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In fact, this manuscript is a sequel to an article published recently by our group characterizing in detail the chemical composition of the inhalable material whose health effects are investigated here. The results of this analysis were published in 2015 in the journal Atmospheric Environment. —de Oliveira Alves et al.

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Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. UC San Diego officially launched the Contextual Robotics Institute in October 2015 at the second annual Contextual Robotics Forum. In 2011, Christensen was awarded the Joseph F.

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Since the educational program was launched in 2015, more than 30 individuals from 16 countries have participated. “I

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Children living in polluted megacities are at increased risk for brain inflammation and neurodegenerative changes, including Alzheimer or Parkinson’s disease, according to a study led by University of Montana Professor Dr. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas and her colleagues. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas et al.

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. Jan Abraham "Braham" Ferreira.

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Sasson , inventor of the device, told The New York Times in 2015. “It Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. It only took 50 milliseconds to capture the image, but it took 23 seconds to record it to the tape,” Sasson said in the 2015 Times article.

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A trio of recently published studies from a team of University of Toronto engineers has found that air pollution could be spreading up to three times farther than thought, contributing to varying levels of air quality across cities. Source: University of Toronto. 8, 2881-2912, doi: 10.5194/amtd-8-2881-2015. Click to enlarge.

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The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. Hardin IV of Harvard University; and Elizabeth Glogowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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million deaths per year are attributable to airborne pollution, making it the fifth-ranking mortality risk factor according to a 2015 study published in the Lancet. billion a year. Globally, 4.2

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. In 2015, the Strong National Museum of Play , in Rochester, N.Y.,

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Researchers at North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University have shown that passing wireless power transfer through a magnetic resonance field enhancer (MR-FE)—which could be as simple as a copper loop—can at least double transfer efficiency as compared to transferring through air alone. Chabalko, M.;

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At the same time, recent studies suggest that mobile device OSs, and in particular the open source, universally available Android OS platform, can be used for more critical functions. Every automotive designer is aware of these issues, and efforts have been made to implement OSs of mobile device for infotainment and navigation.

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A team from the University of Rome Sapienza has developed a rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery based on the combination of a high capacity sulfur-carbon cathode, nanostructured Li x Sn-C anode and polysulfide-added PEO-based gel membrane. —Agostini & Hassoun (2015). —Agostini & Hassoun (2015).

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Bush set a goal of commercializing cellulosic ethanol production by 2012; and President Obama set a goal of one million electric vehicles by 2015. The team defined hype as a period with a rising number of media articles containing a growing share of positive evaluations about a particular technology. None of these goals were achieved.

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Researchers at Dalhousie University (Canada) led by Dr. Jeff Dahn now report that Li[Ni 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 ]O 2 (NMC111)/graphite and Li[Ni 0.42 Their work is published in a paper in an open access article in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. —Ma et al. Lin Ma, Jian Xia, and J. Electrochem.

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The issue is edited by Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, who also co-authored three of the research papers in the special issue with Icelandic colleagues. It will drill the next borehole, IDDP-2, in southwest Iceland at Reykjanes in 2014-2015. —Wilfred Elders.

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Kotov (2015) “A dendrite-suppressing composite ion conductor from aramid nanofibres” Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6152 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7152. Kotov is a professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering and macromolecular science and engineering. Batteries'

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note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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A new study by a team from the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University and the University of Minnesota has found that the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles in China can increase the Environmental Justice (EJ) challenge in that country. Marshall (2015) “Environmental Justice Aspects of Exposure to PM2.5

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. The following year he became the first professor of physical chemistry at the University of Sheffield. When the future Nobel-winning chemist George Porter arrived as a Ph.D.

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. After earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 2009, she went on to earn a master’s degree in education in 2011 from Boston University.

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This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Leila De Floriani, Kathy Herring Hayashi, and Vincenzo Piuri. Having authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications, De Floriani served as editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 to 2018.

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Researchers from the University of Waterloo and General Motors Global Research and Development Center have developed a new electrode material for Li-ion batteries that leverages the strong covalent interactions that occur between silicon, sulfur, defects and nitrogen. —Hassan et al.

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Researchers from the University of New South Wales (Australia) have developed a highly efficient electrode for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water-splitting that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial production of hydrogen. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel nano-silicon paper electrode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries. Cycling data for C-coated SiNFs compared to uncoated SiNFs at C/10 (1C = 4 A g ?1 Favors et al. Click to enlarge. Batteries'

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To determine what was happening, and the best way to make it happen, the Sandia team used computer simulations generated by coauthor Na Sai from the University of Texas at Austin that suggested which molecular changes to seek. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor. —Bryan Kaehr.

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The genesis of the noise sensor development, in 2015, was that noise is one of the top quality of life issues identified in New York City, yet the city had a mere 50 noise enforcement officers on hand to deal with millions of such complaints every year.

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A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In That’s because it’s moving toward the dream of self-driving vehicles, which demands universal standards.

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A new study by researchers at Indiana University suggests the estimates are more uncertain than commonly accepted. Graham (2015) “Uncertainty in the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Air Quality Regulations” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 6, pp 66-111 doi: 10.1017/bca.2015.7. Researchers Kerry Krutilla, David H. Good and John D.

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A 2008 study by Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia and Chris Kucharik of the University of Wisconsin concluded that ramping up the production of corn ethanol to meet the targets set by the new US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would worsen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, increasing the growing hypoxic region.

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Chen (2015) “Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution”, Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6567 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7567. The two Cu-Cu-Ti hollow sites exhibit HBE values close to that of Pt. The Cu-Ti-Ti hollow site binds hydrogen too strongly. Click to enlarge.

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In fiscal year 2016 (beginning October 1, 2015), BETO and VTO jointly funded a consortium of nine DOE national laboratories to begin an initial three-year effort focused on Optima. Wagner (2015) “ Engines of the Future ” ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine. Optima program overview.

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. 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 is on the.

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Drexel researchers, along with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have synthesized two-dimensional carbon/sulfur (C/S) nanolaminate materials. The paper was selected as a VIP article and will be featured on the journal cover. Earlier post.) MAX Phases and MXene. Lukatskaya, M. Mashtalir, O., Dyatkin, B., Tallman, D.

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million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted by 2015—are “ anything but encouraging ”, according to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry. Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP doi: /10.1021/es201943. —Kant and Wu.

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Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes).

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