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Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

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Per capita GHG emissions in California have dropped from a 2001 peak of 14.0 tons per person to 10.7 tons per person in 2018, a 24% decrease. Because of the enormous potential impact of these products, reducing their emissions has a disproportionate benefit to the environment. Transportation emissions declined 1.5

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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They include the power-normalized cepstral coefficients , which improve the accuracy of speech recognition in environments with disturbances such as additive noise, changes in the signal, multiple speakers, and reverberation. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. And that’s exactly what he did.

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Explosion and Fire on GOM Deepwater Drilling Rig

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The names and hometowns of injured persons are being withheld until family members can be notified. The Deepwater Horizon is a fifth-generation, Reading & Bates Falcon RBS-8D design rig built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2001. to care for all rig personnel and search for missing rig personnel. The Deepwater Horizon.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. In 2001 she realized her goal of working on a satellite mission.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

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The Low VMT case assumes an environment in which travel choices made by drivers result in lower demand for personal vehicle travel, consistent with the recent trend. Alternative modes of travel affect VMT to the degree that the population has access to substitutes for personal LDVs. —below the 1.7%

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

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In 2001 he submitted his 12-month notice to leave the Navy, although he continued to serve as a part-time reservist until 2017. I got to the point where I said, ‘I can’t do this anymore, I need to be me.’ ” Part of the reason he felt confident enough to come out was a supportive work environment. s railways. “It

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