As one alternative source of energy for the future, fusion power will be required to demonstrate that it can be a safe, clean and economically attractive option in an increasingly diverse and competitive energy marketplace. Top-level requirements have been developed and used to guide the development of fusion power concepts, most recently, the ARIES-RS conceptual power plant design based upon t...

OBJECTIVE Reduction in the current high levels of meat and dairy consumption may contribute to environmental as well as human health. Since meat is a major source of Fe, effects on Fe intake need to be evaluated, especially in groups vulnerable to negative Fe status. In the present study we evaluated the effects of replacing meat and dairy foods with plant-based products on environmental sustai...

The study presented herein is aimed towards improvement of nuclear power plant safety by utilizing the probabilistic safety assessment methodology. A new time-dependent unavailability model of ageing safety equipment within the nuclear industry is proposed. Equipment ageing along with effects of corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance are modelled as an integral part of the new time-d...

Selenium (Se) exhibits a “double-edged” behavior in animal and human nutrition. It is a micronutrient required in low concentrations by animals and humans, but toxic at high concentrations. Selenium deficiency has been associated with cancer and other health problems. Selenium requirements are commonly met through soils and plants such as wheat, rice, vegetables and maize in many countries. Sel...

The benefits of utilizing the probabilistic safety assessment towards improvement of nuclear power plant safety are presented in this paper. Namely, a nuclear power plant risk reduction can be achieved by risk-informed optimization of the deterministically-determined surveillance requirements. A living probabilistic safety assessment tool for time-dependent risk analysis on component, system an...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Climate change is advancing the leaf-out times of many plant species and mostly extending the growing season in temperate ecosystems. Laboratory experiments using twig cuttings from woody plant species present an affordable, easily replicated approach to investigate the relative importance of factors such as winter chilling, photoperiod, spring warming and frost tolerance on...

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have been introduced by companies to facilitate their new product development process to shorten the product time to market, reduce the product development cost, and meet the dynamic demands of customers. However, PLM implementation is not an easy job and some of the attempted projects failed. A common problem encountere...

Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 mo of life followed by optimal complementary feeding are critical public health measures for reducing and preventing morbidity and mortality in young children. Clinical factors, such as birth weight, prematurity, and illness, that affect the iron and zinc requirements of younger infants are discussed. Maternal diet and nutritional status do not have a str...

[Context and motivation] The starting point for software development is usually the system requirements. The requirements, especially non-functional requirements specified in a document are often incomplete and inconsistent with the initial user needs and expectations. [Question/problem] Experience at Siemens showed us that programmers working on software development often have trouble interpre...

www.cpd-associates .com COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, LLC 44 Summit Road, Suite 101 • Riverside, CT 06878 (800) 573-4756 • (203) 698-9323 Sizing Up the Challenge Confronting Product Development The full range of requirements often swamps product development. An Aerospace program on average will start with several thousand customer requirements at the system level, hundreds of th...