This paper presents QSUP, a programming environment enhanced with measurement facilities. Its prime aim is to support preserving software quality standards by the programmers. QSUP offers low level information (raw metric data), as well as high level information such as advice in natural language on quality improvement of the project or a particular routine. The environment presented in this pa...

the enormous growth of the world wide web in recent years has made it necessary to perform resource discovery efficiently. for a crawler it is not an simple task to download the domain specific web pages. this unfocused approach often shows undesired results. therefore, several new ideas have been proposed, among them a key technique is focused crawling which is able to crawl particular topical...

The complexity of tumor histomorphology reflects underlying tumor biology impacting on natural course and response to treatment. This study presents a method of computer-aided analysis of tissue sections, relying on multifractal (MF) analyses, of cytokeratin-stained tumor sections which quantitatively evaluates of the morphological complexity of the tumor-stroma interface. This approach was app...

It is of fundamental interest to study the geometric and analytic properties of compact Einstein manifolds and their moduli. In dimension 2 these problems are well understood. A 2-dimensional Einstein manifold, (M, g), has constant curvature, which after normalization, can be taken to be −1, 0 or 1. Thus, (M, g) is the quotient of a space form and the metric, g, is completely determined by the ...

The efficiency of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is dependent on the level of event detection reliability it achieves, and the associated consumed amount of energy. In this work, the potential performance improvement gained by using a routing metric that reflects the quality of links in terms of detection reliability is investigated. As a first main contribution, we derive the expression of su...

This paper deals with the quality of e-learning at AL-Balqa Applied University – Jordan. It discusses the already developed measures on the basis of statistical analysis for data gathered from e-learning elements which evaluates the quality of e-learning applications and systems. The main contribution of the paper is the proposal for the quality metrics with the features concerning elearning pl...

In 2012, Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) had 13 different physician compensation models among its operating units, with most based on productivity metrics. MCHS aimed to transition all physicians to a single compensation model that would facilitate its integration with Mayo Clinic and promote physician engagement with emerging value-based payment models. The new model, which was implemented th...

Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics (MTEMs) are the central core of Machine Translation (MT) engines as they are developed based on frequent evaluation. Although MTEMs are widespread today, their validity and quality for many languages is still under question. The aim of this research study was to examine the validity and assess the quality of MTEMs from Lexical Similarity set on machine tra...

In this paper we study sets of surfaces which are isospectral with respect to the Laplace-Beltrami operator. More specifically, for closed surfaces (compact, no boundary) we consider a fixed surface and the family of metrics on that surface having a given Laplace spectrum, whereas for surfaces with boundary we confine our study to the class of simply connected planar domains all having the same...