International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 22-25, 2001 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Range Instrumentation and Control System (RICS) is a network of personal computers (PCs), routers, and switches designed to transport time-space-position information (TSPI) and/or other data between multiple Test Sites and data reduction facilities. The typical use of RICS will be the transport of TSPI data from a System Under Test (SUT) to a Focus Site for real-time display and post-mission analysis of the data. This capability will be expanded to include the transport of telemetry (TM), video, and communications data via the RICS. This paper will discuss the overall hardware design of the RICS. It will further describe the programmatic issues encountered during the implementation phase of the RICS project. The paper will describe the initial design criteria, the selection of hardware to implement the design, problems encountered with the implementation of the hardware, solutions and workarounds to the problems encountered, and lessons learned during the entire process.

The objective of the project is to use the RICS analysis technique in complement with confocal microscopy to determine the diffusion coefficient of the selectively labeled green fluorescent protein (GFP), GFP-EGFR and GFP-p53 in cervical cancer cells. This is a collaboration work with MD Anderson Cancer Center. The application of the study is to lay the foundation for further study in understanding the cell metabolism, subcellular morphologic and dynamic biochemical processes to aid in the diagnosis and to potentially screen cancers. Fluorescence microscopy techniques have been developed for the study of cellular processes and molecular signal pathway. However, the spatial resolution to distinguish and resolve the interactions of single molecular complexes or molecule in cells is limited by the wavelength. Hence, indirect image correlation methods complementary to the imaging techniques were developed to obtain the dynamic information within the cell. RICS is one such mathematical image processing method to determine the dynamics of the cell. HeLa cells are transfected with GFP to highlight the protein of interest. These samples were imaged with confocal microscope, Olympus FV1000 with a 60 x 1.2 NA water objective in the pseudo photon counting mode with an excitation of 488 nm argon ion laser. About 100 frames of scan area 256x256 pixels were collected from each sample at scan speed of 12.5 seconds per pixel. The stacks of images were processed with SimFCS software. The images were subjected to immobile subtraction algorithm to remove the immobile features. Consequently, each frame in the stack is subjected to 2D-correlation; then, the average 2D-spatial correlation is calculated. This 2D-spatial correlated data constitutes as RICS data which is then displayed and analyzed by fitting it to specific models. This generates a spatial temporal map of the molecular dynamics of fluorescently labeled probes within the cell. In summary, we apply RICS techniques based on correlation spectroscopy to the image data and quantify diffusion coefficient of protein of interest in cancerous cells with different treatments. This is expected to better understand cellular dynamics of cancerous cells and build better diagnostic biosensor devices for early screening.

The Department of Computer Science of Växjö University has a web based system where thesis finished by the students as well as available thesis can be seen. Research work made by the faculty members of the Department is also available here. The Växjö University Library also has a web- based System called DiVA. DiVA stands for Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (Academic Archive Online). It enables students and researchers to publish their research work to University Library. Students and Researchers can also search, research made by other researchers. Each year researcher/student publishes their result in conference papers, journal articles, thesis report, books etc. These publications should be register both at the Växjö University Library and RICS (Research in Computer Science) web site in a systematic way so to avoid any kind of redundancy and errors. To develop a system which follow the principle” publish once and view every where” is the objective of this project. The System makes it possible to extract the already published publication at DiVA and put that publication’s information into RICS web site. When a user requests for registering a publication, the system should verify whether he/she is eligible to register a publication. If he/she qualifies, that is if he/she is a registered user, then the system will register the publication along with the required information like title, author, date of publication, kind of publication etc. on different Web sites. The web-based publication information system was   implemented in C#.NET. The project was successfully completed but the deliver system requires more live testing.

<p>The Department of Computer Science of Växjö University has a web based system where thesis finished by the students as well as available thesis can be seen. Research work made by the faculty members of the Department is also available here.</p><p>The Växjö University Library also has a web- based System called DiVA. DiVA stands for Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (Academic Archive Online). It enables students and researchers to publish their research work to University Library. Students and Researchers can also search, research made by other researchers.</p><p>Each year researcher/student publishes their result in conference papers, journal articles, thesis report, books etc. These publications should be register both at the Växjö University Library and RICS (Research in Computer Science) web site in a systematic way so to avoid any kind of redundancy and errors. To develop a system which follow the principle” publish once and view every where” is the objective of this project.</p><p>The System makes it possible to extract the already published publication at DiVA and put that publication’s information into RICS web site.</p><p>When a user requests for registering a publication, the system should verify whether he/she is eligible to register a publication. If he/she qualifies, that is if he/she is a registered user, then the system will register the publication along with the required information like title, author, date of publication, kind of publication etc. on different Web sites.</p><p>The web-based publication information system was   implemented in C#.NET.</p><p>The project was successfully completed but the deliver system requires more live testing.</p>

BARROS, Fabiano Luiz Alves. Análise dos determinantes das exportações agrícolas brasileiras para os rics entre os anos de 1982 a 2012. 2015. 99 f.: Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Pós-Graduação em Economia Rural, Fortaleza-CE, 2015 / Submitted by Francisco Helder Macêdo Rangel (fhelder@ufc.br) on 2016-03-03T18:20:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_flabarros.pdf: 1972401 bytes, checksum: ed4a83179b79c04c8083665333e77cca (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Margareth Mesquita(margaret@ufc.br) on 2016-03-04T19:58:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_flabarros.pdf: 1972401 bytes, checksum: ed4a83179b79c04c8083665333e77cca (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-04T19:58:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_flabarros.pdf: 1972401 bytes, checksum: ed4a83179b79c04c8083665333e77cca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / The intensification of trade between the BRICS may be due both to international agreements such as macroeconomic policy factors such as the real effective exchange rate, the terms of trade, foreign direct investment and per capita income. The Brazil concentrates much of its production for export in sectors with lower technological intensity, favoring the production of commodities. Thus, this study is to investigate the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of exporting agricultural sector in Brazil for selected economies: Russia, India , China and South Africa (RICS), through commonly known variables as decisive for total exports, which are: real effective exchange rate, the terms of trade, income per capita and foreign direct investment. To assess these determinants, we used the theory of international trade, with the use of time series, through self regressive vectors methodology (VAR). The analysis showed that both the terms of trade as per capita income were significant for China and South Africa. Russia showed that the real effective exchange rate in Brazil is significant for India the real exchange rate and the terms of trade were equally significant. / A intensificação das trocas comerciais entre os BRICS pode ser devida tanto a acordos internacionais como a fatores de ordem macroeconômica como a taxa de câmbio real efetiva, os termos de troca, o investimento externo direto e a renda per capita. O Brasil concentra grande parte de sua produção para exportação em setores com menor intensidade tecnológica, favorecendo assim a produção de commodities. Diante disso, este estudo tem como objetivo fundamental investigar os determinantes macroeconômicos do setor agrícola exportador do Brasil para economias selecionadas: Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul (RICS), por meio de variáveis comumente conhecidas como decisivas para as exportações totais, as quais são: taxa de câmbio real efetiva, os termos de troca, a renda per capita e o investimento externo direto. Para avaliar estes determinantes, utilizou-se a teoria do comércio internacional, com o uso de séries temporais, por meio da metodologia de vetores auto regressivos (VAR). A análise demonstrou que tanto os termos de troca quanto a renda per capita foram significativas para China e África do Sul. A Rússia mostrou que a taxa de câmbio real efetiva do Brasil é significante, para Índia a taxa de câmbio real e os termos de troca foram igualmente significativos.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / A intensificaÃÃo das trocas comerciais entre os BRICS pode ser devida tanto a acordos internacionais como a fatores de ordem macroeconÃmica como a taxa de cÃmbio real efetiva, os termos de troca, o investimento externo direto e a renda per capita. O Brasil concentra grande parte de sua produÃÃo para exportaÃÃo em setores com menor intensidade tecnolÃgica, favorecendo assim a produÃÃo de commodities. Diante disso, este estudo tem como objetivo fundamental investigar os determinantes macroeconÃmicos do setor agrÃcola exportador do Brasil para economias selecionadas: RÃssia, Ãndia, China e Ãfrica do Sul (RICS), por meio de variÃveis comumente conhecidas como decisivas para as exportaÃÃes totais, as quais sÃo: taxa de cÃmbio real efetiva, os termos de troca, a renda per capita e o investimento externo direto. Para avaliar estes determinantes, utilizou-se a teoria do comÃrcio internacional, com o uso de sÃries temporais, por meio da metodologia de vetores auto regressivos (VAR). A anÃlise demonstrou que tanto os termos de troca quanto a renda per capita foram significativas para China e Ãfrica do Sul. A RÃssia mostrou que a taxa de cÃmbio real efetiva do Brasil à significante, para Ãndia a taxa de cÃmbio real e os termos de troca foram igualmente significativos.

Cell penetrating peptides have been the focus of drug delivery research for 15 years due to their apparent ability to deliver cargoes inside cells more readily than many other carriers. Using two of the most commonly studied peptides (tat47-57 and R9), the present study differs from previous work by deliberately choosing to observe uptake with lower peptide concentrations closer to potential therapeutic doses, and by implementing raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) on a commercial microscope to quantify uptake in parallel to other techniques such as fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), confocal microscopy, and mass spectroscopy.An initial study using mass spectrometry and ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) revealed that the peptides are stable for at least one hour in PBS. Based on this initial information and other experimental conditions, the study took two main directions with regards to the peptide: the membrane interaction and accumulation in the cell.The peptides interaction with the cell membrane revealed that neither tat-TAMRA nor R9-TAMRA disrupts the membrane of cells: incorporation of FM2-10 in the membrane was not modified in K562 cells whilst it was in presence of the control lytic peptides GALA and mellitin. Based on this information confocal microscopy was utilised to assess the localisation on the cell membrane. Peptide binding to the membrane appeared to be heterogeneous in distribution at 1µM bulk concentration.Accumulation in cells of the peptides was observed incubated at 37°C, confocal microscopy showed punctuated distribution with intracellular aggregations of fluorescence measuring between 2.5-3.5µm in diameter. Co-staining with a nuclear dye revealed these aggregations to be focused around the nucleus of the cell. Initial FCS experiments indicated a concentration dependent accumulation of the peptide in the cells and a decrease of the intracellular diffusion coefficients at high concentration possibly corresponding with molecular crowding. Interestingly the anomalous diffusion model did not statistically improve the results.RICS was implemented to study the kinetics of entry of TAMRA labelled cell penetrating peptides in both Caco-2 and HeLa cells lines at concentrations between 500nM and 2µM. Concentrations above 1µM exhibited higher final intracellular concentrations, yet the measured diffusion coefficients were similarly independent of extracellular concentration. Both peptides appeared to enter the cell quickly with a fast initial uptake over the first 10 minutes, reaching a concentration maxima after 30 minutes.Overall, the study reveals that many published studies may be incorrect as they may only be reporting the presence of a fluorescent dye inside the cell not the peptide. The fast binding of the peptide to the membrane is likely to cause false positive results when traditionally studying internalisation kinetics such as using flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. Correlation spectroscopy techniques such as FCS, provide useful information on internalisation of the peptides, but the single spot measurement is limited when providing information on the entire cell. RICS is a progression of correlation spectroscopy and provides a more representative picture of the cell.

This diploma thesis is about the valuation of property, it is focused to requirements of international valuation standards RICS. The motivation of this thesis is popularization of using RICS standards in Czech Republic. These standards have not been translated to Czech language yet. Requirements of these standards are dispersed to many chapters in these standards. The aim of this thesis is analysis of RICS standards and their implication to valuation report according to Czech law. Analysis is made with structured approach with using systematic concept. Analysis refers to valuer, valuation process and valuation report. These objects are structured again. The results are implicated to valuation report according to Czech law and compliance to RICS standards too.

The aim of this thesis is to explain the operation of the industrial market and the procedure for their valuation. The main objective is the comparison of Czech and international RICS standards and their practical application in the valuation of two concrete industrial estate. The first valuation is based on the Czech legislation and it is used the cost, comparative and DCF method together with the residual method. Valuation of the prime real estate valuation is based on international RICS standards are it is applied Hardcore & Layer and Term & Reversion valuation methods.

The master’s thesis is focused on the main differences related with evaluation by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyor´s standard (RICS) and with evaluation methods currently used in Czech Republic. First chapters are all about historical development of evaluations methods - RICS and Czech evaluation methods, general definitions and ideas connected with this scope. Next chapters explain differences of essential characters of both methods. In the field of this study there is simple illustration how to obtain market value by evaluation of both these methods and comparison of results. Conclusion of this master’s thesis includes consideration of the results.