Outreach workers pass out free fentanyl detection devices to help screen drugs, reduce risk of overdose

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...
CBC.ca

More than 53,000 Manitobans accessed free birth control in 1st year of provincial program

More than 53,000 Manitobans have accessed birth control at no cost in the first year of the provincial government's free contraception program, the province says. Since October 2024, eligible ...
IEEE

Safety-Guaranteed Oversized Cargo Cooperative Transportation With Closed-Form Collision-Free Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control

Abstract: In this article, the trajectory generation and motion control of autonomous driving oversized cargo cooperative transportation systems (CTS) in static but bounded environment is investigated ...
The Boston Globe

Rent control would ‘effectively halt’ housing production in Massachusetts, Healey says

Governor Maura Healey on Tuesday said she would vote against a proposal to establish rent control statewide in Massachusetts should it reach the ballot next year, arguing the initiative would stanch ...
IEEE

Model-Free Predictive Control for Improved Performance and Robustness of Three-Phase Quasi Z-Source Inverters

Abstract: This paper suggests a novel Model-Free Predictive Control (MFPC) approach for three-phase quasi Z-source inverters (qZSI). While Model Predictive Control (MPC) is popular for qZSI due to its ...
blog.lib.umn.edu

Behind the scenes: Creating a hormone-free male birth control pill

Gunda Georg and Narshimulu Cheryala, who directed much of the lab work to develop YCT-529 Around the world, roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies occurred each year between 2015 and 2019. Of ...