C.P. Providakis¹, M.E. Voutetaki

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.3, No.4, pp. 211-228, 2007, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2007.003.211

Abstract Piezoceramic transducers have emerged as new tools for the health monitoring of large-scale structures due to their advantages of active sensing, low cost, quick response, availability in different shapes, and simplicity for implementations. In the present paper, a statistical metamodeling utilization of electro-mechanical (E/M) admittance approach by applying piezoelectric materials to the damage identification is investigated. A response surface metamodel is constructed by empirically fitting a model to a set of design points chosen using a Box-Behnken design of experiment (simulation) technique. This empirical fit allows polynomial models to be produced for relating damage parameter such that stiffness reduction to… More >

Jean-Jacques Sinou¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 133-164, 2007, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2007.003.133

Abstract This paper aims to establish a damage identification methodology, called the Frequencies' Ratio Surfaces Intersection method (FRSI-method), for predicting not only the location and depth of the crack but also the crack orientation in a circular cross section beam. Two new criterions %Δ_i^cracked and %ψ_i,j^cracked that consider only the ratio of the natural frequencies of the cracked beam are introduced and discussed in order to detect the crack parameters. In order to avoid worse diagnostic, it is demonstrated that a robust identification of crack location is possible by investigating the emergence of extra antiresonance peaks on Frequency Response… More >

MARCELO SILVA-BRIANO¹ , SANDRA LUZ MARTÍNEZ-HERNÁNDEZ¹ , ARACELI ADABACHE-ORTÍZ¹ , JAVIER VENTURA-JUÁREZ² , EVA SALINAS³ , J. LUIS QUINTANAR⁴

BIOCELL, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 225-228, 2007, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2007.31.225

Abstract Syntaxin-1 and 25-kDa Synaptosome-associated Protein (SNAP-25) are present in the plasma membrane of several different secretory cell types and are involved in the exocytosis process. In this work, the free-living amoeba Difflugia corona was studied in relation to ultrastructure, structural membrane proteins, and proteins such as Syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25. Our results obtained by scanning electron microscopy in the amoeba without its theca, showed many membrane projections and several pore-like structures. Using immunocytochemistry, we found structural proteins Syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25. More >

Villa-Hernández JM¹, B García-Ocón², E del C Sierra-Palacios², C Pelayo-Zaldivar³, F Díaz de León-Sánchez¹, LJ Pérez-Flores¹, JA Mendoza-Espinoza²

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.87, pp. 72-78, 2018, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2018.87.072

Abstract Mexico bears witness to a long-standing tradition in the use of plants for medicinal purposes; nevertheless, standardized methodological approaches for the proper identification of these are still needed. The problem is especially noticeable during the validation of ingredients in herbal preparations, as so many of them are sold as powders. It is for these reasons that the present study aims to compare the results of classic taxonomical assessments with those obtained using more modern molecular techniques (e.g. PCR-amplified 18S ribosomal RNA gene analysis) in one ethnobotanical case-study carried out in the “Desierto de los Leones” National Park in Mexico City,… More >

Mehdi Sarmast^1,*, Hamed Ghafari², Jan R. Wright³

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.3, pp. 75-95, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04193

Abstract One of the practical approaches in identifying structures is the non-linear resonant decay method which identifies a non-linear dynamic system utilizing a model based on linear modal space containing the underlying linear system and a small number of extra terms that exhibit the non-linear effects. In this paper, the method is illustrated in a simulated system and an experimental structure. The main objective of the non-linear resonant decay method is to identify the non-linear dynamic systems based on the use of a multi-shaker excitation using appropriated excitation which is obtained from the force appropriation approach. The experimental application of the… More >

Mohammad UBAIDILLAH^1,2, Miswar FAPERTA^1,2, Kyung-Min KIM¹

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 215-224, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.07549

Abstract Abiotic stresses, such as drought and salinity, adversely affect plant growth and productivity. Comparison between non transgenic and transgenic rice harboring CaMsrB2 gene, which induces tolerance to abiotic stress, is important to observe response of gene under abiotic stress. Phytohormone showed a tendency to increase under the drought stress or salinity stress in the transgenic plant. RT-PCR analysis showed that gene expression and phytohormone levels under abiotic stress, to be closely related. The CaMsrB2 gene is related to the expression of JA and ABA hormones. Therefore, the level of expression of these genes and hormones was observed. The transcription levels… More >

Yong Ding¹, Lei Tian¹, Bo Han², Huiyong Wang^2,*, Yujue Wang¹, James Xi Zheng³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.2, pp. 727-738, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06220

Abstract Currently, many biometric systems maintain the user’s biometrics and templates in plaintext format, which brings great privacy risk to uses’ biometric information. Biometrics are unique and almost unchangeable, which means it is a great concern for users on whether their biometric information would be leaked. To address this issue, this paper proposes a confidential comparison algorithm for iris feature vectors with masks, and develops a privacy-preserving iris verification scheme based on the El Gamal encryption scheme. In our scheme, the multiplicative homomorphism of encrypted features is used to compare of iris features and their mask information. Also, this paper improves… More >

S. Atobe¹, H. Fukunaga¹, N. Hu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.26, No.1, pp. 67-90, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.026.067

Abstract This paper presents a method for identifying the location and force history of an impact force acting on CFRP structures such as laminated plates and stiffened panels. The identification method is an experimental one without using any analytical model of the structure. Here, experimental transfer matrices, which relate the impact force to the corresponding responses of PZT sensors, are used to identify the impact force. The transfer matrices are preliminarily constructed from the measured data obtained by impact tests with an impulse hammer. To identify the impact location, the arrival times of the flexural waves to the PZT sensors are… More >

Chikit Au¹, Yiyu Cai², Jianmin Zheng³, Tony Woo⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 221-238, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.068.221

Abstract A protein model (such as a ribbon model) can be created from the atomic coordinates in the protein data base files. These coordinates are obtained by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy with the protein arbitrarily oriented. As such, identifying or comparing a novel structure with a known item using protein model in the protein data base can be a timely process since a large number of transformations may be involved. The identification efficiency will be improved if the protein models are uniformly oriented. This paper presents an approach to orient a protein model to generate the characteristic views with minimum… More >

Hernández Pérez A¹, E Cerna Chávez², JC Delgado Ortiz³, M Beltrán Beache⁴, LM Tapia Vargas⁵, YM Ochoa Fuentes²

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.1, pp. 11-13, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.04608

Abstract Mexico is the main producer, consumer and exporter of avocado in the world, being Michoacan the main producer state contributing more than 80% of the national production. There are phytopathogens that decimate the production causing the death of the tree. Root samples were collected in avocado trees that showed the characteristic symptomatology of the disease known as avocado sadness, the sampling was carried out in four of the main avocado producing towns, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The isolation consisted in sowing root tissue in Petri dishes with V8^®-PARPH culture medium, subsequently they were identified morphologically and for species… More >