawn.
how our Social security system is going to reimburse this kind of treatment: that could maybe take a long time".
A new generation of implant will greatly improve the quality of life from many deaf people allowing them to converse in louder conditions.
#The eaves of death for malaria mosquitoes EU-funded researchers have developed three new tools to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
This has been repurposed for mosquito control using the netting coated with insecticide at one end of tubes that are placed in the walls of the households.
The team calculates a typical household would spend about#1 per person per year over three years for the'eave tubes or bricks'.
##Family filter'stops arsenic in its tracks Arsenic-laced groundwater is a silent but deadly problem affecting the world's poorest nations and a few richer ones as well.
dubbed the amily filter'because of its ease of use and affordability for even the poorest families.
Installation of a trial family filter in Bangladesh. UNESCO-IHE Installation of a trial family filter in Bangladesh.
UNESCO-IHE Arsenic is a slow, undetectable killer found in large tracts of the world's groundwater,
and to keep it simple enough for rural families to install and use. Thus, after five-years under development, the amily filter'was born.
Families on farms or not connected to town water in countries such as Australia, New zealand and Argentina,
where up to 1 000 families in Bangladesh will receive filters to test Out in addition to its own research activities,
For this reason, it has decided consciously not to patent the family filter. t is our hope that the absence of a patent will enable the technology to spread unfettered throughout the developing world,
and there's one in every household. This is real food, with real fresh ingredients, it's just prepared using a new technology."
said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.
About 5 in 10,000 adults are diagnosed with glioma in the United states every year, whereas about 10 in a million people develop acoustic neuromas every year.
Many large studies have failed to detect an association between cell phone use and brain tumors. One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
However, as Samet said, THE WHO panel took into account studies that suggested that those who used cell phones did have higher rates of certain brain tumors.
The study found no association between cell phone use and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
a group that has not been studied as much as adults and could at least in theory be more vulnerable to the effects of phone radiation.
but it was challenged by the CTIA-The Wireless Association, a wireless industry trade group. The city eventually reversed it.
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