The advent of T-cell assay methodologies that are amenable to high throughput coupled with the availability of large libraries of overlapping peptides have revolutionized the fields of vaccine efficacy testing and cellular immune response assessment. Since T-cell assay performance is critically dependent upon the quality and specificity of the stimulating peptides, assurance of high-quality and...

High quality is important in medical imaging, yet in many geographic areas, highly skilled sonographers are in short supply. Advances in Internet capacity along with the development of reliable portable ultrasounds have created an opportunity to provide centralized remote quality assurance (QA) for ultrasound exams performed at rural sites worldwide. We sought to harness these advances by devel...

BioPortal contains over 300 ontologies, for which quality assurance (QA) is critical. Abstraction networks (ANs), compact summarizations of ontology structure and content, have been used in such QA efforts, typically in a "one-off" manner for a single ontology. Ontologies can be characterized-independently of knowledge-content focus-from a structural standpoint leading to the formulation of ont...

As digital library services develop from project demonstrators to mature, mission-critical services, it becomes necessary to develop and implement systematic procedures that will ensure the quality of the content, the functionality of the service, accessibility to a wide range of users and devices, and interoperability with other services. This article describes a quality assurance methodology ...

The paper explores the current transformations in Quality Assurance (QA) system Higher Education (HE) of Republic Uzbekistan and examines impact World Bank Modernising project which aims, among other issues, to develop implement a new external QA strengthen internal QA. research analyses annual quarterly reports prepared by Project Team Ministry Secondary Specialised Uzbekistan, Bank, Expert Ad...

A substantial part of actual practical software engineering (SE) work is performed in a chaotic way according to the famous SEI classification. This paper deals with chaotic projects which nevertheless succeed, labeling them "heroic" projects. Example scenarios from industrial practice explain why any serious amount of development work will always be heroic. A first-aid approach to quality assu...

In this paper we present an approach to optimize the cost of software quality assurance. It points out, how to optimize the investment into various software quality assurance techniques and software quality. The expected and reliable development of high quality software regularly becomes a major problem due to late removal of defect. The detection and removal of defect is a software inspection ...