vii CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Thesis organization 1 Literature review 1 Rationale 5 Objectives 5 References 6 CHAPTER 2. NOSEMA PYRAUSTA AND CRY1AB-INCORPORATED DIET LED TO DECREASED SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS IN EUROPEAN CORN BORER 9 Abstract 9 Introduction 10 Materials and Methods 12 Results 15 Discussion 17 Figure Captions 21 Acknowledgements 28 References 28 CHAPTER 3. PROCLI...

Application of information infrastructure theory has resulted in rich descriptions of politically and technically complex and usually quite large information systems. Although such insights have been used for developing and testing prescriptive information infrastructure design theory, action research using information infrastructure design theory seems less victorious that one might perhaps ha...

this paper reviews the experience of persian designers and planners for creating the most livableand greenery capital city in the hole region of middle east throughout the 17th century. new concepts of urban greendevelopment emerged in that time. some of these ideas where extremely creative and vanguard from there era andstill some of them are the main theoretical basics of urban green planning...

DARWIN is a NASA developed, Internet-based system for enabling aerospace researchers to securely and remotely access and collaborate on the analysis of aerospace vehicle design data, primarily the results of wind-tunnel testing and numeric (e.g., computational fluid-dynamics) model executions. DARWIN captures, stores and indexes data; manages derived knowledge (such as visualizations across mul...

Infrastructure resilience is a priority for homeland security in many nations around the globe. This paper describes a new approach for quantitatively assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The mathematics of optimal control design provides the theoretical foundation for this methodology. This foundation enables the inclusion of recovery costs within the resilience assessm...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.055 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +55 41 3271 1669; fa E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. A. d. Sil de Souza Britto Jr.), [email protected] (L. E. S pucpr.br (A.L. Koerich). This paper presents a novel algorithm to deal with the network design problem, which optimizes the network levels conside...

The recognition that resilience is a critical aspect of infrastructure resilience has caused the national and homeland security communities to ask “How does one ensure infrastructure resilience?” Previous analysis methods have primarily focused on system recovery activities following the occurrence of a disruptive event. In this report, we expand on those methods by including pre-disruption inv...

Information security pervades all such needs. In a DG environment, secure interoperation ensures confidentiality when individuals, private organizations, and government agencies access information. Electronic transactions and delivery systems must be secure to ensure protection against fraud and other vulnerabilities. The government’s archived information should be protected from tampering yet ...

Simulation models are often used to analyze the behavior and performance of infrastructure systems. The use of simulation models in multi-actor design processes is restricted to the analysis phase after conceptual designs have been completed. To use simulation models throughout the design process, simulation environments need to be adapted to support the interactive and iterative nature of desi...

DARWIN is a NASA developed, Internet-based system for enabling aerospace researchers to securely and remotely access and collaborate on the analysis of aerospace vehicle design data, primarily the results of windtunnel testing and numeric (e.g., computational fluiddynamics) model executions. DARWIN captures, stores and indexes data; manages derived knowledge (such as visualizations across multi...