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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

While some undervotes are intentional, confusing ballot design and voting technology has been linked to over and undervotes rates. Louis than occurred statewide in 2008 when election administrators there failed to clearly differentiate between contests. times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

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Technology, Gov’t Create a Brighter Future for Small and Mid-Sized Commercial Solar

Environmental Leader

Growth in the US solar photovoltaic market — US capacity was at 1.183 gigawatts in 2008 compared to 21.3 The post Technology, Gov’t Create a Brighter Future for Small and Mid-Sized Commercial Solar appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Read more ».

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Raman and PL at the nanoscale: why it’s important for 2D materials

Physics World

Andrey Krayev received his master’s degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 1991. Since 2008, he was the CTO at AIST-NT, Inc. Since the acquisition of AIST-NT technology by HORIBA in July of 2017, Andrey has held the position of the US AFM-Raman manager at HORIBA.

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Maine Gov. Mills Signs Bill to Procure 3 GW of Offshore Wind by 2040

Law and Environment

The state has long-sought energy, climate, and economic development benefits from the emerging offshore wind industry, beginning in 2008 when then-Governor John Baldacci established an Ocean Energy Task Force.

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Silicon Valley Bank collapse threatens climate start-ups

Environmental News Bits

The bank, the largest to fail since 2008, worked with more than 1,550 technology firms … Continue reading Silicon Valley Bank collapse threatens climate start-ups

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Accelerating drug discovery with machine learning and AI

Physics World

Deep learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology, particularly in natural language processing, speech recognition and computer vision. In 2008, Olexandr received his PhD in computational chemistry. Editorial board member for Machine Learning: Science and Technology. Want to take part in this webinar?

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost.

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