background: finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. the homophone meaning generation test (hmgt) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. the purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the persian ve...

As electricity markets undergo restructuring, it is becoming apparent that the responsibility for providing power and the ancillary services associated with power generation is being allocated to different entities. Former electric utilities enter spot markets and sign power-delivery contracts, and generating companies bid or otherwise offer electricity for sale. Operating units, such as Region...

Next Generation Networks (NGNs) will support a variety of communications services (data, video, and voice) seamlessly. Customers will demand that these networks be highly reliable as more and more traffic and services use them. Because of the historically exceptional reliability of wireline voice telephony, the reliability of voice services supported by NGN Voice Over Packet (VOP) necessitates ...

This paper analyzes the problem of interception of Internet traffic from the eavesdropper’s point of view. We examine the reliability and accuracy of transcripts, and show that obtaining “high fidelity” transcripts is harder than previously assumed. Even in highly favorable situations, such as capturing unencrypted traffic using standard protocols, simple – and entirely unilateral – countermeas...

The design and optimization of electronics cooling systems is not easily accomplished through conventional analysis tools such as analytical and numerical methods. The enhancement in thermal performance causes a rise in pressure drop, which increases the load of pumping power. Consequently, the overall assessment of cooling system requires a trade-off between thermal performance and pressure dr...

UNLABELLED Few studies assess repeatability and reproducibility in registers of resonance frequency analysis (a value of dental implant stability). OBJECTIVE Few studies assess repeatability and reproducibility in resonance frequency analyses (implant stability evaluation). This study is aimed at assessing reliability (repeatabilty and reproducibility) in the Osstell Mentor® system using the ...

Achieving higher levels of dependability is a goal in any software project, therefore strategies for software reliability improvement are very attractive. This work introduces a new technique for reliability and maintainability improvement in object-oriented systems. The technique uses code mutation to generate diverse versions of a set of classes, and fault tolerance approaches to glue the ver...