In general, the solar thermal has greater flexibility when used with co-generation systems, such as combining production of power and thermal for desalination or absorption cooling.
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It has partnered with Toyota to co-develop hybrid systems that will provide greater fuel efficiency without compromising on performance, as well as develop in-car telematics and Internet based services that can lead to a spike in car sales.
In 2003, D'Andrea co-founded Kiva Systems, applying the knowledge learnt creating a team of soccer-playing robots at Cornell University.
APACs, which co-ordinates payments systems, was preparing to admit its first non-bank member on March 23rd (even if it is merely the government-owned post office).
Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of ceramics who has co-founded A123 Systems (AONE) and American Superconductor (AMSC), developed a technology that would allow batteries to produce a different kind of energy.
President and co-founder of Emotiv Systems, Tan Le, said the brain-to-computer interface was undoubtedly the future for video games.
Richard Tibbetts, co-founder of StreamBase Systems, was named one of the world's top young innovators for 2010 by MIT Technology Review.
Investors were also waiting for details from the European Union summit in Brussels, where leaders are discussing fiscal integration and the co-ordination of banking systems.
The call is to move these away from bases where they are co-located with delivery systems such as planes and missiles and instead place them in national storage facilities.
And, of course, movies like The Future of Food and Food, Inc. really affected our world view, not to mention the regular diet of food-born illness reports, most of which are directly related to centralized, co-mingled food distribution systems.
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Marvin Appel , co-editor of Gerald Appel's Systems and Forecasts, also sees reason for caution after the huge advance--but he's still bullish.
The Co-op's bank will operate off Lloyds' IT systems, and Lloyds is providing the senior management of the Co-op's enlarged bank.
There is a crew of four: A commander and co-pilot, and offensive and defensive systems officers.
He joined Tokutek from StreamBase Systems, which he co-founded with database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker.
The shared service initiative also encompasses partnering within and between agencies to co-develop or share the applications, systems, networks that enable a shared service.
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This research must integrate across existing research programmes and disciplines, across all domains of research, across the North and South, include local knowledge systems, and be co-designed and implemented with input from governments, civil society, research funders and the private sector.
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, who hacked telephone systems early in his career, sent Hotz a congratulatory e-mail.
Rather, the collective ingenuity of people such as Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and subsequently Granite Systems) and Judy Estrin (a serial entrepreneur in the packet-switching business) was crucial to drive the technology through the standards bodies.
This co-produced knowledge that derives from synergies between both systems of knowledge may point the way forward to promising and productive ways to address the complexities of climate change adaptation.
Jesse Robbins, Chief Community Officer and co-founder of OpsCode, creator of the Chef systems integration framework for the cloud, pointed out in October 2007 that working such magic creates a competitive advantage.
Engineers at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (Grasp) Laboratory at Pennsylvania University have developed ways to make small quadrotor robots fly in formation, co-operate and map their surroundings without global positioning systems (GPS) .
They need to figure out which operating systems should be used and how they can co-exist seamlessly and economically.
Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.
Before getting into some of the specific aspects of the study, some relevant background information provided by study co-author Lawrence Sanders, PhD, professor of management science and systems in the UB School of Management.
Many offer a range of facilities, including luxuries such as reflecting pools, landscaped gardens, advanced exhaust systems to clear smoke from incense offerings and GPS co-ordinates for customers eager to pinpoint the exact spot where their ashes will lie.
He calls for a limited period of co-existence that would reduce disruption without prolonging the cost or running two systems.
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Joan Blades, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace also was cofounder of Berkeley Systems, creator of After Dark and the iconic Flying Toaster screensavers.
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Project manager Gillian Smith's job is to co-ordinate the company's own contributions to the satellite: power systems, solar panels and other hardware.
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Another prominent international ranking, the PISA tests run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has shown a strong performance for Chinese education systems, including Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Pondering these questions may be a good exercise in itself, as it promotes more awareness of the dependencies systems and processes have on one another, Harding and his co-authors observe.
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