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Gezi Protests
Authors: Polat Necati
Published: May 2017

This chapter is on the historic Gezi Park protests of 2013, which promised a novel democratic fusion of otherwise disparate political forces—comparable perhaps to the broad democratic alliance led by ‘former’ Islamists from the late 1990s—enduringly bringing together a colourful variety of political forces, and arguably outside the settled republican reflexes, initially in opposition to an urban development plan in Istanbul, soon to engulf the whole nation. The harsh response by the government to the protests far beyond the limits in the applicable human rights law, which would do much to damage the hard-earned reputation of the administration before international public opinion within only a span of days, is illustrated in this chapter through the plight of three protesters: a young man battered within an inch of his life by the police, a young woman persecuted beyond the limits of credibility, and a child murdered during the protests.
Introduction
Authors: Hanson Clare
Published: May 2017

The Introduction begins by arguing for the significance of psychology as part of Mansfield’s intellectual background, noting her description of a story as a ‘psychological study’ in 1908, well in advance of her likely knowledge of Freud and probably with reference to the wider network of late nineteenth century psychology. This rapidly growing discipline generated widespread public interest in the question of mind and the relationship between consciousness and sensation and, in consequence, several contributors to this volume argue for convergences between Mansfield’s fiction and the work of psychologists such as William James, Henri Bergson and Théodule Ribot. Having positioned Mansfield in relation to psychology the Introduction goes on to map the diverse ways in which the contributors to this volume mobilise psychoanalysis for readings of Mansfield’s work.
Katherine Mansfield and Vitalist Psychology
Authors: Hanson Clare
Published: May 2017

This essay argues that the vitalist psychology of William James and particularly Henri Bergson shaped Mansfield’s understanding of the mutability and multiplicity of the self. It suggests that Bergson’s emphasis on the heterogeneity of consciousness finds an echo in the distinctiveness of Mansfield’s characterisation, as she tracks the fluid interplay between different levels and intensities of consciousness. Drawing on the vitalist understanding of personality, it argues that Mansfield tracks the expression and transmission of emotion between characters in terms of affect and involuntary action, disclosing the porosity of the self and its openness to the unpredictability of human interactions. Delving further into Bergson’s account of consciousness, it suggests that Mansfield shares his understanding of the self as caught between a virtual past and a virtual future, transformed moment by moment under the pressure of a past which breaks through into the present and a future which is constitutively unknowable. For Mansfield as for a number of modernist writers, character is framed in terms of a situational self which is responsive to the changing environments in which it finds itself, and consciousness is rendered as endlessly productive of novelty, of that which cannot be predicted from the familiar and already known.
A Raft in the Sea of Loneliness: Katherine Mansfield’s Discovery of Cosmic Anatomy
Authors: Ascari Maurizio
Published: May 2017

M. B. Oxon’s Cosmic Anatomy and the Structure of the Ego (1921) was a prominent feature of Katherine Mansfield's 'myth' right from its inception, in the years following her death, when John Middleton Murry orchestrated the publication of her uncollected writings. When Mansfield’s Journal appeared in 1927 the public came into contact with a little-known book that had changed the life of the author one year before her death. This article investigates the role Cosmic Anatomy played within the imagination of Mansfield, in relation to her late story production. It also sheds light on the personality of M. B. Oxon, whose real name was Lewis Alexander Richard Wallace, and notably his relationship with Mansfield's mentor, A.R. Orage. The chapter also investigates Wallace’s contribution to The New Age, the journal Orage edited and the 'alternative thinking' laboratory in which Cosmic Anatomy is rooted. While exploring the milieu with which Mansfield came into contact through Orage, ultimately leading her to Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, the chapter sheds light on Mansfield’s own quest for connection, also due to her condition as an invalid, which progressively deprived her of sensory contacts with the external world. The chapter is rounded up by an investigation into the role dreams and archetypal forms of symbolism play in Mansfield’s short stories within a holistic perception of things that translate into a narrative strategy of plurisignification.
Mansfield’s Psychology of the Emotions
Authors: Hammond Meghan Marie
Published: May 2017

In one of Katherine Mansfield’s early stories, ‘In Summer’ (1908), a young fairy child named Phyllis sits upon a hillside and sobs, ‘Oh, I have never been so unhappy before. […] I have a curious pain somewhere.’1 It is an arresting and confusing moment. Phyllis, a child on the brink of adulthood, cannot name the unfamiliar and vaguely located pain. The nature of the pain is never clarified. It might be physical pain (for women’s specific pains are often spoken of in oblique terms) or emotional pain, which plays out in the body but cannot be said to happen in any particular place. To read Mansfield is to reckon with such ambiguously embodied feelings – life for her characters is the experience of obtrusive and often unarticulated emotions. In her most memorable characters we observe emotion in the body: Ma Parker tries desperately to hold back her ‘proper cry’ (2: 297), Bertha Young has uncontrollable urges ‘to run instead of walk’ in her moments of bliss (2: 142), and the anxious Kezia tiptoes out of ‘Prelude’ feeling ‘hot all over’ (2: 92)....
Feeling ‘Like a Work-Girl’: Class, Intimacy and Alienation in ‘The Garden Party’
Authors: Thorndike-Breeze Rebecca
Published: May 2017

This essay argues that ‘The Garden Party’ confronts us with the uncanny intimacy and alienation created by class relations in the upper-middle-class household at the turn of the century. The consequences of protagonist Laura Sheridan’s desire and failure to transcend what she calls ‘absurd class distinctions’ (288) are well established in Mansfield criticism, and psychological readings of ‘The Garden Party’ often consider how the working class Other influences Laura’s developing subjectivity. In this essay, I draw upon similar psychological frameworks to examine how ‘The Garden Party’ deals with the idea of working-class selves – not just Others. I contend that, though it does not render the inner lives of its working-class characters, ‘The Garden Party’ still raises important questions about the selfhood of the Other, and the uncanny, sometimes abject, sense of the Other within one’s self.Through a series of uncanny parallels between middle and working-class life, ‘The Garden Party’ collapses the distance between Laura and the working class. As it does, it confronts us with questions about what it means to stare the working class Other in the face – as Laura stares into the swollen, grief-stricken face of Scott’s widow – and to realize that the Other is at the core of the self.
‘For the life of him he could not remember’: Post-war Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Fly’
Authors: Parui Avishek
Published: May 2017

This article examines the entanglement between masculinity crisis and traumatic memory as described in Katherine Mansfield's short story ‘The Fly’. By exploring the way Mansfield depicts the figure of the ‘boss’ in the story as symbolic of the stubborn resistance against the natural organic order of time, the article investigates how such a memory project of preservation fails with all its masculinist hubris. Drawing on Pierre
Janet’s notions of traumatic memory and narrative memory and on Freud’stheory of traumatic repetition and castration, the article attempts to locate the politics of memory in Mansfield’s story alongside the politics of masculinity that perversely equates male hysteria with performance and prestige.
Poise by J. D. Fergusson: A Rediscovered Portrait of Katherine Mansfield?
Authors: Hall Rachel Boyd
Published: May 2017

In the autumn of 2014, a long-lost painting by the Scottish artist John Duncan Fergusson re-appeared on the art market, having been consigned to an attic in Giverny, France, for the best part of a century. Dated 1916, Poise was last seen at Fergusson’s one-man exhibition at the Connell Gallery, London, in May 1918 and had been reproduced in June that year in ...
‘Neither a god nor ANT can save us’: Latour, Heidegger and History
Authors: Kates Joshua
Published: May 2017

Bruno Latour's work represents a powerful attempt to move beyond our usual constructions of knowledge and disciplinarity, as well as of history. Nevertheless, in his often playful appeals to metaphysics, Latour, I argue, sometimes revives that subject/object dichotomy he contests; similarly, at moments, he recurs to an unthematized model of history as periodized to motivate his own project. Latour's discussion of Heidegger, as well as Heidegger's own writings (with a shout-out to Archimedes) provide the occasion for pursuing these questions — of the disadvantages and advantages of Latour for thought. The advantages, it is further maintained, ultimately direct us towards a radical conception of discourse and an inherently multiple notion of historical becoming or historicity, shorn of history en bloc. The article concludes by questioning Heidegger's own singular conception of an epochal history in his discussions of the thing.
UNIFORMLY VALID ASYMPTOTICS FOR CARRIER’S MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF STRING OSCILLATIONS
Authors: Miškinis Paulius , Krylovas Aleksandras , Lavcel-Budko Olga
Published: May 2017

In the paper, an asymptotic analysis of G.F. Carrier’s mathematical model of string oscillation is presented. The model consists of a system of two nonlinear second order partial differential equations and periodic initial conditions. The longitudinal and transversal string oscillations are analyzed together when at the initial moment of time the system’s solutions have amplitudes proportional to a small parameter. The problem is reduced to a system of two weakly nonlinear wave equations. The resonant interaction of periodic waves is analyzed. An uniformly valid asymptotic approximation in the long time interval, which is inversely proportional to the small parameter, is constructed. This asymptotic approximation is a solution of averaged along characteristics integro-differential system. Conditions of appearance of combinatoric resonances in the system have been established. The results of numerical experiments are presented.
RELAXATION OSCILLATIONS IN SINGULARLY PERTURBED GENERALIZED LIENARD SYSTEMS WITH NON-GENERIC TURNING POINTS
Authors: Hu Huan , Shen Jianhe , Zhou Zheyan , Ou Zhonghui
Published: May 2017

Based on the asymptotic analysis technique developed by Eckhaus [Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 985, pp 449-494. Springer, Berlin, 1983], this paper aims to study the existence and the asymptotic behaviors of relaxation oscillations of regular and canard types in a singularly perturbed generalized Lionard system with a non-generic turning point. The singularly perturbed Lionard system considered in this paper is very general and numerous real world models like some biological ones can be rewritten in the form of this system after a series of transformations. Under certain conditions, we rigorously prove the existence of regular relaxation oscillations and canard relaxation oscillations under the specific parameter conditions. As an application, two biological models, namely, a FitzHugh-Nagumo model and a twodimensional predator-prey model with Holling-II response are studied, in which, the existence of regular relaxation oscillations and canard relaxation oscillations as well as the bifurcation curves are obtained.
Two Small Transiting Planets and a Possible Third Body Orbiting HD 106315
Authors: Crossfield Ian J. M. , Ciardi David R. , Isaacson Howard , Howard Andrew W. , Petigura Erik A. , Weiss Lauren M. , Fulton Benjamin J. , Sinukoff Evan , Schlieder Joshua E. , Mawet Dimitri , Ruane Garreth , de Pater Imke , de Kleer Katherine , Davies Ashley G. , Christiansen Jessie L. , Dressing Courtney D. , Hirsch Lea , Benneke Björn , Crepp Justin R. , Kosiarek Molly , Livingston John , Gonzales Erica , Beichman Charles A. , Knutson Heather A.
Published: May 2017

The masses, atmospheric makeups, spin–orbit alignments, and system architectures of extrasolar planets can be best studied when the planets orbit bright stars. We report the discovery of three bodies orbiting HD 106315, a bright (V = 8.97 mag) F5 dwarf targeted by our K2 survey for transiting exoplanets. Two small transiting planets are found to have radii

and

and orbital periods 9.55 days and 21.06 days, respectively. A radial velocity (RV) trend of 0.3 ± 0.1 m s−1 day−1 indicates the likely presence of a third body orbiting HD 106315 with period ≳160 days and mass ≳45 M
⊕. Transits of this object would have depths ≳0.1% and are definitively ruled out. Although the star has v sin i = 13.2 km s−1, it exhibits a short-timescale RV variability of just 6.4 m s−1. Thus, it is a good target for RV measurements of the mass and density of the inner two planets and the outer object’s orbit and mass. Furthermore, the combination of RV noise and moderate v sin i makes HD 106315 a valuable laboratory for studying the spin–orbit alignment of small planets through the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect. Space-based atmospheric characterization of the two transiting planets via transit and eclipse spectroscopy should also be feasible. This discovery demonstrates again the power of K2 to find compelling exoplanets worthy of future study.
Cosmic Reionization on Computers: Properties of the Post-reionization IGM
Authors: Gnedin Nickolay Y. , Becker George D. , Fan Xiaohui
Published: May 2017

We present a comparison between several observational tests of the post-reionization intergalactic medium and the numerical simulations of reionization completed under the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. The CROC simulations match the gap distribution reasonably well, and also provide a good match for the distribution of peak heights, but there is a notable lack of wide peaks in the simulated spectra and the flux-probability distribution functions are poorly matched in the narrow redshift interval

, with the match at other redshifts being significantly better, albeit not exact. Both discrepancies are related: simulations show more opacity than the data.
Thermal-diffusional Instability in White Dwarf Flames: Regimes of Flame Pulsation
Authors: Xing Guangzheng , Zhao Yibo , Modestov Mikhail , Zhou Cheng , Gao Yang , Law Chung K.
Published: May 2017

Thermal-diffusional pulsation behaviors in planar as well as outwardly and inwardly propagating white dwarf (WD) carbon flames are systematically studied. In the 1D numerical simulation, the asymptotic degenerate equation of state and simplified one-step reaction rates for nuclear reactions are used to study the flame propagation and pulsation in WDs. The numerical critical Zel’dovich numbers of planar flames at different densities (ρ = 2, 3, and 4 × 107 g cm−3) and of spherical flames (with curvature c = −0.01, 0, 0.01, and 0.05) at a particular density (ρ = 2 × 107 g cm−3) are presented. Flame front pulsation in different environmental densities and temperatures are obtained to form the regime diagram of pulsation, showing that carbon flames pulsate in the typical density of 2 × 107 g cm−3 and temperature of 0.6 × 109 K. While being stable at higher temperatures, at relatively lower temperatures, the amplitude of the flame pulsation becomes larger. In outwardly propagating spherical flames the pulsation instability is enhanced and flames are also easier to quench due to pulsation at small radius, while the inwardly propagating flames are more stable.
Atomic Data Revisions for Transitions Relevant to Observations of Interstellar, Circumgalactic, and Intergalactic Matter
Authors: Cashman Frances H. , Kulkarni Varsha P. , Kisielius Romas , Ferland Gary J. , Bogdanovich Pavel
Published: May 2017

Measurements of element abundances in galaxies from astrophysical spectroscopy depend sensitively on the atomic data used. With the goal of making the latest atomic data accessible to the community, we present a compilation of selected atomic data for resonant absorption lines at wavelengths longward of 911.753 Å (the H i Lyman limit), for key heavy elements (heavier than atomic number 5) of astrophysical interest. In particular, we focus on the transitions of those ions that have been observed in the Milky Way interstellar medium (ISM), the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way and/or other galaxies, and the intergalactic medium (IGM). We provide wavelengths, oscillator strengths, associated accuracy grades, and references to the oscillator strength determinations. We also attempt to compare and assess the recent oscillator strength determinations. For about 22% of the lines that have updated oscillator strength values, the differences between the former values and the updated ones are ≳0.1 dex. Our compilation will be a useful resource for absorption line studies of the ISM, as well as studies of the CGM and IGM traced by sight lines to quasars and gamma-ray bursts. Studies (including those enabled by future generations of extremely large telescopes) of absorption by galaxies against the light of background galaxies will also benefit from our compilation.
An Accurate Flux Density Scale from 50 MHz to 50 GHz
Authors: Perley R. A. , Butler B. J.
Published: May 2017

The flux-density scale of Perley & Butler is extended downward to ∼50 MHz by utilizing recent observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) of 20 sources between 220 MHz and 48.1 GHz, and legacy VLA observations at 73.8 MHz. The derived spectral flux densities are placed on an absolute scale by utilizing the Baars et al. values for Cygnus A (3C405) for frequencies below 2 GHz, and the Mars-based polynomials for 3C286, 3C295, and 3C196 from Perley & Butler above 2 GHz. Polynomial expressions are presented for all 20 sources, with accuracy limited by the primary standards to 3%–5% over the entire frequency range. Corrections to the scales proposed by Perley & Butler, and by Scaife & Heald are given.
Redonner vie aux agences face à l’incertitude des modèles de valeur de la banque
Authors: Campos Éric , Gayte Dominique
Published: May 2017

Avec la digitalisation, on peut rénover la relation bancaire en donnant aux clients l’envie de venir en agence. C’est un bouleversement qu’il faut initier, le management vertical laissant peu à peu la place à l’intelligence collective.
Automatiser en renforçant le rôle de l’homme
Authors: Leitzgen Anne
Published: May 2017

Schmidt Groupe utilise toutes les ressources du numérique, de la création virtuelle à la fabrication robotisée, les collaborateurs devenant opérateurs et pilotes d’installations. Il a fallu du temps ainsi que beaucoup de formation et de confiance.
De la recherche à la création d’entreprise : un potentiel considérable
Authors: Lewiner Jacques
Published: May 2017

Jacques Lewiner, qui a expérimenté tous les maillons depuis la recherche fondamentale jusqu’à la création d’entreprise, délivre un message optimiste : il suffit de peu pour débloquer les verrous qui bridaient les retombées économiques de la recherche française.
A quoi tient la solidarité de l’assurance maladie entre les hauts revenus et les plus modestes en France ?
Authors: Jusot Florence , Legal Renaud , Louvel Alexis , Pollak Catherine , Shmueli Amir
Published: May 2017

Cet article analyse la solidarité assurée par le système d’assurance maladie français grâce à un nouvel outil mesurant les transferts opérés entre classes de revenu par les consommations de soins et leur financement, appliqué au modèle de microsimulation Inès-Omar 2012. L’indice de solidarité est décomposé selon les sources de financement (assurances obligatoires et complémentaires, restes à charges) et discuté au regard de principes d’équité. La solidarité tient moins à l’équité horizontale dans la consommation de soins qu’à l’équité verticale du financement garantie par la progressivité de l’assurance obligatoire. Les inégalités sociales de santé contribuent largement à expliquer l’importance des transferts reçus de l’assurance publique par les plus modestes, même si les barrières d’accès aux soins limitent la solidarité du système.
Les disparités d’absentéisme à l’hôpital sont-elles associées à des différences de conditions de travail ?
Authors: Pollak Catherine , Ricroch Layla
Published: May 2017

Cet article analyse les disparités de recours aux arrêts de travail à l’hôpital entre secteurs public et privé, entre professions et entre hommes et femmes, en prenant en compte les conditions de travail des personnels hospitaliers (enquête Conditions de travail [2013]). Les résultats indiquent l’absence de différence significative de sinistralité entre les secteurs public et privé. Les écarts importants d’arrêts maladie entre professions semblent pouvoir s’expliquer intégralement par des différences de conditions de travail ; principalement par les contraintes physiques. Les femmes ont davantage d’arrêts maladie que les hommes, mais uniquement à l’âge des grossesses.
Institutional Violence: The Takeover of Municipalities by Protestants in the South of France (1560-1562)
Authors: Brunet Serge
Published: May 2017

Based on a close and detailed investigation of local and strangely neglected municipal sources, combined with the meticulous scrutiny of documents conserved in the Russian archives for the period 1559-1562, and a focus on institutional history, I demonstrate how the early Calvinistic consistories cleverly manipulated the particular municipal organization (the consulates) of Midi communities and managed to take them over with relative ease. In many of these communities, which greatly varied in size, we find that the consistories were turned into “political councils”; this subsequently enabled them to control the election of magistrates (consuls) and, even before the beginning of the wars of Religion, to ensure that they controlled the municipalities, though the Protestants were very much a minority. This is a major factor towards explaining the famous “Protestant crescent” that characterizes the South of France with its tones of civil religion.
Popular Protests, the Public Sphere and Court Catholicism. The Insults to the Chapel of the Spanish Embassy in London, 1685-1688
Authors: Bravo Lozano Cristina
Published: May 2017

The coronation of James II, a Catholic, brought about a profound political change in religious matters in the British Isles. At court, a Catholicizing process was introduced, supported by the monarch and the European diplomats who opened chapels in different parts of the city. However, this missionary effort had an unequal reception and caused a popular rejection against this new religious culture, leading to demonstrations of a markedly confessional nature. The chapel of the Spanish Embassy suffered the insults of the crowd on two occasions: the main consequence of these altercations was its destruction during the revolution of 1688. Although, superficially, this protest movement can be interpreted as anti-Catholic, it must be understood in a political context. With each new royal ruling, the protests gained strength until finally exploding after the flight of the King to France. This paper focuses on the popular protests and the explicit remonstrance of English Protestants against these Catholic altars and places of worship, with particular emphasis on the residence of Pedro Ronquillo. This study looks at popular protests and the reaction of the authorities, perceptions of the English and the use of the public sphere, the reception and dissemination of news and the impact of popular religious violence on foreign affairs in this crucial phase of English and European history.
Still Reading Edward P. Thompson
Authors: Hernández Sandoica Elena
Published: May 2017

During the final decades of the 20th century, the reading of the works of E.P. Thompson was a necessary exercise for many historians. The object of these reflections, starting from the changes occurred in historiography, is to assert its force as a historian and to reiterate its status of “classic”.
A Boolean Logic Approach to Issues of Vagueness, Heuristics, Subjectivity, and Data Mining
Authors: Hendel Russell Jay
Published: May 2017

This chapter introduces several modules that can be used to supplement an introductory logic course. The modules cover advanced topics such as rule heuristics, association rules, polythetic vs. monothetic grouping, and subsective adjectives. These topics are all approached using ordinary propositional logic, Boolean algebra with 0-1 variables. The topics are presented using a computational approach. The computations and concepts are elementary and accessible to an undergraduate without further prerequisites. The modules besides introducing advanced topics also facilitate discussion of other logic topics such as the law of the excluded middle, the concept of vagueness, and privative adjectives. This chapter presents new solutions to these problems. The chapter reviews the place of these modules within the context of introductory logic courses and the history of science. The supplementation of an introductory logic course with these modules is expected to strongly motivate students to pursue advanced topics and to increase interest in topics related to logic.
The Benefits and Limits of the Scientific Method
Authors: Moffat James
Published: May 2017

The underlying, and at first sight rather outrageous, hypothesis of science, is that there is order beneath the surface complexity of everyday life. In other words, there is an underlying simplicity which explains this complexity. Gaining even partial knowledge of this underlying simplicity has allowed us to produce all of the technology which sustains our modern world. But how did this all come about? The objective of this chapter is firstly to give you an understanding of the power of science. It represents about 2,000 years of human endeavor and is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the human race. Some of the current challenges to the scientific process and method, as we currently understand them, are then discussed, with illustrations drawn from advanced Quantum Physics. These are sketched out in plain English, without the use of mathematical equations.
Comparing Single Tier and Three Tier Infrastructure Designs against DDoS Attacks
Authors: Bhardwaj Akashdeep , Goundar Sam
Published: May 2017

With the rise in cyber-attacks on cloud environments like Brute Force, Malware or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, information security officers and data center administrators have a monumental task on hand. Organizations design data center and service delivery with the aim of catering to maximize device provisioning & availability, improve application performance, ensure better server virtualization and end up securing data centers using security solutions at internet edge protection level. These security solutions prove to be largely inadequate in times of a DDoS cyber-attack. In this paper, traditional data center design is reviewed and compared to the proposed three tier data center. The resilience to withstand against DDoS attacks is measured for Real User Monitoring parameters, compared for the two infrastructure designs and the data is validated using T-Test.
Application of Fuzzy Numbers to Assessment of Human Skills
Authors: Voskoglou Michael Gr.
Published: May 2017

Fuzzy logic, due to its nature of characterizing the ambiguous cases with multiple values, offers rich resources for dealing with assessment situations, a fact that gave us several times in past the impulse to apply its principles for such kind of situations. Fuzzy Numbers (FNs) play a fundamental role in fuzzy mathematics, analogous to the role played by the ordinary numbers in classical mathematics. In the present paper, the author utilizes a combination of the Triangular and Trapezoidal FNs with the Center of Gravity Defuzzification technique for assessing human skills. The results are illustrated by suitable examples (student and basketball players' assessment), while the author's method is compared with assessment methods of the bivalent and fuzzy logic that has been already used in earlier works.
Modelling, Control and Prediction using Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Systems
Authors: Mohammadian Masoud
Published: May 2017

Hierarchical fuzzy logic systems are increasingly applied to solve complex problems. There is a need for a structured and methodological approach for the design and development of hierarchical fuzzy logic systems. In this paper a review of a method developed by the author for design and development of hierarchical fuzzy logic systems is considered. The proposed method is based on the integration of genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic to provide an integrated knowledge base for modelling, control and prediction. Issues related to the design and construction of hierarchical fuzzy logic systems using several applications are considered and methods for the decomposition of complex systems into hierarchical fuzzy logic systems are proposed. Decomposition and conversion of systems into hierarchical fuzzy logic systems reduces the number of fuzzy rules and improves the learning speed for such systems. Application areas considered are: the prediction of interest rate and hierarchical robotic control. The aim of this manuscript is to review and highlight the research work completed in the area of hierarchical fuzzy logic system by the author. The paper can benefit researchers interested in the application of hierarchical fuzzy logic systems in modelling, control and prediction.
Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process for Sustainable Energy Sources Selection
Authors: Abdullah Lazim , Najib Liana
Published: May 2017

Selecting sustainable energy sources is one of the efforts to ensuring optimum energy consumption. However, the selection process is not straight forward as it requires multi-criteria that inherited uncertainty and qualitative evaluation. Multi-criteria evaluation that based on fuzzy set theory is one of the well-known methods to handle uncertainty in decision making and vagueness of information. This paper develops a preference for sustainable energy using the linguistic evaluation of interval type-2 fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (IT2 FAHP). Seven alternatives of sustainable energy sources that closely related to nine criteria were identified as the hierarchical structure of the decision making problem. Two academicians and an engineer attached to government agencies were invited to provide linguistic evaluation. The linguistic evaluations were analyzed using the newly developed IT2 FAHP. The seven-step computational method was implemented and the results suggest that solar energy is the best alternative in selecting the viable sustainable energy.
Design of Vision Measurement Device for Seeding Robot based on Ant Colony Algorithm and Nonlinear Circuit System
Authors: Xiaojie Liu , Hongjin Zhu , Honghui Fan , Min Zhang
Published: May 2017

In order to solve the problem of low efficiency and accuracy in the control process of seeding robot, a vision measurement device based on ant colony algorithm and nonlinear circuit system is proposed in this paper. By scanning the trunks areas, border crossing points of the bottom of the tree and ground were detected, and these points were divided into two clusters on both sides based on neighbouring relationship. The simulation result is compared with artificial recognition in a two-orchard environment. The result shows that the proposed method is reliable, safe and can satisfy the moving request of seeding robot.
The Role of Knowledge Management Processes in ERP Implementation Success
Authors: Rouhani Saeed , Hosseini Somayeh , Zanjani Mehdi Shami
Published: May 2017

Due to response to the business goals, organizations need to implement enterprise resource planning systems. But the risk of failure in the implementation project of these systems is so high, therefore paying close attention to the effective factors of implementation is very necessary. One of the effective factors is knowledge management (KM). In this study, the role of Knowledge management processes in implementation of enterprise resource planning systems is studied and the existence of knowledge management as a required factor will be emphasized. Research data, in the questionnaire format have been gathered from experts in the field of enterprise resource planning system in Iranian companies. Some of the studied organizations have implemented this system and others were in the implementing phase. Data analysis with structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology by Lisrel software shows positive relation between knowledge management processes and Success of enterprise resource planning system implementation.
A Study of the Parameters Impacting Sustainability in Information Technology Organizations
Authors: Sambhanthan Arunasalam , Potdar Vidyasagar
Published: May 2017

This paper proposes the critical themes associated with the evaluation of software business sustainability. The whole dimension of software business sustainability has been theorized into twelve elements that unfold covering the whole spectrum of software business sustainability. The twelve elements of software business sustainability include aspects such as product, process, practices, policies, people, peripherals, partners, place and profit model. The paper justifies the use of these twelve elements in ensuring sustainability in software businesses, by incorporating the case of multinational software businesses as example. This study needs to be looked as an exploratory investigation into the elements of software business sustainability lending viability towards modelling the software businesses using these twelve elements.
Geospatial Analytics to Improve the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Authors: Hipps Robert , Chopra Tushar , Zhao Peng , Kwartler Edward , Jaume Sylvain
Published: May 2017

Finding the costs and risks associated with highway traffic routes would allow companies and people alike to find routes that offer a comfortable amount of risk. With the amount of traffic data being collected at a more granular level the ability to find costs and risks associated with traffic routes given real time circumstances is plausible. Weighing these data and finding the areas that are most accident-prone allows for an assessment of the probability that an accident happens and what the cost of that accident would be for any given route. This information is very valuable for both safety and cost saving for drivers and insurance companies.
The Some of the MADM Method Behaviors Versus Incomparability
Authors: Azadfallah Mohammad
Published: May 2017

One of the advantages of the PROMETHEE I method is to bring out such incomparability's. Incomparability mostly means that the analysis of the decision problem does not permit to identify a relation of overall preference or indifference between two or more alternatives. Since, in this paper we intend to use of these properties to examination of the some of Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method (i.e., PROMETHEE II, AHP, TOPSIS, and ELECTRE) behaviors versus incomparability. It is hardly possible to evaluate the behavior of the various MADM models versus incomparability. Because, the different model reflects a different approach to solve the same decision problems. Therefore, we proposed an empirically testable index Distance of rank positions. Then, the different MADM method behaviors are examined. The results indicated that, the solution provided by AHP is more effective than others.
Proposition of a New Conformity Criterion for the Assessment of the Concrete Compressive Strength
Authors: Szczygielska Elżbieta , Tur Viktar V.
Published: May 2017

A new conformity criterion for concrete strength assessment that could be used at the initial production stage, is proposed. As an innovative conformity criterion was evaluated based on Order Statistics Theory, it is independent from the type probability density function (PDF) in population, estimation of the standard deviation, shape of the specimen and the level of autocorrelation of the test results. Proposed criterion was evaluated and positively verified both AOQL-concept using Monte Carlo simulation and the test results obtained under real production.
Spatially Curved Cable-Supported Bridge Structures
Authors: Zlatuška Karel , Strasky Jiří , Nečas Radim
Published: May 2017

The article is focused on the design of spatially curved cable - supported footbridges, which represent a simple and elegant solution for bridging longer spans. It can be used independently or in a combination with other structural arrangements, e.g. with the arch structures.To verify the behavior of the structure, a several testing models were created. At first only simple, plan – straight models were created so the results could be checked by manual calculations. Latter, the more complex, curved models were tested. All models were designed and analyzed with the Ansys software using geometrically nonlinear calculations. The analysis consisted in the searching for ideal geometry of the supporting cable, cross section geometry of the bridge deck and other parameters, which are necessary to find a correct initial state of the structure. The main criterion for finding the initial state was a demand of minimal deformations in the strut - supporting nodes, which leads to the minimal redistribution of the internal forces during the design lifetime. The result of the paper is a detailed analysis of the construction’s behavior. The main emphasis is on methodology of search for the initial state. Further, the buckling analysis of the struts and cable were performed and it’s resistance to buckling was determined using various live load configurations.
Non-Linear FEM Analysis of Integral Bridges Transition Area
Authors: Pecník Miroslav , Borzovič Viktor , Laco Kamil
Published: May 2017

The transition area of bridges is non-homogeneous solid, which consists of soil embankment, transition slab and roadway layers. These transition area elements consist of various materials with different properties. Besides the imposed loads, behavior of these areas is significantly affected by uneven settlement between the bridge abutment and soil embankment. In case of integral bridges horizontal movements of a bridge caused mostly by temperature and ongoing rheological phenomena in concrete have to be taken into account. This leads to abutment deformation in combination with time dependent soil consolidation it results in varying earth pressure over the bridges lifetime together with cyclic horizontal movements of the pavement resulting in its cracks and excessive deformations. In this paper, comparison of different approaches to finite element analysis of transition areas is presented. First analysis was performed using area elements to represent the bridge structure, and volume elements to represent embankment, while second analysis was performed in more conservative way using spring based method proposed by Křížek[3], as representation of the surrounding soil. Results obtained via both methods are compared with each other as well as with data obtained from experimental measurment of a transition area conducted in Switzerland [1].
Strut-and-Tie Model for Predicting the Punching Shear of Flat Slabs with Shear Reinforcement
Authors: Lyčka Lukáš , Stepanek Petr
Published: May 2017

The purpose of this paper is to describe a framework of the proposed method for predicting the punching shear of flat slabs with shear reinforcement. The proposed method is based on a strut-and-tie model. Current methods of predicting the punching shear strength of flat slabs could be divided into these categories: models based on empirical equations, physical models, analytical methods and finite element methods. Most of the current codes in force would be best described as empirical formulations. Physical model for prediction of punching shear is described in Model Code 2010. Proposed method for flat slabs with shear reinforcement is based mainly on a strut-and-tie model and therefore could be considered as an analytical method.For the purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method, the method is compared with some of the main methods currently in use, such as Eurocode EC2, American code ACI 318 and Model Code 2010. The comparison consists of results of more than 98 experiments of punching shear on the flat slabs with shear reinforcement, gathered from publications from all around the world.
Analysis of the Overall Reliability Slender Concrete Columns
Authors: Benko Vladimír , Gúcky Tomas , Valašík Adrián
Published: May 2017

Standard for designing of concrete structures STN EN 1992-1-1 offers three methods of analysis of second order effects with axial load. Namely, a general method based on non-linear second order analysis and two simplified methods: Method based on nominal stiffness and method based on nominal curvature. According to three series of the experiments of slender concrete columns and after calibration of the non-linear calculations, the authors in following paper compare the global reliability of above mentioned design methods with parametric study. According to executed research is possible to say that the differences in reliability of the design methods are considerable in several cases of the slender concrete columns design.The experiments were executed in the Central laboratory of Faculty of Civil Engineering STU in Bratislava in cooperation with company STRABAG ltd. The series of columns differed only in strength class of concrete (C45/55 for S1, C70/85 for S2, C80/95 for S3) and each series included six tested samples. The geometry and reinforcement of the columns as well as the initial eccentricity of the axial force were design so, that the buckling failure of the columns occurred earlier than the design strength of materials in the most stressed cross-section ran out.
Resistance of Flat Slabs with Openings
Authors: Fillo Ľudovít , Augustín Tomáš , Bartók Andrej , Keseli Ondrej
Published: May 2017

Flat slabs - locally supported slabs are an important and preferred type of modern buildings structures. The column – slab contact point has the concentration of compression but especially shear and tensile stresses which may cause sudden failure – punching of slabs. The paper deals with the analysis of flat slab sample with two openings near the column - the typical example of real structures. The results are presented only for one size and location of openings. Material properties for analysis were obtained from experimental work carried out at the Department of Concrete Structures at STU in Bratislava. The phenomenon of the punching was calculated according EN1992 and Model Code 2010, and also numerically analyzed by nonlinear methods based on the finite element method. Results of these processes of resistance determination are compared separately for flat slab without and with openings.
Assessment of the Influence of Multiple Cyclic Loading on the Static Modulus of Elasticity of Hardened Concrete
Authors: Misák Petr , Daněk Petr , Kocáb Dalibor , Potočková Michaela , Moravcová Bronislava , Topolář Libor
Published: May 2017

This paper deals with determining the dependence of the value of the static modulus of elasticity of concrete in compression on the number of loading cycles. The deformation of specimens during multiple cyclic loading was measured in the elastic region of the stress-strain curve for concrete. The specimens were subjected to up to 1500 loading cycles. The main goal of the experiment was to ascertain whether the multiple cyclic loading causes significant changes in the static modulus of elasticity.
Screw Connection in Reinforced Concrete Column Joints of Prefabricated Structures
Authors: Hranilović Igor , Meštrović Darko , Kokrehel Zsolt , Čizmar Dean
Published: May 2017

Classic connection between prefabricated reinforced concrete columns on a foundation slab using the concrete plinth base can sometimes be very problematic, especially in limited construction conditions and / or foundation on sandy terrain where the groundwater is very close to the ground surface. By applying the screw connection between a prefabricated reinforced concrete column and the foundation structure using anchor bolts and column shoes, the overall height of the foundation is successfully reduced. The established connection between prefabricated reinforced concrete column and the foundation can immediately sustain the design force after assembly and it is considered to be a rigid connection that acts as an equivalent conventional connection with concrete plinth base, without any other additional support and welding. The successful implementation is possible with underground levels of structures where the inverted concrete plinth bases are implemented - the indentation in the foundation slab for the connection of prefabricated columns with base plate is avoided.Application of the screw connection also enables the design of the continuation of the column at higher altitude (column to column) or connection of the upper part the element with the monolithic structure. Screw connection is particularly suitable for use in seismic areas because the performed tests showed very good ductility of the connections under cyclic load.
Moment-Rotation Response of Beam-Column Connections in Precast Concrete Structures
Authors: Hadade Maria Ângela S. , Ferreira Marcelo de A. , Carvalho Roberto Chust , Catoia Bruna
Published: May 2017

This paper provides an experimental investigation on the moment-rotation response of typical moment resisting beam-column connections, employing continuous negative bars consolidated with cast in place concrete over the precast beam and passing through grouted corrugated sleeves into an intermediate column. According to [1], the relative beam-column rotation is highly dependent on the elongation mechanism of the negative bars related to both the embedment length into the grouted sleeves and the development length over the beam end, being also inversely dependent on the vertical distance between the position of the top bars and the centre of rotation at end beam section. The flexural secant stiffness of the moment-rotation response is caused by a sum of the joint opening mechanisms at the beam-column interface and crack propagation within the connection zone, wherein the bond-slip at crack positions occurs prior to the first yielding of the negative bars. Therefore, the semi-rigid behaviour of the beam-column connections is associated with deformation mechanisms that occur at the SLS, but which also affects the global behaviour and stability analysis of precast frames at the ULS.Cruciform tests of full scale beam-column connections were carried out at the Precast Research Centre of the Federal University of Sao Carlos (Brazil), where 6 prototypes were studied varying the detailing of the positive connectors over the concrete corbel. The first pair of connectors employed elastomeric bearing pads with 2 vertical dowel bars, the second pair of connectors employed horizontal joints filled with grout with 2 vertical dowel bars and the last pair of connectors employed positive welded plates. The comparison between the experimental results showed that the smallest secant stiffness, which was obtained from the connector with elastomeric bearing pad, was corresponded to 89% and to 82% of the highest secant stiffness obtained for the connectors with welded plates and grouted joint, respectively. Therefore, the experimental results indicate that the major deformation mechanism within the beam-column connections is mostly dependent on the elongation of the top bars. Finally, a simplified analytical equation has been calibrated against the experimental results of the studied beam-column connections.