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UB study finds link between ambient ozone exposure, artery wall thickness

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The longitudinal study followed nearly 7,000 people aged 45 to 84 from six US regions: Winston-Salem, North Carolina; New York City; Baltimore; St. While the study finds an association between air pollution and atherosclerosis, researchers aren’t clear on why. Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Los Angeles. —Meng Wang.

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Second Duke Energy project tackling truck idling in NC

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In addition to fuel savings and reduced emissions, this project will also reduce noise and air pollution for our team and neighbors. This is Duke Energy’s second project in North Carolina using electricity to power trucks instead of idling engines. —Brent Vaughan, MDI’s director, facility engineering.

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

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Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. Determining effective strategies for mitigating surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution requires knowledge of the relative ambient concentrations of its precursors, NO x , and VOCs. Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory /Josh Stevens. Click to enlarge.

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NSF awards $4.6M to improve human control of automated cars, drones

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The other two projects are tackling monitoring and mitigating noise pollution in cities and quickly identifying and overcoming problems in manufacturing environments. The award was part of a total of $13 million NSF awarded to three five-year “Frontier” projects to advance cyber-physical systems (CPS). Overview of the VeHICal process.

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Ford CEO: Ford to focus on 5 key areas of innovation: mobility, autonomy, connectivity, customer experience and performance

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In a pre-Christmas media event, Ford president and CEO Mark Fields said while 2014 was a good year for the company, 2015 has the potential to be a “ breakthrough year ”. The appointment is effective 5 Jan 2015. That’s a tremendous amount of growth. The space really can comprise a lot of different [types] of companies.”.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. In 2015 Dresselhaus became the first female recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. She earned her Ph.D. She died in 2017.