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Swiss team concludes that particulate filters should be mandatory for GDI engines

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The results of the GasOMeP project were presented during a conference held at the Empa Academy in late March. For the study, the team selected seven direct-injection gasoline cars, including a Mitsubishi Carisma (2001 model, exhaust emission standard Euro 3). Click to enlarge.

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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Congress and launched in 2001. In 2001 she was selected to be project manager for a NASA test bed that aimed to understand how spacecraft are affected by their environment. Barth (left) and Moira Stanton at the 1997 RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems Conference, held in Cannes, France.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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After joining Google’s acoustic modeling team in 2013, he worked to ensure the company’s AI assistive technology, used in Google Home products, could perform in the presence of background noise. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2001, respectively.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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In 2001 she realized her goal of working on a satellite mission. Then there is growth in terms of understanding the importance of going to conferences and not only hearing presentations of research but also engaging with people. She was a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. civilian hyperspectral mission in space.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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At a conference in Moscow on October 14, President Putin said that Russia had reached if not passed the peak of its economic crisis and predicted economic growth in coming years. Should crude prices decline from current levels, or even just stagnate, it is possible neither country will exit the CrudeDome under its own power.

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Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

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“ First, this report serves as an interim evaluation of the evolving science midway through an IPCC cycle: IPCC’s AR5 (Fifth Assessment Report) is not due for completion until 2013. Each year of the present decade—2001 through 2008—has been among the top ten warmest years since instrumental records began.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Twenty-six editions of his book Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition were published between 1985 and 2001. He won a 2012 Broadcast Cultural Award from NHK , the Japan Broadcasting Corp.,