Transportation PEEC focuses its transportation research mostly on behavioral approaches to more energy-efficient personal mobility. Such topics include boosting public transportation and translating car fuel efficiency into dollars saved. PEEC has also analyzed U.S. policies to reduce gasoline consumption and invented a device to recycle otherwise wasted heat from car motors into electricity.
Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone produced by the zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex (in the adrenal gland). It is a vital hormone that is often referred to as the stress hormone as it is involved in the response to physical and psychological stress.
Medical Definition of corticate. : covered with bark or with a cortex or specially developed external investment.