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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. In 2007, Tracey cofounded SetPoint to bring the treatment to the clinic. Robroek is also an outlier, though.

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SEC issues cease-and-desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group for violations of Securities Act

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The family-owned company, which was formed in 2002, has, in conjunction with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), designed, modeled and prototyped a range of implementations of the Scuderi architecture, including naturally aspirated, air hybrid, Millerized and turbocharged versions. a more efficient internal combustion engine.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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His project led to the development of a device worn on a person's finger that measures blood pressure during physical exercise. He helped found Dakota Power in 2007. Gowen was elevated in 2002 to eminent member of IEEE-HKN. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and a Ph.D. He was granted his first U.S.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG.

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Bush Budget: Plug-ins Hybrids, Not So Much

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Increases for hydrogen fuel cell research from $289 million in FY 2007 to $309 million in FY 2008. And use the $15 million left over to educate Americans on why it is in their personal and the national security interest to buy a plug-in car. My 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV blends regen and friction just fine, thank you.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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However, the slow pace of negotiations spurred UNFCCC delegates to publish a “roadmap to Copenhagen” in December 2007 at the 13 th Congress in Bali, in an effort to accelerate the progress of those negotiations. Emissions from ocean-going ships which burn minimally refined bunker fuel are primary sources of black carbon.

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