Overrated integration possibilities

Functional Integration – Possibilities and Challenges

The design of a protection and control (P&C) system must always be based on basic requirements of the power system. Increased functional integration has been a trend since long. The P&C products of today have the capability to integrate all functions for an object in one IED and to some extent even functionality for several objects. This development will continue and the necessary technology to...

Lipaemia: an overrated interference?

Reagent method sheets for analysis of common serum analytes often highlight the possibility of interference from lipaemia but the information given is often brief and may not be instrument-specific. Thus study assesses the degree of interference from lipaemia in a range of common serum analytes on the Bayer Opera (with a serum blank) using a commercial polymer, LipoClear, as a lipid-clearing ag...

Ratings are Overrated!

Are ratings of any use in human–computer interaction and user studies at large? If ratings are of limited use, is there a better alternative for quantitative subjective assessment? Beyond the intrinsic shortcomings of human reporting, there are a number of supplementary limitations and fundamental methodological flaws associated with rating-based questionnaires – i.e., questionnaires that ask p...

Possibilities for Samba 3.0 / Samba4 Integration

This paper explores some of the options, both practical and otherwise, for close integration between the production Samba 3.0 release and the Samba4 development code. It examines integration attempts that have been successful, and those that have failed, and provides recommendations to Samba implementors on how best to proceed.

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