1 In August 2003, while many Europeans were heading to the beaches to mitigate the effects of the worst heat wave on record, José Eduardo Sampaio, the CEO of Casa XXI, was faced with another kind of heat. Cartão 21, the innovative payment system of Casa XXI that he had personally conceived and subcontracted, had dramatically failed on August 6 th during the high-visibility inauguration of Alval...

The travel patterns of senior citizens in Seoul were analyzed using Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data. The focus was specifically on mode choices and transfer patterns. The results showed that 99% of trips made by senior citizens (individuals over 65 years old), who were given free subway transit passes, consisted of single-mode trips. The average travel time was 31 minutes, and subway trave...

Any of views is formally defined within description logics that were established as a family of logics for modeling complex hereditary structures and have a suitable expressive power. This paper considers the Application Development Environment (ADE) over generalized variable concepts that are used to build database applications involving the supporting views. The front-end user interacts the d...

Using a partitioned-energy thermodynamic framework which assigns energy to that of atomic configurational stored cold work and kinetic-vibrational, we derive an important constraint on the Taylor-Quinney coefficient, quantifies fraction plastic is converted into heat during deformation. Associated with two contributions are separate temperatures – ordinary temperature for thermal effective ener...

A conventional baker’s yeast strain D incorporated trehalose into its cells from a YPG medium supplemented with trehalose. Cells cultured in a medium containing 3 to 5% trehalose increased to nearly 5 times the trehalose content of cells cultured in the absence of trehalose. After 1 day of frozen storage at -2O”C, cells cultured in 3% trehalose medium experienced a lesser decrease in both viabi...

BACKGROUND Temporary cold storage is a common procedure for preserving tissues for a short time before using them in a clinical or experimental setting. The process of storing tissues at refrigeration or freezing temperatures can affect the mechanical properties of the tissue. Previous studies were limited to uniaxial tensile tests and did not have substantial explanations for what was structur...

An energy equation for fatigue crack growth in adhesive joints is proposed. Fatigue experiment on DCB joint specimens was used to derive the relation between rate (da/dN) and variables this equation. The result shows plastic dissipation change stored strain energy, whose with da/dN both depending stress ratio, are not straightforwardly related da/dN. dissipated new surface formation variable th...

The booklouse, Liposcelis bostrychophila, is a worldwide pest of stored products. For decades, only thelytokous parthenogenetic reproduction was documented in L. bostrychophila. Male L. bostrychophila were first found in Hawaii in 2002. In 2009, a sexual strain was found in Arizona. We examined the morphology of both males and females of the Arizona strain and compared the Arizona sexual strain...

Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is the most popular cyanobacterial strain, serving as a standard in the research fields of photosynthesis, stress response, metabolism and so on. A glucose-tolerant (GT) derivative of this strain was used for genome sequencing at Kazusa DNA Research Institute in 1996, which established a hallmark in the study of cyanobacteria. However, apparent differences in sequence...

In this initial study it is investigated the possibility of using simple artificial neural network for classification of kick techniques based on their specific force course profile. The aim is to investigate whether the neural networks could be a suitable tool for such task and can be possibly used in following research that will deal with classification of punch techniques and also the strike...