Many physiological behaviours of cells are repeated periodically in time, such as hormone secretion, second messenger signalling, cell-division cycles and circadian rhythms. Oscillatory behaviour is a ...

Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...

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Good Design Is Innovative : The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative ...

Cell architecture is dictated by the systems that control the size, number, position and shape of individual organelles. Organelle size can be controlled by molecular rulers, quantal synthesis of ...

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...

Frederick W. Taylor – widely regarded as the founder of scientific management – revolutionized how businesses operate by introducing time-motion studies, standardized processes and incentive-based ...

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In 1978, Australian ecologists David Holmgren and Bill Mollison coined the concept of permaculture as a systematic method for the first time. For Mollison, "permaculture is the philosophy of working ...