Looking for an adequate explication of the concept of a biological function, several authors have proposed to link function to design. Unfortunately, known explications of biological design in turn ...

A study was conducted to investigate the effect on concept difficulty of: a.) the number of defining attributes, and b.) the level of conceptualization (LC) of the concepts' attributes. One hundred ...

Jillian Rine, applications engineer at injection molder MMI Engineered Solutions Inc. in Saline, Mich., created a concept design for a gear tray that was designed to hold 144 parts. She had other ...

In their article, Brinkman and coauthors 1 suggest that rare genetic disorders can be a mining field for the discovery of novel drug targets, and thereby for novel drugs. They underline the fact that ...