Robert Town is quoted in a major Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article exploring the unusually high costs of some hospital care in its region of Wisconsin. Town, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Care Management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and an LDI Senior Fellow.
Definitions for porousËpÉr És, ËpoÊr-. porous(adj) able to absorb fluids. the partly porous walls of our digestive system; compacting the soil to make it less porous. porous, poriferous(adj) full of pores or vessels or holes. holey, porous(adj) allowing passage in and out.
Porosity and Permeability Lab. The terms porosity and permeability are related. ï· porosity â the amount of empty space in a rock or other earth substance; this empty. space is known as pore space. Porosity is how much water a substance can hold. Porosity is usually stated as a percentage of the materialâs total volume. ï· permeability â is how well water flows through rock or other earth substance.