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Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

By BlogArenaJuly 16, 2014Culture, Education, Interview, Mediaaustria, baban mohamed, bicultural acquisition, bilingualism, child code switching, code switching, community, kurdish immigrant, kurdish immigrant children

Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics. (more…)

German speaking Jews were force behind European unity

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Politicsanti semitism, atlanta, austria, berlin, cafe central, cathy gelbin, eduard bernstein, elfriede jelinek, emory university, european identity, European Union, european unity, german industrialist, german speaking jews, Germany, identity as european, jewish culture, jewish zionists, literature winner, nobel prize, political theorist, politicians, prague, sander gilman, stefan zweig, university of manchester, vienna, walther rathenau

A little-remembered Jewish culture in Germany and Austria between the 1870s and 1930s was a hotbed of ideas which drove the formation of the European Union, according to new research.

Literary and film scholar Dr Cathy Gelbin from The University of Manchester says cosmopolitan German speaking Jewish intellectuals, many of whom met in the coffee houses of Berlin, Vienna and Prague, were among the first to see their identity as European.

Her co-author on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded study is the eminent cultural and literary historian Professor Sander Gilman from Emory University in Atlanta. (more…)

IBM Master The Mainframe Contest Prepares Students With In Demand IT Skills For A Smarter Planet

By Guest PostMarch 29, 2013Technologyanalytics, austria, benjamin paul, big data, canada, certificate programs, cloud rise, ibm, India, it skills, mainframe contest, master, michael todd, miles nosler, mobile, mobile computing projects, poland, smarter planet, social business, spain, students, sushain cherivirala, system z job, US, william cunningham

Over 4,600 students compete from US and Canada

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. – 29 Mar 2013: Throughout the last 49 years, the IBM mainframe has advanced, anticipating both the present and future needs of businesses. Organizations are moving more cloud, mobile, big data and analytics computing projects on to mainframes and joining them with traditional projects like transaction processing, operational analytics and database management to develop solutions that can empower a Smarter Planet. Because of these trends, today’s mainframes are growing in popularity, requiring a new generation of mainframe experts. (more…)

Belief in God Rises with Age, Even in Atheist Nations

By Guest PostApril 19, 2012Culture, Generalamerican, atheism, austria, belief in god, catholic societies, east germany, existence, god exists, international survey, Israel, mortality, nation, norc, organization, people, Philippines, poland, protestant population, russia, Scandinavia, slovenia, soviet states, tom w smith, united states, william harms

International surveys about the depth of people’s belief in God reveal vast differences among nations, ranging from 94 percent of people in the Philippines who said they always believed in God, compared to only 13 percent of people in the former East Germany. Yet the surveys found one constant—belief in God is higher among older people, regardless of where they live.

A new report on the international surveys, “Belief About God Across Time and Countries,” was issued by the General Social Survey of the social science research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. It is based on a comprehensive, international study of belief in God and includes information from the International Social Survey Program, a consortium of the world’s leading opinion survey organizations. Tom W. Smith, director of the General Social Survey, wrote the report. (more…)

IBM and ZSE Create Virtual Green Highway for Electric Vehicles

By Guest PostApril 9, 2012Technologyaustria, bratislava, central europe, CO2, ecogrid eu, edison, ekz, electric vehicles, electricity, emission, energy grid, evs, green highway, guido bartels, ibm, slovakia, switzerland, transportation system, vibrate, vienna, zapadoslovenska energetika, zse, zse green highway

*E-Mobility Project Identifies EV Charging Station Options between Two Cities*

Armonk, NY and Slovakia – 09 Apr 2012: IBM today announced it has teamed with Západoslovenská energetika, a.s. (ZSE), the largest distributor and supplier of electricity in Slovakia, on a smart energy “feasibility” study that will help prepare the capital city Bratislava for electric vehicles (EVs).

Using e-mobility technology, the study will help identify the possibilities of connecting two neighboring metropolitan areas – Bratislava, Slovakia and Vienna, Austria with a “green” highway. This highway will interconnect the two cities with a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles. (more…)

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Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

German speaking Jews were force behind European unity

IBM Master The Mainframe Contest Prepares Students With In Demand IT Skills For A Smarter Planet

Belief in God Rises with Age, Even in Atheist Nations

IBM and ZSE Create Virtual Green Highway for Electric Vehicles