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The design of embedded systems in safety-critical domains is a demanding task. During the last decades, formal methods and model-based approaches are widely used for the design, the analysis, the implementation and testing of major industrial applications. The work in this thesis addresses the improvement of the testing process with a view to automating test data generation as well as its quali...

Management of an effective national vaccine strategy necessitates careful planning. In the face of budgetary constraints and the likely development of many new vaccines over the next few years, a rational choice of which vaccines to use and how best to use them will depend on first class disease surveillance, economic analysis of cost effectiveness and mathematical modelling to ensure optimal v...

The study assessed farmers’ perception of effectiveness of agricultural extension agents in Anambra State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised all contact farmers and extension agents in Anambra State. Multi-stage, purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 200 respondents comprising 160 farmers and 40 extension agents. Data for the study were collected throu...

Compartmentalised extension prohibits the uptake of new technology thereby inhibiting agricultural growth. Extension services aimed at increased agricultural growth should have a market-led and evidence-based pluralistic advisory system that is coordinated by the government’s Agricultural and Technical Services division in response to the needs of farmers. This study sought to assess extension ...

IRSN has carried out a State-of-the-Art-Review of the main experimental programmes related to fuel behaviour under Loss-of-Coolant-Accident (LOCA) conditions conducted from the 70s until now, that has been split in three parts. The second part is devoted to the question of the coolability of blocked regions in a rod bundle after ballooning in a LOCA. The main findings from this part are present...

The review highlights the poverty alleviation programmes of the government in the post-economic reform era to evaluate the contribution of these programmes towards reducing poverty in the country. The poverty alleviation programmes are classified into (i) self-employment programmes; (ii) wage employment programmes; (iii) food security programmes; (iv) social security programmes; and (v) urban p...

In this paper we suggest that in order to analyse the properties of an AspectJ aspect one can consider the aspect itself and the part of the system it affects. In fact, we argue that in AspectJ every pointcut declaration defines a “slicing criterion” that can be used to compute the associated slice. One can use the sliced programme to build useful models of the system and the aspects and exploi...