© Copyright 2012, vLex. All Rights Reserved.
- Language
Contents in vLex United States
Explore vLex
For Professionals
For Partners
Company
methods engineering
More than 10.000 documents for methods engineering
-
Egg and sperm brokerages create detailed profiles of individual donors, including photographs, biographical information, and medical histories.266 For-profit egg and sperm banks routinely cater to consumer preferences donor characteristics such as educational, professional, and athletic achievements.267 Some infertile couples advertise directly to potential donors in the campus newspapers of prestigious universities, offering up to $100,000 for tall, athletic donors with high SAT scores and particular ethnic origins.268 A website called ronsangels.com even auctioned eggs harvested from fashion models-at starting bids of $15,000 to $150,000.269 The Ivy League sperm bank, online gamete brokerages, and supermodel egg auction use crude methods of offspring design compared to sophisticated e...
-
A bed-and-breakfast retreat that overcame years of building and permitting challenges on its way to being built into treetops in Southern Oregon now faces a new round of zoning problems. The 37-acre Out 'n' About Treesort in Takilma has 16 different tree houses that range in size and amenities. Michael Garnier, the owner and builder, has devised unique construction and engineering methods to make his tree houses safe and long-lasting. But only five of the tree houses are permitted for the site, which is leading to the latest battle between Garnier and Josephine County.
-
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to establish test procedures for light-emitting diode (LED) lamps to support implementation of labeling provisions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). The proposed test procedures define methods for measuring the lumen output, input power, and relative spectral distribution (to determine correlated color temperature, or CCT) of LED lamps. Further, the proposed test procedures define methods for measuring the lumen maintenance of the LED source (the component of the LED lamp that produces light) to project the rated lifetime of LED lamps. The rated lifetime of the LED lamp is the time required for the LED source component of the lamp to reach lumen maintenance of 70 percent (th...
... in the relevant Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) standards are appro...
-
It should be noted that even in this brief work, there is little specific focus on eugenics (that is, a systematic program to make future generations more genetically fit)perse, still less on the specific possibility that it might be accomplished by ingenious use of the genetic engineering methods that are commonplace in creating new crop varieties and which can probably be extended to human beings within a matter of decades. [...] all sorts of techniques for remediation of juvenile shortcomings and for paving a child's path to Olympian perfection have sprung up (though no doubt some are delusory): hormone treatments of kids even in the normal range, height-wise, to assure that they will reach the tall end of die bellcurve; sports camps offering intensivetraining programs that aim to p...
