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UCL study suggests reducing car use is the key to better health; the role of car sharing and other approaches

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With just 39% of men and 29% of women in the UK reaching the Department of Health’s recommended level of health-enhancing physical activity, the answer to the UK’s growing obesity problem could depend on people choosing to swap car journeys for walking and cycling, according to a new study by researchers at University College London (UCL).

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti first noticed the potential for the spread of disinformation on the Internet in 2010, when he began working as group R&D director for Vodafone in London. Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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The Energy Department is also preparing to award as muchas $25 billion in low-cost federal loans for production ofadvanced technology vehicles, with many of the applicationscoming from companies planning to build plug-ins or thebatteries and components needed to power them. “We

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward. It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk. It is how do we lower the risk so low cost capital can participate. There is not a lot of upside on a 7% coupon but there is a lot of downside. ”.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. The combination of windowing displays, menus, icons, and a mouse that is increasingly used on personal computers and workstations. New York City and London, 1980), reprints his 1963 Ph.D.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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This means they can get placed much closer to a person's head, resulting in a signal at least two times better and theoretically up to five times better, for magnetic images with millimeter accuracy and millisecond resolution of surface areas of the brain, says Matthew Brookes , chairman of Cerca and a researcher at the University of Nottingham.

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