The New Product Development (NPD) process begins with a set of more or less ambiguous concepts that define required product characteristics and features. As the product is completed, the meaning of the concepts becomes precisely specified and a concrete product identity gradually takes shape. New product ideas are cleaned up and crystallized through a network of functional specialists from diff...

Environmental and economic factors increasingly encourage higher utility of industrial by-products. The basic objective of this study was to identify alternative source for good quality aggregates which is depleting very fast due to fast pace of construction activities in India. EAF oxidizing slag as a by-product obtained during the process in steel making industry provides great opportunity to...

The article describes the testing of poles for electric power transmission lines, which are made centrifugally-cast concrete and ultra-high strength concrete, prestressed with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer tendons (CFRP). presented results pole ultimate load suggest potential usage this construction product, particularly in aggressive environments high probability steel corrosion. Part tested...

Today, enterprise software vendors typically sell their enterprise applications in many different variants, which allows for a better market penetration regarding diverging customer needs and financial power of the customers. Since one enterprise application can be composed of several subsystems coming from different software providers interoperability issues between the different subsystems ha...

Background: In megavoltage radiotherapy rooms, ordinary concrete is usually used due to its low construction costs, although higher density concrete are sometimes used, as well. The use of high-density concrete decreases the required thickness of the concrete barrier hence, its disadvantage is its high cost. In a nuclear reactor, neutron radiation is the most difficult to shield. A method for p...

regarding the increasing demand for lightweight concrete especially lightweight structural concrete, and safety requirements underlined in 2800 iranian standard, research to achieve the optimized results in lightweight concrete production seems inevitable. since, one of the commonly used methods for producing the light eight concrete, utilizes the light weight aggregates with significant role i...

background: biological shielding of nuclear reactors has always been a great concern and decreasing the complexity and expense of these installations is of great interest. in this study, we used datolite and galena (daga) minerals for production of a high performance heavy concrete. materials and methods: datolite and galena minerals which can be found in many parts of iran were used in the con...

Signature schemes that are derived from three move identification schemes such as the Fiat-Shamir, Schnorr and modified ElGamal schemes are a typical class of the most practical signature schemes. The random oracle paradigm [1,2,12] is useful to prove the security of such a class of signature schemes [4,12]. This paper presents a new key technique, “ID reduction”, to show the concrete security ...

In recent work, Ishai, Prabhakaran and Sahai (CRYPTO 2008) presented a new compiler (hereafter the IPS compiler) for constructing protocols that are secure in the presence of malicious adversaries without an honest majority from protocols that are only secure in the presence of semi-honest adversaries. The IPS compiler has many important properties: it provides a radically different way of obta...