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ICL, CMU study associates PM2.5 air pollution in US with >30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy

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Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. across all counties in the contiguous US (i.e.,

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D. Bob had that.

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Enthusiasm electric!

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2022 Chapter of the Year (West): Hawaii EVA Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association operates at the state level, managing marketing, social media, Drive Electric Earth Day and National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) planning, webinars, and policy advocacy. Just as notably, the chapter also produces trainings for first responders.

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Ultrasonic welding in the battery pack for the Cadillac ELR

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For the production system at Brownstown, GM uses an integrated camera vision system is used to shoot a reference image of the weld area prior to the operation to achieve pinpoint accuracy. (In 1960, Sonobond (then known as Aeroprojects) received the first patent for ultrasonic metal welding.). —Lee et al.

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Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior

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His body of work on on the underlying the theory and algorithms for this this extends back several years to his 2008 doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan (subsequently published as a book: Real-time, self-learning identification and stochastic optimal control of advanced powertrain systems ). Malikopoulos, A.A., Charalambous, C.D.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. References. Table of Contents.

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