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2020 Ford Escape to offer hybrid and PHEV variants

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Ford has revealed the 2020 Escape; the small SUV will make its first public appearance at the New York International Auto Show. The standard hybrid with front-wheel drive targets best-in-class EPA-estimated range of more than 550 miles. Final EPA-estimated ratings will be available later in this year.). The all-new 1.5-liter

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Southern Oil to build new biofuels lab in Queensland; focus on renewable diesel and jet

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Together with this new world-class laboratory, which is being built with the support of the Federal Government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency, we take another critical step towards the development of a new renewables fuels industry for Queensland and Australia.

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Becoming a Leader at NASA

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Originally, Proctor was focused on astronomy, but during high school at an engineering exploration summer program he solved "a resistor equivalence problem that nobody else in the class had gotten [and] the instructor recommended I look at electrical engineering as a career instead." He got a master's in EE from Johns Hopkins University. "I

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Clarke , who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Isaac Asimov , author of the Foundation series. Developing the SSIM index At the University of Illinois, Bovik took a class on digital image processing taught by Thomas Huang , a professor of electrical and computer engineering. In 2001 he and his team developed SSIM.

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Scientists call for careful use of time scales, reference dates and statistical approaches in analyzing climate change trends to avoid distortion and hampering of response

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Large-scale climate shifts, such as the PDO, should be addressed when climate change is reported by media outlets or through agency or international reports; start and end dates should also be referenced when discussing temperature change trends. 2001 to account for the 1976 PDO event. 1975 and within the period of 1977?2001

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The Real Story of Pixar

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It would be a sin to let this world-class group disperse. Philips, partnering with GM to share the financing load, was interested in our rendering technology that yielded three-dimensional internal views of human beings from CAT scans. I walked into Ed Catmull's office near mine and announced, "We're going to be fired, Ed.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade.

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