The size of international software industry is over $1000bn. Total revenue earned by the Indian software industry in year 2005 was $30bn and which is expected to grow. The price quoted by vendors to its customers and the rate of the customer service is dependent on the productivity of the project. Given the fact that software development complexity is on an ever-increasing curve, it becomes cri...

INTRODUCTION Viterbi decoders are used for decoding convolutional forward error correction codes [ 13 in a large proportion of digital transmission systems including mobile phones and digital television. For portable applications, the battery size and lifetime is of commercial importance as is the size of the electronics. Therefore, a low power, area efficient implementation is of commercial in...

Matlab/Simulink provides a customized environment to realize a generalized modeling method previously developed by the authors for ungrounded power systems. Problems of building component models with function blocks and interconnecting them with algebraic loops in Matlab/Simulink are discussed. The system model of a reduced ring shipboard power system is built in Matlab/Simulink according to th...

In the continuing trend of lower taxation regimes in economically advanced states, many regulatory agencies have suffered budgets cuts since the 1980’s. The resultant diminished power and resources of government regulators, has seen others move into the vacated regulatory space. Environmental NGO’s, commercial third parties, and business and industry self-regulators, have become important playe...

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a bacterial pathogen that causes expensive food recalls, hospitalizations and even death. One of the key differences between Lm and other foodborne bacteria is that it thrives at typical refrigerator temperatures, about 4°C. In examining the effectiveness of an antimicrobial, most industry-standard bacterial testing is performed at 36°C (body temperature) which is...

Introduction Data-intensive applications such as transaction processing and file servers form a major market segment for computer systems. These applications are collectively called “commercial” applications, as most were initially used primarily by commercial enterprises such as banks, airlines, and insurance companies. Early microprocessorbased systems simply could not handle such data-intens...

This study examines Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory in the commercial banking industry. Prospect theory predicts increased risk-taking behavior in the presence of below-target outcomes. Fishburn redefined risk (commonly measured as dispersion about the mean outcome) as the integral of a function that is based on distance below target outcome. This study uses rates of return and the prima...