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Potent GHG SF6 rapidly accumulating in atmosphere, driven by demand for SF6-insulated switchgear in developing countries

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Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and South Africa (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems. —Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

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Mercedes-Benz running automated test drive in Shanghai; infrastructure peculiarities

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million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and South Africa, and more than 1.2 In this process, Mercedes-Benz cooperates in, among others, a joint research project with Tsinghua University. The final stop of the Intelligent World Drive will be the CES in Las Vegas in January 2018.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. More than 340 people attended.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Cooper, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, chairs the TOAR Steering Committee and has been working to develop the assessment since 2014. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.

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Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

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New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Satellite image taken 16 January 2018 off the coast of Europe. Michael Diamond/University of Washington. —first author Michael Diamond, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric sciences.

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Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection

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The archive is in addition to articles from 2009 onward that were added to IEEE Xplore in 2018. He is a professor and a deputy vice chancellor for research and internationalization at the University of Johannesburg. The majority of the authors are from Africa. Prior to 2005, the journal was published in print.

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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. Data is weighted to match the profile of the population. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ±3.5