Cochlear implants are powerful tools for people with hearing loss. Using electrodes implanted in the ear that transmit sound directly to the brain, they can give even the profoundly deaf a sense of sound.
Recent figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are a stark reminder of the many challenges we face in global healthcare today: Over 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year; over 1,000 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; and over 36 million of the 57 million deaths every year are from non-communicable diseases, representing
Oil and gas exploration is pushing out into deeper waters further offshore -- up to 3000m deep and over 100km away from the coast. In these cases, operations are challenging and building a floating oil platform is a very expensive undertaking. That is why, for over a decade, GE's researchers have been looking at developing technologies that could revolutionize offshore oil and gas production, by creating a seafloor unit that processes wellstream fluid right on the seabed.
I write in praise of air. I was six or five
when a conjurer opened my knotted fist
and I held in my palm the whole of the sky.
I've carried it with me ever since.
That is the opening stanza from "In Praise of Air" by British poet, playwright and novelist Simon Armitage.
On November 4, 1776, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta took a boat ride on the pristine Lake Maggiore straddling the border between northern Italy and Switzerland. Ever the scientist - he invented the first battery and the unit of electrical potential, the volt, is named after him -- Volta ignored the distant alpine vistas and poked a stick in a marsh near the shore.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 29, 2014)---Staying on the cutting edge of technology is one way Heinen's Grocery Store creates an experience that keeps shoppers coming back, and lighting is essential to this equation---minus the time and cost of replacing lamps. When the Northeast Ohio grocer went looking for lighting that could last, it found an ally in GE---and an answer in LED---that together keep the ladders and lifts tucked away.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, MAY 29, 2014 --- GE Capital's Franchise Finance business announced today that it has provided $31 million to United Restaurant Group, LP (URG) in a combined sale-leaseback and refinancing. GE Capital served as administrative agent and GE Capital Markets served as sole lead arranger and bookrunner on the senior debt facility.
