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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. μg PM 2.5 /m parts per billion (ppb) NO x. For each 5 μg PM 2.5 /m m 3 increase, coronary calcium progressed by 4.1 Agatston units per year (95% CI 1.4–6.8)

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

Cars That Think

Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He was IEEE secretary in 2000. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000. For his work in the field, he was named the first recipient of the IEEE Dennis J.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

He became not only a visionary but also our coach, pushing us to build the impossible. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. His legacy fuels our aspirations and inspirations to further decades of exponential impact.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

Baua Electric

Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

An additional component of the nationwide Plug-In Partners campaign is for electric utilities to help build a pool of funding in their respective communities to provide rebates to citizens and businesses buying the first round of plug-ins. All we need is for one of the large auto manufacturers to step up to the plate.” Last year, U.S.