The users who use ready to use software product had better get the products’ quality information with classified by some kind of global standard metrics or technique for their evaluation. But many of those software products’ companies don’t provide the quality information because of the products are developed by their own development and evaluation process. But those users want to get quality i...

tion (NASA) is being challenged to perform more frequent and intensive space-exploration missions at greatly reduced cost. Nowhere is this challenge more acute than among robotic planetary exploration missions that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) conducts for NASA. This article describes recent and ongoing work on spacecraft autonomy and ground systems that builds on a legacy of existing su...

We report the first efficient trapping of rare-earth Yb atoms with a high-power violet laser diode (LD). An injection-locked violet LD with a 25 mW frequency-stabilized output was used for the magneto-optical trapping (MOT) of fermionic as well as bosonic Yb isotopes. A typical number of 4 × 10 atoms for Yb with a trap density of ∼ 1 × 10/cm was obtained. A 10 mW violet external-cavity LD (ECLD...

The increasing demand for reduced cost and improved quality of service in healthcare has prompted the call for better management of medical knowledge. The main emphasis has been on knowledge that is acquired through experience and medical research and then formalised into Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). This paper presents a generic approach to CPG information and knowledge management that...

We present a matching-pricing algorithm for online information labor markets motivated by exploratory study of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). The algorithm addresses many of the challenges surfaced by the AMT study. We find that AMT pricing is largely done using rules of thumb, which results in inaccurate pricing. Such pricing leads to either excessive costs for employers or low income for worke...

The airline crew scheduling problem is the problem of assigning crew itineraries to flights. We develop a new approach for solving the problem that is based on enumerating hundreds of millions random pairings. The linear programming relaxation is solved first and then millions of columns with best reduced cost are selected for the integer program. The number of columns is further reduced by a l...

Location S1A1 S1A2 S2A1 S2A2 Fig. 1 Design for the estimation of the random components of uncertainty arising from both the sampling and the analytical procedures. (A) Balanced design. (B) Unbalanced design. An empirical estimation of the random components of measurement uncertainty arising from the sampling and analytical processes can be made via an experiment involving replication. Analysis ...

Received May10 th , 2013 Revised Jun 30 th , 2013 Accepted Jul 26 th , 2013 Cloud computing supports mobile and collaborative applications and services. Increased storage, high automation, flexibility, and reduced cost are a few advantages cloud computing offers. Using cloud computing can improve healthcare services delivery for patients. In this paper, the categories and service models of clou...

During recent years, flow cytometry has established itself as a useful, quick novel method to determine efficiently, reproducibly and at a reduced cost per sample the relative nuclear DNA content and ploidy level of a large number of species (plants and animals), that has also been used to sort cells with different traits from a mixed cell population (e.g. as when separating heterokaryons from ...

The vision of programmable matter is to create a blob of material that can transform itself into an arbitrary form. One promising approach for achieving programmable matter is to construct a chain of identical nodes that can fold into arbitrary threedimensional shapes. Previous active electromechanical systems have demonstrated this concept but are currently costly, complex, and not robust enou...