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Study finds rates of LDV fuel consumption in US peaked in 2004; indications of peak motorization

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Based on the present data, his best estimates of the current annual fuel-consumption rates are: 398 gallons (1,507 liters) per person, 585 gallons (2,214 liters) per licensed driver, 1,033 gallons (3,910 liters) per household, and 530 gallons (2,006 liters) per registered vehicle. Fuel consumed per person. 2001 to 2006. -5%.

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UMTRI study concludes number of LDVs in the US likely has not yet peaked

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However, he notes, the rates of vehicles per person, licensed driver, and household reached their maxima prior to the onset of the current economic downturn. In terms of the rates of vehicles per three variables of interest: Vehicles per person. vehicles per person. In 1984 there were 0.66 Vehicles per licensed driver.

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The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission

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IEEE Fellow John Verboncoeur Steven Miller Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Verboncoeur is senior associate dean for research and graduate studies in Michigan State University’s (MSU) engineering college, in East Lansing. in molecular science from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale. IEEE Fellow S.K. Ramesh S.K.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. university because he felt it would give him more opportunities. But after earning my Ph.D.,

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Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media

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Those Zoom meetings that took the place of in-person gatherings for school or work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic? Nasir did just that, leaving India that fall for graduate school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Stop for a second and think about the Internet without digital images or video. Not an option.

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TetraVitae Bioscience demos production of renewable n-butanol from a corn dry-mill

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n-butanol is an important intermediate in the coatings, plastics, personal care, and packaging industries. The basis of the technology is Clostridium Beijerinckii BA 101, a mutant (non GMO) organism discovered by Professor Hans Blaschek of the University of Illinois which produces solvents (acetone-butanol-ethanol, ABE) at elevated levels.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.