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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Underride car crashes are among the most deadly accidents in Turkey, according to a report by the country's. zmit, Turkey, is set to study medicine this semester at. Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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In Tokyo, the fires merged into a firestorm so intense that it created its own wind system and set alight the city’s many wooden buildings. Earthquake-prone areas have invested heavily in making their buildings and infrastructure as earthquake-resilient as possible. Survivors rushed to seek safety.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. The double cab has emerged as the dominating body style because it offers room for up to five persons. in Turkey, and 0.8% The percentage of privately used pickups has been growing steadily for years.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Now spend 10 minutes watching a telepresence robot assemble a turkey sandwich. The team used the findings to build penny-sized jumping robots. Kuka ] We present the tensegrity aerial vehicle, a design of collision-resilient rotor robots with icosahedron tensegrity structures. How do you program a personality?

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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Many IEEE members credit a parent or a teacher for encouraging them to pursue an engineering career, but for Erol Gelenbe it was his next-door neighbor in his hometown of Ankara, Turkey. Then I became interested in the foundations of the design of computer systems and networks, and how design choices impact their performance.”

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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But this design is not well suited for the mass consumption of static content, such as movies or TV shows. Building on the principles of peer-to-peer networking and content-based addressing, IPFS allows for a decentralized and distributed network for data storage and delivery. These queries are made using IPFS, an alternative to the.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Possibly this design was because of the bonding material used during those times. Marriyam, from Goa, Portugal was the Christian one and Rukaiya Begum, the Muslim one was from Turkey. The bedroom floor was designed to have a constant circulation of rosewater. Like in the Taj, the redstone is used only for cladding.

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