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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum returned to Texas with a new mission: designing medical equipment for clinics in underserved communities that could withstand harsh climate conditions and be easily repaired. She also wanted to get students involved in the work. The group has trained 10,000 medical professionals on how to use the kits.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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For the first time, IEEE members from China, Ethiopia, Hungary, Italy, Panama, and Thailand submitted proposals. IEEE student members from Moi University in Mombasa, Kenya, designed and deployed "smart kibandas"— open huts or cubicles used for informal business.

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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

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After the Max 8 crashes, Boeing and its regulators focused most on the cause of those accidents: flawed design and software. That pace collapsed to virtually zero soon after the second crash, in Ethiopia, when regulators around the world grounded the plane.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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Also in 2012-2013, the GFEI partnership will investigate the development of a feebate tool for use in calculating oil savings and CO 2 reductions from various levels and designs of a feebate system along with revenue projections. To add to the GFEI’s Working Paper Series.

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AFED report: state of water resources in the Arab world is precarious and worsening

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Thirteen Arab countries are among the world’s nineteen most water-scarce nations, and per capita water availability in eight countries is already below 200 cubic meters, less than half the amount designated as severe water scarcity. The figure drops to below 100 cubic meters in six countries.

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F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design

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The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday that it had opened an investigation into whether Boeing failed to ensure that its 737 Max 9 plane was safe and manufactured to match the design approved by the agency. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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