A low power engine test stand

The engine test stand is a set of systems needed to identify, map, or optimize an engine. The complex task of the integration of those system requires many areas of expertise. This work tries to tackle that, aiming on three main points. One is provide a list of the set of transducers and measurements needed to test an engine. Second is to provide basic knowledge of the techniques needed to put to practice to achieve a data acquisition. And third the development of a dynamometer controller based on renewable energies, to be more precise, on wind energy harvesting. To conclude this work a transient analysis of the controller is listed.O banco de ensaios de motores alternativos é constituído por um conjunto de sistemas necessários para efetuar identificação, mapeamento ou otimização de um dado motor. A integração dos vários sistemas requer um vasto conjunto disciplinas. Este trabalho, tenta resolver isto, apontando para três pontos importantes do banco de ensaios. Um é listar os vários sensores e medições necessárias para testar um motor. Segundo é prever o conhecimento básico das técnicas necessárias para por em prática um sistema de adquisição de dados. Terceiro é desenvolver um dinamómetro baseado em energias renováveis, mais precisamente, energia eólica. Para concluir este trabalho é efetuada ao controlador uma análise de transição

Infrastructure as Code for Cybersecurity Training

An organization\u27s infrastructure rests upon the premise that cybersecurity professionals have specific knowledge in administrating and protecting it against outside threats. Without this expertise, sensitive information could be leaked to malicious actors and cause damage to critical systems. These attacks tend to become increasingly specialized, meaning cybersecurity professionals must ensure proficiency in specific areas. Naturally, recommendations include creating advanced practical training scenarios considering realistic situations to help trainees gain detailed knowledge. However, the caveats of high-cost infrastructure and difficulties in the deployment process of this kind of system, primarily due to the manual process of pre-configuring software needed for the training and relying on a set of static Virtual Machines, may take much work to circumvent. In order to facilitate this process, our work addresses the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps to automate the deployment of cyber ranges. An approach closely related to virtualization and containerization as the code\u27s underlying infrastructure helps lay down this burden. Notably, placing emphasis on using IaC tools like Ansible eases the process of configuration management and provisioning of a network. Therefore, we start by focusing on understanding what the State of the Art perspectives lack and showcasing the benefits of this new working outlook. Lastly, we explore several up-to-date vulnerabilities that are constantly messing with the lives of individuals and organizations, most related to Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution attacks, and Incident Forensics, allowing the improvement of skills concerning Red team and Blue team scenarios. The analysis of the attacks and exploitation of such vulnerabilities are carried out safely due to a sandbox environment. The expected results revolve around using IaC to deploy a set of purposely-designed cyber ranges with specific challenges. The main objective is to guarantee a complexity of scenarios similar to what we can observe in enterprise-level networks. Thus, this entails having a set of playbooks that can be run in a machine or laboratory, assuring the final state of the network is consistent. We expect this deployment strategy to be cost-effective, allowing the trainee to get deep insight into a wide range of situations. Nowadays, DevOps solutions work as a silver bullet against the issues derived from old-case-driven approaches for setting up scenarios. In short, one of the key takeaways of this work is contributing to better prepare specialists in ensuring that the principles of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework hold, namely: prevent, detect, mitigate, and recover

New insights from low-temperature thermochronology into the tectonic and geomorphologic evolution of the south-eastern Brazilian highlands and passive margin

The South Atlantic passive margin along the south-eastern Brazilian highlands exhibits a complex landscape, including a northern inselberg area and a southern elevated plateau, separated by the Doce River valley. This landscape is set on the Proterozoic to early Paleozoic rocks of the region that once was the hot core of the Aracuaf orogen, in Ediacaran to Ordovician times. Due to the break-up of Gondwana and consequently the opening of the South Atlantic during the Early Cretaceous, those rocks of the Aracuaf orogen became the basement of a portion of the South Atlantic passive margin and related southeastern Brazilian highlands. Our goal is to provide a new set of constraints on the thermo-tectonic history of this portion of the south-eastern Brazilian margin and related surface processes, and to provide a hypothesis on the geodynamic context since break-up. To this end, we combine the apatite fission track (AFT) and apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) methods as input for inverse thermal history modelling. All our AFT and AHe central ages are Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene. The AFT ages vary between 62 Ma and 90 Ma, with mean track lengths between 12.2 mu m and 13.6 mu m. AHe ages are found to be equivalent to AFT ages within uncertainty, albeit with the former exhibiting a lesser degree of confidence. We relate this Late Cretaceous-Paleocene basement cooling to uplift with accelerated denudation at this time. Spatial variation of the denudation time can be linked to differential reactivation of the Precambrian structural network and differential erosion due to a complex interplay with the drainage system. We argue that posterior large-scale sedimentation in the offshore basins may be a result of flexural isostasy combined with an expansion of the drainage network. We put forward the combined compression of the Mid-Atlantic ridge and the Peruvian phase of the Andean orogeny, potentially augmented through the thermal weakening of the lower crust by the Trindade thermal anomaly, as a probable cause for the uplift. (C) 2019, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V

UNIVERSIDADE E DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL: ANÁLISE DA CONTRIBUIÇÃO DO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE SEMENTES DA UFPEL

A universidade é uma instituição que apresenta papel fundamental na promoção do desenvolvimento. Porém, a sociedade apresenta dificuldades em visualizar tais contribuições, conferindo a mesma um caráter elitista. No Brasil, diferentemente de outros países, existem poucas pesquisas voltadas a identificar a ocorrência de tais contribuições. Em vista disso, este trabalho objetiva analisar a contribuição que o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes da UFPel exerce para promover o desenvolvimento regional. Tratase de uma pesquisa qualitativa, caracterizada como um estudo de caso, cujos dados primários foram coletados por meio da aplicação de entrevistas semiestruturadas a docentes do programa e aplicação de questionários aos discentes. Os resultados apontaram a importância exercida quanto à formação de profissionais altamente qualificados e as pesquisas desenvolvidas pelo programa, as quais enfocam uma área considerada de “defesa nacional”. Ademais são realizadas diversas ações de extensão capazes de disseminar o conhecimento produzido, atendendo demandas específicas dos produtores de sementes; destacando-se o projeto conhecido como “feijão miúdo” e as atividades conhecidas como “dia de campo”; verificando-se, assim, a efetiva contribuição exercida para o desenvolvimento regional

Reversible Control of DNA Binding with Cucurbit[8]uril-Induced Supramolecular 4,4′-Bipyridinium–Peptide Dimers

Financiado para publicación en acceso aberto: Universidade da Coruña/CISUGThe Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00063[Abstract] Many cellular processes in living organisms are regulated by complex regulatory networks, built from noncovalent interactions between relatively few proteins that perform their functions by switching between homo- and heterooligomeric assemblies or mono- and bivalent states. Herein, we demonstrate that the conjugation of a 4,4′-bipyridinium scaffold to the basic region of the GCN₄ bZip transcription factor can be exploited to control the dimerization of the conjugate by formation of a supramolecular complex with cucurbit[8]uril. Importantly, this supramolecular complex is able to specifically recognize its target dsDNA, and this binding can be reversibly switched by the application of external stimuli.We are thankful for the funding received from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 851179), the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) (CTQ2016-75629-P), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and FEDER (CTQ2017-89166-R and PID2019-105272GB-I00) and the Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional, Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2018/39). P.N thanks the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades for her PhD fellowship (FPU17/04357). E.P. thanks the UDC-Inditex InTalent Programme for her research contract and funding and the Xunta de Galicia for the Oportunius ProgrammeXunta de Galicia; ED431C 2018/39https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00063/suppl_file/bc1c00063_si_001.pd

Les mots phare de la Révolution française. Étude lexicologique en diachronie

Trabajo de fin de grado. Grado en Estudios Franceses. Curso 2021-2022La Revolución Francesa (1789-1799) supuso un punto de inflexión en la historia: los acontecimientos acaecidos entre junio y julio de 1789 cambiaron el mundo para siempre. Con semejante agitación, se podría pensar que la lengua debió cambiar. Esta tesis académica está dedicada a un estudio diacrónico del léxico de las palabras clave de la Revolución Francesa para estudiar hasta qué punto la Revolución sacudió el léxico de la lengua francesa. Estas palabras clave son revolución, constitución, república, ciudadano, nación, libertad, igualdad, fraternidad, derecha, izquierda, metro, litro, gramo.The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a turning point in history: the events of June and July 1789 changed the world forever. With such an upheaval, one would think that the language must have changed. This academic thesis is devoted to a diachronic lexical study of the key words of the French Revolution to study the extent to which the Revolution shook the lexicon of the French language. These key words are revolution, constitution, republic, citizen, nation, liberty, equality, fraternity, right, left, metre, litre, gram.La Révolution française (1789-1799) a supposé un tournant dans l’Histoire : les événements survenus entre juin et juillet 1789 ont bouleversé à jamais le monde. Avec un tel bouleversement, on croira d’avance que forcément la langue a dû changer. Ce travail académique de Fin d’Études est consacré à une étude lexicale diachronique des mots phare de la Révolution française pour étudier jusqu’à quel point la Révolution a ébranlé le lexique de la langue française. Ces mots phare sont révolution, constitution, république, citoyen, nation, liberté, égalité, fraternité, droite, gauche, mètre, litre, gramm

Identification and functional characterisation of CRK12:CYC9, a novel cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-cyclin complex in Trypanosoma brucei.

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