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This paper proposes a road-slope estimation algorithm to improve the performance and efficiency of intelligent vehicles. The algorithm integrates three types of road-slope measurements from a GPS ...

New research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening of heat waves ...

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A new study in PLOS Biology shows that deep N2 sleep, rather than light N1 sleep, dramatically boosts the likelihood of “aha” ...

Slope and digital-ramp converters are normally limited to very low sampling rates, since they require a digital counter at a highly oversampled clock rate. In this work, an asynchronous digital slope ...

This signaled that the recent downtrend was losing steam and that a bottom could be forming. The last divergence occured because the S&P 500 ETF was increasing, but at a decreasing rate. The momentum ...

The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn't have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and Rachit Dubey ...