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How Tariffs Will Skyrocket Electronics Prices
Like the industry he covers, Shawn DuBravac had already had quite a week by the time IEEE Spectrum spoke to him early last Thursday, 10 April 2025. As chief economist at IPC, the 3000-member industry association for electronics manufacturers,…
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Roof harvests falling rain power in new radical energy experiment
Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity – enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds using nothing more than a small vertical tube and some carefully timed droplets.
The study demonstrates how a…
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US cuts nuclear reactor cost with GE Hitachi’s steel-concrete composite
A novel modular steel-concrete composite, which can significantly reduce the construction costs of nuclear reactors, has successfully passed a key test.
The Diaphragm Plate Steel Composite (DPSC), developed by a research team from GE Hitachi…
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Largest-ever US nuclear sub gets final propulsor to dominate seas
To reshape America’s nuclear deterrent and improve maritime capabilities, the US Navy’s first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN 826), has moved closer to reality.
The US…
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Microsoft signs world’s largest CO2 removal deal
Microsoft has entered into a record-breaking carbon removal agreement with AtmosClear, a portfolio company of Fidelis. The tech giant will buy 6.75 million metric tons of engineered carbon removal over a 15-year period, making it the largest…
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Collaborative multiview time series modeling for vehicle maintenance demand prediction
Notations
To facilitate a detailed description of the maintenance demand prediction task, we first introduce some notations in Table 1. During the maintenance process of a vehicle, numerous maintenance projects are necessary, with each project…
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A target detection model HR-YOLO for advanced driver assistance systems in foggy conditions
HR-YOLO network architecture
This study introduces HR-YOLO, a high-precision object detection network specifically tailored for driving scenarios under foggy conditions. Built upon YOLOv845, the HR-YOLO architecture is depicted in Fig. 1. The…
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Analysis of electric field in inclined dielectric media by heaviside unit-step function
In this paper, in order to calculate the electric field for the oblique model interface, the dielectric constant at the corresponding position is calculated using Heaviside unit-step function for that position. Equation (1) below represents the…
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Influence of tillage methods on transplanter performance with different transplanting mechanisms
The study evaluated seedling spacing for tomato and watermelon seedlings across different transplanter types and tillage methods. The results presented in Table 5. show that the seedling spacing for tomato seedlings varies slightly among the…
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