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This paper focuses on the importance of test driven development, in an interdisciplinary academic case study, involving unauthorized access and fraud. In it, Problem Based Learning (PBL) enabled the organization of an environment for... more
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      BusinessComputer Science EducationEmbedded SystemsAgile Development
This article describes two independent reports, recently completed by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, that examined many scientific and measurement issues concerning... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceTechnology AssessmentCode of Conduct
The development of large software systems is a complex and error prone process. Faults can occur at any development stage and they shall be identified and removed as early as possible to stop their propagation and reduce verification... more
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      Software TestingModel-Based TestingSoftware QualitySoftware Systems
RESUMEN: Las cimentaciones profundas son usadas con el fin de brindar estabilidad a una variedad de estructuras tales como puentes, presas y edificaciones en condiciones donde las cimentaciones superficiales no la proporcionan. En... more
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      Soil MechanicsStructural IntegrityStructural AnalysisNon Destructive Testing
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      EngineeringPacific NorthwestResearch and DevelopmentWaste Treatment
is testing the Integrated Dry NO,/SO, Emissions Control System, This system combines low-NO, burners, ove@re air, selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR), and dry sorbent injection with humidifcation to reduce by up to 70 % both NO, and... more
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      Environmental ScienceAir pollutionPower PlantControl system
The input space of a system must be modeled before combinatorial testing can be applied to this system. The effectiveness of combinatorial testing to a large extent depends on the quality of the input space model. In this paper we... more
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      Software TestingXMLUnit TestingUnified Modeling Language
Research and practitioner literature on testing object-oriented software published up to the end of 1994 is summarized. The contribution of each source to eight topics is presented: (1) abstract data type verification and testing as it... more
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      Object Oriented ProgrammingEiffelFormal methodsObject Oriented Design
In this paper, we present a model, a strategy and a methodology for planning integration and regression testing from an OO model. We show how to produce a model of structural system test dependencies which evolves with the refinement... more
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      Object Oriented ProgrammingStrategic PlanningStandardizationPlanning
Phototoxicity is of increasing concern in dermatology, since modern lifestyle is often associated with exposure to sunlight. The most commonly reported process is via oxidative reactions. Therefore characterizing the... more
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      Artificial IntelligenceExpert SystemsComputational BiologyComputer Simulation
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      Environmental MonitoringAnimal WelfareBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
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      EngineeringEnergy ConservationNuclear EnergyPower Plant
Hermetically-sealed flexible food packages require effective seal integrity tests for quality assurance purpose. 10-pmdiameter channel defects can propagate microorganisms into food. The channel diameter limits of human inspection are... more
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      PackagingUltrasoundImage QualityQuality Assurance
In the August 1993 issue of Journal of Applied Psychology, Deniz Ones, Vish V3swesvaran, and Frank Schmidt published a monograph on the validity of integrity tests as revealed by meta-analysis. They concluded that integrity tests have... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceIntegration Testing
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of inflation, interest rate and increase in the amount of foreign debt on economic growth of Pakistan. To indicate main factors of crisis so that inflation rates, higher interest... more
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      EconomicsEconomic GrowthTime series analysisMiddle East
Purpose–Developing countries are heavily dependent on the resources and commitment of foreign providers to ensure successful adoption of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT). The purpose of this paper is to describe the important role... more
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      General PracticeData AnalysisSystem DesignOrganizational structure
The aim of integration testing is to uncover errors in the interactions between system modules. However, it is generally impossible to test all the interactions between modules because of time and cost constraints. Thus, it is important... more
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      Computer ScienceSoftware QualitySoftware MetricsMotion Pictures
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      Computer ScienceSoftware TestingSystem IntegrationObject Oriented Design
Pre-employment integrity tests assume differences between honest and dishonest individuals in their perceptions of the degree of dishonesty of given behaviors. This exploratory study investigated whether individuals classified as... more
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      BusinessMarketingPsychologyBusiness Psychology
A compact, passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser has been developed for the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) instrument which is an instrument on the MESSENGER mission to the planet Mercury. The laser achieves 5.4 percent efficiency with a near... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringEnvironmental SciencePhysicsOptics
Objective To compare the effects, safety, and cost effectiveness of antenatal screening strategies for Down's syndrome. Design Analysis of incremental cost effectiveness. Setting United Kingdom. Main outcome measures Number of liveborn... more
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      Treatment OutcomeDown SyndromeBritish medical historyUnited Kingdom
This paper describes the liquid metal integrated test system (LIMITS) at Sandia National Laboratories 1. This system was designed to study the flow of molten metals and salts in a vacuum as a preliminary study for flowing liquid surfaces... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringPlasma PhysicsMagnetic fieldHigh Temperature
Since class objects are the major components in object-oriented (00) programs during run-time, testing the behavior of these objects become an important task in testing of object-oriented programs to comple ment other types of testing,... more
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      Computer ScienceObject Oriented ProgrammingIndustrial RelationsSoftware Testing
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      Information SystemsObject Oriented ProgrammingComputer SoftwareInformation Hiding
For the past 15 years, the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has been involved in analysis and support to exploitation tasks related to the thermal-hydraulic behavior of commercial nuclear power plants. There has been a close... more
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      Power PlantNuclear Power PlantIntegration Testing
Las cimentaciones profundas son usadas con el fin de brindar estabilidad a una variedad de estructuras tales como puentes, presas y edificaciones en condiciones donde las cimentaciones superficiales no la proporcionan. En consecuencia, ha... more
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      ArtSoil MechanicsStructural IntegrityStructural Analysis
... Bagus, KK (1988). Industry-specific affirmative action studies. In Stanton Survey Report. Charlotte, NC: Stanton Corporation. Barrick, MR, & Mount, MK... more
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      MarketingPsychologyApplied PsychologySocial Interaction
Access control systems using biometric identification readers are becoming common within critical infrastructure and other high security applications. There is a perception that biometric, due to their ability to identify and validate the... more
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      EvaluationBiometricOptical SensorCritical Infrastructure
The Glass Reactivity with Allowance for the Alteration Layer Model (GRAAL) was proposed in 2008 to describe borosilicate nuclear glass alteration based on coupling an affinity law with the formation and dissolution of a passivating... more
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      Materials EngineeringChemistryKineticsNuclear Materials
BACKGROUND The acceptability of prenatal screening and diagnosis of Down syndrome is dependent, in part, on the gestational age at which the testing is offered. First trimester screening could be advantageous if it has sufficient efficacy... more
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      UltrasoundDown SyndromePregnancyHigh risk pregnancy
Although the criterion-related validity of integrity tests is well established, there has not been enough research examining which personality constructs contribute to their criterion-related validity. Moreover, evidence of how well... more
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      PsychologyBusiness and ManagementPersonnel PsychologyIntegration Testing
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      LeachingUltrafiltrationSimulationProcess Simulation
The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the long-run relationship implied by profit maximization is valid for the Turkish manufacturing industry for the period of 1950-2001. During this period, the Turkish economy has... more
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      Time SeriesEconomic policyTurkish EconomyHuman
The Department of Energy, Stirling Technology Company (STC), and NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA Glenn) are developing a free-piston Stirling convertor for a high-efficiency Stirling Radioisotope Generator (SRG) for NASA Space Science... more
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      Electromagnetic CompatibilityPower SystemElectromagnetic InterferenceTechnology development
Fatigue crack growth and fracture toughness characteristics of laser rapid manufactured (LRMed) Inconel 625 compact tension specimens of thickness 12 and 25 mm were investigated. Fatigue crack propagation in all the specimens investigated... more
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      Materials EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMaterials ScienceFatigue crack growth
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      Natural GasRaw materialsScaling upHigh Temperature
The equilibrium real exchange rate of the Russian ruble is estimated for the period from the early 1995 to the early 2008. According to the methodological approach proposed by Edwards (1988), the equilibrium real exchange rate is a... more
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      EconomicsFiscal policyCapital FlowsMonetary Policy
The recognition of the importance of verification and validation tasks, within the software development process or life cycle, is growing significantly. Still, its unarguably complexity and the great amount of time and resources needed to... more
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      Computer ScienceSoftware EngineeringVerification and ValidationLife Cycle
Using unit labor cost (ULC) data from Euro area countries as well as US States and German Länder we investigate inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction... more
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      EconomicsConvergenceApplied EconomicsCurrency Union
We present preliminary test results for the integration of a miniature crossed electric and magnetic field mass spectrometer (MS) and a small commercial gas chromatograph (GC). We targeted the experiments to identify design variables for... more
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      ChemistryAnalytical ChemistryTRACMass Spectrometer
The objective of this study was to investigate the interdependence among the South Asian and developed markets and their impact on Karachi Stock Exchange. The data were collected from eight worldly stock exchanges, four from each South... more
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      BusinessSouth AsiaPortfolio ManagementStock Market
We establish integral tests and laws of the iterated logarithm at 0 and at +∞, for the upper envelope of positive self-similar Markov processes. Our arguments are based on the Lamperti representation, time reversal arguments and on the... more
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      MathematicsStatisticsPure MathematicsTime Reversal
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      Computer SciencePower ElectronicsComputational ModelingFluid Dynamics
Abstract— Designing an All-Electric Ship (AES) requires testing of the interaction between hundreds of interconnected power electronic subsystems built by different manufacturers. Such integration tests require large analog test benches... more
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      Computer SciencePower ElectronicsComputational ModelingFluid Dynamics
This study examines the role of financial development in poverty reduction through the development of manufacturing industry in the case of Pakistan by using data from 1971 to 2010 with the help of Johnson\\\'s co-integration test and... more
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      Economic GrowthFinancial developmentPoverty ReductionCointegration
In this paper, we present for the ®rst time the compatibility of sol±gel method for SnO 2 thin ®lm preparation with the silicon technology for integrated gas sensor microfabrication. An integrated circuit (IC) compatible test structure of... more
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      Materials EngineeringAnalytical ChemistryThin FilmPower Consumption
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      FinanceEmerging MarketTrade BalanceIndustrial Production
We propose an extension of the Teaching Machine project, called Quiz Generator, that allows instructors to produce assessment quizzes in the field of algorithm and data structures quite easily. This extension makes use of visualization... more
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      Cognitive ScienceVisualizationData StructureComputer Software
In this study the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of a PCR for the detection of EF-positive Streptococcus suis serotype 2 strains in tonsillar swabs of live sows were assessed. We sampled 471 sows originating from four... more
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      MicrobiologyVeterinary MicrobiologyPolymerase Chain ReactionSwine
Automated acceptance testing is a quite recent addition to testing in agile software development holding great promise of improving communication and collaboration. This paper summarizes existing literature and also presents a case study... more
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      Literature ReviewCase StudyAgile software developmentTest Automation