The ready availability of data is leading to the increased opportunity of their re-use for new applications and for analyses. Most of these data are not necessarily in the format users want, are usually heterogeneous, and highly dynamic, and this necessitates data transformation efforts to re-purpose them. Interactive data transformation (IDT) tools are becoming easily available to lower these ...

The article by Cheri Wilson, “Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access”, highlights 
the challenges of providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) to patients with 
Limited English Proficiency (LEP). As the US pursues high-value, high-performance healthcare, our ability 
to meet the needs of our most vulnerable will determine whether we succeed...

The Business Process Model represented as a diagram in Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a commonly used way how to describe business processes of an organization. Problems connected with a complexity of notation and missing support in tools for the software development can be solved by a transformation to a Unified Modeling Language activity diagram. Another reason for creating such...

The correctness of model transformations and, in particular, behavior preservation is important for model-driven engineering of high quality software. Behavior preservation verification techniques have been presented with automatic tool support for the instance level, i.e. for a given source and target model specified by the model transformation. However, up until now there is no automatic veri...

In order to evaluate the performance of printers, plotters and other printing hardware we need to evaluate the printed output. One way to evaluate prints is by using image quality metrics. The first step to do so is to find a way to apply them. All image quality metrics need a digital image as their input. This makes transforming printed images to a digital format an important step for evaluati...

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Commonly, there are several ways to transform a source model into a target model. These alternative target models may have the same functionality but can differ in their quality attributes. One of the key challenges of an automated transformation process is to identify the transformations that will produce a target model with the desired quality attributes. In this paper, we present a replica o...

Anatase-to-rutile phase transformation was studied in milled and unmilled samples. Ball milling was carried out in two types of ball mills, planetary and tumbler, with a ball-to-powder ratio of 40:1 over 2-48 hours. First, the unmilled samples &#10were heated in the furnace at various temperatures for different periods of time. The results revealed that the anatase-to-rutile transformation comp...

The kinetics and mechanism of bainite transformation have been studied in Fe-Cr-Mo-V-Ti-C steel high speed dilatometry backed by thermodynamic analysis. The complete transformation of austenite, however, has not occurred at any reported temperature. Obtained results confirm the incomplete reaction phenomenon with the cessation of the bainite transformation well before the paraequilibrium is ach...

This paper presents a matching pursuits sinusoidal speech coder which incorporates new techniques including a novel vector quantization (VQ) technique used for the weighted quantization of spectral magnitude vector, and an interframe quantization of spectral magnitudes using an interpolation matrix that minimize the weighted interpolation error. The paper describes a novel vector quantization t...