Toy review Smaller, cheaper, more plasticky

Screen idols: faster, smaller, cheaper and smarter.

Developing More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper

Smaller, quicker, cheaper: alternative strategies for literacy assessment in the UN Literacy Decade

In the context of the UN Literacy Decade (declared in February 2003), the present paper suggests three parameters that should be considered when new tools for assessment are considered in less developed countries (LDCs), each of which poses a special challenge to international comparative literacy assessment, such as in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS): * Smaller: Assessment metho...

“ More Deterministic ” vs . “ Smaller ” Büchi Automata

The standard technique for LTL model checking (M φ) consists on translating the negation of the LTL specification, φ, into a Büchi automaton Aφ, and then on checking if the product M Aφ has an empty language. The efforts to maximize the efficiency of this process have so far concentrated on developing translation algorithms producing Büchi automata which are “as small as possible”, under the im...

More, smaller bacteria in response to ocean's warming?

Heterotrophic bacteria play a major role in organic matter cycling in the ocean. Although the high abundances and relatively fast growth rates of coastal surface bacterioplankton make them suitable sentinels of global change, past analyses have largely overlooked this functional group. Here, time series analysis of a decade of monthly observations in temperate Atlantic coastal waters revealed s...