the relationship between blood physiological attributes and carcass characteristics wasstudied in 40 randomly selected 8-month-old ram lambs of ghezel and mehraban (20 rams per breed)sheep. one day before slaughter, blood samples were obtained after a 24 hr fast. serum samples wereassayed for glucose, cholesterol, serum urea nitrogen (sun), total protein, albumin, triglycerides,creatinine, and ...

Software architecture plays an increasingly important role in the dependability of today’s large and complex software systems. Formal and informal architectural models embody critical design decisions about systems’ functional and nonfunctional properties. Traditionally, a wide range of software architecture modeling and analysis approaches focused on validating systems’ functionality. More rec...

This study proposes perceived ‘Importance-Performance Analysis’ by simultaneously integrating ‘importance-performance analysis’ and Kano’s model in identifying key success factors. Kano’s model, which provides a two-dimensional view of quality, is a very useful tool to identify which customer requirements of a particular product or service might be more than the proportional satisfaction to cus...

The development of Web Applications has some special characteristics, such as very short Time-to-Market, parallel development and requirements that are not prioritized. This makes it hard to address quality attributes in a systematic way, to prioritize requirements and to resolve conflicts between them. The use of trade-off methods such as QFD will help to prioritize the “right” requirements an...

This research proposes the use of an IPMAP for providing metadata about the source and processing of primary data, in order to enhance its believability and fitnessfor-use. We then derive a framework for assessing data quality-in-use from dual-process theories of human cognition. By applying a dual-process approach to data quality assessment, the model enables simultaneous evaluation of both ob...

PURPOSE The study investigated the extent to which differences existed between public attitudes of males versus females. METHOD One hundred adults, 50 males and 50 females, were chosen at random from each of 50 study samples comprising a total of 3371 respondents in a database archive who had completed the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attribute-Stuttering (POSHA-S). None of the database sam...

The drinkable yogurt marketplace is a competitive and growing category in the dairy industry. Understanding sensory differences is critical for understanding the product, and ultimately, consumer preference. The objective of this study was to identify and define the sensory characteristics of commercial drinkable yogurts and link these specific sensory attributes to consumer preferences among C...

This is a theoretical attempt to discover within the vast universe of data/information (D/I) quality dimensions the first invariants and principles of more lasting validity. It required a move from the internal (designers’) toward the external (users’), from the ontological to the teleological perspective and a full recognition of the relativity of quality within the context of decision situati...