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JULY 13, 2019

Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB), with colleagues in the US and China, have provided pathophysiologic evidence of the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular disease in China. Spatial Distribution of Estimated Annual Pollution Concentrations in 2015 in China. —first author, Meng Wang. —Meng Wang.

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JULY 10, 2023

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. According to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), emissions of mercury to the atmosphere increased by an estimated 20% from 2010 to 2015.

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MAY 4, 2017

Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, co-authored the paper with colleagues from the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.;

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JANUARY 5, 2020

A study by an international team of researchers warns that the global transition to global low-carbon energy technology could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply of rare minerals and metals. Their paper is published in Science.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

is the leading global environmental risk factor for mortality and disease burden, with associated annual global welfare costs of trillions of dollars, However, no one knows what city has the highest level of the pollution. at the global scale. The global mean population distance to nearest PM 2.5 monitoring at all.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. The Request funds efforts to reduce the global threat posed by nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation and unsecured or excess nuclear materials, and it supports activities that provide safe and effective propulsion for the US nuclear Navy.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

A team from Duke University in the US and University of York in the UK have utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify the health burden from long-term ozone exposure in three major regions of the world. —Karl Seltzer. Karl M Seltzer et al.

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MAY 15, 2017

in collaboration with scientists at the University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); University of Colorado; and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, assessed 30 studies of vehicle emissions under real-world driving conditions in 11 major vehicle markets representing 80% of new diesel vehicle sales in 2015.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. Research will be led by Daniel Steingart, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 78 and William H.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd., of Vancouver.

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APRIL 26, 2022

The IEEE senior member established an innovation lab for budding entrepreneurs at La Trobe University , in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an engineering professor. And if that isn’t enough, he is working to combat impending food shortages by developing imaging technology to determine how to grow plants in inhabitable environments.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

Deep convective cloud (DCC) systems in the tropics produce copious precipitation and drive the global-scale circulation. The findings are based largely on unique data made possible by the GoAmazon research campaign, where scientists made ground-based and airborne measurements related to climate during 2014-2015. —Jiwen Fan.

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MAY 12, 2017

Usibor is our key product in hot stamping and has been a major commercial and technical success in the global automotive industry. —Brian Aranha, executive vice president, global automotive, ArcelorMittal. —Brad Davey, chief marketing officer, NAFTA and global automotive for ArcelorMittal.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The companies are already working to fulfil a substantial order from two customers (Shanghai International Automobile City and Tongji University). V2X, compared to these sensors, offers the benefit of working in a non-line-of-sight environment with a 0.6 1 km range. —Wenhua Huang, President of SAIC USA. —Wenhua Huang.

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MAY 9, 2017

Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Grant Category. Project Description.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4

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AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. Since substantial coal use (equivalent to 50% of global coal consumption) is the primary reason for the poor air quality, China is considering setting a cap on its use.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Ford Motor Company and its philanthropic arm, Ford Fund, have worked for decades on multiple projects globally to advance human welfare; Project Better World is the latest example. In the past 16 months, the company has conducted more than 30 global mobility experiments to gain insight into changing consumer transportation preferences.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

A team led by researchers from the University of Alberta (Canada) Scientists has developed a hybrid sodium-ion capacitor (NIC) using active materials in both the anode and the cathode derived entirely from peanut shells—a green and highly economical waste globally generated at more than 6 million tons per year. Batteries'

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JULY 8, 2016

A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. In turn, these attitudes have encouraged energy-intense habits, influencing the design of the built environment and guiding patterns of human settlement. and the U.S.: —Jim Krane.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from its Haas School of Business.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This month, the Ford European Research & Innovation Center in Aachen, Germany, and the Technology and Innovation Management Institute of RWTH Aachen University will launch the Personal Mobility Experience Innovation project. During 2015, Ford will contribute to the UK government-sponsored UK Autodrive initiative. UK Autodrive.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Intel will purchase a 15% ownership stake in HERE, a global provider of high-definition digital maps and location-based services, from HERE’s current indirect shareholders: Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG. By working with Intel, HERE aims to offer automakers a universal solution that reduces both complexity and long-term development costs.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Quantitative use of this indicator ratio is subject to three major uncertainties: (1) the split between NO x -limited and NO x -saturated conditions may shift in space and time, (2) the ratio of the vertically integrated column may not represent the near-surface environment, and (3) satellite products contain errors. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Rebecca Fisher at the Paris Climate Accords In 2015. in Environmental Studies from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, earned a Master of Environment Economics and Sustainable International Development at Duke University in North Carolina, where she focused on assigning monetary value to environmental goods and services.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs. this could be the answer.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Having authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications, De Floriani served as editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 to 2018. Herring Hayashi currently works with semiconductor workflows in large-scale computer environments.

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MARCH 31, 2015

—Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton. 2015) “A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010” Environ. Resources. A Schneider et al.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

University of Iowa researchers have found that smoke resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America and transported across the Gulf of Mexico intensified tornado conditions already in process in the United States. In fact, the simulation including the smoke resulted in a lowered cloud base and greater wind shear.

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). This idea suddenly appeared in Pentagon publications and official statements after the summer of 2015.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

In a three-week series of flight tests lasting until 9 October 2015, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been investigating how to reduce the impact of air transport on the climate by using alternative fuels. At present, global air traffic contributes towards almost 5% of global warming.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The most noticeable result is bus route 55 where ten all-electric or partially electrified buses have been operating since 2015. Electrification is on the march within the global transport sector, and the next challenge is to integrate electrification with investments in future smart and sustainable cities.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Marine BioEnergy, Inc. was awarded $2.1

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

So, after DRC ended in 2015 with several of the robots successfully completing the entire final scenario, the obvious question was: When would humanoid robots make the transition from research project to a commercial product? These robots were clearly research projects, but DARPA has a history of catalyzing technology with a long-term view.

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