Rajagopalan Vasudevan is an Indian scientist who has mostly worked in the field of waste management. He is presently employed as a professor at Thiagarajar College of Engineering. He devised a novel way for reusing plastic garbage to build better, more durable, and more cost-effective roads. He devised the concept of shredding plastic trash, combining […]
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Howard Eliot Wolpe was a seven-term United States Representative from Michigan and the Clinton Administration’s Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region, where he led the US delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks aimed at ending civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He rejoined the State
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund and exchange-traded product, i.e. they are traded on stock exchanges. ETFs are similar in many ways to mutual funds, except that ETFs are bought and sold from other owners throughout the day on stock exchanges while mutual funds are bought and sold from the issuer based on their price at day’s end. An ETF
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Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group. Concepts of decentralization has been applied to group dynamics and management science in private businesses and organizations, political science, law and public administration, economics, money and technology.
Virtual currencies have expanded in size and strength in recent years, with Bitcoin leading the way. However, with their greater use has come an increase in hacking and fraud. And, because the regulatory structure is sluggish, Bitcoin owners have little options if their digital wallets are stolen. Bitcoins are accessible via keys (addresses and passcodes)
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Decentralized finance, often known as DeFi, is a technology that allows financial products to be made available on a public decentralized blockchain network. As a result, instead of passing via intermediaries like banks or brokerages, they are available to everybody. Unlike a bank or brokerage account, DeFi does not require a government-issued ID, Social Security
The Elrond Network can leverage parallel processing thanks to Adaptive State Sharding technology, which combines three standardized sharding types (state, network, and transaction sharding) into a single balanced high-performance system. As a consequence, a safe blockchain with lightning-fast scalability and transaction speeds has been created. This facilitates shard merging and shard splitting, which allows the
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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900, the university is a merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The university was established by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
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Alcoa Corporation (Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation. It is the world’s eighth largest producer of aluminum, with corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina combined, through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry: technology, mining, refining, smelting,
Chromoxylography was a color woodblock printing technology that was popular from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. It was often employed to create images for children’s books, serial pulp magazines, and cover art for yellow-back and penny dreadfuls. Engravers and printers mastered the skills of relief engraving and chromoxylography in the nineteenth century, most notably in