During their time in university, students of industrial design are typically trained to improve the appearance, function and value of products. This product-centric focus of the industrial designer’s work is often blamed for the proliferation of unnecessary products in the market and the promotion of such wasteful values as rapid obsolescence and conspicuous consumption. In this paper, the usua...

The industrial use of silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates is quickly spreading. For microelectronics applications, this material brings new functionality, such as radiation-hard, high-voltage or low-voltage and low-consumption integrated circuits. Industrial wafers are now commercially available and new technologies, such as Smart Cut from SOITEC company, will provide low prices in high-volum...

Today industrial textile has an old tradition, in the 20 th century when man-made fibers became available, the range of industrial textiles was rapidly widened by textiles before, These are currently used to produce fabric reinforced constructions, it is only in the last few decades that industrial textiles have become a commonly considered special group of textiles products, (2) where industri...

Cassava (Manihot spp.) has become an important crop in many parts of the world for processing into several human foods and industrial commodities. Increased utilization of cassava and its products has been a catalyst for industrial development, creating sources of income for farmers, processors and traders. In poorer developing countries of the tropical and semi-tropical climates where wheat ca...

The issue of sustainability of industrial products is a subject of scientific research and debate since several years. This topic is very important for the implications that design decisions have on the environment and society when products are sold in the markets. Although today products can be assessed by methodologies such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and related software, a vivid interest...

During the recent years, the use of linguistic data for language processing (semantic ambiguity resolution, translation...) increased progressively. Such data are now commonly called language resources. A few years ago, nearly all the language resources used for this purpose were collections of texts as the Brown Corpus and the Penn Treebank, but the use of electronic lexicons (WordNet, FrameNe...

Thanks to the advances in numerical analysis achieved in the last several years, BEM became a powerful numerical technique for the industrial products design. Until recent time this technique has been recognized in a praxis as a technique offering from one side some excellent features (2D instead of 3D discretization, treatment of the open-boundary problems, etc.), but from the other side havin...

Technological advances present rms in many industries with opportunities to substantially improve their product's capabilities in short periods of time. Customers who invest in these products may, however, react adversely to rapid improvements that obsoletes their previous versions by deferring their purchase. In industrial markets, there is an emerging trend of sequentially improving products ...

BACKGROUND Manufacture of probiotic products involves industrial processes that reduce the viability of the strains. This lost of viability constitutes an economic burden for manufacturers, compromising the efficacy of the product and preventing the inclusion of probiotics in many product categories. Different strategies have been used to improve probiotic stability during industrial processes....