In this paper I examine some of the factors influencing technology development and attempt to explain whether CLIA '88 enhances the opportunities or exacerbates the problems for U.S.-based technology development. The viewpoint I express is concentrated on the clinical chemistry segment of the diagnostics arena.

The distribution system is prone to failures and disturbances due to weather related issues and human errors. The distributed generation is expected to play a key role in the power system. The reliability of the power supply can be improved in the presence of distributed generation (DG). In this paper, general assessment of the impact of distributed generation (DG) on the distribution system re...

16TAbstract— Reliability is the important aspect of software . Software Quality is important factor when we design a software..The software quality depends on different factors such as software reliability, efficiency, cost etc. Software Reliability determine the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a particular environment. Software Reliability can b...

3D integrated circuits (3DICs) with through-silicon vias (TSVs) are an important direction for semiconductor-based products and “More than Moore” scaling. However, 3DICs bring simultaneous challenges of reliability (power and temperature in stacks of thinned die) as well as variability (performance and power) in advanced technology nodes. In this paper, we study variability-reliability interact...

Collecting phenological data is a slow process. Although such data have been collected by a number of organizations, the reliability of these data is not known because the data-generating process cannot be repeated. No further observations to improve the reliability can be obtained. However, the data usually consist of several overlapping observation series and this overlap can be utilized to c...

This paper discusses the use of distributed generation (DG) for improving the supply reliability in distribution systems. The first part of the paper contains the results of a simple analytical study of the reliability for individual customers with distributed generation on-site. The difference between disconnector-type interfaces and breaker-type interface is emphasised. In the second part of ...

Based on a recent improvement of the inclusion-exclusion principle, we present a new approach to network reliability problems. In particular, we give a new proof of a result of Shier, which expresses the reliability of a network as an alternating sum over chains in a semilattice, and a new proof of a result of Provan and Ball, which provides an algorithm for computing network reliability in pse...

To plan Internetware reliability in advance can effectively save cost and guarantee the reliability of Internetware system. The conversion method of Markov chain of Internetware based on architecture and the reliability calculation method are studied; the reliability function based on structure is proposed; the characteristics of the improvement of Internetware reliability is analyzed; the cost...