Product adaptability is the capability to adjust a product by adding/replacing its constitu-ents for different applications. To acquire this capability, a product should be a modular structure that can form different modular combinations. The purpose of this thesis is pro-posing a design method to develop such products. The method includes the following characteristics: a product essentially implements its applications by providing proper ac-tions/reactions to interact with its surrounding conditions; such actions/reactions can be used to develop the subsystems of a product by building energy-flow or force-path con-nections; optional modules can be separated from the subsystems that contain optional applications; all modules are arranged as an open architecture to provide space and inter-face for each optional module; and each module is endued with the principal content of actions/reactions, inside energy flows or force paths, space, and interfaces constraints, so that it can be physically formed through a dual-domain formation process. Following this method, a multi-purpose electric vehicle (MEV) is developed. Adaptability Efficacy (AE) is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. / February 2017

Organizations have many employees that lack the technical knowledge to securely operate their machines. These users may open malicious email attachments/links or install unverified software such as P2P programs. These actions introduce significant risk to an organization's network since they allow attackers to exploit the trust and access given to a client machine. However, system administrators currently lack the control of client machines needed to prevent these security risks. A possible solution to address this issue lies in attestation. With respect to computer science, attestation is the ability of a machine to prove its current state. This capability can be used by client machines to remotely attest to their state, which can be used by other machines in the network when making trust decisions. Previous research in this area has focused on the use of a static root of trust (RoT), requiring the use of a chain of trust over the entire software stack. We would argue this approach is limited in feasibility, because it requires an understanding and evaluation of the all the previous states of a machine. With the use of late launch, a dynamic root of trust introduced in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 specification, the required chain of trust is drastically shortened, minimizing the previous states of a machine that must be evaluated. This reduced chain of trust may allow a dynamic RoT to address the limitations of a static RoT. We are implementing a client terminal service that utilizes late launch to attest to its execution. Further, the minimal functional requirements of the service facilitate strong software verification. The goal in designing this service is not to increase the security of the network, but rather to push the functionality, and therefore the security risks and responsibilities, of client machines to the network€™s servers. In doing so, we create a platform that can more easily be administered by those individuals best equipped to do so with the expectation that this will lead to better security practices. Through the use of late launch and remote attestation in our terminal service, the system administrators have a strong guarantee the clients connecting to their system are secure and can therefore focus their efforts on securing the server architecture. This effectively addresses our motivating problem as it forces user actions to occur under the control of system administrators.

Un banc test, composé d’ une cuve à eau et d’ un hodoscope, a été optimisé et utilisé pour la caractérisation des Modules Optiques (OMs) des expériences ANTARES et KM3NeT. La comparaison entre le flux attendu de muons atmosphériques et le flux mesuré a permis l’ estimation de l’ efficacité de l’ hodoscope.Dans un premier temps, des mesures effectuées avec un OM ANTARES ont permis de valider le système d’ acquisition et de caractériser l’ étalonnage temporel du banc test. Un Module Optique Digital (DOM) a ensuite pu être installé dans la cuve pour être testé. De nombreux points cruciaux pour les télescopes sous-marins à neutrino ont été mentionnés et une description détaillée de l’ étalonnage en charge et du réglage du détecteur a été présentée. La dégradation, observée expérimentalement, de l’ efficacité de détection des OMs ANTARES a été confrontée aux résultats obtenus en simulant la formation d’ une couche de sédimentation. L’ impact de différents profils de sédimentation a été étudié et les résultats de l’ analyse Monte Carlo ont été détaillés. Ce travail a permis de rejeter certains profils de sédimentation en désaccord avec les données. / A test bench, comprised of a water tank and a hodoscope, was optimized and operated for the characterization of ANTARES and KM3NeT OpticalModules (OMs). A calculation of the expected atmospheric muon flux and the comparisonto the detected flux is made for the evaluation of the hodoscope efficiency.Measurements were initially made with an ANTARES OM for the evaluation of thetest bench potential and the consequent time correlation analysis. The results wereconsidered satisfying for proceeding to the characterization of a KM3NeT DigitalOM (DOM). This was the first time a DOM was investigated with known muontracks and the analysis lead to original and insightful results. Many key aspectsfor an undersea neutrino telescope are outlined and a detailed description of chargecalibration and the tuning sequence for the ANTARES detector are presented. Theobservation that the OM efficiencies for ANTARES are deteriorating in the courseof time has been compared to simulations of a sedimentation layer on the OMÕsglass sphere. Different profiles for this sedimentation impact are considered and thecombined analysis of monte carlo results with detector data is described. This workpermitted to reject extreme cases of biofouling profiles that are inconsistent withthe data

We can view quiver representations of a fixed dimension vector as an algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field $K$. There is an action of the product of general linear groups on each of these varieties where the orbits of the action correspond to isomorphism classes of quiver representation. A $K$-algebra $A$ is said to have the dense orbit property if for each dimension vector, the product of the general linear group acts on each irreducible component of the module variety with a dense orbit. Under certain conditions, a $K$ algebra $A$ is representation finite if and only if it $A$ has the dense orbit property. The implication representation finite implies the dense orbit property is always true. The converse is not true in general, as shown by Chindris, Kinser, and Weyman in \cite{ryan}. Our main theorem of this thesis builds on their work to give a family of representation infinite algebras with the dense orbit property. We also give a conjectured classification of indecomposables with dense orbits. \par In the future, we hope the work presented here can be used to find even more examples of representation infinite algebra with the dense orbit property to then develop deeper theory to classify algebras with the dense orbit property that are representation infinite.

A recent result of Salvetti and Settepanella gives, for a complexified real arrangement, an explicit description of a minimal CW decomposition as well as an explicit algebraic complex which computes local system homology. We apply their techniques to discriminantal arrangements in two dimensional complex space and calculate the boundary maps which will give local system homology groups given any choice of local system. This calculation generalizes several known results; examples are given related to Milnor fibrations, solutions of KZ equations, and the LKB representation of the braid group. Another algebraic object associated to a hyperplane arrangement is the module of derivations. We analyze the behavior of the derivation module for an affine arrangement over an infinite field and relate its derivation module to that of its cone. In the case of an arrangement fibration, we analyze the relationship between the derivation module of the total space arrangement and those of the base and fiber arrangements. In particular, subject to certain restrictions, we establish freeness of the total space arrangement given freeness of the base and fiber arrangements.

The construction of the generalized continuous wavelet transform (GCWT) on Hilbert spaces is a special case of the coherent state transform construction, where the coherent state system arises as an orbit of an admissible vector under a strongly continuous unitary representation of a locally compact group. In this thesis we extend this construction to the setting of Hilbert C*-modules. In particular, we define a coherent state transform and a GCWT on Hilbert modules. This construction gives a reconstruction formula and a resolution of the identity formula analogous to those found in the Hilbert space setting. Moreover, the existing theory of standard normalized tight frames in finite countably generated Hilbert modules can be viewed as a discrete case of this construction We also show that the image space of the coherent state transform on Hilbert module is a reproducing kernel Hilbert module. We discuss the kernel and the intertwining property of the group coherent state transform.

Nous nous intéressons à l'étude des repésentations du groupe π d'un nœud K de S^3 dans un groupe de Lie résoluble algébrique connexe. Comme généralisation d'un résultat classique de Burde et de Rham, nous montrons que l'étude de l'existence de certaines représentations métabéliennes permet de retrouver la décomposition complète du module d'Alexander à coefficients complexes. En second lieu, nous étudions les deformations d'une représentation réductible métabélienne de π dans SL(3,C). Nous montrons que cette représentation est limite de représentations irréductibles non métabéliennes de π dans SL(3,C) et qu'elle est un point lisse de la vari ́et ́e des repr ́esentations.

Studying protein interaction networks using functional and topological information is important for understanding cellular organization and functionality. This study deals with identifying important proteins in protein interaction networks using SWEMODE (Lubovac, et al, 2006) and analyzing topological and functional properties of these proteins with the help of information derived from modular organization in protein interaction networks as well as information available in public resources, in this case, annotation sources describing the functionality of proteins. Multi-modular proteins are short-listed from the modules generated by SWEMODE. Properties of these short-listed proteins are then analyzed using functional information from SGD Gene Ontology(GO) (Dwight, et al., 2002) and MIPS functional categories (Ruepp, et al., 2004). Topological features such as lethality and centrality of these proteins are also investigated, using graph theoretic properties and information on lethal genes from Yeast Hub (Kei-Hoi, et al., 2005). The findings of the study based on GO terms reveal that these important proteins are mostly involved in the biological process of “organelle organization and biogenesis” and a majority of these proteins belong to MIPS “cellular organization” and “transcription” functional categories. A study of lethality reveals that multi-modular proteins are more likely to be lethal than proteins present only in a single module. An examination of centrality (degree of connectivity of proteins) in the network reveals that the ratio of number of important proteins to number of hubs at different hub sizes increases with the hub size (degree).

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For this thesis, the use of Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) as a system-level substrate and packaging material is investigated. Early in the research, recipes for fabricating on LCP were developed. With this knowledge, RF components were able to be fabricated. These devices include filters, antennas, phase shifters, and RF MEMS switches. To investigate the potential of using LCP as a system-level material, packaging properties and robustness were tested. This research demonstrated that LCP could be used to package something as small and delicate as an individual switch or as large as a 4-inch wafer. In addition, it was shown that MEMS switches could survive well over a hundred million cycles. This demonstrated that LCP could be used to create reliable, high performance systems. The culmination of this research was used to create two variations of a communication module. The first device was fabricated on one layer and a multi-layer approach was taken for the other device. These modules needed to be low-cost, low-loss, flexible, and capable of beam steering. This technology can be used for communication, sensing, detection, and surveillance for a broad scope of applications. To this date, they are by far the most sophisticated SOP on LCP ever achieved. This technology can be further developed to include more functionality, smaller size, and even better performance.