This memo describes the software engineering and technical details of the design and implementation of the wvrgcal program and associated libraries. This program performs off-line correction of atmospheric phase fluctuations in ALMA observations, using the 183 GHz Water Vapour Radiometers (WVRs) installed on the ALMA 12 m dishes. The memo can be used as a guide for detailed study of the source ...

Automated program repair has been studied via the use of techniques involving search, semantic analysis and artificial intelligence. Most of these techniques rely on tests as the correctness criteria, which causes the test overfitting problem. Although various approaches such as learning from code corpus have been proposed to address this problem, they are unable to guarantee that the generated...

In recent years the popularity of the touch user interface (TUI), has skyrocketed. There are currently no signs for this trend to diminish; to the contrary future vision videos from leading technology companies show a future relying even heavier on this method of input (e.g. Microsoft, 2009). However, reviews of TUI implementations point to a number of problems, including: lack of overview of a...

This report summarizes two talks I gave at the The rst talk (\Statements about Real-Time: Truth or Bull?") was given in the early morning. At the behest of the workshop's organizers, its primary function was to seed the ongoing discourse and provoke some debate. Besides asking controversial questions, and positing opinions, the talk also identiied some several fertile research areas that might ...

This paper introduces the use of social network analysis theory and tools for implementation research. The social network perspective is useful for understanding, monitoring, influencing, or evaluating the implementation process when programs, policies, practices, or principles are designed and scaled up or adapted to different settings. We briefly describe common barriers to implementation suc...

INTRODUCTION Greater than 500,000 doses of high-alert medications are administered throughout the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Program on an annual basis. High-alert medications (HAM) carry a higher risk of harm than other medications and errors in the administration of HAM can have catastrophic clinical outcomes. The purpose of this project is to ensure safe medication practice...

amines. In the early 1960's, Hillarp, Falck, and their co-workers developed the basic technique for visualizing amine-containing neurons. Treating freeze-dried tissue sections with dry formaldehyde vapor brings about condensation of the amino group of the biogenic amines with the formaldehyde. A new conjugated ring is formed, and the product fluoresces with different excitation and emission max...

As federal, state, and local regulations regarding waste disposal become more stringent, the need to address current disposal practices for waste aircraft engine lubricants and other fluid wastes has become a major issue. The purpose of this Air Force sponsored study [ I ] is to examine recycling as an alternative to current disposal methods and the steps required to implkment and monitor recyc...