When ticks feed, they inject numerous proteins into the host that modulate the host’s defense mechanism to tick feeding activity. When animals are repeatedly infested with ticks, they develop an immune response to tick ...

Traditional supply chain policies and design efforts, such as lean-manufacturing, prize efficiency overall other factors and are being challenged as supply chains struggle to bounce back from recent disruptions. Supply ...

Several nations are on the eve of returning to the Moon, establishing permanent research stations, and utilizing the Lunar resources. Developing and experimentally validating two-phase fluid dynamic models for different ...

Planning needs to be done before a process capability study is conducted. Some of the important issues in planning are the concept of what constitutes a rational sample and how the data should be collected to assure that ...

Emergency response plans are an essential, yet oftentimes overlooked, layer of protection for facilities where all other layers of protection failed to prevent an incident. While catastrophic accidents such as large releases ...

Procedures and methods used for designing flexible heat exchanger networks are described. The general approach consists of defining the flexibility problem as a set of cases. Pinch Technology is then used to develop an ...

The concept of designing for energy conservation has long been a concern of Houston Lighting & Power (HL&P), culminating in the development of a local energy conservation design award competition in 1980. This competition ...

The principle of universal design is that homes should be as usable as possible by people of all ages and physical ablities. This might be accomplished by widening doors, making floor levels flush, placing electrical outlets ...

Narrative is an important part of how humans make sense of the world and express their thoughts and feelings. For children, stories are the predominant way in which they organize and express ideas and imagination. Hence, ...