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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5 The measure of how many years of healthy life are lost is often referred to as “disability-adjusted life years.”). They also estimated that 8.2

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Allison Transmission introduces more fuel-efficient xFE transmission models for buses; up to 7% improvement

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Referred to as xFE, designating extra fuel economy, the fully automatic bus transmissions have demonstrated improvements up to 7% in addition to the company’s FuelSense features. While individual fleet results will depend heavily on the duty cycle, testing at customer fleets on four continents and in cities ranging from St.

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Who Pays for EV Charging Stations?

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Charging Station Reliability is Crucial as EVs Gain Speed

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The phrase refers to an individual who had made serious contributions to a domain, while also possessing multiple, and often diverse, talents and pursuits. Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St.

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Electrify Your Fleet Faster With Incentives and Rebates

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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. They wouldn’t let us get them out on 7000s,” Goldman said, referring to the old-model printer that Ellenby’s group had used as a base. First Steps When Goldman set up PARC, one of his first decisions was to ask George E.

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