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		The biomedical engineer must be well grounded in biology and physiology and have engineering knowledge that is broad, drawing upon some aspects of electrical and mechanical engineering, in addition to the core areas of chemical engineering.
		The chemical engineers used polymer synthesis techniques to design a new material for the storage bag that was capable of "breathing", that is, of allowing carbon dioxide to diffuse out and oxygen to diffuse in, preventing the increase in acidity.
		Prior to the involvement of chemical engineers in kidney studies, it was thought that protein leakage was prevented because the holes in the glomerular membrane were smaller than the major protein molecules, so that the capillary wall acted as a sieve.
	navier.engr.colostate.edu /whatische/ChEL07Body.html (9037 words)

	Bionics: The Six Million Dollar Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The bionic prosthetics that Austin received made him “better stronger faster,” but the claim that he was “a man barely alive,” in reference to his cyborg existence, also raised poignant and prophetic questions of what it means to be human.
		Bionics is on the cutting-edge of both biology and electronics, and can be explained as the substitution of organic anatomical structures or physiological processes with mechanical or electronic versions designed to replicate or enhance original function.
		Austin, for example, had a bionic eye with a zoom lens and night vision, a bionic arm as powerful as a bulldozer, and two bionic legs that gave him the speed of a cheetah in full flight and the ability to leap over tall buildings in a single bound (or was that Superman?).
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/bionics.shtml (2329 words)

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		When introducing bionic implants into Mage it is best to avoid emphasising their technological implications (after all, they are handled as a kind of talismans) and instead look at their symbolism and how they affect the mood.
		The Bionic Struggle Bionics (also erroneously called cybernetics) is an area of technology the Technocracy have not scheduled to appear until the first part of the 21st century, but just as with nanotechnology and computers other forces are trying to wrest control over the development so that they can lead it in their own direction.
		Bionics is especially anathema to the Verbena, who see it as a blasphemy against the living flesh it is implanted in.
	www.identicalsoftware.com /rpg/wod/mage/misc/bionics.txt (5399 words)

	Bionics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins, sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats.
		The term bionics was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1960 at a conference in Dayton.
		Bionics is a term which refers to flow of ideas from biology to engineering and vice versa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bionics (1687 words)

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		Bionics is the study of living systems with the intention of applying their principles to the design of physical systems.
		Drawing on interdisciplinary research in the technical and life sciences, bionics has been applied in developing audiovisual equipment based on human eye and ear function, to design air and naval craft patterned after the biological structure of birds and fish, and to incorporate principles of the human neurological system in data-processing systems.
		Bionics has also been applied in the development of artificial limbs controlled by recognition of the electrical patterns in muscle tissue.
	www.medibionics.com (178 words)

	SEEDROUND: Where It All Starts » Bionic Systems: Amplify Participation
		Bionics is the study of living systems with the intention of applying their principles to the design of engineering systems.
		In an interesting bionic system that goes the other way, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has used humans to tell computers where stores are located in a photo (computers can do wonders with just a little bit of a repeating pattern, but if there is no pattern; it falls apart).
		Content filtering and preference: at Boxxet (where I am founder and CEO), we are working to employ a bionic system to capture a small number of ratings and submissions and amplify it to sort and filter the best content on many subjects, even subjects that may have only a very small community.
	seedround.com /bionic-systems-amplify-participation (1474 words)

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		The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart (http://www.ipa.fhg.de) is currently engaged in a research project funded by the DFG (the German Research Association) devoted to bionic concepts for signal transmission and power transfer.
		The bionics experts of Bonn University cooperate with Degussa, Erlus Baustoffwerke, STO AG, Schoeller and Hoesch in the areas of robotics, neurobionics, sensor bionics and surface bionics.
		Two new companies, Bionic StreamForm (http://www.bionic-streamform.de) and Bionic Solutions (http://www.bionicsolutions.de) have emerged from the University of Saarland and are still located at the university's incubator.
	www.britischebotschaft.de /en/embassy/s&i/notes/si-note05.3015(m)_bionics.htm (1146 words)

	bionics - vitalcoaching.com
		Bionic implants differ from mere prostheses by mimicking the original function very closely, or even surpassing it.
		While the technologies that make bionic implants possible are still in a very early stage, a few bionic items already exist, the best known being the cochlear implant, a device for deaf people.
		Bionics are a common element of science fiction, with The Six Million Dollar Man as the probably best-known example.
	vitalcoaching.com /notes/bionics.htm (205 words)

	1 / EN / Mercedes-Benz P. Cars/Concept Vehicles / Bionics: Nature as an ingenious engineer and designer /#XCID=68938 \| ...
		The aim of bionics specialists is to translate nature’s solutions into human technology, for there is no doubt that nature is the best engineer and most ingenious designer of all.
		The term bionics was coined by an American air force officer in 1958, but the world’s first student of bionics was the Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
		Many of the innovative concepts which engineers and scientists are adopting from nature correspond to the principle of sustainability.
	wwwsg.daimlerchrysler.com /SD7DEV/GMS/TEMPLATES/GMS_PRESS_KIT/0,2970,0-49-68938-1-1-text-0-68937,00.html (461 words)

	bionics - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Drawing on interdisciplinary research in the mechanical and life sciences, bionics has been used to develop audiovisual equipment based on human eye and ear function, to design air and naval craft patterned after the biological structure of birds and fish, and to incorporate principles of the human neurological system in data-processing systems.
		Advanced Bionics to Use invivodata's Electronic Diary in Migraine Trial; Pain Trial Experience is Critical Factor in eDiary Decision.
		Advanced Bionics Commercially Releases Two New Behind-The-Ear (BTE) Sound Processors: CLARION CII BTE(TM) and CLARION Platinum BTE Are FDA-Approved And Begin Commercial Distribution August 16, 2001.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bionics.html (544 words)

	Project: Sustainability \| Biomimicry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Biomimicry (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, bionics, or bionical creativity engineering) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.
		Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins, sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats.
		Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and producing well-optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature.
	www.moiz.ca /sustainability/biomimicry.htm (227 words)

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		Bionics (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, biomimicry, or bionical creativity engineering) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.
		In medicine Bionics is a term which refers to flow of ideas from biology to engineering and vice versa.
		In the mid-1970s, when scientists in a popular TV series rebuilt a wounded, barely-living test pilot into the world's first bionic man, making him "better, stronger, faster," the field of medical bionics was the stuff of science fiction.
	www.xxxforumxxx.com /look/bionics (1631 words)

	::Bionics2Space Portal
		Bionics - sometimes called Biomimicry or Biomimetics - is a scientific and technical discipline finding inspiration from biological systems to define new engineering solutions.
		This website is a derivable of the ESA project "Bionics & Space System Design" aiming at providing an insight into recent, current and planned research activities in the field of biomimicry and conceptualise several innovative space systems taking ideas, processes, designs and laws from nature.
		The Bionics System Database is used to classify and search systems in the Nature of possible inspiration to space engineers in design space system.
	www.bionics2space.org (323 words)

	Alibris: Bionics
		Bionics is the science of fusing artificial parts with human parts in order to duplicate body functions.
		Though most people understand bionics to be the creation of "superhumans," the practical applications are less dramatic, such as hearing aids, artificial limbs, and artificial hearts.
		Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue the development of artificial systems based on the study of biological systems.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Bionics (579 words)

	Advanced Bionics devices help the deaf to hear
		The company’s Clarion CII Bionic Ear System is an implant that stimulates the cochlear nerves of the ear to help the deaf hear again.
		Engineers with medical backgrounds are preferred, but people from the semiconductor and telecom industries often have transferable skills.
		The engineers at Advanced Bionics have the opportunity to work on highly advanced technology that can make an immeasurable difference in the quality of life for the people who use it — a very nice way to develop a career.
	www.diversitycareers.com /articles/pro/decjan03/dia_bionics.htm (621 words)

	FACE OFF: BIDIRECTIONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND BIOLOGY IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
		Since the earliest practicing engineer and the earliest practicing physician in recorded history were the same person, one might imagine that only a short time would elapse before engineering and medicine would merge to give rise to Biomedical Engineering.
		The march of ancient engineering and medicine through the ages toward their modern scientific incarnations necessitated prior, if not contemporaneous, advances in the field of natural philosophy, and specifically in its branches of mathematics and the sciences of physiology (biology) and physics.
		The Alliance for Engineering in Medicine and Biology became the official sponsor of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology beginning in 1970.
	ag.arizona.edu /ABE/People/Faculty_Homepages/Cuellos_Homepage/Thoughts/ibe7.htm (5271 words)

	bionics project - home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This project is funded by the EPSRC as part of the Building Knowledge for Climate Change (BKCC) programme, and will form part of the Earth Systems Laboratory (ESL) initiative within the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
		Support for the project includes 12 stakeholders and 16 academics from 6 British universities.
		To establish a facility for engineering and biological research for the purpose of determining the effects of climate change on the slopes of infrastructure embankments.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /bionics (83 words)

	Science Citation Index Expanded - Thomson Scientific
		Engineering, Civil includes resources on the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures and ground facilities for industry, occupancy, transportation, use and control of water, and harbor facilities.
		Engineering, Ocean includes resources concerned with the development of equipment and techniques that allow humans to operate successfully beneath and on the surface of the ocean in order to develop and utilize marine resources.
		Engineering, Petroleum covers resources that report on a combination of engineering concepts, methods, and techniques on drilling and extracting hydrocarbons and other fluids from the earth (e.g., chemical flooding, thermal flooding, miscible displacement techniques, and horizontal drilling) and on the refining process.
	scientific.thomson.com /mjl/scope/scope_scie.html (7670 words)

	American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Defining the Science - B
		Biochemical engineering is often taught as a supplementary option to chemical engineering due to the similarities in both the background subject curriculum and problem-solving techniques used by both professions.
		The field of study which makes use of the laws of physics and engineering concepts to describe motion of body segments, and the forces [both internal and external] which act upon them during activity[x].
		Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and producing well-optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature[xii].
	www.aimbe.org /content/index.php?pid=237 (1641 words)

	BIOKON - Bionics Competence Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The current tendency is to pool biology-oriented subjects in engineering – like biological computer sciences, neural computing, adaptronics, evolutionary algorithms, biosensorics, or nanotechnology – by the name of bionics.
		At the University of Freiburg, bionics is part of the major subject botany/biomechanics and functional morphology.
		A complementary approach is also possible: a market-oriented question is put forward by an engineer in such a way that analogies to the question at stake can be found in nature, and appropriate principles can subsequently be identified and transferred to the field of engineering.
	www.biokon.net /bionik/faq.html.en (1206 words)

	Bionik Tutorial 1
		I define bionics as the science for the utilization of results of biological evolution.
		Engineers of the last centuries thought that the bird feather includes the mystery of flight.
		And the airplane is still an object for modern research in the field of Bionics.
	www.bionik.tu-berlin.de /institut/xtutor1.htm (1661 words)

	ScienceDaily: Six-billion-dollar Human Is Becoming Reality, As Bionics Restores Or Expands Humans' Abilities
		Bionics, a word that merges biology with electronics, means replacing or enhancing anatomical structures or physiological processes with electronic or mechanical components Unlike prostheses, the bionic implant actually mimics the original function, sometimes surpassing the power of the original organ or other body part.
		Grosland, who holds a joint appointment in the University of Iowa's departments of biomedical engineering and orthopaedics and rehabilitation, is primarily interested in modeling of musculoskeletal anatomic structures and biomechanics, in order to know how to correct dysfunctions caused by disease, injury or surgical procedure.
		She is perhaps best known for helping engineer a total artificial wrist implant that has improved the quality of life for more than 100 people with arthritis and other problems causing pain and loss of motion.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/05/060506235632.htm (1706 words)

	Biomedical Engineering
		Medical devices bionics, signal and image processing, informatics and telemedicine, as well as biocompatible materials and substrates are just a few of the numerous applications of engineering in medicine which comprise the field of biomedical engineering.
		Like computer engineering, this is a very young field which has experienced an explosion in its application and contributed significantly to the ongoing technological revolution in our society.
		The undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering provides the graduate for positions in industry related to human factors and interfacing with machines, as well as providing a solid foundation for graduate studies in biomedical and other engineering and applied science disciplines.
	www.unc.edu /depts/appl_sci/appl2001/biomedical.html (179 words)

	Nanoelectronics - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
		This is the homepage of Professor Ki Wook Kim's theoretical nanoscale quantum engineering group.
		Our group explores quantum phenomena of nanoscale structures to discover and engineer effects that can be usefully employed for high performance computing and telecommunications applications, and for advanced concepts in sensor and biophysics devices.
		We are seeking to identify, develop, and implement device configurations in which phonons and the coupling of phonons to electrons and holes leads to enhanced device performance.
	www.ece.ncsu.edu /nano (336 words)

	math lessons - Bionics (engineering)
		Bionics (from German "Bionik" or technique from nature) is application of biological analogies for the study and design of engineering systems.
		Examples of bionics results in engineering include hulls of boats imitating the skin membrane of dolphins, sonar, radar and medical ultrasound imaging imitating echolocation of bats, non-stick coating imitating lotus effect.
		This approach results in a hybrid systems combining biological and engineering parts, which can also be referred as cybernetic organism (cyborg).
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Bionics_(engineering) (267 words)

	Green Car Congress: DaimlerChrysler Showcases 70 MPG Bionic Diesel Concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		DaimlerChrysler has unveiled a new “bionic” concept car that achieves outstanding results for fuel consumption and emissions with a combination of diesel engine technology, innovative emission control methods and aerodynamic design inspired by a natural example.
		Bionics is an inter-disciplinary subject which combines engineering science, architecture and mathematics.
		Nissan Motor intends to increase output of its subcompact engines at its main engine plant in Yokohama to 760,000 units a year in fiscal 2008, up 12% on plans, according to The Nikkei.
	www.greencarcongress.com /2005/06/daimlerchrysler_1.html (3332 words)

	Master of Biomedical Engineering : Faculty of Engineering : The University of Melbourne
		Biomedical Engineering is a fast growing discipline that intersects science, medicine and mathematics to solve biological and medical problems.
		It provides engineers with the tools to anticipate special difficulties in working with living systems and to evaluate a wider range of possible approaches to problem solving.
		A three-year degree in an Engineering or Science related discipline, or equivalent, and a Postgraduate/Graduate Diploma in Engineering normally with an average grade of at least 70% (University of Melbourne equivalent) or with two years documented relevant work experience or other postgraduate experience to be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
	www.bme.unimelb.edu.au /pgrad/masters.html (844 words)

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