My trusty spreadsheet found the California index jumped 48% between November and December, putting the index at a five-year ...

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A “standard reference thermoelectric module (SRTEM)*” for objectively measuring thermoelectric module performance has been ...

Why GDP fails in the AI age and how China’s mind-first, entrepreneurial economy reshapes global power dynamics.

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Abstract: As a high-precision (HP) position sensor, the optical encoder is the core component of modern electromechanical machines. During measurement, it is inevitably influenced by different ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

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For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. By Jordan Rau ...