With the increasing amount of wind power generation connected to the power grid, the importance of measuring the wind turbines’ power characteristics and power quality characteristics is growing. By capturing this data, one can achieve improved utilization of the turbine by manipulating its control systems in accordance to power grid requirements for voltage/frequency fluctuations and fault con...

Taguchi's emphasis on instilling quality at the design stage has been important in a number of situations and deserves careful attention. His specific robust design approach has yielded good results in many instances, but recent studies indicate that more classical designs can serve the same purposes-sometimes, at least, doing so more efficiently, albeit less understandably for the technically ...

Consideration of quality implicitly introduces the need to adjust inputs in order to obtain desired output. Output evaluation must consider quality as well as cost. Real decisions may involve other objectives as well. Production problems often involve a dynamic situation where the relationship between cost and quality must be experimentally developed. The proposed method is to use regression as...

 The meaning of “Quality” is closely allied to cost and customer needs. “Quality” may simply be defined as fitness for purpose at lowest cost.  The component is said to possess good quality, if it works well in the equipment for which it is meant. Quality is thus defined as fitness for purpose.  Quality is the ‘totality of features and characteristics’ both for the products and services that...

This paper focuses on automatically improving the readability of documents. We explore mechanisms relating to content control that could be used (i) by authors to improve the quality and consistency of the language used in authoring; and (ii) to find a means to demonstrate this to readers. To achieve this, we implemented and evaluated a number of software components, including those of the Univ...

Trotz der großen Zahl statischer Analysewerkzeuge, die Qualitätsdefizite im Quelltext aufzeigen, nimmt die Qualität in den meisten Systemen kontinuierlich ab. Der Schritt von der reinen Beobachtung zu einer echten Verbesserung stellt in der Praxis immer noch eine große Hürde dar. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt unsere Erfahrungen bei der schrittweisen Einführung eines Quality-Control-Prozesses für ei...

Small molecules that modulate the unfolded protein response have the potential to treat a variety of human protein misfolding diseases.

Some HIV researchers are convinced that careful lab work is enough to prevent contamination. After seeing many examples of contamination pass by, we disagree. Contamination happens frequently, even in the best laboratories. It is not a thing of the past; cases of contamination can still be found in new publications. Screening for contamination should be done before the analysis of the sequences...