The purpose of a lifetime reliability experiment is to quantify the effect of one or more factors on the lifetime of some device of interest. In such experiments, each tested device either fails or is still functioning when the experiment (under the given factor conditions) is terminated at a given time (right censored lifetimes/time-truncated testing). The purpose of this paper is to introduce...

Light-curing volumetric shrinkage in dimethacrylate-based dental resin composites Dipol® is examined through comprehensive kinetics research employing nanoindentation measurements and nanoscale atomic-deficient study with lifetime spectroscopy of annihilating positrons. Photopolymerization kinetics determined through nanoindentation testing is shown to be described via single-exponential relaxa...

Regression testing, which attempts to validate modified software and ensure that no new errors are introduced into previously tested code, is used extensively during maintenance of evolving software. Despite efforts to reduce its cost, regression testing remains one of the most expensive activities performed during a software system’s lifetime. Because regression testing is important and expens...

Regression testing, which attempts to validate modiied software and ensure that no new errors are introduced into previously tested code, is used extensively during maintenance of evolving software. Despite eeorts to reduce its cost, regression testing remains one of the most expensive activities performed during a software system's lifetime. Because regression testing is important and expensiv...

BACKGROUND Studies of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia suggest a linear progression over time. Conversion rates during lifetime may extend to 80-90%. AIMS This study examines the time-dependent evolution from mild cognitive impairment to dementia. Current assumptions regarding yearly and lifetime conversion rates are challenged. METHOD A community sample of 1045 dementi...

OBJECTIVE Assessing the discrimination-health disparities hypothesis requires psychometrically sound, multidimensional measures of discrimination. Among the available discrimination measures, few are multidimensional and none have adequate psychometric testing in a large, African American sample. We report the development and psychometric testing of the multidimensional Jackson Heart Study Disc...

business all around the world uses different approaches to know their customers, segment them and formulate suitable strategies for them. one of these approaches is calculating the value of each customer for the company. in this paper by calculating customer lifetime value (clv) for individual customers of an online toy store named alakdolak, three customer segments are extracted. the level of ...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...