Over 600,000 bone-grafting operations are performed each year in the United States. The majority of the bone used for these surgeries comes from autografts that are limited in quantity or allografts with high failure rates. Current synthetic bone grafting materials have poor mechanical properties, handling characteristics, and bioactivity. The goal of this dissertation was to develop a clinical...

In project construction, materials constitute a major cost item of the project, making material management key component success and profit maximization. Using cross-sectional survey design, this study explored practices on construction sites emerging challenges in Upper West Region Ghana. A total 129 respondents site managers, consultants Districts/Municipals Engineers were involved study. The...

Research-scale fully automated flow platform for reaction self-optimization with solids handling facilitates identification of optimal conditions continuous manufacturing pharmaceuticals while reducing amounts raw materials consumed.

An overview is given of the processing of plastic materials from the handling of polymers in the pellet and powder form to manufacturing of a plastic fabricated product. Various types of equipment used and melt processing ranges of various polymer formulations to make the myriad of plastic products that are commercially available are discussed.

A high-throughput bioassay system to evaluate the efficacy of residual pesticides against mosquitoes and muscid flies with minimal insect handling was developed. The system consisted of 4 components made of readily available materials: 1) a CO2 anaesthetizing chamber, 2) a specialized aspirator, 3) a cylindrical flat-bottomed glass bioassay chamber assembly, and 4) a customized rack.

This paper reviews the major adhesives and processes used for 3D TSV thin wafer handling, provides thermal and other performance data on the materials and processes and attempts to establish a first order estimate of process related thermal performance using a common analytical method.

In order to make use of and exploit commercially biodegradable protein-based materials, degradation research is essential to provide information pertinent to the basic production and handling properties of such materials. It seems that the experimental methods utilized to evaluate the lag phases of protein films may be applied to other substrates under various conditions. Techniques used to det...

Transfer learning (TL) increasingly becomes an important tool in handling data scarcity, especially when applying machine (ML) to novel materials science problems. In autonomous workflows optimize optoelectronic thin...