In software engineering, performance analyses and predictions play an important role in the selection of components and the evolution of complex componentbased systems. These analyses and predictions are based on parameterized performance specifications. However, the quality of the specifications and their trustworthiness usually remain unspecified. In existing approaches, it remains unclear if...

The idea of New Product Development (NPD) has its origin from constant changes in consumer preference and choices based on available products. changing trend customer accessibility to information product availability performance driven by Information Communications Technology (ICT); emboldened manufacturing firms modify their NPD process line with customers’ needs wants for the ultimate purpose...

In [1] [2], product accumulate (PA) codes were proposed and shown to be a class of simple and provably good codes for rate . This work investigates the generalized product accumulate (GPA) codes which have rates over the entire range and which are also “good” both in the maximum likelihood (ML) sense and under the iterative approach. Analysis concentrates on the weight distribution over the cod...

A study was conducted with four types of quail named Japanese (J), White (W), Black (BL) and Brown (Br) quail in BLRI, Savar, Dhaka to understand their productive and reproductive performances. A total of 1953 day-old chicks of quails were produced in successive two hatches. The highest fertility and hatchability were observed in White (98.13%) and Japanese (73.20%) types compared to their coun...

Diabetes mellitus is associated with cognitive decline and impaired performance in cognitive function tests among type 1 and type 2 diabetics. Even though the use of tight glucose control has been limited by a reported higher mortality, few reports have assessed the impact of treatment intensity on cognitive function. We conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate if an intensive glucose control in d...

With an increase in software complexity and modularization to create large software systems and software product lines it is increasingly difficult to ensure all requirements are met by the built system. Performance requirements are an important concern to software systems and research has developed approaches being capable of predicting software performance from annotated software architecture...