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Study: US counties with higher PM2.5 concentrations have more stroke deaths

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lead author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The researchers are currently analyzing other findings that emerged from the county comparisons, including associations between higher levels of PM 2.5

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Study finds air pollution and noise pollution each increase cardiovascular risk

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The research was presented today at the ATS (American Thoracic Society) 2013 conference in Philadelphia. Philip Harber, University of Arizona, not involved in the research. As a point of comparison, in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency recently revised the overall limit downward from 15 to 12µg/m 3 ).

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. A typical age mix of multifamily rental housing can be seen in the greater Philadelphia region as shown in Figure 1, from a Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission report. households.