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Seclen Luna, Jean Pierre, and Pablo Moya Fernández. "Exploring the relationship between KIBS co-location and the innovativeness of the manufacturing firms in Latin America." Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Reserach 48 (October 19, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.38191/iirr-jorr.20.021.

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Literature has provided empirical evidence showing the importance of location for understanding KIBS effective service provision. According to territorial servitization postulates KIBS are also fundamental for the development of the manufacturing firms. Despite KIBS can be an important source of innovation, limited attention is paid of KIBS in Latin America region. The purpose of this research is analysing the relationship between KIBS co-location and innovativeness of the manufacturing firms. Drawing on the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2017 for Latin-American countries, authors analyse 3,029

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Pelletier, Louis. "An experiment in ?historically correct? Canadian photoplays: Montreal's British American Film Manufacturing Co." Film History: An International Journal 19, no. 1 (2007): 34–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/fil.2007.19.1.34.

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Sun Jae Won. "Pioneering Action for American Welfare Capitalism: Founder’s Challenge at the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Co., 1886~1918." Review of Business History 32, no. 4 (2017): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22629/kabh.2017.32.4.009.

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GODLEY, ANDREW, MARRISA JOSEPH, and DAVID LESLIE-HUGHES. "Technology Transfer in the Interwar U.S. Pharmaceutical Sector: The Case of E. Merck of Darmstadt and Merck & Co., Rahway, New Jersey." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 3 (2019): 613–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.97.

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This is a case study of the U.S. pharmaceutical producer, Merck & Co. By 1940 this was one of the leading pharmaceutical producers in the United States, and the company went on to become one of the global industry leaders after World War II. It was founded in 1891 as the U.S. subsidiary of a much larger German pharmaceutical company, E. Merck of Darmstadt. The existing understanding of Merck & Co.’s history emphasizes how it was reacquired by the American branch of the Merck family after wartime sequestration, and from then onward it pursued a path of development separate from its form

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Dawson, Patrick. "Australian technology meets American manufacturing: A case study of industrial collaboration." Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing 8, no. 2 (1998): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6564(199821)8:2<111::aid-hfm2>3.0.co;2-6.

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Matsumura, Takashi, and Norikazu Suzuki. "Special Issue on Recent Advanced Manufacturing Science and Technology." International Journal of Automation Technology 18, no. 4 (2024): 461–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2024.p0461.

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Recently, manufacturing technologies have progressed owing to high industrial demand. For example, in the automobile and aircraft industries, manufacturing processes require technologies that allow for high machining rates of lightweight and/or difficult-to-cut materials. Fabricating medical equipment involves the machining of biocompatible materials with high mechanical strength. Information devices require high-quality ultraprecision manufacturing processes. Furthermore, measurement and characterization technologies are also essential for manufacturing. Along with the evolution of manufactur

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Hem-Lee-Forsyth, Shivaughn, Bibiana Sandoval, and Hanna Bryant. "A tridimensional view of the Hispanic Health Paradox: Its relationship with faith, the enclave theory, and familism." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 12 (2021): 317–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.812.11476.

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This paper examines the "Hispanic (American) Health Paradox," the juxtaposition of Hispanics’ longer lifespan than the average American amid numerous inequities regarding social determinants of health. Hispanic Americans endure multiple health disparities with a higher incidence and prevalence of chronic conditions. They also experience multiple psychosocial and physical health challenges, including higher rates of food insecurity, poverty, segregation, discrimination, and limited or no access to medical care. Nevertheless, Hispanics enjoy better physical well-being and lower mortality rates w

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DAWSON, ANDREW. "Reassessing Henry Carey (1793–1879): The Problems of Writing Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 465–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006358.

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In April 1859 a group of well-to-do manufacturers and Republican politicians coaxed a reclusive Henry Carey, Philadelphia's pre-eminent economist, from his study to a public dinner in his honour. One hundred and twenty five names were at the foot of an invitation to dine at the opulent La Pierre Hotel in recognition of Carey's “service in behalf of American industrial interests.” The banqueting hall glittered with brilliantly illuminated chandeliers trimmed with floral arrangements; at one end a banner proclaimed “Protection to American Labor,” although, curiously, none of the guests looked as

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Larkin, Patrick S. "Job Satisfaction in Public Horticulture." HortScience 30, no. 4 (1995): 902B—902. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.30.4.902b.

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Much has been written about how job satisfaction may or may not affect production, morale, and quality of work. However, most job satisfaction studies have been conducted in the area of manufacturing and management, but none have been conducted in the field of public horticulture. Job satisfaction was examined in 245 employees from 30 public horticulture institutions in the mid-Atlantic region of the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) using the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) and Job in General (JIG). Our purpose was to determine if differences in job satisfaction existed

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Miyata, Kenichi, Hikaru Kondo, and Hiromichi Hasebe. "Emergent Dynamics of Cultural Innovation: Globalizing Pikachu through Japanese and American System, 1990-1999." Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business 10, no. 2 (2025): 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1344/jesb.42474.

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Over the past decades, Japanese ‘soft power’ industries have obtained global popularity and attention for their new global media content. This was occurring while manufacturing sectors such as the electronics industry lost its international competitiveness after the financial bubble crisis in the early 1990s. In cultural studies, Japan’s growth of soft power attributed to a unique cultural business system through media franchising, called media mix, which created those popular media content. The main purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of this system, one that was founded on in

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Books on the topic "American Manufacturing Co"

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1945-, Collins James H., and Diamond Gary, eds. Chasing rainbows: Collecting American Indian trade & camp blankets. Bullfinch Press, 2002.

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Edward Drummond Libbey, American glassmaker. McFarland, 2011.

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American manufacturers of combustible ammunition: James H. Merrill, Baltimore, Md., E.R., Sturtevant, Springfield, Mass., H.W. Mason, South Coventry, Conn. Thomas Publications, 2002.

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Russ, Jonathan S. Global Motivations: Honda, Toyota, and the Drive Toward American Manufacturing. University Press of America, Incorporated, 2008.

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Global Motivations: Honda, Toyota, and the Drive Toward American Manufacturing. University Press of America, Incorporated, 2008.

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Kroeber, Arthur R. China's Economy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190946470.001.0001.

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China’s economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world’s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world’s steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America. Multinational companies make billions of dollars in profits in China each year, while traders around the world shudder at every gyration of the country’s unruly stock markets. Perh

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Book chapters on the topic "American Manufacturing Co"

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Iglesias, Fabián, Alfredo Aguilera, Arturo Padilla, Matías Madaf, and Eduardo Diez. "Optical Evaluation of Surface Roughness in Wood Parts Processed by Robotic Sanding." In Proceedings of the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38563-6_52.

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AbstractSurface roughness is an essential property in the manufacturing industry to assess the quality of its products after finishing operations. However, the evaluation of surface quality in wood products usually depends on the subjective inspection of the operators, which implies a high variability in the final quality of the pieces. This study proposes a new method to estimate roughness parameters by applying algorithms on images of wood parts processed by robotic sanding. For this purpose, this article presents a hybrid approach based on features using the co-occurrence matrix applied to

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Gertler, Meric S. "Proximity, Organization, and Culture." In Manufacturing Culture. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233824.003.0010.

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Since the late 1980s a growing number of geographers and other social scientists have chronicled the apparent rise of post-Fordist economic systems (Scott and Storper 1987; Schoenberger 1988; Harvey 1989; Storper and Walker 1989; Boyer 1990; Storper 1997). These systems are said to employ a flexible approach to production reflected in employment relations, the organization of work within firms, and the broader social division of labour (Cooke and Morgan 1998). To some, the heart of this transformation lies in the rise of a new set offerees of production (Walker 1994). In particular, they point

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Correa Rossi, Mariana, Angel Vicente Escuder, Ruben Agustin Panadero, Miguel Gomez Pólo, Pedro Peñalver, and Vicente Amigó Borrás. "Mechanical and microstructural characterization of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy processed by additive manufacturing for overdenture prosthesis." In Titanium-Based Alloys - Characteristics and Applications [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1005426.

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The main objective of this work is to show the capabilities of additive manufacturing to obtain arches and overdentures from titanium alloys. Overdentures are obtained mainly by subtractive techniques in both titanium alloys and Co-Cr-Mo. Obtaining these overdentures in Ti-6Al-4V, with better biocompatibility than Co alloys, by additive manufacturing (AM), by both laser and electron beam techniques, is of increasing interest. However, adequate mechanical and microstructural characterization is necessary to bring them closer to the alloys obtained by forging and machining. Parts obtained by sel

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Li, Jie Jack. "Beginning of an Era: The First Blockbuster Drug, Tagamet." In Blockbuster Drugs. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199737680.003.0005.

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Tagamet emerged as the first blockbuster drug when its sales exceeded $1 billion in 1986, three years after its introduction to the market. An anti–peptic ulcer drug, Tagamet was discovered by James W. Black and his colleagues at Smith Kline & French’s (SK&F) British subsidiary in Welwyn Garden City. Before Tagamet, SK&F was a little-known U.S. drug firm in Philadelphia. After Tagamet, SK&F became one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The history of Tagamet is one of the most extraordinary in the annals of medicine. It is a saga of a drug that almost escaped

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Loadman, John, and Francis James. "Back to the Courts." In The Hancocks of Marlborough. Oxford University PressOxford, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199573554.003.0011.

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Abstract One person who did not have a stand at the Great Exhibition was Stephen Moulton, friend of Charles Goodyear, although he had started a rubber manufacturing business in the West Country in 1848. Because of his importance in the legal battles soon to be fought by Charles Macintosh Co., it is worth looking at his background in the rubber business. Born in 1794, he had emigrated to America with his wife, Elizabeth, and their nine children sometime before 1842, and there he struck up friendships with a number of rubber pioneers including Goodyear, Hayward, and the three Rider brothers.

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Kiefner, J. F., and E. B. Clark. "Submerged-Arc-Welded Pipe." In History of Line Pipe Manufacturing in North America. ASME, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.812334_ch6.

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Line pipe with a submerged-arc-welded seam was first made in 1930 at the Christy Park Works of National Tube Co.(6-1) The Christy Park process involved forming flat plates into “cans” in a set of presses. The edges of the cans were then joined by a single pass (multi-welder) submerged-arc weld made from the outside surface onto a backing shoe located at the ID surface. The finished pipe was rounded in a set of pyramid rolls. The Christy Park process was discontinued in 1932 for reasons unknown and some of the equipment was sold to Western Pipe and Steel Company. The Western Pipe and Steel Comp

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Doner, Richard F., Gregory W. Noble, and John Ravenhill. "The Lure and Challenges of the Automobile Industry." In The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197520253.003.0002.

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The automobile industry simultaneously entices and challenges developing countries. It is a leading employer, a major trader, and a crucial integrator of manufacturing technologies. Would-be entrants into the industry face formidable challenges, however: high entry barriers, demanding quality requirements, and (for components producers) assemblers’ expectations that component producers will be able to co-locate with their plants. Only 15 of the world’s largest auto components manufacturers come from outside Europe, Japan, or North America. Changes in technology and regional and global trade re

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Conference papers on the topic "American Manufacturing Co"

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GAROFALO, JAMES, and DANIEL WALCZYK. "In-Situ Co-Extrusion: Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites." In American Society for Composites 2018. DEStech Publications, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/asc33/25927.

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Mi, Hao-Yang, Xin Jing, Lih-Sheng Turng, and Xiang-Fang Peng. "Microcellular Injection Molding of Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Scaffolds Using Carbon Dioxide and Water as Co-Blowing Agents." In ASME 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 41st North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2013-1154.

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In this study, a novel microcellular injection foaming method employing supercritical CO2 (scCO2) and water as co-blowing agents was developed to produce thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) tissue engineering scaffolds with a uniform porous structure and no solid skin layer. Various characterization techniques were applied to investigate the cell morphology, crystallization behavior, and static and dynamic mechanical properties of solid molded samples, foamed samples using CO2 or water as a single blowing agent, and foamed samples using both CO2 and water as co-blowing agents. Compared with CO2 f

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Sun, Xiaofei, Lih-Sheng Turng, Patrick J. Gorton, Pankaj Nigam, and Sezen Buell. "Microcellular Injection Molding of Gas-Laden Pellets Using Nitrogen (N2) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Co-Blowing Agents." In ASME 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 41st North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2013-1158.

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A novel combination approach to producing quality foamed injection molded parts has been investigated. By combining extruded, gas-laden pellets with microcellular injection molding, the processing benefits and material characteristics of using both N2 and CO2 blowing agents can be realized, thus yielding features superior to that of using either N2 or CO2 alone. Using an optimal content ratio for the blowing agents, as well as the proper sequence of introducing the gases, foamed parts with a much better morphology can be produced. In particular, extruding N2 gas-laden pellets, followed by micr

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Yu, Yin, and Ibrahim T. Ozbolat. "Bioprinting Induced Cell Damage in Cellular Micro-Fluidic Channel Fabrication." In ASME 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 41st North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2013-1081.

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Bioprinting, or layer by layer additive tissue fabrication, is a revolutionary concept recently emerged as an interdisciplinary effort to produce three-dimensional living organ for clinical application. Among many challenges, it was agreed that inclusion of vascular system is critical for maintaining the viability and functionality of relatively thick 3D bioprinted tissue constructs. Our previous research addressed the printability of novel vessel-like micro-fluidic channels with alginate hydrogel and co-axial nozzles. Here, we further investigated the influence of bioprinting parameters on ca

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Wang, Yancheng, Bing Yan, and Albert J. Shih. "Nonwoven Wheel Polishing of Ti-6Al-4V and Co-Cr-Mo Alloys." In ASME 2014 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the JSME 2014 International Conference on Materials and Processing and the 42nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2014-4060.

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This research investigates the nonwoven wheels polishing of Ti-6Al-4V and Co-Cr-Mo alloys, which are biocompatible materials for medical implants. The structure of the high porosity nonwoven wheels consisting of the nonwoven fibers and abrasive grains are characterized. The compressibility and stiffness of the wheel are measured. The stiffness of the wheel is nonlinear depending on the wheel surface speed and compression depth. Polishing tests at two levels of wheel surface speed and compression depth are conducted. Surface roughness and polishing forces are studied. Results demonstrated that

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WANG, YEQING, and SPENCER LAMPKIN. "RAPID CURING OF EPOXY RESIN USING SELF- SUSTAINED FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION TOWARDS THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF THERMOSET FIBER COMPOSITES." In Proceedings for the American Society for Composites-Thirty Seventh Technical Conference. Destech Publications, Inc., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/asc37/36414.

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The demand for lightweight and high-performance thermoset fiber composites, such as the carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites, has been rapidly increasing in a wide variety of industries. However, thermoset composites require cross linking for curing and consolidation, which is time consuming and can often take several hours. Additionally, the associated capital, operation, and maintenance costs are immense. The major challenge in the additive manufacturing and repair of thermoset-matrix fiber composites is an issue with the in-situ curing. To address this challenge, one of the promis

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Deshpande, Ashish, Shu Yang, Dave Puleo, et al. "Minimized Wear and Debris Generation Through Optimized Machining of Co-Cr-Mo Alloys for Use in Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants." In ASME 2012 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 40th North American Manufacturing Research Conference and in participation with the International Conference on Tribology Materials and Processing. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2012-7260.

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More than 380,000 hips are replaced with total joint prostheses each year in the U.S. Wear debris generated by metal-on-metal implant designs is of concern due to potential adverse biological effects arising from chronic exposure of human tissue to the wear debris. This paper presents a new methodology for optimizing the wear performance of prosthesis made of Co-Cr-Mo alloys by varying tool edge geometry and machining conditions to alter the wear behavior of this alloy, while also controlling the residual stresses induced during the machining process. The machining process causes inhomogeneous

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Ben Khalifa, Nooman, Annika Foydl, Daniel Pietzka, Andreas Jäger, and A. Erman Tekkaya. "Extrusion of Multi-Material Components." In ASME 2014 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the JSME 2014 International Conference on Materials and Processing and the 42nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2014-4197.

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Three innovative extrusion processes for the manufacture of multi-material parts are discussed: co-extrusion of discontinuously steel reinforced aluminum profiles, composite extrusion of continuously steel wire reinforced profiles and composite rod extrusion. In the first two processes the embedded steel elements are not deformable while by composite rod extrusion both materials are deformable. By means of experimental and numerical analysis, the parameters that mainly influence the reinforcement ratio, the extrusion force as well as the material distribution are analyzed. On the basis of this

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Adake, Chandrashekar V., Parag Bhargava, Prasanna S. Gandhi, and Bhargava Kashyap. "Fabrication of Tapered Bio Mimetic Cilia Using Bulk Lithography and Ceramic Mold." In ASME 2014 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the JSME 2014 International Conference on Materials and Processing and the 42nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2014-4158.

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This paper presents fabrication of tapered, high aspect ratio bio mimetic cilia from Nickel-polydimethyl siloxane (Ni-PDMS) composite by using bulk lithography technique and ceramic molding. Many research groups suggested fabrication of bio mimetic cilia using various techniques which are based on soft lithography and VLSI techniques. Recently a novel single layer micro fabrication technique known as ‘bulk lithography’ which uses an unconstrained photopolymer has been reported by co-authors. This technique is used to fabricate a polymer cilia pattern (an array of photopolymerised inverted cone

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Farrell, Paul, and Philip R. LeGoy. "Using Plasma Pyrolysis Vitrification (PPV) to Enhance Incineration Waste Ash Reduction in Ireland." In 10th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec10-1028.

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Ireland has been called the Silicon Valley of Europe. Like the Silicon Valley in the U.S. it has a large amount of waste created by the Microchip Industry. Ireland is also an agricultural country. A large amount of bio-waste has been stockpiled in Ireland. This is the result of recent outbreaks/epidemics of animal diseases in the EU. The current growth industry of Ireland is the chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Nine of the top ten pharmaceutical companies are manufacturing in Ireland. Wastes from these industries are often toxic and hazardous. They can contain large amounts

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