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Study provides more insight into air pollution mechanisms that cause cardiovascular diseases

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While the mechanisms by which air pollutants cause cardiovascular events is undergoing continual refinement, the preponderant evidence support rapid effects of a diversity of pollutants including all particulate pollutants (e.g. The findings have been published in an open-access paper in the European Heart Journal. —Thomas Münzel.

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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This makes it possible to adapt to the fuel ignition quality and energy density by adjusting the main injection quantity and the placement of the injection events. This enables he engine control system to detect fuel quality and adapt the combustion phasing quickly and robustly and without any prior knowledge of fuel properties.).

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