Function Point Analysis is often said to be too difficult method for software development estimation purposes. It is said to be unreliable and also too expensive, because only certified function point analysts can apply it correctly. The worst thing is, that all this is true, when using traditional function point counting practices and approaches. In this article the author will introduce the K...

Using generalized Frobenius partitions we interpret five basic series identities of Rogers combinatorially. This extends the recent work of Goyal and Agarwal and yields five new 3-way combinatorial identities.

Power-gating turns off the power supply of a portion of the circuit completely, resulting in total elimination of power consumption for that part. However, it also necessitates that the sub-circuit to be activated should be charged for some time before its activation. This critical issue can influence the decomposition of a finite state machine (FSM) for its power gated implementation. In this ...

The E-method for the automatic generation of tests for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is based on Event Sequence Graph (ESG)model of the expected GUI behavior. The W-method and its variants like the Wp method, are based on Finite State Machines (FSM) and can also be used for the same purpose. We show that tests generated using the Eand the W-methods have the same fault detection effectiveness...

In a charge-coupled device (CCD)-based fast steering mirror (FSM) tracking control system, high control bandwidth is the most effective way to enhance the closed-loop performance. However, the control system usually suffers a great deal from mechanical resonances and time delays induced by the low sampling rate of CCDs. To meet the requirements of high precision and load restriction, fiber-opti...

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of replacing fish meal protein with fermented soybean meal (FSM) in diets on growth performance, feed utilization, morphological parameters, body composition, activities of antioxidant and digestive enzymes and also blood biochemistry of juvenile olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Five isonitrogenic and isolipidic diets were prepare...

We use the Dwork–Frobenius operator to prove an integrality result for \mbox {$A$-hypergeometric} series whose coefficients are factorial ratios. As a special case, we generalize one direction of classical Landau on factoria

In this note we characterize the compact weighted Frobenius-Perron operator $p$ on $L^1(Sigma)$ and determine their spectra. We also show that every weakly compact weighted Frobenius-Perron operator on $L^1(Sigma)$ is compact.

In the present report, we provide an illustrative review of the Family Stress Model (FSM) framework [1] to understand how family stress influences children across development in physical, social-emotional, and cognitive domains. We note that the FSM as a theory has evolved through inspection of: (a) new explanatory pathways (mediators); (b) factors that moderate FSM pathways; and (c) joint test...

In this paper, we consider a test derivation strategy for testing protocol implementations based on Finite State Machines with timeouts. The strategy is applied for testing TFTP implementations. Keywords-Finete State Machine (FSM); FSM with timeouts (timed FSM); transition tour