Improving model-based component testability can further model-based approaches to software component testing (SCT) for desirable testing effectiveness. Component contracts are useful testing-support artefacts to improve component testability. This paper presents a new contract-based SCT technique, Test by Contract (TbC), which extends the Design by Contract concept to the SCT domain, and levera...

INTRODUCTION • Human communication increasingly relies on technology • Text based communication (TBC) lacks communicative richness, as compared to face to communication (Harris & Paradice, 2007) • However, typographic cues may add informativeness by mimicking tone of voice in TBC (Riordan & Kreuz, 2010) • Gunraj et al. (2016) found one word response with ending period is perceived as rude/ insi...

Detrusor overactivity (DO) with impaired contractility (DOIC) is a mixed pattern of involuntary contraction and increased post-void residual urine volume (PVR) which occurs in stroke patients. Urodynamic study results obtained from patients with detrusor abnormalities and stroke were analyzed to identify the associations between various urodynamic parameters and DOIC. Between August 2003 and No...

TT virus (TTV) was recovered from the sera of tupaias (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) by PCR using primers derived from the noncoding region of the human TTV genome, and its entire genomic sequence was determined. One tupaia TTV isolate (Tbc-TTV14) consisted of only 2199 nucleotides (nt) and had three open reading frames (ORFs), spanning 1506 nt (ORF1), 177 nt (ORF2) and 642 nt (ORF3), which were ...

An analytical method is presented to estimate the effects of structural disorder on the thermal boundary conductance TBC between two materials. The current method is an extension of the diffuse mismatch model DMM where the interface is modeled as a virtual crystal of finite thickness with properties derived from those of the constituent materials. Using this approximation, the TBC for a series ...

Isolated epiglottic tuberculosis (TBC) is uncommon and has rarely been described. We report the case of a 40-year-old man with tuberculous involvement of the epiglottis and primary adrenal insufficiency. Endoscopic examination showed a severely swollen epiglottis with granulomatous and partially necrotic mucosa. The patient has been treated with glucocorticoids for four years due to primary adr...