Policies designed to improve industrial environmental performance are increasing in scope and stringency. These policies can significantly influence engineering design decisions as firms reoptimize their products and processes to meet compliance requirements at minimum cost. This paper demonstrates the importance of accounting for these design responses in the analysis of policy impacts. As a c...

At present, the commercial production of hydrogen is essentially carried out by catalytic steam reforming of hydrocarbons: natural gas and naphtha. However, the instability of the prices of natural gas makes the use of other raw materials increasingly attractive. This research focuses on the development of a technology for producing hydrogen from alternative resources, specifically from two typ...

Vegetable oils and ethanol have been used in a plasmatron reformer to generate synthesis gas. Corn, canola, and soybean oils and ethanol have been reformed at different oxygen to carbon ratios and different power levels. Both homogeneous plasma reforming (uncatalyzed) and catalytic plasma reformer have been evaluated.

As part of the National Study of Undergraduate Education in Science (NSEUS) which is investigating how active engagement in undergraduate science content courses taken by future teachers affects their teaching of science in elementary schools, we have examined the relationship between students’ learning of content knowledge and the degree that science courses utilize interactive (reformed) teac...

The Physician Manager Institute, developed 12 years ago by the CMA and the Canadian College of Health Service Executives, provides training that is designed to improve physicians' management and leadership skills. Changes within health care are prompting more doctors to seek this training in order to become managers within a reformed health care system.

In this paper we presents how the traditional learning styles are reformed by E-Learning Systems and now a days due to rapid technological enhancements they are refitted by Intelligent E-Learning systems. We discuss the artificial intelligence techniques used in implementing the Intelligent Learning systems IITS.

Purpose Postgraduate medical training was reformed to be more responsive to changing societal needs. In the Netherlands, as in various other Western countries, a competency-based curriculum was introduced reflecting the clinical and nonclinical roles a modern doctor should fulfill. It is still unclear, however, what this modernization process exactly comprises and what its consequences might be...

A position control method for interpolating aspherical grinding and polishing tool path was reviewed and experimented in a nano precision machine. The position-base algorithm was reformed from the time-base algorithm, proposed in the previous study. The characteristics of the algorithm were in the velocity control loop with position feedback. The aspherical surface was divided by an interval at...

Knowledge of protein structure grants insight on a protein’s function and capabilities within a system. Currently available automated prediction of structures is limited and inconsistent. The Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) is a worldwide competition to automate the process, and supplementary WeFold allows competing groups to connect with ideas on how to predict prote...

Some of the newest contenders for orthodoxy in Christian theology have come from a distinct approach called the New Perspective on Paul (NPP). Coming beside the NPP—though not agreeing in entirety—is the development of the Federal Vision (FV). Believing they have found emphases in Scripture that have been long neglected, these groups have sought to redefine Paul’s theology of salvation. Specifi...