Software Process Assessment (SPA) is an effective method used to understand organizations’ software processquality. Assessment methods are tools used to identify the possible software process improvement opportunities. This paper studies the design process of the SPA methods from an engineering viewpoint and uses Vincenti’s classifications of engineering design knowledge as an analytical tool. ...

Efficient new product developments have been promoted in the technical fabric industry. Quickly response to market demand is an important and essential capability in the future. Collaborative design is one effective method that enables the product development design chain to achieve virtual integration. By means of IT platform, all the participants of design chain during research and developmen...

Greenhouse and field studies were conducted in 2007 and 2008 to investigate possible multiple-resistance of horseweed to paraquat and glyphosate, and to evaluate the effect of the addition of metribuzin to paraquat on control of paraquat-resistant horseweed. Results indicated that the GR50 (herbicide dose required to cause a 50% reduction in plant growth) value for the susceptible population S1...

User attribute prediction from social media text has proven successful and useful for downstream tasks. In previous studies, differences in user trait language use have been limited primarily to the presence or absence of words that indicate topical preferences. In this study, we aim to find linguistic style distinctions across three different user attributes: gender, age and occupational class...

This chapter examines the role of institutions in the promotion of regulatory reform, exploring the link between the existence of specific institutional arrangements and the endorsement of timely and appropriate practices of regulatory management. It highlights how the widespread use of regulatory impact assessment has facilitated the introduction of mechanisms of systematic consultation with t...

The article describes a new method of Analog-toDigital Converters testing that is suitable for testing of highresolution AD converters (e.g. Σ-∆ or dither-based) or on the contrary ultra high-speed AD converters. The method is based on the histogram test driven by stochastic signal with defined probability density function. By repeating of the test for different settings of band-pass filter tha...

Improvement of Analog-to-Digital Converters testing method that is suitable for testing of high-resolution AD converters (e.g. Σ-∆ or dither-based) or on the contrary ultra high-speed AD converters is presented. The method is based on the histogram test driven by stochastic signal with defined probability density function. By repeating of the test for different settings of band-pass filter that...