A recent FedScoop study shows the federal government workforce could see a meaningful boost in productivity by reducing friction with devices and applications and improving secure access to data and ...

New patent from Citibank reduces the inconvenience of logging in for online banking users – it’s a big step, but there’s more to be done, writes Avi Turgeman While online banking allows consumers to ...

A research team led by Prof. Tian-Bao Ma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University has proposed a novel strategy to reduce friction and wear by inducing dynamic electronic ...

Parts of devices that are perfectly smooth can still experience friction because of the electrons within them, but a new method may enable researchers to turn it down or fully turn it off. Controlling ...

Examples of the main engine components on which vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are working to reduce friction components include the following (Truett 2013): Smaller, low friction bearings: ...

In the second installment of FedScoop’s Public Sector Innovation Priorities series, VMware’s Eugene Liderman explores how government agencies could reduce IT friction and boost workforce productivity ...

When security measures add too much friction or complexity, employees can end up slowed down, frustrated or tempted to work ...

Keywords: Retrofitting, Passive Control Systems, Energy Dissipation, Friction Damping Devices, Reinforced Concrete Frames, Shaking Table Tests, Analytical Models, and Added Damping. Abstract: This is ...

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz have published an article on friction in the journal Small. Their research on "bismuth islands" moving on the ...