Abstract: While design professionals are in high demand, the number of available graduates in design fields is low-a 17-year low. This increase in demand, coupled with the reduction in supply, has caused design professionals to have ...

Abstract: On January 11, 2002, H.R. 2869, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (the Act or Revitalization Act) was signed into law. This Act, which amends portions of the Comprehensive Environmental ...

Abstract: This perspective paper underscores the importance of coupled electro-mechanical studies in lithium battery systems with a specific example given of the interaction between temperature-dependent dendrite morphologies and ...

Abstract: ortex detection algorithms are required for both research and operational applications in which data volume precludes timely subjective examination of model or analysis fields. Unfortunately, objective detection of convective ...

Abstract: Recent results from storm-scale modeling experiments have suggested that the strength of the 3?7-km storm-relative wind plays a very important role in determining whether or not a storm that already exhibits midlevel updraft ...

Abstract: The fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University?National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) has been used to simulate high-wind events in the complex terrain of western Nevada. The objective was to ...

Abstract: A lower limb prosthesis is able to restore mobility to patients who have lost a limb; however, no current replacement is as moveable and adaptable as the limb that was lost. Therefore, all amputees suffer from a reduction ...