Advancing the Frontiers

Advancing frontiers in industrial health.

BioMEMS –Advancing the Frontiers of Medicine

Biological and medical application of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) is currently seen as an area of high potential impact. Integration of biology and microtechnology has resulted in the development of a number of platforms for improving biomedical and pharmaceutical technologies. This review provides a general overview of the applications and the opportunities presented by MEMS in med...

Advancing the frontiers of soil science towards a geoscience

The visions, directions, and images of soil science are changing. Historically, soil science has followed a circuitous path in its evolution from a discipline with foundational roots in geology, to an applied agricultural and environmental discipline, and now to a bioand geo-science through the Earth’s Critical Zone investigations. This closes the loop or spiral, but along the way, soil science...

Polygonizing Non-Uniformly Distributed 3D Points by Advancing Mesh Frontiers

3D digitization devices produce very large sets of 3D points sampled from the surfaces of the objects being scanned. A mesh construction procedure needs to be applied to derive polygon mesh from the 3D point sets. As the 3D points derived from digitization devices based on digital imaging technologies are inherently non-uniformly distributed over regions that may contain surface discontinuities...

The role of synchrotron radiation in advancing the frontiers of water- rock interactions

This overview paper discusses the important role that synchrotron-based techniques play in addressing frontiers in water-rock interactions. Over the past decade, with the advent of cutting-edge molecular scale in-situ analytical techniques, significant advances have occurred in determining the speciation and sorption/release mechanisms of metals, oxyanions, and other contaminants in soil and wa...