A power plant simulation tool (‘PowerSim’) has been developed with 10 years experience from the development of a plant simulator for efficient modeling of a power plant. PowerSim is the first developed tool in Korea for plant simulation with various plant component models, instructor station function and the Graphic Model Builder (GMB). PowerSim is composed of a graphic editor using general pur...

The rapid development of computer software and network technologies has facilitated the intensive application specialized statistical not only in traditional information technology spheres (i.e., statistics, engineering, artificial intelligence) but also linguistics. R is one most popular analytical tools for processing a huge array digitalized language data, especially quantitative corpus ling...

Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a method for measuring the functional size of a software system. The rules governing FPA are laid down in the Counting Practices Manual (the CPM) by the International Function Point Users Group. This paper ◊ defines a formal notation (N) for software designs, ◊ shows that the notation N is consistent with the language of the the CPM ◊ shows that FPA can be expre...

Requirement elicitation is an important task, which can lead to cost reduction in the overall software process, as it avoids failures due to lack of proper understanding about what to build. However, usually, there is a lack of time devoted to proper elicitation during software construction. We assume information from similar projects is a valuable knowledge for requirements engineers when faci...

OBJECTIVES BUILDER-1 and BUILDER-2 aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab (TCZ) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS BUILDER-1 was a two part, phase II-III parallel-group trial in patients with AS naive to antitumour necrosis factor (aTNF) treatment. Patients in part 1 received TCZ 8 mg/kg or placebo for 12 weeks. In part 2 (beginning after part 1 enrolment en...

The aim of the current study was to analyse the relationship between morphology of gilt’s ovary and the quantity and quality of recovered oocytes suitable for in vitro procedures. Forty ovaries of healthy 7–8 months old gilts from a local slaughterhouse divided into corpora lutea bearing (CL) and noncorpora lutea bearing (non-CL) ovaries were evaluated. Morphometric analysis (weight, length and...

To cite: Sieper J, PorterBrown B, Thompson L, et al. Ann Rheum Dis 2014;73:95–100. ABSTRACT Objectives BUILDER-1 and BUILDER-2 aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab (TCZ) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods BUILDER-1 was a two part, phase II–III parallel-group trial in patients with AS naive to antitumour necrosis factor (aTNF) treatment. Patients in part 1 re...

Implementation of a graphical user interface for a nontrivial application tends to be tedious and error prone. A simple, visual GUI builder was implemented to explore issues with the current state of graphical application development. Various implementation issues are discussed in relation to enabling a GUI builder tool to be easily extensible to prevent discouraging stagnation of GUI controls....

The aim of this study is to build natural language resources for languages with limited resources or minority languages. Manually building these resources is tedious and costly. These natural language resources such as a language corpora and lexicon will be used for natural language processing research and system development. Tagalog, a minority language was considered in this study as a test b...