Software industries unlike other industries have been lacking the productivity gains through quality improvement programs, suggesting failures in the application of software engineering standards to software development. This paper increases the understanding of how quality management systems (QMS) which are based on software engineering standards are incorporated into systems development metho...

Six sigma concepts provide a quality management system (QMS) with many useful tools for managing quality in medical laboratories. This Six Sigma QMS is driven by the quality required for the intended use of a test. The most useful form for this quality requirement is the allowable total error. Calculation of a sigma-metric provides the best predictor of risk for an analytical examination proces...

With the rapid growth of smart TV, the necessity for recognizing a viewer has increased for various applications that deploy face recognition to provide intelligent services and high convenience to viewers. However, the viewers can have various postures, illumination, and expression variations on their faces while watching TV, and thereby, the performance of face recognition inevitably degrades...

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al2O3 using trimethylaluminum (TMA) and water on Pd nanoparticles (NPs) was studied by combining in situ quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements, in situ quadrupole mass spectrometry (QMS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. TEM images of the ALD Al2O3 overcoated Pd showed conformal Al2O3 films on...

According to Landauer's Principle the annihilation (and presumably the creation) of one bit costs at least kT ln(2) much energy. This seems to imply that serial bit transmission is impossible; however, a complete quantum theory of communication should permit Alice to send Bob a message of arbitrary length, unknown to Bob in advance. One is lead to consider the Hilbert state space ∞ n=0 C 2 ⊗n ,...