EVOKE: A Value-Driven Concept Selection Method for Early System Design

The development of new technologically advanced products requires the contribution from a range of skills and disciplines, which are often difficult to find within a single company or organization. Requirements establishment practices in Systems Engineering (SE), while ensuring coordination of activities and tasks across the supply network, fall short when it comes to facilitate knowledge sharing and negotiation during early system design. Empirical observations show that when system-level requirements are not available or not mature enough, engineers dealing with the development of long lead-time sub-systems tend to target local optima, rather than opening up the design space. This phenomenon causes design teams to generate solutions that do not embody the best possible configuration for the overall system. The aim of this paper is to show how methodologies for value-driven design may address this issue, facilitating early stage design iterations and the resolution of early stage design trade-offs. The paper describes how such methodologies may help gathering and dispatching relevant knowledge about the ‘design intent’ of a system to the cross-functional engineering teams, so to facilitate a more concurrent process for requirement elicitation in SE. The paper also describes EVOKE (Early Value Oriented design exploration with KnowledgE maturity), a concept selection method that allows benchmarking design options at sub-system level on the base of value-related information communicated by the system integrators. The use of EVOKE is exemplified in an industrial case study related to the design of an aero-engine component. EVOKE’s ability to raise awareness on the value contribution of early stage design concepts in the SE process has been further verified with industrial practitioners in ad-hoc design episodes.     

The expansion of GPCR transactivation-dependent signalling to include serine/threonine kinase receptors represents a new cell signalling frontier

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling is mediated through transactivation-independent signalling pathways or the transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors and the recently reported activation of the serine/threonine kinase receptors, most notably the transforming growth factor-β receptor family. Since the original observation of GPCR transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors, there has been considerable work on the mechanism of transactivation and several pathways are prominent. These pathways include the “triple membrane bypass” pathway and the generation of reactive oxygen species. The recent recognition of GPCR transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors enormously broadens the GPCR signalling paradigm. It may be predicted that the transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors would have mechanistic similarities with transactivation of tyrosine kinase pathways; however, initial studies suggest that these two transactivation pathways are mechanistically distinct. Important questions are the relative importance of tyrosine and serine/threonine transactivation pathways, the contribution of transactivation to overall GPCR signalling, mechanisms of transactivation and the range of cell types in which this phenomenon occurs. The ultimate significance of transactivation-dependent signalling remains to be defined but it appears to be prominent and if so will represent a new cell signalling frontier.     

正交试验优化手性镍催化不对称反应条件研究

用正交试验法优化手性镍催化二乙基锌对α，β不饱和酮的不对称麦克尔加成反应条件，优化后的不对称麦克尔加成反应的一般条件为：低温(近反应溶剂冰点)，常压，非质子非极性溶剂(环己烷)．     

催化光度法测定甲醇

基于甲醇对K2S2O8与亮绿间的氧化裉色反应有强烈的负催化作用,从而建立了一种测定甲醇动力学光度新方法.该法的线性范围为8.0×10-6～4.0×10-4mol/L;检出限为2.7×10-6mol/L;对1.0×10-5mol/L甲醇溶液连续进行11次测定,相对标准偏差为4.2%.将该方法用于工业洒精样品中甲醇含量的测定,结果较为满意.     

Reconsideration on Homogeneous Quadratic Riemann Boundary Value Problem

The homogeneous quadratic Riemann boundary value problem (1) with Hoelder continuous coefficients for the normal case was considered by the author in 1997. But the solutions obtained there are incomplete. Here its general method of solution is obtained.     

基于电阻阵的红外图像实时生成和显示系统

对基于MOS电阻阵列红外图像转换器的红外图像实时生成和显示系统的实现进行了重点论述。根据红外图像仿真原理对典型目标建模,并利用openGL和开发的图像转换等软件,完成目标动态图像数据序列的计算机生成;论述了基于128×128电阻阵列的红外图像数据处理与驱动控制技术,实现了目标动态红外亮度图像向目标动态灰度图像的转换,并利用驱动控制系统以200Hz的帧频速度驱动MOS电阻阵实时生成目标动态红外图像。该系统已在红外成像目标仿真中得到应用。     

New Develoopment of the Basic Theory of Extenics

In this paper,the new development of three basic theories of Extenics,incluing basic-element theory,extension set theory and extension logic theory ,has been introduced.And the new theoretical frame of Extenics has also been set forth.     

搪瓷烧成温度计算方法

搪瓷釉的烧成过程是一种“液相烧结”过程，其传质有赖于熔体的粘性流动。根据玻璃态物质化学组成-结构-粘度-温度的一般关系，推导出计算瓷釉烧成温度(T烧)的经验公式。     

基于能力的IT基础设施评价和规划方法

IT基础设施是IT组合的基础, 其在组织范围内为IT应用和核心业务提供可靠的共享服务.IT基础设施能力关系到企业战略及BPR的成功与否,已经成为企业战略选择的一部分,甚至是企业的一种潜在的核心能力.IT基础设施与企业战略之间的对应是战略对应的一个基本问题.文章提出了基于能力的 IT基础设施评价和规划方法,并建立了基于能力的 IT基础设施评价模型和规划模型.     

Abrupt climate change：Debate or action

Global abrupt climate changes have been documented by various climate records, including ice cores, ocean sediment cores, lake sediment cores, cave deposits, loess deposits and pollen records. The climate system prefers to be in one of two stable states, i.e. interstadial or stadial conditions, but not in between. The transition between two states has an abrupt character. Abrupt climate changes are, in general, synchronous in the northern hemisphere and tropical regions. The timescale for abrupt climate changes can be as short as a decade. As the impacts may be potentially serious, we need to take actions such as reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.