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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. Back in 2000, a defense authorization bill had stipulated that one-third of the U.S. Stanford team leader Sebastian Thrun holds a $2 million check, the prize for winning the 2005 Grand Challenge.

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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trillion by 2000, 2.3 Health care costs grew at three times the rate of inflation from 1990 to 2000 alone, surpassing 13 percent of GDP. The scale, complexity, and extremely short time frame for attempting to transform the totality of the health care environment demanded a robust system of systems engineering approach.

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Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

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Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. 2 and a low cell voltage of 1.70 doi: 10.1039/d2ee01510b.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. Resources.

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KAUST team devises electrically-driven membrane process for seawater lithium mining

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Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., to 9013.43 ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million. doi: 10.1039/D1EE00354B.

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New model projects total amount of global urban land could increase by up to a factor of 6 by 2100

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A team from the University of Delaware and the University of Denver has created a new global simulation model to predict how urban land will change over the next 100 years under different social and economic conditions. million km 2 in 2000). million km 2 in 2000). m 2 in 2000 to 246?m million to 3.6 million to 3.6

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U Toronto study measures GDI emissions in urban near-road environment

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A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet.