W. J. Boettinger,1 J. A. Warren,1 C. Beckermann,2 and A. Karma3 1Metallurgy Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242; e-mail: [email protected] 3Department of Physics and Center for Inter...

Each of us has come to envisage psychology as primarily concerned with the methods of response of the organism to two characteristic features of the environment. The first of these features lies in the fact that the environment is a causal texture {Kausalgefuge) 2 in which different events are regularly dependent upon each other. And because of the presence of such causal couplings (Kausalkoppe...

Computer training for industry is often not capable of providing advice custom-tailored for a specific student and a specific learning situation. In this paper we describe an intelligent computer-aided system that provides multiple explanations and tutoring facilities tempered to the individual student in an industrial setting. The tutor is based on a mathematically accurate formulation of the ...

Forget about farm-to-fork when it comes to genetically modified (GM) crops. Think farm-to-pharmacy, or farmto-factory. Produced through plant molecular farming (PMF), this new set of transgenic crops is being grown not for food, but to produce medicines and industrial products. For example, potatoes have been modified to produce a vaccine against the Norwalk virus, research that is currently in...

This paper describes the results of an industrial pollution prevention pilot project in Nebraska. The goal of the project is to demonstrate that through proper management and operating practices, that industrial pollution can effectively be reduced significantly. The net effect of this pollution prevention program is to improve the economic worth of the industry by lowering expenditures on poll...