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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. Bovik and his team of researchers created mathematical models of the visual cortex as well as the retina, which converts light into neural signals and sends them to the brain. In 2001 he and his team developed SSIM.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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By collecting more detailed information, we can better understand, for example, how the forests are changing internally by imaging every layer,” he says, referring to the emergent layer and the canopy, understory, and forest floor. He worked in that position until 2001, when he became director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute. “I

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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Arab News announced in the first paragraph of its report on Q2 Saudi economic performance that Q2 GDP grew 3.79 The Association of European Businesses in Russia recently announced that sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles contracted 29 percent in August year-over-year and forecast a 37 percent decline for all of 2015.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Heres our three-paragaph summary and a link to the first of several postings on the subject at CalCars-News : July 2007 EPRI-NRDC Definitive Study: PHEVs Will Reduce Emissions If Broadly Adopted The EPRI-NRDC studies finally give an environmental stamp of approval to PHEVs. See CalCars-News Archive for updates. The GREET 1.6

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts!

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. The data came from the International Energy Agency, Statista, and other sources. The answer is a resounding yes. Such a change is actually well underway.

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