1 2 6 12 18 24 36 42 44 48 50 52 54 56 58 61 Summary Report overview 1. Recent trends in average fuel consumption for new cars 2. How great is the technical potential to reduce new car fuel consumption by 2020 and by 2030? 3. The critical distinction between the technical potential to improve fuel economy and how much of that technical potential is realized 4. Policies to encourage the producti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few investigations have addressed the safety of oxygen from concentrators for use in anesthesia in association with nitrous oxide. This study evaluated the percent of oxygen from a concentrator in association with nitrous oxide in a semi-closed rebreathing circuit. METHODS Adult patients undergoing low risk surgery were randomly allocated into two groups, receiving a...

We investigated the circumstances of unintended carbon monoxide deaths from motor vehicle exhaust. Of 64 episodes involving 82 deaths investigated by the West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 1978-84, 50 occurred outdoors in older vehicles with defective exhaust systems and 14 occurred in enclosed or semi-enclosed home garages. Blood alcohol was detected in 50 (68 per cent) of 74 ...

We present a low-loss, compact, polarization insensitive 3-dB optical power-splitter for submicron silicon waveguides. The splitter is optimized over broad wavelength span ranging from 1300 to 1700 nm through finite difference time domain simulations. junction footprint only 1.8 × 1.3 ?m, which smaller than previously reported broadband multimode splitters. Furthermore, the demonstrated device ...

Two modes are being considered for a 50 on 50-GeV muon collider: one being a high-luminosity ring with broad momentum acceptance (dp/p of ∼ 0.12%, rms) and the other lower luminosity with narrow momentum acceptance (dp/p of ∼ 0.003%, rms), or Higgs Factory. To reach the design luminosities, the value of beta at collision in the two rings must be 4 cm and 14 cm, respectively. In addition, the bu...

Recently, many novel and exotic phases have been proposed by considering the role of topology in non-Hermitian systems, their emergent properties are wide current interest. In this work we propose generalization semi-Dirac semimetals, which feature a linear dispersion along one momentum direction quadratic other. We study topological phase transitions such two-dimensional semimetals presence pa...