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Study: US counties with higher PM2.5 concentrations have more stroke deaths

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lead author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Other possible contributors to excessive rates of stroke in these states are poverty, diet, smoking, the control of stroke risk factors and the availability of health services.

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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

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Electrification has its sustainability challenges,” notes Daniel Ludois , a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Electrostatic motors have been available for years, but today, these are tiny units with power output measured in milliwatts. For comparison, the relative permittivity of air is 1.

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

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. It appeared in the October 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. A typical age mix of multifamily rental housing can be seen in the greater Philadelphia region as shown in Figure 1, from a Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission report. households.