This paper offers an extrapolation of the manufacturing and service industries' Cost of Quality Model to the business of software development. The intent is to provide a theoretical account of the changing quality cost structure as a function of a maturing software development process. Thus, the trends in expenditures due to the four major quality cost categories --appraisal, prevention, intern...

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is a gram-positive actinomycete, causing bacterial wilt and canker disease in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Host responses to gram-positive bacteria and molecular mechanisms associated with the development of disease symptoms caused by Cmm in tomato are largely unexplored. To investigate plant responses activated during this compatible inter...

Abstract. Via 11 years of high-frequency measurements, we calculated the probability space expected offshore wind-speed ramps, recasting it compactly in terms relevant load-driving quantities for horizontal-axis wind turbines. A statistical ensemble events reduced ramp-parameter (ramp acceleration, mean speed after ramp, upper-level shear) was created to capture variability ramp parameters and ...

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) previously published position statements on collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) in 1997 and 2003. Since 2003, significant federal and state legislation addressing CDTM has evolved and expanded throughout the United States. CDTM is well suited to facilitate the delivery of comprehensive medication management (CMM) by clinical pharmacists....

Multi-sensor coordinate measuring machines (CMM) have a potential performance advantage over existing CMM systems by offering the accuracy of a touch trigger probe with the speed of a laser scanner. Before these systems can be used, it is important that both random and systematic errors are evaluated within the context of its intended application. At present, the performance of a multisensor CM...

This paper describes a real-time hierarchical system that combines (fuses) data from vision and touch sensors to simplify and improve the operation of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) used for dimensional inspection tasks. Our emphasis is on sensory processing techniques that can aid CMM applications rather than on the analysis of CMM performance measurements. Our system consists of sensory...

Many learned behaviors are thought to require the activity of high-level neurons that represent categories of complex signals, such as familiar faces or native speech sounds. How these complex, experience-dependent neural responses emerge within the brain's circuitry is not well understood. The caudomedial mesopallium (CMM), a secondary auditory region in the songbird brain, contains neurons th...

A five-year-old previously healthy, male child from Hubli presented with confirmed dengue hemorrhagic fever on seventh day of illness. At admission, his total leucocyte count was 8500/cmm, hematocrit 40% and platelet count 50,000/cmm. Liver function test was normal. There was no proteinuria or hematuria. On Day 3 of admission, he developed acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) and was venti...

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (Software CMM ) is probably the best known and most widely used model world-wide for software process improvement. ISO/IEC 15504 is a suite of standards currently under development for software process assessment, which can be expected to affect the continuing evolution of the Software CMM. This paper discusses the similarities and differences between...