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Iran-Khodro to Unveil Hybrid Bus

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Iran’s largest car and truck-manufacturing company, Iran-Khodro, will unveil what it calls the Middle-East’s first hybrid bus. “The hybrid system designed in this project was installed on one of Iran-Khodro Diesel Co. IKD) city buses.

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WNA: global nuclear generation nears record high in 2019

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Construction started on five reactors in 2019, two in China and one each in Iran, Russia and the UK. This is in part due to the majority of reactors entering service in 2019 being first of a kind, or reactors that started construction soon after the initial FOAK reactor. This is above the average achieved since 2001.

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Iranian team proposes intelligent control strategy for hybrids using fuzzy driving cycle identification agent

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Researchers at the University of Tehran (Iran), with colleagues at Isfahan University of Technology and Iran University of Science and Technology, are proposing a new intelligent control strategy for the energy management of hybrid powertrains based on the driving cycle type. 9 1169-1188 doi: 10.1177/0954407014556116.

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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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One of the largest oilfields in the world, the Permian spans parts of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas. The team also identified a methane plume south of Tehran, Iran, at least 3 miles (4.8 One example is Carbon Plume Mapper (CPM), an instrument in development at JPL that’s designed to detect methane and carbon dioxide.

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Russia’s KAMAZ to create artificial city as autonomous driving testing ground

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According to Sergey Nazarenko, chief designer of innovative products for KAMAZ’s R&D Center, similar artificial cities as testing grounds can be found at Volvo in Switzerland, with another under construction for Daimler in Germany. It has assemblers in Vietnam, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. Intel designated him as one of its Fellows. He ended up as a refugee in Madrid.