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https://www.quora.com/Can-we-transplant-eyes-of-animals-to-humans

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/treatments/transplantation-eye

https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/23/eye-transplant/

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Growing-an-eye-for-transplantation-potentials-and-pitfalls.aspx

https://books.google.com/books?id=ewwiQ1WFQGoC&pg=PA1117&lpg=PA1117&dq=transplant+goat+eye+to+human&source=bl&ots=iENyu8mM5c&sig=ACfU3U1sdZ7ZLHXpNYUz6R2k7dzICXrHfA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR95W9kIqBAxV8kokEHfAUA0I4KBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=transplant%20goat%20eye%20to%20human&f=false

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a19856/lab-grown-human-eyes-are-coming-into-focus/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjk1KTXkIqBAxWhg4kEHf5eA184FBAWegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jneurosci.org%2Fcontent%2Fjneuro%2F2%2F3%2F339.full.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3exxQr1soYXAAZJVJb8X-b&opi=89978449

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tadpole-eye-transplant-shows-new-way-grow-nerves

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2126336-tadpoles-learn-to-see-with-new-eyes-transplanted-on-their-tails/

Flatworms muscle new eyes' wiring into their brains

Peter Reddien's lab at the Whitehead Institute takes a step forward in understanding how neural circuits could be regenerated in adults. 
https://news.mit.edu/2020/these-muscle-cells-are-guideposts-help-regenerative-flatworms-grow-back-their-eyes-0708
 
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Microbiology_(OpenStax)/21%3A_Skin_and_Eye_Infections/21.05%3A_Protozoan_and_Helminthic_Infections_of_the_Eyes
 
https://wi.mit.edu/news/these-muscle-cells-are-guideposts-help-regenerative-flatworms-grow-back-their-eyes

A Worm’s Hidden Map for Growing New Eyes

When a planarian loses its eyes, cellular guides connect new ones to its brain so it can see again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/science/flatworms-eyes-regeneration.html

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084360/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533540/

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008808

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/fanworms-natures-eye-factories-stick-them-pretty-much-anywhere/

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/5/784/2420625

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/222/23/jeb212779/223628/Photoresponses-in-the-radiolar-eyes-of-the-fan

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/14/jeb242501/271041/Have-the-eyes-of-bioluminescent-scale-worms

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.4161990/scientists-extremely-surprised-after-flatworm-grows-2nd-head-in-space-1.4161993

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142167-flatworms-can-still-see-even-after-they-are-decapitated/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/thelazia

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/jumping-worms

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6800155/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749122006650

https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-8-95

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/17/8090

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b05619

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/processing-method

https://www.simplilearn.com/what-is-data-processing-article

https://perfectdailygrind.com/2019/06/how-does-processing-method-impact-coffee-chemistry-flavor/

In a scientific sense, a chemical process is a method or means of somehow changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds. Such a chemical process can occur by itself or be caused by an outside force, and involves a chemical reaction of some sort. In an "engineering" sense, a chemical process is a method intended to be used in manufacturing or on an industrial scale (see Industrial process) to change the composition of chemical(s) or material(s), usually using technology similar or related to that used in chemical plants or the chemical industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_process 

 

Although this type of chemical process may sometimes involve only one step, often multiple steps, referred to as unit operations, are involved. In a plant, each of the unit operations commonly occur in individual vessels or sections of the plant called units. Often, one or more chemical reactions are involved, but other ways of changing chemical (or material) composition may be used, such as mixing or separation processes. The process steps may be sequential in time or sequential in space along a stream of flowing or moving material; see Chemical plant. For a given amount of a feed (input) material or product (output) material, an expected amount of material can be determined at key steps in the process from empirical data and material balance calculations. These amounts can be scaled up or down to suit the desired capacity or operation of a particular chemical plant built for such a process. More than one chemical plant may use the same chemical process, each plant perhaps at differently scaled capacities. Chemical processes like distillation and crystallization go back to alchemy in Alexandria, Egypt.

Such chemical processes can be illustrated generally as block flow diagrams or in more detail as process flow diagrams. Block flow diagrams show the units as blocks and the streams flowing between them as connecting lines with arrowheads to show direction of flow.

In addition to chemical plants for producing chemicals, chemical processes with similar technology and equipment are also used in oil refining and other refineries, natural gas processing, polymer and pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, and water and wastewater treatment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_process

In engineering, a process is a series of interrelated tasks that, together, transform inputs into a given output.[1] These tasks may be carried out by people, nature or machines using various resources; an engineering process must be considered in the context of the agents carrying out the tasks and the resource attributes involved.[2] Systems engineering normative documents and those related to Maturity Models are typically based on processes, for example, systems engineering processes of the EIA-632 and processes involved in the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) institutionalization and improvement approach. Constraints imposed on the tasks and resources required to implement them are essential for executing the tasks mentioned. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_(engineering)

Semiconductor industry

Semiconductor process engineers face the unique challenge of transforming raw materials into high-tech devices. Common semiconductor devices include Integrated Circuits (ICs), Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), solar cells, and solid-state lasers. To produce these and other semiconductor devices, semiconductor process engineers rely heavily on interconnected physical and chemical processes.

A prominent example of these combined processes is the use of ultra-violet photolithography which is then followed by wet etching, the process of creating an IC pattern that is transferred onto an organic coating and etched onto the underlying semiconductor chip. Other examples include the ion implantation of dopant species to tailor the electrical properties of a semiconductor chip and the electrochemical deposition of metallic interconnects (e.g. electroplating). Process Engineers are generally involved in the development, scaling, and quality control of new semiconductor processes from lab bench to manufacturing floor.

Chemical engineering

A chemical process is a series of unit operations used to produce a material in large quantities.

In the chemical industry, chemical engineers will use the following to define or illustrate a process:

CPRET

The Association Française d'Ingénierie Système has developed a process definition dedicated to Systems engineering (SE), but open to all domains. The CPRET representation integrates the process Mission and Environment in order to offer an external standpoint. Several models may correspond to a single definition depending on the language used (UML or another language). Note: process definition and modeling are interdependent notions but different the one from the other.

  • Process
    • A process is a set of transformations of input elements into products: respecting constraints,
    • requiring resources,
    • meeting a defined mission, corresponding to a specific purpose adapted to a given environment.
  • Environment
    • Natural conditions and external factors impacting a process.
  • Mission
    • Purpose of the process tailored to a given environment.

This definition requires a process description to include the Constraints, Products, Resources, Input Elements and Transformations. This leads to the CPRET acronym to be used as name and mnemonic for this definition.

  • Constraints
    • Imposed conditions, rules or regulations.
  • Products
    • All whatever is generated by transformations. The products can be of the desired or not desired type (e.g., the software system and bugs, the defined products and waste).
  • Resources
    • Human resources, energy, time and other means required to carry out the transformations.
  • Elements as inputs
    • Elements submitted to transformations for producing the products.
  • Transformations
    • Operations organized according to a logic aimed at optimizing the attainment of specific products from the input elements, with the allocated resources and on compliance with the imposed constraints.

CPRET through examples

The purpose of the following examples is to illustrate the definitions with concrete cases. These examples come from the Engineering field but also from other fields to show that the CPRET definition of processes is not limited to the System Engineering context.

Examples of processes

  • An engineering (EIA-632, ISO/IEC 15288, etc.)
  • A concert
  • A polling campaign
  • A certification

Examples of environment

  • Various levels of maturity, technicality, equipment
  • An audience
  • A political system
  • Practices

Examples of mission

  • Supply better quality products
  • Satisfy the public, critics
  • Have candidates elected
  • Obtain the desired approval

Examples of constraints

  • Imposed technologies
  • Correct acoustics
  • Speaking times
  • A reference model (ISO, CMMI, etc.)

Examples of products

  • A mobile telephone network
  • A show
  • Vote results
  • A quality label

Examples of resources

  • Development teams
  • An orchestra and its instruments
  • An organization
  • An assessment team

Examples of elements as inputs

  • Specifications
  • Scores
  • Candidates
  • A company and its practices

Examples of transformations

  • Define an architecture
  • Play the scores
  • Make people vote for a candidate
  • Audit the organization

Conclusions

The CPRET formalized definition systematically addresses the input Elements, Transformations, and Products but also the other essential components of a Process, namely the Constraints and Resources. Among the resources, note the specificity of the Resource-Time component which passes inexorably and irreversibly, with problems of synchronization and sequencing.

This definition states that environment is an external factor which cannot be avoided: as a matter of fact, a process is always interdependent with other phenomena including other processes.

References


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    https://miuraboiler.com/steam-boiler-guide-for-chemical-processing-plants/

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    Sulfur-Iodine Thermochemical Cycle

    by P Pickard2005Cited by 16Investigate the potential of the Sulfur-Iodine cycle for. Hydrogen production using nuclear energy. – Flowsheet analysis of process options.
     
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    The principal chemicals are ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, iodine, and red ... of phosphine gas produced during the methamphetamine production process.

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    Disclosed is a method and apparatus for recovering iodine from an aqueous suspension. Particulate iodine is formed on a filter septum and forms a cake of ...
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    "Iodine clock" experiment (the Briggs–Rauscher reaction)

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    The iodine then turns into triiodide ions, which bond with starch and form a complex compound of a dark blue color. Parallel with this process, a reaction ...


    Iodine Clock Reaction - UW Department of Chemistry

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    https://chem.washington.edu › lecture-demos › iodine-...
    The amber color is due to the presence of I₂. When I- is present, it reacts with I₂ and starch to produce a dark blue complex. This color fades as iodine is ...

    Iodine-131 (I-131) - Radiation Emergencies

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    Removal of Mercury from Solids Using the Potassium Iodide

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