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With the continuous development of the printing industry, print quality has significantly improved and enhanced. The evaluation of the print quality is mainly based on the objective and supplemented subjective methods, and it has changed from the traditional empirical judgments to science of quantitative analysis. So it improves the quality of management, scientific, standardized and rationalit...

What is PDFlib? PDFlib is the leading developer toolbox for generating and manipulating files in the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation e.g. to implement »Save as PDF« in an existing application. PDFlib products can be deployed on server systems, desktop systems as well as on mobile and embedded devices. PDFlib has proven itself in a wide range of use...

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With mounting pressures on libraries caused by the ever-expanding range and number of information sources in print and electronic format, the attractions of library co-operation are clear. Areas for co-operation may be in sharing resources or technical expertise or in working together to obtain favourable licensing or purchasing conditions. Many library consortia are based at national or region...

In 2016, we celebrate 20 years of regular publication. A glimpse at the Eurosurveillance archives demonstrates how the journal has matured over the years in terms of format and content. It shows, for example, the merging of the formerly weekly and monthly issues, acceptance of the ‘weekly’ for indexing in PubMed/MEDLINE and the evolution from a print and online journal to a full online journal ...

INTRODUCTION The oral examination is a traditional method for assessing the developing physician's medical knowledge, clinical reasoning and interpersonal skills. The typical oral examination is a face-to-face encounter in which examiners quiz examinees on how they would confront a patient case. The advantage of the oral exam is that the examiner can adapt questions to the examinee's response. ...

The downloadable sheet music market has been constrained by reliance on proprietary binary formats. MusicXML is a new Internet-friendly format for representing sheet music and music notation. We introduce the basics of MusicXML design, using examples from current software to illustrate MusicXML's advantages over previous music interchange formats. We conclude by discussing the new types of musi...

In this paper we study the effects of a change from the traditional request “How much effort is required to complete X?” to the alternative “How much can be completed in Y workhours?”. Studies 1 and 2 report that software professionals receiving the alternative format provided much lower, and presumably more optimistic, effort estimates of the same software development work than those receiving...