Creativity and Innovation in Haute Cuisine: Towards a Systemic Model

The contribution of this study is an increased understanding of personal creativity and the innovation process in haute cuisine, a validation of the socio‐cultural systems view of creativity and a model that accounts for the socio‐cultural dimensions of haute cuisine. In this paper we discuss existing views that conceptualize creativity and innovation in this sector as a sequential developmental process following the principles of operations management. However, based on in‐depth interviews with world‐renowned chefs, we argue for a systemic rather than sequential developmental process view. The reason for this is that the chefs interviewed understand the ‘creativity part’ of the innovation process as an embodied experience often guided by intuition and the ‘innovation part’ as a process of social evaluation greatly dependent on the perception, knowledge and value judgement of the testers from the leading restaurant guides. The main implications of the findings go beyond the haute cuisine sector and open areas for future research on creativity and intuition more generally.     

The effect of multiple martensitic transformations on diffusion of Fe and Ni atoms in Fe-31.7%Ni-0.06%C alloy

Diffusion characteristics of iron and nickel atoms were investigated using radioactive isotopes method in phase-hardened metastable iron-nickel Fe-31.7%Ni-0.06%C alloy with nanofragmented structure. It has been found that diffusion mobility of nickel and iron atoms in reverted austenite of Fe-31.7%Ni-0.06%C alloy significantly increases as the result of multiple γ-α-γ martensitic transformations. The diffusion coefficients of nickel and iron in the austenite at 400°C corresponded to the stationary diffusion coefficients at the temperatures above 900°C. The revealed diffusion acceleration at low temperatures is caused by high-density dislocations and additional low-angle subboundaries of disoriented nanofragments of reverted austenite and deformation twin subboundaries formed during multiple γ-α-γ cycles.     

Verification of ISS,iISS and IOSS properties applying weighted homogeneity

Several conditions are proposed to check different robustness properties (ISS, iISS, IOSS and OSS) for generic nonlinear systems applying the weighted homogeneity concept (global or local). The advantages of this result are that, under some mild conditions, the system robustness can be established as a function of the degree of homogeneity.     

Finding the Iris Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International - Iris-based identification is a well-known and widely used technology. However, its use in mobile devices is limited due to the algorithmic...     

Lipids and Fatty Acids of the Gonads of Sea Urchin Diadema setosum (Echinodermata) From the Coastal Area of the Nha Trang Bay,Central Vietnam

The sea urchin Diadema setosum is edible and desirable as food by locals in central Vietnam and a promising target for potential fishing. The lipid profiles of the gonads of the sea urchin inhabiting the coastal area in Nha Trang Bay are studied for the first time. The determination of the content of the total lipids (TL), total phospholipids (PL), monoacylglycerols (MAG), diacylglycerols (DAG), triacylglycerols (TAG), cholesterol (Chol), sterol esters, and free fatty acids (FFA) is analyzed by high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC); the phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylcholine (PC), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), and sphingomyelin (SM) are determined by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC); and the fatty acid levels of TLs are identified using gas chromatography (GC). Non-polar TAG, FFA, Chol, and DAG dominated. The content of total PL is significant. PC is abundant among PL fractions, followed by PE, PI, and PS. The TLs contain a high proportion of PUFA, mainly due to arachidonic fatty acid and eicosapentanoic fatty acid. The (n−6)/(n−3) ratio is 1.68, and the atherogenic and thrombogenic indexes of D. setosum are 1.13 and 0.73. The results can be used in the development of marine bioprospecting and methodological approaches for the creation of functional substances.     

Features of the deterministic replay in the case of a minimum device set

A technology of the deterministic replay of an execution process in virtual machines can be used for debugging, improving reliability and robustness, software development and incident investigation (including reverse engineering of malware). The paper describes an implementation of deterministic replay for guest machines based on IA-32 in the emulator QEMU. This implementation minimizes the list of replayed devices. The organization of QEMU is discussed in detail, and the techniques used in the implementation are thoroughly explained. The key performance characteristics, such as the size of log of nondeterministic events and slowdown are experimentally measured.     

Analytical computer calculations in problems with random division of an interval

The novelty and originality of the presented studies consists of the fact that the rigorous mathematical proof of one of relationships that describe the probability of an error-free reading of random discrete images contained in them was previously found by the authors using specially created programs for computer analytical calculations.     

Designing transfer function with the required direct performance measures based on the Laplace transform

An approach is proposed to design transfer functions with prescribed direct measures of transient performance: overshoot and setting time. A technique for designing such functions is developed. A numerical example is given.     

High-pressure phase transformations, microstructure, and magnetic properties of the hypereutectic alloy 10Ni-90Al

Phase transformations of the hypereutectic alloy 10Ni-90Al have been studied by differential barothermal analysis at temperatures of up to 900°C and pressures of up to ?100 MPa. We have determined the pressure coefficients of the liquidus and solidus temperatures and the temperatures of solid-state dissolution and precipitation of the intermetallic phase Al₃Ni. At high pressures, the solid-state decomposition of the supersaturated solid solution of nickel in aluminum occurs at 622°C and yields an (Al) + Al₃Ni mixture. We assume that, during cooling of the alloy at high pressure, intermetallic particles form in three steps. Barothermal analysis data have been compared to the canonical t-x phase diagram of the Al-Ni system. As a result of melting and crystallization at high pressure, the microcrystalline structure of the as-prepared alloy transforms to a macrocrystalline, dendritic structure and the micropore concentration increases. X-ray diffraction data indicate an increase in the unit-cell volumes of the Al and Al₃Ni in the alloy crystallized at 100MPa. We have studied the magnetic properties of the alloy after barothermal analysis.