This chapter is a challenging case study that deals with national security. The strategic decision is about the size and structure of the US Navy for the year 2037. This case itself is a grand gedanken experiment done with experts. This case is demanding
have dominated the design of modern suspension bridges in the United States. A new type of stiffening girder, however, a streamlinedbox girderwith sufficient aerodynamic stability, was adopted for the Severn Bridge in the United Kingdom in 1966. In the 1980s, it was confirmed that a box girde...
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Cal Rodgers, the first man to fly across the United States, crashed into the ocean after a gull became jammed in his aircraft's flight controls [7]. Since then, birdstrikes have become an increasingly serious problem in both civil and military aviation, with many thousands of strikes ...
Epsilon toxin (Etx), a potent pore forming toxin (PFT) produced by Clostridium perfringens, is responsible for the pathogenesis of enterotoxaemia of ruminants and has been suggested to play a role in multiple sclerosis in humans. Etx is a member of the a
theMicrosoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTestingnamespace. The various Assert statements give you flexibility; for example, you can force a test to fail by using the statementAssert.Fail(). In addition to these Assert statements, you can, of course, construct your own custom functionality, perhaps...
Rhodopsins, most of which are proton pumps generating transmembrane electrochemical proton gradients, span all three domains of life, are abundant in the biosphere, and could play a crucial role in the early evolution of life on earth. Whereas archaeal a
United States Patent 4964596 Abstract: A spacecraft structure for orbital assembly and servicing includes a payload module, a propulsion module and a bus module each of these modules includes attachement means for separately attching to the cargo bay of the Shuttle directly and via planar cradles....
Spacecraft structure United States Patent 4682744 Abstract: A tubular circular cylindrical member, an attached frustro-conical member, and attached annular stiffening rings are formed of a metal matrix composite
United States Patent 3905832 Abstract: A compact electrochemical cell comprising a pair of opposed electrodes; an electrolyte matrix containing an aqueous, ion-conductive electrolyte between the opposed electrodes; and an electrolyte reservoir positioned behind and partially defined by at least one of ...