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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Ford and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) are partnering on a competition for undergraduate students to develop innovative applications that enhance vehicle safety and sustainability by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The competition is hosted by UMTRI.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. The open-access paper is published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The study is the first to document the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce the burden of air pollution in a highly polluted area of China, and provides a model to measure how policies to improve air quality can protect human health. Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. To assess the impact of obesity on the environment, researchers used the standard definitions of obesity (body mass index of greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2 ) and normal weight (body mass index of less than 25).

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AUGUST 15, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 university projects to conduct advanced turbine technology research under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. Texas A&M University. Purdue University. University of Texas at Austin.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The IsoC, a six-by-three-by-three-foot, two-chambered glass and steel enclosure, allows chemists to work in a controlled, inert and moisture-free environment. All of our exposure testing must be performed inside the IsoC in an oxygen-free, moisture-free environment.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The study, lead by University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Patrick Miner, also seems to have been influenced and goes into great detail outlining the specific harms caused by driving.& The report is even entitled “ Car harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment.” That was the impetus for this paper.”

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

A newly released University of Michigan study found widespread consumer interest in buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; however, the cost of the cars is much more influential than environmental and other non-economic factors as a predictor of purchase probabilities. Source: Curtin et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. American Honda Motor Co., model home in San Marcos, Calif., and potentially in additional KB Home markets. ZeroHouse 2.0

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

In response to the ongoing discussion about the reliability of the UN IPCC and the climate reports, a group of 55 leading Dutch scientists working in the field of climate change, energy and the environment wrote an open letter. The procedure for compiling reports and its quality control are governed by well documented principles. [

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MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. Our engineers at Audi likewise use the ADTF development environment. The key is a large number of ready-to-use modules and an extensive collection of programs and documentation. Leipzig University of Applied Sciences.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most common hydrophobic organic pollutants with well documented toxic effects on human health and the ecosystem. Although the majority of PAH sources are in developing countries, they reach remote regions, including pristine environments, through long-range transport (LRT).

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

—Steve Strauss, a distinguished professor of forest biotechnology at Oregon State University, and lead author of the paper. Virtually none of that potential is now being developed, they said. —Strauss et al.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

The two-day conference, “Increasing the Momentum of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: Developments and Opportunities” brought together country delegates and experts from international organizations, NGOs, universities and the industrial sector. Earlier post.) Opportunities for international collaboration.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

They documented a decrease of 30% in 2018 compared to 2005, equivalent to about 30,000 avoided early deaths, or people who did not die early as a result of pollution. The research was a collaboration between MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

All of the information developed through the course of the evaluation, lab studies and field trials will be documented in reports that the industry can use to improve design casing and cementing programs, and that regulatory agencies can use as regulations are promulgated to ensure wellbore integrity requirements have a sound scientific basis.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The four-year project will leverage Virginia Tech’s research and cross-discipline expertise on engine operation, instrumentation, and geosciences as well as the current research relationships that both Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have with the university.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Audi has worked with MIT on other projects as part of a strategy to develop new technology and approaches with leading universities to better understand the conditions that lead to driver stress, and subsequently, to driver enjoyment. —Filip Brabec, Director of Product Management, Audi of America.

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JULY 30, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment. The basic assertions by the petitioners and EPA responses follow.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Climate change has direct impact on five aspects of the human environment (red lines, purple circles) that in turn impact additional environmental factors. The report, A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change , provides a starting point for coordination of federal research to better understand climate’s impact on human health.

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JULY 27, 2016

Through the mobility-on-demand system being developed for MIT’s campus, ACL can investigate new planning and prediction algorithms in a complex, but controlled, environment, while simultaneously providing a testbed framework for researchers and a service to the MIT community. —ACL director Professor Jonathan How.

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MAY 14, 2013

The document tracks progress to implement recommendations made in the roadmap version 1.0, The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released Version 2.0 of the Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles , developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP). —EV Standardization Roadmap v 2.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi, rather than the Global Positioning System (GPS). —Zak Kassas.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope , in just a few months of operation, has begun to change our view of the universe. Then more complicated, very complicated experiments and eventually something known as TRL 6 technology—Technology Readiness Level 6—which demonstrated that we could do this in a flight-like environment. But we did it.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, during the dry season, high concentrations of aerosol particles from biomass burning (mainly agricultural practices and deforestation) have been documented in this region. The results of this analysis were published in 2015 in the journal Atmospheric Environment. We observed that the most abundant PAH was retene.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Human emissions of vanadium to atmosphere now exceed natural sources by a factor of 1.7 —Schlesinger et al. —lead author William H.

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MARCH 16, 2016

While the characterization of mechanical properties via macroscopic measurements is well documented, in situ characterization of their evolution has never been achieved at the nanoscale. Scanning probe microscopy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has provided the first nanoscale, liquid environment analysis of this energy storage material.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951. The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain. Only Bardeen’s survives.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler has been expanding its network to universities with innovative instruments such as “Forschungscampus”, tech centers, shared professorships and industry fellowships and start-up incubators and accelerators. To successfully embark on this path, vehicles must be able to acquire knowledge about their environment as well as analyse it.

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MARCH 28, 2011

Transport 2050 forsees the gradual phasing out of conventionally-fuelled vehicles from the urban environment as making a major contribution to significant reduction of oil dependence, greenhouse gas emissions and local air and noise pollution. Public transport choices are more widely available, as well as the option of walking and cycling.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

Key tests and trials should be funded for promising ideas, prizes should be awarded to encourage innovation, research should be fostered in the universities and government laboratories, thus seeking the approaches with high pay-off potential, the team concluded.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Robust analytical tools NTDAS was built in partnership with INRIX , a transportation analytics solutions provider, and the University of Maryland ’s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory , a leader in transportation science research. “IEEE is so diverse, and this state-of-the-art platform reflects that.”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Drive Electric Submission: Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document. However, the draft ERP document, while containing some advanced thinking, does not present the plan in a holistic way. . Copenhagen) it’s possible for cycling/active transport modes to make up half or more of commuter trips in urban environments. .

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JULY 30, 2024

West decided to pursue a degree in mathematics at Virginia State College (now Virginia State University ), a historically Black school in Petersburg. Instead, to solidify her skills as a manager, she earned a master’s degree in 1973 in public administration from the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

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