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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee. He was IEEE secretary in 2000.

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

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Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 This was the most in-depth study of air pollution exposures ever applied to a large study group specifically designed to examine influences on cardiovascular health. The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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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. Along with his wife of 72 years, in 2000 Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which has donated more than US $5.1 After earning his Ph.D.,

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

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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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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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Usually the vehicle must be equipped with wheels or other forms of support for takeoff and landing because an EDS levitation design will not operate at speeds below approximately 20 mph. Both rely on the principle of stator motor design and magnetic induction to create propulsive physical forces. Forward or reverse propulsion.

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Campaign Begins

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consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today. EPRI has teamed with DaimlerChrysler AG of Stuttgart, Germany, to design and build a plug-in prototype van that will be tested in a small number of American cities over the next year. Last year, U.S.