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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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The measure of how many years of healthy life are lost is often referred to as “disability-adjusted life years.”). For example, poverty-stricken countries facing a higher diabetes-pollution risk include Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Guyana, while richer countries such as France, Finland and Iceland experience a lower risk.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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About a decade ago, artificial neural networks began to be applied to a wide variety of semistructured data that had previously been very difficult for computers running rules-based programming (generally referred to as symbolic reasoning) to interpret.