Responsive buildings enable a physical response to changes in the environment through specific building elements; in rare cases these responsive elements become an integral and poetic element of a culturally significant work of architecture.
According to Ahmad et al. (2003), pull-type links with suppliers and customers enable a plant to be agile and responsive and, therefore, enhance delivery reliability.
In most cases of application, the large field of view (FOV) provided by the sensor allows simultaneous monitoring of the surrounding in different view angles and therefore enables a more flexible and responsive algorithmic behaviour.
Hierarchical assembly can also be programmed to run backwards, enabling a wide range of reversible, responsive behaviors to be encoded through rationally chosen surface chemistry.
This allows musical agent systems to construct output in terms of a communicative dialogue, and should enable more responsive, intelligent participation from these virtual musicians.
The application of flocculation using a stimulus responsive polymer, SmP E, enables a robust alternative cell culture harvest step which may ameliorate bottlenecks in downstream processes, particularly for challenging monoclonal antibodies.
Figure 1 Conceptual scheme for a lectin-responsive gel-mediated signal transduction enabling a 'Debye-length-free' FET-based Con A detection.
Intriguingly, the charge and charge density of both the nanoparticle stabilizers and the liposomes can be precisely tailored to enable stimulus-responsive binding and detaching of the nanoparticles, thereby allowing for an on-demand control over liposome fusion activity for smart drug delivery.
Harnessing the distinct characteristics of nanomaterials integrated into host matrices to enable multi-responsive, multi-functional and adapting capabilities of the resulting materials and systems is a thriving research frontier in contemporary nanoscience.
