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The Contribution of Science to Civilian Industry in Israel

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities initiated a series of seminars on the contributions of science to the State of Israel on its 50th anniversary. In this framework Technion President Professor Zehev Tadmor commissioned this survey which is dedicated to the contributions of science to Industry, and which serves to complement a previous survey […]

Cleaning Air Pollutants in Industrial Areas

A large west coast refinery as part of a good neighbor agreement, contracted with Terra Air Services to design and install a real-time emissions monitoring system utilizing open-path remote sensing technologies to include FTIR, UV, and TDL units. Meteorological data is collected concurrently with emissions data. The complete system incorporates two FTIR, two UV, two […]

Spatial Diffusion of Industrial Innovation and Regional Development

A new horizon of the history of mankind opened at the end of the 20th century. Facing the new picture of the world, arising out of the growth of the technological culture, everything has to be thought about from now on, from assumptions of values, through principles of deed, to details of execution. The enormous, […]