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The mobility area is changing.
Last mind-set and environmental evolutions gave us the opportunity to develop new technologies that will help preserving the earth and master natural resources’ consumption.
In one hand, key topics are pollution and noise aspect. On the other hand, motorbike pilot is looking for SENSATION and PLEASURE,
Honeybee Nano Bubbles® are designed to function as an all-natural dietary replacement for table sugar and artificial chemical sweeteners, such as powdered chemical compounds. The Honeybee Nano Bubbles® are produced using a 'NASA Spinoff' microencapsulation instrument and technology developed by Dr. Joseph A. Resnick for RMANNCO, Inc. of Lenoir, NC.
Concept of a motorcycles for everyone, to go everywhere!
Is based on simply ideas, the ergonomic triangle lets everybody take good feeling whit the bike, ensuring whit a low and confortable sitting that even women will love the ride position.
But the motorcycles specifics comes by a motocross chassis, the result is something pretty cool and funny,
A chest tube is a flexible catheter frequently used in pre/post-operative setting, which is inserted into the chest cavity to evacuate air (pneumothorax) or fluids (blood, effusion, chyle or pus). There are more than one million chest tubes placed annually in the United States (1) and many more worldwide (it is the most common intervention in thoracic trauma).
For over a half-a-century, back surgeons have been cutting spinal disk cartilage and bone with Kerrison Rongeurs, whose original design for widening safely a cranial perforation was modified so that in spinal incisions, the tip could be introduced into ever-smaller spaces.
In such spaces where blood accumulates,
The earth's atmosphere is heavily polluted by greenhouse gases . Despite efforts to reduce air pollution, their concentration continues to increase. There are many types of purification plants. But their application to the extent sufficient to cleanse the entire earth's atmosphere,is economical disadvantageously. They require the cost of manufacturing ,
Composites prosthetics are defined by predefined stiffness of the material and the perception of the composite deformation for the same product is different from one person to another. For this reason, a inflatable composite cover is attached under the prosthetic foot .
Solar photovoltaic are gaining popularity in the age for sustainable clean renewable energy source grows louder. It is well known that Sun’s energy on earth is expressed as 1kw/ square meter at AM 1. Many PV technologies have been developed to convert this energy into electrical energy. The efficiency of conversion is around 12 to 14%.
There are several different ways a remotely (10’s of meters or 100’s of meters) located object can be detected, or the object’s presence can be ensured. Some of these are namely:
1. Sending ultrasonic sound and receiving the reflected sound from the object.
It is desirable to have free form cores for the sandwich panels. Unfortunately, industry could produce only flat cores, which required shaping to get a desired form.
I had to find out how to redesign of the sells of the cores to make it uniformly bendable, with bonded layers substantially unloaded from the tangential forces.
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