The impact of consumer demand for quality on the agricultural and food system is an increased emphasis on quality differentiation but not all in the direction of upgrading quality. The more elite market segments are thriving and reaching growing numbers of consumers but the basic price/quality markets remain strong. Most recent economic studies find that consumers are willing to pay for food sa...

A concept of image quality metamerism as an expansion of conventional metamerism defined in color science is introduced, and it is applied to segment similar color areas in a cultural property. The image quality metamerism can unify different image quality attributes based on an index showing the degree of image quality metamerism proposed. As a basic research step, the index is consisted of co...

In large software systems, the achievement of qualities such as performance, availability, security, and modifiability is dependent not only upon code-level practices (e.g., language choice, detailed design, algorithms, data structures, and testing), but also upon the overall software architecture. Quality attributes of large systems can be highly constrained by a system’s software architecture...

Architecting dependable systems is a daunting task since it requires trade-offs among attributes such as reliability with a precisely computed, ordinal value and attributes such as security whose value is neither precisely computed nor ordinal. Quality attribute driven architecture design [1] techniques rely on models of the attributes that provide values that can be compared and ranked. Qualit...

In m-commerce applications, the design process still lacks a systematic quality control procedure. These systems are data-intensive, user-driven, and have increasing needs for accessibility, efficiency, adaptivity, portability and competitiveness. In this paper we study the quality of the software on which retail shopping through the mobile web is based, i.e. the software part of B2C (business-...

the culture media optimization is an inevitable part of upstream process development in therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mabs) production. the quality by design (qbd) approach defines the assured quality of the final product through the development stage. an important step in qbd is determination of the main quality attributes. during the media optimization, some of the main quality attribute...

Operating process plants goes along with different tasks, e. g. control and optimization of the production and maintaining availability of the plant. There are several subsections of operations who deal with the state of the plant and the processes it runs. They are all dependent on information which is gathered throughout the plant. Most of this data is acquired for the automatic control, regu...

Real-life spatial objects are usually described by their geographic locations (e.g., longitude and latitude), and multiple quality attributes. Conventionally, spatial data are queried by two orthogonal aspects: spatial queries involve geographic locations only; skyline queries are used to retrieve those objects that are not dominated by others on all quality attributes. Specifically, an object ...

The US Pharmacopeia (USP) Therapeutic Peptides Expert Panel was formed in 2013 to evaluate quality attributes for synthetic peptide APIs based on currently available regulatory guidance and expectations. This series of three articles by the panel explores the current manufacturing and regulatory landscape and provides a comprehensive overview of quality attributes to be considered for successfu...