Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used, powerful tool to identify assess potential failure modes in products make more reliable. Due the complexity of lack knowledge, FMEA involves many uncertainties practice. In previous studies, numerous modified methods based on fuzzy logic Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory have been employed address these uncertainties. These studies ...

The biogenic amine, octopamine, has been proposed as the transmitter in the firefly light organ (Evans, 1980; Robertson, 1981). Whereas initial studies implicated adrenaline (Smalley, 1965; Carlson, 1968a), octopamine was found to be more potent in inducing luminescence than any amine other than synephrine (Carlson, 19686). Octopamine, but not synephrine, was found in adult lantern segments (Ro...

Alix, Philippe, Francoise Grolleau, and Bernard Hue. Ca /Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase regulates GABA-activated chloride current in cockroach dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons. J Neurophysiol 87: 2972–2982, 2002; 10.1152/jn.00631.2001. We studied -aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated currents in short-term cultured dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons of cockroach Periplaneta americana us...

This paper discusses the diffusion equation with a damping term as follows ut = div(|Dum|p−2Dum)− u1 |Du|1 , where p > 2,m > 1, and p > p1, q1+p1m > m(p−1) > 1. By the standard Picard iteration method, a sufficient condition is given to the existence of the singular self-similar solutions. Moreover, the paper gives a classification for these singular self-similar solutions. Key–Words: Diffusion...

Accounts Wagenaar and Boer (1987) outlined three competing theoretical accounts of the effect of misleading postevent information on memory. Loftus’ destructive updating model (DUM) posits that the conflicting information replaces and destroys the original memory. A coexistence model (CXM) asserts that an inhibition mechanism suppresses the original memory, “model fit indices” are in fact more ...