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Study finds reduction of low-frequency noise from transition to electric buses improved residents’ health

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The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, improved when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered by electricity. Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows.

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How Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot

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The phrase refers to how the AI software iterates through design mutations and converges on high-performing designs. In these kinds of engineering environments, co-designing with generative AI, high-quality, structured data, and well-studied parameters can clearly lead to more creative and more effective new designs.

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Metamaterials Could Solve One of 6G’s Big Problems

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But how can we possibly engineer and control a wireless environment, which is determined by a host of factors, many of them random and therefore unpredictable? Today, hundreds of researchers in Europe, Asia, and the United States are working on applying RIS to produce programmable and smart wireless environments. gigahertz.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Cervero believes Stockholm, Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil are two good examples of the TOD principle. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Still, Prof.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature. The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?" Kwong asked.

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