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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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Although less than half the size of China’s burden, India had the next largest number of cases (350,000) due to its large population of children. The UK ranked 24 th out of 194 countries, the US 25 th , China 19 th , and India 58 th. This study was funded by George Washington University.

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New Ricardo 48V electric motor aims to boost power and cut costs of hybrids; up to 50% increase in power density; ECOCHAMPS

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Results of this work are expected to be published and presented at the IEEE ECCE at Portland, Oregon in September 2018. This marks the start of a series of presentations being made on the results of the ECOCHAMPS project in China, Japan, USA, EU, India and the UK.

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Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS

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Engineered Arts ] Oregon State Professor Heather Knight and Agility’s Head of Customer Experience Bambi Brewer get together to talk about human-robot interaction. ICRA 2023 ] India Flying Labs recently engaged more than 350 girls and boys in a two-day STEM workshop with locally-made drones. Ameca always signs their artwork.

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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Urban areas in South-East Asia (including India) saw the largest regional increases, with a 27% increase in average population-weighted PM 2.5 The authors estimate that 61 in every 100,000 deaths in urban areas was attributable to PM 2.5 Although global urban average PM 2.5 concentration between 2000-2019.

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Daimler Trucks to invest €500M in highly automated trucks; stepping away from platooning, shooting for L4 automation

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The main location is Daimler Trucks & Buses new Automated Truck Research & Development Center in Portland, Oregon. The center’s experts are dedicated to all aspects of developing, testing and validating automated vehicles.

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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Public Policy: National governments including China, the UK, France, the Netherlands and India have stated the intention to phase out the internal combustion engine. of the MoU goal, followed by Oregon with 10%. California and nine other states are moving to accelerate ZEV adoption. million ZEVs on the road by 2025.

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Understanding the Coronavirus Is Like Reading a Sentence

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Baidu Research USA and Oregon State University has shown that applying algorithms originally developed for natural language processing (NLP)—which helps computers parse human language—can vastly speed up predictions of RNA folding and the design of RNA sequences for vaccines. But that's not the only way, or even the best way, to do it.

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