A comprehensive rheological characterization of highly concentrated suspensions or pastes is mandatory for a targeted product development meeting the manifold requirements during processing and application of such complex fluids. In this investigation, measuring protocols for a conclusive assessment of different process relevant rheological parameters have been evaluated. This includes the dete...

The paper studies testing based on input/output transition systems, also known as input/output automata. It is assumed that a tester can never prevent an implementation under test (IUT) from producing outputs, while the IUT does not block inputs from the tester, either. Thus, input from the tester and output from the IUT may occur simultaneously and should be queued in finite buffers between th...

Reminiscing is a positive pastime for people with dementia but little is known about selecting materials to prompt reminiscing, particularly whether personal items are more useful than generic ones. This paper reports two small studies, the first using personal stimuli (family photographs) and the second generic photographs of annual events to examine their relative effectiveness as reminiscenc...

We analyzed phonological and visual information processes of four Japanese dyslexic children between 710 years of age. None of them had disability in word retrieval and/or auditory memory. Two of them manifested lower score in phonological awareness tests while the others showed normal score. All children showed subnormal score in a visual cognitive test, a visuo-spacial constructional test, an...

Various strategies employed in genomic DNA cloning by subtractive hybridization have been examined by computer simulations, with the comparison between the predictions and the published results. The result shows that the efficiency of target sequence enrichment and the sensitivity to experimental conditions depend strongly on the enrichment strategy employed. The strategy selecting only tester/...

This paper suggests two test architectures for testing distributed, concurrent systems: a global tester that has total control over the distributed system under test (SUT) and, more interestingly, a distributed tester comprising several concurrent tester components. The test architectures rely on a grey-box testing approach that allows to observe internal interactions of the SUT by the tester. ...

We describe a low-cost, functional tester for the MacII that allows students to test and debug digital systems interactively. This tester provides a large number of programmable I/O signals and can be used to test chips, boards and subsystems. Test programs are easily written using a simple, intuitive interface and we expect a variety of interactive graphical testing and debugging environments ...