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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

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ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Israel-based VisIC Technologies Ltd., This conversion comes from a complex sequence of switching events which reconstruct an AC signal from the DC output of the battery.

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One-step process for production of renewable diesel blendstock from soybean oil

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in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel. The conversion of soybean oil to green diesel was carried out on Pt/SAPO-11-Al 2 O 3 catalyst in a trickle-bed reactor.

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How the World Views Autonomous Vehicles

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Varied Trust Levels Across Countries The study revealed a diverse range of trust levels among the populations of various countries. Conversely, the United States, Japan, and South Korea demonstrated lower levels of trust.

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Weizmann Institute team engineers E. coli to eat carbon dioxide

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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have created a strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli that grows by consuming carbon dioxide instead of sugars or other organic molecules. The findings point to means of developing, in the future, carbon-neutral fuels. Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute. 2019.11.009.

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TAU researchers find Oriental hornet harvests solar energy

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University, Israel (TAU) have found that the exoskeleton of the Oriental hornet can harvest solar energy. Results of their study were recently published in the journal Naturwissenschaften. The shell traps the light and the pigment does the conversion.

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EP29LPSP: Applications in Plasma Physics, Astronomy, and Highway Engineering

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Study of Argon from Underground Sources for Direct Dark Matter Detection. Experimental Study of Ion Heating and Acceleration During Magnetic Reconnection. Systems and methods for controlling the gas conversion in a fiber-optic gyroscope." Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 5 Xu, Jingke. 6 Hsu, Scott C. Wolfus, Shuki.

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U Georgia team discovers tungsten in novel bacterial enzyme; potential for cellulosic biofuels

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This discovery could ultimately lead to commercially viable conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemical feedstocks. Determining its function will likely have an important impact on future metabolic engineering studies of C. bescii, and studies to elucidate the substrate(s) utilized by XOR are underway. Scott, Gabe M.

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