A study to establish the current practise of the verification and validation process at ABB Automation Product AB (ABB APR) has been performed. The study is performed in cooperation between the Department of Communication Systems and ABB Automation Product AB (ABB APR). It is concluded that several basic process element are at place at ABB APR. The process used is basically a waterfall model. T...

Research designs are plans and the procedures for research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data collection and analysis. This plan involves several decisions, and they need not be taken in the order in which they make sense to me and the order of their presentation here. The overall decision involves which design should be used to study a topic. Informing t...

The aim of the present paper was to analyze the influence of sampling and storage procedures on nitrite concentration values in the saliva of healthy persons. The samples were obtained and stored under varied conditions, and processed using the Griess method. Results: when the salivary nitrite concentration was measured immediately after collection a significant dependence on the collection tim...

Efficient decision procedures have been conceived in different communities for a very heterogeneous collection of expressive decidable theories. However, despite in the last years we have witnessed an impressive advance in the efficiency of SAT procedures, techniques for efficiently integrating boolean reasoning and theory-specific decision procedures have been deeply investigated only recently...

Implementation of multicenter and/or longitudinal studies requires an effective quality assurance program to identify trends, data inconsistencies and process variability of results over time. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and the follow-up Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study represent over 30 years of data collection among a cohort of par...

This paper describes empirical results of information retrieval in 13 languages of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) collection augmented with results of Turkish using syllables as a means to manage morphological variation in the languages. This kind of approach has been used in speech retrieval (e.g. Larson and Eickeler 2003), but for some reason it has not been much tried out in text...

My digital multifunction wristwatch is representative of a class of modern information machines. It has 51 functions controlled by four buttons, but the internal operations of the watch and the pattern of button-presses are obscure to the user. Providing useful instruction for the operation of such machines is notoriously difficult. Standard instructional design (ID) prescriptions for teaching ...