We present the notion of Social Instruments as mechanisms that facilitate the emergence of conventions from repeated interactions between members of a society. Specifically, we focus on two social instruments: rewiring and observation. Our main goal is to provide agents with tools that allow them to leverage their social network of interactions when effectively addressing coordination and learn...

Early and accurate diagnosis of dementia is key to appropriate treatment and management. Clinical assessment, including the use of cognitive screening instruments, remains integral to the diagnostic process. Many cognitive screening instruments have been described, varying in length and hence administration time, but it is not known whether longer tests offer greater diagnostic accuracy than sh...

Development of Observation Instruments for Partnership Model-Based Learning Activities in Distance Elementary Schools. The purpose this study was to determine the feasibility partnership model-based observation student learning activities measure involvement distance elementary schools. This research uses a development design. Collecting data using questionnaire, observation, and interviews. Da...

Abstract The optical instruments developed through the seventeenth century allowed peering into the very far and the very small; a spectacle never before experienced. The telescope, and later the microscope, was now expected to answer fundamental questions and resolve cosmological riddles by direct observation into the foundations of nature. But this ability came at an unexpected price and with...

In this study we propose an approach of quantifying the risks of misinforming and malfunctioning aiming to assess the quality of a warranty policy. We identify the “quality” of a warranty policy as an integral measure, based on the balance between two types of warranty – the warranty of malfunctioning and warranty of misinforming. This measure is represented in terms of the length of the warran...

The main question addressed in this paper is how requirements on the dynamics of an organisation model can be specified and how the dynamics of such an organisation can be formally analysed. A specification language is proposed, and a number of different types of requirements for dynamics at different levels in the organisation are identified. Based on a logical analysis and a software environm...

This paper is Part II of a series of articles on Terahertz heterodyne imaging. In Part I introductory information and techniques were presented. In this paper the authors describe four different types of heterodyne imaging instruments that have been established at their facilities. In Part III (to appear in a future issue of this journal) selected applications of these instruments are discussed.

A vexing question is why systematic quality assurance and formal methods, despite all their advantages, are not used routinely in software development. Other engineering disciplines use their systematic quality assurance and formal methods in producing routinely reliable products. Perhaps the difference between the other engineerings and software engineers lie in the warranties producers must g...