Two-Way Assimilation

The basic tenets of American business culture are built on the assumption that white-male culture is the standard for everyone. People of color and females are forced to understand its nuances and change themselves to fit in to a culture that is not necessarily their own. Dr. Sonya Clemmons, a highly-regarded African-American woman engineer and scientist, makes an 

Diversity by Design Guide to Fostering Diversity in the Civil Engineering Workforce 

The place to start implementing two-way assimilation, Dr. Clemmons says, is to learn about other cultural norms. It is also important to become well-versed in the types of problems facing minorities and females as they try to pursue careers in engineering. And showing respect for each person individual - is paramount. 

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Learning is seen as a two-way process, with the learner interpreting and assimilating information and knowledge to their personal experiences and prior learning. 

Substrate transport through the film may be formally assimilated to membrane diffusion with a diffusion coefficient defined as12 Ds = Dch( 1 — 9)/pjort. In this equation, the effect of film structure on the transport process in taken into account in two ways. The factor 1—0 stands for the fact that in a plane parallel to the electrode surface and to the coating-solution interface, a fraction 9 of the surface area in made unavailable for linear diffusion (diffusion coefficient Dcj,) by the presence of the film. The tortuosity factor,, defined as the ratio between the average length of the channel and the film thickness, accounts for the fact that the substrate... 

Joshi H. M. and Tabita F. R. (1996) A global two-way component signal transduction system that integrates the control of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide assimilation and nitrogen fixation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 14515-14520. 

We now turn on the coupling parameter until it reaches the value of unity. The chemical potential of the added particle changes in two ways. First, we have the work required to build up the interaction between the added particle and the rest of the system. This is the second term on the rhs of (3.67). Second, as long as the new particle is distinguishable from all the other particles (i.e., y l), its density remains fixed p = V l. At the point c = 1, it abruptly becomes identical to the other particles. This involves an assimilation Helmholtz energy of amount (see Appendices H and I)... 

Unlike the genome of viruses, the bacterial genome is able to orient bacterial cells correctly (purposively) relative to chemical (assimilation) conditions of the external environment in two ways, to some extent opposite in direction. 

The NOxTrap can be assimilated to a three-way catalyst7 complemented by a NOz storage function. This system contains two types of precious metals the first one, dedicated to NO, HC and CO oxidation in lean operating mode, will generally consist of platinum or palladium. The second one, dedicated to NOx reduction in rich operating mode, is typically rhodium. Rhodium price spectacularly increases, with a multiplication by three of its value in 2006 (see Figure 7.13)8. 

There are broadly two uses of chemometrics that interest the process chemist. The first of these is simply data display. It is a truism that the human eye is the best analytical tool, and by displaying multivariate data in a way that can be easily assimilated by eye a number of diagnostic assessments can be made of the state of health of a process, or of reasons for its failure [ 153], a process known as MSPC [154—156]. The key concept in MSPC is the acknowledgement that variability in process quality can arise not just by variation in single process parameters such as temperature, but by subtle combinations of process parameters. This source of product variability would be missed by simple control charts for the individual process parameters. This is also the concept behind the use of experimental design during process development in order to identify such variability in the minimum number of experiments. 

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