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On Integrated Product Architectures: Representation, modelling and evaluation

Continued growth in the commercial aerospace industry makes aircraft manufacturers look for low maintenance, fuel efficient airplanes and aircraft engines are an important factor in the maintenance and fuel costs. The drive for operating cost reduction leads to innovative engine architectures that can place very different requirements on supplier provided components. The suppliers will then need to understand and predict consequences on their components and sub systems following the new system architectures proposed. Insights they get about the consequences of engine architecture changes help them to be prepared for future developments. This research presents two aspects of the behaviour of aero engine static components from a supplier: (1) the behaviour of the component as a whole in the system and (2) the internal organisation of the component so that the behaviour required of it is achieved by the system. System in this context refers to the aero engine. The component is integrated in that multiple functions are satisfied by one single structure. Studies in the first aspect provide a measure of the sensitivity of the whole engine to component designs. The studies also present an initial framework to perform such system-component interaction investigations. Studies in the second aspect provide a way to organise functions and means for an integrated architecture product so that the internal organisation is better understood and can be subjected to evaluations. Preliminary results show that the influence of the supplier component on system level operations cannot be neglected. The framework to evaluate system level effects of supplier component design needs further refinement with better fidelity models at all levels considered. With respect to the internal organisation of components, a method now exists to isolate, organise, represent and analyse design information of integrated components, taking into consideration different manufacturing options. Continued studies will focus on functional and physical domain decomposition of the component reliably and objectively so that alternative product architectures for the component can be evaluated and appropriate design and manufacturing decisions can be made.
Copigmentation and color of Brazilian Merlot wines. I. Influence of skin contact time

Aim: To evaluate the impact of maceration time on color, polyphenols and copigmentation of Merlot wines in order to better understand the differences between two important Brazilian viticultural regions, Campanha Gaucha and Serra Gaucha, which have not been extensively studied.Methods and results: Merlot grapes (red Vitis vinifera variety) from four vineyards located in the Campanha Gaucha (n = 2) and Serra Gaucha (n = 2) regions were harvested, crushed and fermented at the same temperature, with three different maceration times (4, 8 and 15 days). Wines from the 2009 and 2010 harvest were analyzed by spectrometry for phenolic composition and color. The results showed that the origin of the grapes had a higher influence on phenolic composition and color than the winemaking process treatments (i. e., maceration time). Maceration time did not affect copigmentation phenomena, and polymeric anthocyanins had the greatest correlation with color intensity.Conclusion: The maceration time had different effects according to the wines studied. However, more studies will be necessary to identify the characteristics of the grapes and to understand the differences between these two viticultural regions.Significance and impact of the study: One of the regions studied, Campanha Gaucha, is a new Brazilian viticultural region. There are only few studies on this wine region. So, the results presented here will provide some guidance for the selection of the most appropriate oenological practices for this region.
The Power Savings Possibilities by Light in the Smart Home Care

1401 | P a g e A u g 1 0 , 2 0 1 3 The Power Savings Possibilities by Light in the Smart Home Care Jan Vanus, Jan Sumpich, Tomas Novak Zbynek Carbol Karel Sokansky, Jiri Koziorek 1) Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, FEI, VSB TU Ostrava, Czech republic Email: jan.vanus@vsb.cz, jiri.koziorek@vsb.cz 2) Department of Electrical Power Engineering, FEI, VSB TU Ostrava, Czech republic Email: jan.sumpich@vsb.cz, zbynek.carbol@vsb.cz, karel.sokansky@vsb.cz 3) Department of Electrical Engineering, FEI, VSB TU Ostrava, Czech republic Email: tomas.novak1@vsb.cz
Forecasting of daily PM10 concentrations in Brno and Graz

Brno and Graz, the second largest cities of their countries, observe in each winter season PM10 concentrations of daily means which regularly exceed the limit value of 50 μ g/m3. This is mainly caused by unfavorable dissemination conditions of the ambient air. Hence, partial regulation measures have to be taken in Brno and Graz where specific decisions for certain regulations may be based on the average PM10 concentration of the next day provided that reliable forecasts of these values are available. For several sites in the two cities we establish forecasts of daily PM10 concentrations based on multiple linear regression and generalized linear models utilizing both measured covariates of the present day and meteorological forecasts of the next day. The comparisons, based on different quality measures demonstrate the usefulness of both model approaches as they yield results of similar quality. Our prediction models may support future decisions concerning possible traffic restrictions or other regulations.
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella species from lactating cows in dairy farm of Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia

Salmonella is the most important disease causing bacteria in persons as well as in animals. Antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella can be transmitted from animals to humans through consumption of contaminated food and food products. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella species from lactating cows in dairy farms of Bahir Dar town. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Bahir Dar town from November 2012 to June 2013. Identification of Salmonella spp. was made biochemically with Kliger Iron agar (KIA), Urea agar, Sulfur Indole Motility (SIM), Lysine Deoxycholate agar (LDC) and Simmons citrate agar. Antibacterial sensitivity of the isolates was tested using the Kirby-Bauer test. Thus, out of the total 384 milk samples collected, 36 (9.35%) were positive for Salmonella spp. Salmonella isolates in this study were highly resistant to ampicillin (94.4%) followed by tetracycline (52.8%) and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (38.9%). However, the isolates showed high susceptibility to fluoroquinolones (norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin) at 100 and 93.9%, respectively followed by gentamicin (94.44%). Likewise, the Salmonella isolates showed 72.22% of multidrug-resistance (resistance to two or more antibiotics) in the study area. In conclusion, the incidence of multidrug-resistant Salmonella spp. isolated from milk of lactating cows was high in the study area. Furthermore, the study also revealed the high rate of drug resistance pattern to commonly used antibiotics among the isolated Salmonella spp. Key words: Antimicrobial susceptibility, lactating cows, dairy farm, Salmonella.
Laryngopharyngeal Reflux in Dysphonics—Understanding the Significance and the Efficacy of Clinical Diagnosis: A Case-based Study

Objective: To determine the prevalence of laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) in patients with voice disorders and to find out the efficacy of reflux symptom index (RSI) and reflux finding score (RFS) in the diagnosis. Methods: This prospective analytical study was conducted on 554 patients who presented with dysphonia and symptoms sus picious of LPR. They were then subjected to clinical work up based on symptomatic history based RSI and video strobo scopic RFS scoring criteria. The results were analyzed statistically. The differences between RSI and RFS were calcu­ lated by Fisher’s two sided test and the comparison between the two is calculated using kappa statistics to check the strength of agreement. Results: Among 554 patients, 457 (82.4%) patients were diag nosed to have LPR based on RSI score of more than 13. Among 448 (80.8%) patients RFS score was positive. Vocal nodule (23.64%), laryngitis (22.38%) and the vocal polyp (20.03%) constitute the majority, with a female preponderance in vocal nodule. Both RSI and RFS were poor or almost absent in conditions such as spasmodic dysphonia, tremors, vocal cord palsy, hemorrhage, functional aphonia and traumatic con ditions. The Pearson correlation coefficient showed a good correlation and agreement between RSI and RFS was statis­ tically significant. Conclusion: The association of LPR in patients with voice disorders is significantly high. The RSI and RFS based clinical diagnosis is reliable and valid in the diagnosis of LPR as revealed in our study.
An Integrative Approach to Face and Expression Recognition from 3D Scans

Face recognition, together with fingerprint recognition, speaker recognition, etc., is part of the research area known as ‘biometric identification’ or ‘biometrics’, which refers to identifying an individual based on his or her distinguishing characteristics. More precisely, biometrics is the science of identifying, or verifying the identity of, a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics (Bolle et al., 2003). Biometric characteristics include something that a person is or produces. Examples of the former are fingerprints, the iris, the face, the hand/finger geometry or the palm print, etc. The latter include voice, handwriting, signature, etc. (Ortega-Garcia et al., 2004).
Increased Expression of CYP2E1 Gene in Gastric Cancer May be a Molecular Marker for Mazandaran Province Population

Cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) enzyme metabolically activates a large number of low molecular mass xenobiotics probably involved in gastric cancer incidence through activation of procarcinogens. North of Iran is amongst high incidence rate areas of gastric carcinoma where environmental carcinogenic compounds, including agricultural pesticides, are massively used. In this report, we quantitatively compared CYP2E1 gene expression between tumoral and nontumoral-marginal tissues of gastric cancer patients as well as normal healthy gastric tissues by real-time PCR. Results showed that CYP2E1 gene cDNA copy numbers were relatively increased in tumoral group vs. nontumoral-marginal and normal healthy groups. Comparison of means DDCT by Dunkan’s test statistically verified significant differences of cyp2E1 cDNA copy numbers between tumoral and healthy tissues (P=0.0018). It seems that the increased CYP2E1 gene expression may be associated with increased risk for gastric cancer. So, we recommended that CYP2E1 gene expression may be an appropriate molecular marker to determine individual sensitivity to gastric cancer and also for designing cancer prevention programs.
Characteristic of Weber Bureucracy and Its Relevance in Indonesia

Bureaucracy is a concept as well as an organization that connects between the government on one side and the other side. As the machine organization, functioning bureaucracy is not primarily reflect the interests of the government, but more than that the interests of society at large. In this connection, it is often experienced dissociative and associative fabric, depending on how much bureaucracy to play a role and ideally positioned existence. The problem is, if the characteristics of the bureaucracy to find relevance in the reality on the ground? Questions are answered by projecting the reality of bureaucracy in Indonesia. Characteristics of bureaucracy just might be applied in a way to adapt based on the needs and characteristics of bureaucracy wherever he touched, both central and local levels. In the positive and negative relevance not only can eliminate, but also in some organizations may also be retained, modified, replaced, even developed according to the needs of bureaucratic organizations. In the Indonesian context, the challenge of change in a particular characteristic of bureaucracy faced with socio-cultural issues, the high authority in the implementation of the autonomy and influence of globalization. All it requires a change in the characteristics of bureaucracy through changes in systems and resources that are designed in such a way that the bureaucracy seemed more dynamic, flexible and able to answer the challenge question.
On the Security of RSA Capable Smart Cards

The security of the RSA capable smart card that is widely used for secure Internet banking, Web ac- cess and remote access to corporate networks, has been reviewed. The card has been tested against sev- eral non-invasive attacks. Aspects tested include the system interfaces, the side-channel information leak- age and fault resistance against the RSA glitch at- tack. Several points of vulnerability have been identi- fled. The major weakness is the power consumption information leakage. Simple power analysis (SPA) revealed macro characteristics of the RSA decryption that enable an adversary to extract the user's private key by the adaptive chosen-ciphertext type of attack. The flndings give an insight into the security of using smart cards and can be used to eventually improve future implementations of smart card based RSA de- cryption.
Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel Cys 2 /His 2 -type zinc finger protein gene from chrysanthemum

A novel member of the Cys 2 /His 2 -type zinc finger protein gene family, designated DgZFP3 , was isolated from chrysanthemum by rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). The DgZFP3 encodes a protein of 248 amino acids, including two conserved Cys 2 /His 2 -type zinc finger motifs with a plant-specific QALGGH motif in each zinc finger domain, a B-box (KXKRSKRXR) domain in the N-terminal region as a putative nuclear localization signal (NLS), a L-box (EXEXXAXCLXXL) and an EAR-box (DLNL) at C-terminus. Subcellular localization showed the presence of DgZFP3 in the nucleus. The transcript of DgZFP3 was enriched in roots and leaves than in stems and flowers of the adult chrysanthemum plants. Expression patterns revealed that DgZFP3 was strongly induced by NaCl, drought, cold and abscisic acid (ABA) treatment in the seedlings. We argued that DgZFP3 is a new member of the Cys 2 /His 2 -type zinc finger protein gene family, and it may be involved in the plant responses to various stresses. Keywords: Chrysanthemum, DgZFP3 , gene expression, Cys 2 /His 2 -type zinc finger protein
Ethnobotanical investigation of traditional knowledge and uses of edible wild plants in the Umbria Region , Central Italy

These days edible wild plants (EWPs) play a fundamental role in the Mediterranean diet, thanks to their content of mineral elements and bioactive compounds with proven benefits for human health. The present study aims to document ethnobotanical knowledge and uses of EWPs in Central Italy so that this knowledge will not be lost. During various nature fairs and exhibitions in Umbria three hundred subjects were interviewed face-to-face between March and May 2013-2015. The participants provided information on local plant names, where and when the plants were collected, part(s) used, categories used, folk medicinal uses, taste perception and other uses. The results were analyzed using two ethnobotanical indices: the Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC) and Relative Importance Index (RII). The 100 EWPs mentioned by the respondents belonged to 23 families, Asteraceae (33%), Brassicaceae (17%) and Lamiaceae (11%) being the most dominant. The part(s) used were leaves (49%), shoots (17%), flowers and inflorescences (10%). Fourteen food use categories were cited, of which boiled 31%, 28% raw, 12% in vegetable soups, 11% fried in fat, without or with beaten eggs. Twenty-seven plant species were also mentioned as having folk medicinal uses.
Comparing Qualitative Harmonic Analysis and Optimal Matching: An Exploratory Study of Occupational Trajectories

Event history surveys provide a means to analyse large numbers of complete individual occupational trajectories. A variety of statistical methods have been developed to measure the time spent in a give state as a function of individual characteristics. Until the 1990s, exploratory data analysis to describe the full complexity of trajectories was rarely mentioned in the literature. Qualitative harmonic analysis and optimal matching are two exploratory methods that can be used to build typologies of complex individual trajectories that take account of both the sequence and the duration of events. They are used here to classify the working careers of male respondents of the Biographies et entourage survey (INED, 2001), with the aim of comparing the respective advantages of each technique.
Flexible Octahedra in the Projective Extension of the Euclidean 3-Space

In this paper we complete the classification of flexible octahedra in the projective extension of the Euclidean 3-space. If all vertices are Euclidean points then we get the well known Bricard octahedra. All flexible octahedra with one vertex on the plane at infinity were already determined by the author in the context of self-motions of TSSM manipulators with two parallel rotary axes. Therefore we are only interested in those cases where at least two vertices are ideal points. Our approach is based on Kokotsakis meshes and reducible compositions of two four-bar linkages.
cDNA structure, genomic organization and expression patterns of visfatin in silver Prussian carp ( Carassius auratus gibelio )

Visfatin was a newly identified adipocytokine, which was involved in various physiologic and pathologic processes of organisms. The cDNA structure, genomic organization and expression patterns of silver Prussian carp visfatin were described in this report. The silver Prussian carp visfatin cDNA cloned from the liver was ~2.0 Kb long and contained a 1482 bp open reading frame (ORF), which encoded a protein of 493 amino acids. Furthermore, the complete gene was isolated from fin ray total genomic DNA. The whole gene was ~10 Kb and consisted of 11 exons and 9 introns. The coding sequence of silver Prussian carp visfatin had a close relationship with some other species, such as common carp, green spotted puffer fish, house mouse, porcine, human and so on. However, the noncoding sequences showed great variation from others. Particularly, the length and complexity of silver Prussian carp visfatin gene were less complicated. The results of tissue distribution analysis revealed that silver Prussian carp visfatin mRNA was broadly expressed and had higher levels in gill, heart, ovary and mesenteric adipose, indicating that visfatin played an important role in silver Prussian carp. Key words : Silver Prussian carp, visfatin, cDNA cloning, exon-intron organization, expression profiles.
A combined field and modeling study of groundwater flow in a tidal marsh

Bald mud beaches were found among the mangrove marshes in Dongzhaigang National Nature Reserve, Hainan, China. To investigate the possible reasons for this phenomenon, the intertidal zones of a mangrove transect and a bald beach transect with similar topography and tidal actions were selected for comparison study. Along both transects, observed water table variations were significant in the high and low intertidal zones and negligible in the middle intertidal zones. Despite the same tidal actions and above-mentioned similarities, observed groundwater salinity was significantly smaller along the mangrove transect (average 23.0 ppt) than along the bald beach transect (average 28.5 ppt). These observations invite one hypothesis: the hydraulic structure of tidal marsh and freshwater availability may be the main hydrogeological factors critical to mangrove development. Two-dimensional numerical simulations corroborated the speculation and gave results in line with the observed water table. The two transects investigated were found to have a mud-sand two-layered structure: a surface zone of low-permeability mud and an underlying highpermeability zone that outcrops at the high and low tide lines. The freshwater recharge from inland is considerable along the mangrove transect but negligible along the bald beach transect. The high-permeability zone may provide opportunity for the plants in the mangrove marsh to uptake freshwater and oxygen through their roots extending downward into the high-permeability zone, which may help limit the buildup of salt in the root zone caused by evapotranspiration and enhance salt removal, which may further increase the production of marsh grasses and influence their spatial distribution. The bald beach is most probably due to the lack of enough freshwater for generating a brackish beach soil condition essential to mangrove growth. It is also indicated that seawater infiltrated the high-permeability zone through its outcrop near the high intertidal zone, and discharged from the tidal river bank in the vicinity of the low tide line. These processes thereby formed a tide-induced seawater-groundwater circulation, which likely provided considerable contribution to the total submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). Finally, implications and uncertainties behind this study were summarized for future examinations.
Impacts of Monetary Policy on Stock Market through Survey from Investors

Analyzing the impacts of the monetary policy on the stock market is very important to investors. There are many papers studying this relationship, but study based on investors is still limited. This paper is conducted by interviewing experts and Stock Investors in Vietnam. After having research results, the authors continue to use multi-variables method (EFA, regression analysis) and get the following outcomes: According to investors, the policy of interest rate, required reserved ration and exchange rate have impacts on Vietnam stock market; the policy of money supply does not have influence on the market. At the same time, interest rate has the strongest impact on stock market following by the required reserved ratio and the exchange rate.