Handing over a software system from development to maintenance is still an under-researched domain. The software community has a hazy insight into its constellation and inherent activities. In this paper, we have evaluated a preliminary version of a taxonomy of handover activities within one Swedish software company. The evaluation is conducted in an in-house handover context only. Despite this, our results provide evidence of its enormous complexity, variability and strong dependency on many other software engineering processes. / © 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.QC 20120223

Study of the Arabidopsis thaliana knockout mutant lacking Lhcb3 (koLhcb3) have revealed a close similarity to the wild type plants. Growth rate, NPQ, qP, Φ(PSII), circular dichroism spectra, pigment composition and content of LCHII trimers have been found to be unaffected by this mutation. The proteomic analysis shows only some minor increases in the amount of Lhcb1 and Lhcb2. PAM fluorometry revealed a significant increase in the rate of the state 1 to state 2 state transition in the koLhcb3. None the less, the extent of state transition is identical to wild type. Alterations in the PSII-LHCII supercomplex structure have been demonstrated as well. The M-trimer was found to be rotated ~21° CCW. This altered binding of the LHCII M-trimer is likely the cause of the altered affinity resulting in the increased rate of state transition. Proteomic analysis of the phosphorylation of LHCII revealed a significant increase in state 1 and 2 LHCII phosphorylation relative to wild type. Investigation whether phosphorylation or the altered LHCII binding is the cause of the accelerated rate of state transition have not been conclusive so far. A Lhcb6 depleted mutant (koLhcb6) showed a significant alteration of the PSII-LHCII supercomplex structure and photosynthetic acclimation processes. The LHCII M-trimer is depleted in the PSII-LHCII supercomplexes causing the state transition process to be “stuck” in state 2 and the mutants ability to preform NPQ is inhibited as well. The Lhcb6 protein was concluded to be essential for the binding of the LHCII M-trimer to the PSII core as well as energy transfer. The depletion of LHCII M-trimer was linked to the reduced ability to photoacclimate using NPQ as well.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第19317号 / 工博第4114号 / 新制||工||1634(附属図書館) / 32319 / 京都大学大学院工学研究科合成・生物化学専攻 / (主査)教授 北川 進, 教授 松田 建児, 教授 陰山 洋 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DGAM

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Diploma thesis "The Transition Towards Democracy and its Problematic Aspects in Geo-Politic Perspective " deals with the theory of democracy, the transition towards democracy and the political development in specific regions. The aim of this thesis is to summarize both general thoeretical concepts about the topic and current studies about illiberal democracies in the 21st century. My thesis starts with the analysis of the meaning of the term liberal democracy as well as the term modern nation state, whereas the emphasis is given on the conditions to be found beyond both. This is followed by the introduction to main transition concepts. Within the logic of my topic it is stressed especially the nature of removed political regime which could be crucial for the outcome of the transition. My diploma thesis deals also with an institutional engineering which is often overlooked but of high importance. The question of hybrid regimes is closely linked to previous topic because it can help us to undestand all problematic aspects of transition. Last chapter is dedicated to specific African regimes which are usually hidden in a shadow of interest of politican science. I will argue that the very analysis of their nature can prove the importance of functional political institutions as a base for succesfull...

La transition de phase isostructurale du cérium a été et reste l'objet de nombreuses études pour tester les méthodes permettant de décrire les matériaux fortement corrélés.La Théorie du Champ Moyen Dynamique (DMFT) jointe à la Théorie de la fonctionnelle de la densité à permis de décrire de tels systèmes.Pourtant, le calcul des propriétés de l'état fondamental nécessite une très bonne précision de calcul à la fois de la part de la DFT et de la DMFT.Nous utilisons un résolveur Monte Carlo Quantique en Temps Continu (CT-QMC), rapide et capable de simuler les basses températures, combiné à une implantation ondes planes augmentées par projection de la DMFT pour calculer les énergies internes et libres -- et par conséquent l'entropie -- au cours de la transition de phase du cérium.D'importants calculs, utilisant cette implantation, nous ont permis de reconsidérer les propriétés de l'état fondamental et une grande partie de la thermodynamique de la transition de phase α<->γ du cérium à basses températures.En particulier, le bruit stochastique est suffisamment faible pour interpréter, sans ambiguïté, les courbes énergie en fonction du volume.Sur ces dernières, un double point d'inflexion est clairement visible pour l'énergie interne jusqu'à une température relativement basse.Les courbes d'énergie libre mettent, de plus, en évidence l'importance de l'entropie pour ce système.D'autre part, les spectres de photoemission tout au long de la transition de phase sont analysés.Le schéma DMFT est comparé avec des calculs DFT récents et des données expérimentales récentes.Enfin, nous mettons en avant les approximations utilisées et nous nous interrogeons sur leurs validité. / The isostructural phase transition of cerium has been and remains the aim of many studies in order to test methods developed to describe strongly correlated materials.The Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) combined with density functional theory (DFT) has been successful to describe such systems.However, the computation of the ground state properties requires a very good accuracy from both DFT and DMFT sides.We use thus a strong coupling Continuous Time Quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) solver, which is fast and able to reach low temperatures, in combination with a projector augmented wave (PAW) DMFT implementation to calculate internls and free energies -- and thus the entropy -- during the phase transition of cerium.Extensive calculations using this implementation allows us to carefully reassess the ground state properties and almost all thermodynamics of the α<->γ phase transition in cerium at low temperatures.In particular, stochastic noise is small enough to avoid any ambiguity on the interpretation of energy versus volume curves.On those curves, a double inflexion point is clearly observable ont the internal energy curves untill a relatively low temperature.Moreover, free energy curves highlight the importance of including the entropy contribution.The DMFT picture is put in perspective with recent DFT calculations and recent experimental investigations.Furthermore, photoemission spectra are analysed while the phase transition.Finaly, we discuss the approximations used and raise curiosity about their consideration.