Planting Hope: supporting the greener curriculum.

Supporting Industry in the Development of Design for All Curriculum

There are very few sources of information about industry needs in regard to the required Design for All knowledge and skills for designers and engineers. A common finding of many studies, besides technical feasibility and commercial viability, is the lack of awareness among suppliers and users on DfA. In this paper, some of the results of a series of workshops organized by Fraunhofer FIT under ...

Innovations: the gas is greener.

Background: Protein-Carbohydrate interactions are crucial in many biological processes with implications to drug targeting and gene expression. Nature of protein-carbohydrate interactions may be studied at individual residue level by analyzing local sequence and structure environments in binding regions in comparison to non-binding regions, which provide an inherent control for such analyses. W...

The grass isn't always greener.

Many citizens in Wyoming are calling for property tax relief including a constitutional drive to hold property taxes to the rate of inflation. Others states are doing it, why shouldn’t we give it a try? As the Executive Director of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association, one of my responsibilities is to educate Wyoming citizens and offer a word of caution, “the grass isn’t always greener on the othe...

Routes to greener plastics

How to hide a dimension from view Compacted dimensions are essential ingredients of advanced string theories; the extra dimensions used to describe the world are hidden from view, or compacted. Pendry et al. used concepts of transformation optics, in which metamaterials are designed to produce specific optical properties, to show theoretically that compacted dimensions could be possible in plas...

Planting the Living City