Noncompliances that decrease food safety are commonly detected in inspections at restaurants, and challenges correcting the noncompliances have been reported. Disclosure of inspection results has used as a tool to rate by increasing motivation attain maintain compliance with regulations. However, efficacy disclosed is not well understood. In addition, preannouncement interval may an impact on i...

The goal of this paper is to report on some of the negative experiences and images related to inspections that we have observed among software engineers. These are based on our own experiences, since we have met numerous people who have felt this way, although none of them had by any means been conscious of all the negative aspects. Even though the subject of this paper might give that impressi...

This paper studies the design of monitoring policies in dynamic settings with moral hazard. The firm benefits from having a reputation for quality, and the principal can learn the firm’s quality by conducting costly inspections. Monitoring plays two roles: An incentive role, because the outcome of inspections affects the firm’s reputation, and an informational role because the principal values ...

Railroad terminal performance directly affects network capacity and an important element of terminal efficiency is railcar inspection and repair. New technologies to automate railcar inspections can improve railroad terminal efficiency by reducing inspection times and improving operations. This research applies Lean Manufacturing methods to the railcar maintenance process and investigates poten...

Efforts on nondestructive inspections for SC cavities are reported. The high resolution T-map, X-map system is designed so that the installation time of the mapping system can be reduced. It also reduces the number of cables for the signal transmission and the number of pins of the vacuum feed-through. Zr K-shell X-ray seems a good candidate for the radiography technique for the defects buried ...

While inspections are a valuable tool for software quality assurance, inspection models are labour intensive, require knowledge of all errors in a software product, make questionable assumptions, and do not capture the experience of inspectors. In this paper we describe a novel inspection model based on Bayesian belief networks that overcomes many of these problems. We describe the problems whi...

We developed a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method to rapidly diagnose Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) during quarantine inspections of imported wheat, corn, oats, and millet. The LAMP method was developed as a plant quarantine inspection method for the first time, and its simplicity, quickness, specificity and sensitivity were verified compared to current reverse transcriptio...