Don’t throw the stethoscope away!

Throw the stethoscope away: a historical essay.

Am I going deaf, or are hearts not as noisy as they used to be? I’ve had my hearing tested, just some high-frequency loss (probably from that Edgar Winter concert). So I think it’s that hearts are more finely tuned than in the past. I can’t remember the last good S4, the one you could palpate. Or the rumble S3 complex or opening snap you called in the medical students to hear. Many of the wonde...

Evaluating ‘Throw Away’ Prototyping for Requirements Capture

This paper demonstrates the advantages of extending the scope of prototyping to the requirements capture phase of a project. Prototyping has long been used to elicit users’ responses to ready-formed designs (Boehm, 1988), but only recently has the use of concept demonstrators (Sanderson, 1997) and early throw-away prototypes (Smith et al., 1990) been suggested as a means to capture response to ...

Keysight Technologies Testing 5G: Time to Throw Away the Cables

Shor's Algorithm and Factoring: Don't Throw Away the Odd Orders

Shor’s algorithm factors an integer N in two steps. The quantum step computes the order of a mod N where a is relatively prime to N . The classical step uses this order to factor N . Descriptions of the classical step require the order, s, to be even and that a 6≡ −1 mod N . If s is odd or a ≡ −1 mod N , then the quantum step is repeated. This paper describes how each prime divisor of the order...

SPoID: Do Not Throw Meaningful Incomplete Sequences Away!

Industrial databases often contain a large amount of unfilled information. During the knowledge discovery process one processing step is often necessary in order to remove these incomplete data either by deleting or assessing them. When the data mining task consists in mining for frequent sequences, incomplete data are, most of the time, deleted, which leads to an important loss of information....