Formal technical review (FTR) is an essential component of all modern software quality assessment,assurance, and improvement techniques, and is acknowledged to be the most cost-effective form of quality improvement when practiced effectively. However, traditional FTR methods such as inspection are very difficult to adopt in organizations: they introduce substantial new up-front costs, training,...

Quality function development (QFD) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and QFD is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (WHATs) into technical description (HOWs). QFD aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. The inherent fuzziness of relationships in QFD modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...

JPEG is one of the most widely used image formats, but in some ways remains surprisingly unoptimized, perhaps because some natural optimizations would go outside the standard that defines JPEG. We show how to improve JPEG compression in a standard-compliant, backward-compatible manner, by finding improved default quantization tables. We describe a simulated annealing technique that has allowed ...

River Hasdeo is life line for many district and villages that came across its bank. The water is used for various purposes like as drinking water, in agriculture etc. hence one of the greatest concerns for the water consumers with respect to the quality of drinking water is contamination with pathogenic microorganisms and various industrial effluents. Microbiological river water quality is obli...

Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks and variations in the user’s environment, and so enable applications to be effective in a wide range of devices and situations. While we acknowledge that deterministic QoS management may be unrealistic in these circum...

In recent decades, economic development and population growth in the world has led to the expansion of road networks. Therefore the use of optimum methods for repairing and maintenance of these roads is considered as an important value. Today one of the options in this regard, is the use of asphalt recycling technology. The present study which took place in the summer of 2015 in Iran, Lorestan ...

The aim of this study was to investigate association between HIV and family planning integration and technical quality of care. The study focused on technical quality of client-provider consultation sessions. The cross-sectional study observed 366 client-provider consultation sessions and interviewed 37 health care providers in 12 public health facilities in Kenya. Multilevel random intercept a...

Technical documentation has moved from printed booklets to electronic versions that need to be updated continuously to match product development and user demands. There is an imminent need to ensure the quality of technical documentation, i.e., information that follows a product. In order to ensure the quality of technical documentation, it is important to be able to measure it in a constructiv...