The world is literally kept from coming apart by screws and bolts, and yet we don’t often give a thought to these mechanisms. Part of that is probably because we’ve gotten so good at making ...

I fell in love with cable driven mechanisms a few years ago and put together some of my first mechanical tentacles to celebrate. But only after playing with them did I start to understand the ...

Because the FDA does not require any understanding of the mechanism by which a drug acts, it could be tempting to move into clinical trials without this knowledge. However, this may set the stage ...

Many proteins and lipids of the plasma membrane are internalized using clathrin-independent mechanisms. Studies of cargo that is internalized independently of clathrin have revealed new pathways ...

Defense mechanisms are rooted in Freud’s theory of personality.According to his model, the mind has three dueling forces: the id (unconscious and primitive urges for food, comfort, and sex), the ...

A mechanism is a set of moving parts that work together to make something happen. A slider is a kind of mechanism that has a bar or rod that moves forwards and backwards, or side to side ...

De Maria, Paolo Fontana, Antonella Siani, Gabriella and Spinelli, Domenico 1998. Kinetics of the Enolisation Reactions of 3-Acetyl-2,5-dimethylfuran and of 2-Acetylselenophene. European Journal of ...

What is a wheel and axle mechanism? A wheel and axle mechanism is a simple device you make when you connect one or more wheels to an axle. They are used to help things move. A wheel is a round ...

Eating more root vegetables can support your health by increasing the nutritional quality of your diet and boosting your ...

The Antikythera Mechanism has baffled experts since it was found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901. The hand-powered Ancient Greek device is thought to have been used to predict eclipses ...

A multifactorial approach should be used to account for all the factors involved-that is, the internal and external risk factors as well as the inciting event (the injury mechanism). Although such ...