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Sensor fusion also is a building block in the development of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles, which are designed to maintain lane position and adapt to traffic environments. 2006) Enhanced Sensor Fusion for Car Safety Applications, SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0598 doi: 10.4271/2006-01-0598. GM and V2X.

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The study, which appeared in the July issue of the journal Atmospheric Environment , measured ultrafine particle concentration levels outside a vehicle travelling through the 4-km, twinbore (eastbound and westbound) M5 East tunnel in Sydney. Professor Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology. Lidia Morawska. 2009.04.029.

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. Example of mechanochemical production of a MOF. Pichon et al.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. —Daniel Cohan.

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The study, which was carried out by University of Toronto Scarborough Environmental Chemistry professor Frank Wania and his PhD candidate Abha Parajulee, is published as an open access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities. de Boer was appointed Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in September 2006. Yvo de Boer.

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million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Skutterudites are one of several promising novel thermoelectrics—materials that convert a heat differential to electricity—that have been developed and pursued for more than a decade, notes Ctirad Uher, co-author of the PRL paper and author of a chapter on Skutterudite-based thermoelectrics in the 2006 Thermoelectrics Handbook.

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Between 2006 and 2015, the use of advanced high-strength steels in vehicles has grown from an average of 81 pounds per vehicle (36.7 However, each material used in vehicle production contributes to lightweighting and improves fuel economy, but each does so at a different cost to the manufacturer—and to the environment.

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Guardian is a high-level driver assist system, constantly monitoring the driving environment inside and outside the vehicle, ready to alert the driver of potential dangers and stepping in when needed to assist in crash avoidance. patents in the field in 2006. Basically, it is a smart vehicle designed to get smarter over time.

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is developing several new safety systems—factoring in driver behavior in the modern traffic environment—towards achieving its 2020 goal that nobody should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car. Crossroads and junctions are the most complex part of the modern traffic environment. Click to enlarge. Volvo Car Corp.

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While oil sands emissions have more than doubled from 1990 to 2006, the absolute increase in emissions from oil sands over the same period is less than the absolute increase in Canadian electric or transportation sector emissions, and far less than the increases in these sectors on a North American basis, they note. Charpentier, A.

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Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in adults over 60, according to new research led by Imperial College London and Duke University. That should allow everyone to be able to enjoy the health benefits of physical activity in any urban environment. The unborn.

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In 2006, China decided to meet 15% of its transportation energy needs by 2020 and, following India’s example, focused on Jatropha, with plans to raise it on more than 1 million ha of marginal lands. India encouraged millions of marginal farmers and landless people to plant Jatropha across India, Kant and Wu said.

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I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. PES University , which offers courses, tutorials, and webinars to members. He was granted two U.S.

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Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., Schneider Electric , Madni officially retired in 2006.

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More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Terry Hazen. Earlier post.)

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The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

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MAY 31, 2014

A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 Black carbon has two deleterious effects on the environment. After 1988, the total emissions leveled off but seem to increase again since the mid-1990s to reach another peak of 2,956 Gg in 2006.

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Bacteria belonging to the family Deinococcaceae are some of the most radiation-resistant organisms yet discovered, notes Dr. Michael Daly at USHUS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), who has been working with the bacteria for years. Deinococcus. Nature 443, 569-573 doi: 10.1038/nature05160. Radman lab.

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Reviewers included Dr. Martin Patel of Utrecht University and Michael Levy of the American Chemistry Council. The United Soybean Board’s study sheds even more light on why biodiesel is good for the environment. Key findings of the study include: Average soybean yield for the 2004-2007 time period was 42.35 kg (for the 3.36

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Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. The path to green software began more than 10 years ago.

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In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Kumagaya City: Using Kumagaya’s suburban metropolitan environment, study the practicality of applying Honda’s EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles to a park-and-ride system centered around Kagohara Station. Click to enlarge. – 2.0L

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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While awareness is high and knowledge has increased since a Maritz Research 2006 poll, few consumers today purport to be very familiar with either electric-only, flex fuel or gasoline-hybrid vehicles. However, even some of the Prius’ product characteristics were not universally understood.

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Using biodiesel in construction vehicles offers promising environmental benefits in terms of reduced tailpipe emissions as well as reductions in fuel cycle emissions of selected pollutants, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University. Shih-Hao Pang, H. Christopher Frey and William J.

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in 2006) but if they are replaced by EVs, the contribution would rise to 2-4%. Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge. Gasoline vehicle exhausts contribute very little to total national SO 2 emission (0.2%

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Verenium’s conversion process originated from technology developed by a team led by Dr. Lonnie Ingram at the University of Florida and originally licensed by Celunol. mobilis is a good ethanol producer that is highly alcohol-resistant, but is also very sensitive to its environment, is not very hardy, and can mostly use only glucose.

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A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) concludes that the emissions associated with the transport of ethanol could negate its potential economic and environmental benefits compared to gasoline. This amount of fuel production represents 8% of light duty gasoline consumption in 2006, calculated on an energy basis.

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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at RWTH Aachen University , in Germany. A great example of that is the concerted effort the.

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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at RWTH Aachen University , in Germany. A great example of that is the concerted effort the.

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Of the 17 billion liters of production added from 2006 to 2008, 8 billion liters of ethanol production (43%) will have a EWe greater than 100 L L -1. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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The five warmest years since the late 1880s, according to NASA, are in descending order 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2006. Pope earned her PhD in Meteorology in 1990 from the University of Reading. She joined the Met Office in 1982 and became a manager of stratospheric research in 1991 and of climate model development in 1996.

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However, a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University assessing the overall life cycle emissions associated with CO 2 -EOR sequestration under a number of different scenarios has concluded that “ without displacement of a carbon intensive energy source, CO 2 -EOR systems will result in net carbon emissions. Of the $21.6

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