Pace: An Advanced Structure for Handling Multitechnique NDT Data

The analysis of NDT data is a problem of growing importance and complexity, encountered in many industrial fields, such as electricity production, oil industry, aeronautics, infrastructure inspection or metal production. This is why dedicated systems have begun to appear in the previous years to handle this particular part of a nondestructive inspection, located after the data acquisition and leading to the diagnosis

Transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation

Despite recent advances in transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation, significant problems remain. The bombings in Madrid in March 2004 have demonstrated how terrorists and criminals can continue to exploit the limits of hesitant or partial exchange to dangerous effect. Intelligence and security cooperation remain problematic because of the fundamental tension between an increasingly networked world, which is ideal terrain for the new religious terrorism, and highly compartmentalized national intelligence gathering. If cooperation is to improve, we require a better mutual understanding about the relationship between privacy and security to help us decide what sort of intelligence should be shared. This is a higher priority than building elaborate new structures. While most practical problems of intelligence exchange are ultimately resolvable, the challenge of agreeing what the intelligence means in broad terms is even more problematic. The last section of this article argues that shared NATO intelligence estimates would be difficult to achieve and of doubtful value

Détermination du bruit rayonné par les structures vibrantes

La connaissance du bruit engendré par les structures vibrantes (carters de machines tournantes, tuyauteries, etc.) à partir de leurs champs de vitesses vibratoires, est d'une grande importance en acoustique industrielle. Après un bref rappel des équations régissant ces phénomènes, on fait un inventaire des différentes méthodes de calcul dont on dispose actuellement (résolution par équations intégrales, résolution directe de l'équation de Helmholtz) et l'on compare leurs avantages et leurs inconvénients. Quelques informations sur les programmes de calcul utilisés à Electricité de France sont données et quelques exemples numériques corrélés à des mesures expérimentales sont présentés

Pace: An Advanced Structure for Handling Multitechnique NDT Data

The analysis of NDT data is a problem of growing importance and complexity, encountered in many industrial fields, such as electricity production, oil industry, aeronautics, infrastructure inspection or metal production. This is why dedicated systems have begun to appear in the previous years to handle this particular part of a nondestructive inspection, located after the data acquisition and leading to the diagnosis.</p

Genome wide association study of two phenology traits (flowering time and maturity date) in apple

The aim of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) is to identify markers in tight linkage disequilibrium with loci controlling quantitative trait variation. These markers can then be used in marker-assisted selection (MAS) in fruit crops such as apple. The GWAS approach involves both phenotyping of a large population of mostly unrelated individuals for the traits of interest, and genotyping at high marker density. In the EU-FP7 project FruitBreedomics, almost 1,200 European diploid dessert apple accessions (old and/or local cultivars) from six germplasm collections were genotyped with the Affymetrix Axiom_Apple480K array (487,000 SNPs). Phenotypic data on a large number of traits have been gathered during the project. Here we focus on flowering period and harvesting date. Knowledge of the genetic control of these traits is necessary to develop cultivars that can face the challenges imposed by global climate change and to target cultivar development as a function of a prolonged vegetation period in the production regions. Different models were tested, including control for effects of population structure and relatedness between cultivars. The full model, controlling for both structure and relatedness, was shown to be the most appropriate to avoid spurious marker-trait associations. When analyzing data over all collections, one significant marker-trait association was obtained for each trait, on chromosomes 9 and 3, for flowering period and harvesting date, respectively. Thereby, genomic locations previously identified in bi-parental populations could now be confirmed for a genetically diverse germplasm

Genome Wide Association Study of two phenology traits (flowering time and maturity date) in apple

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