For a long time now, photography has been the modern way to make an image; is has been the rapid way, because it is the mechanical way; and also the easily repeatable way; and finally, it has been the truthful way, the only way for the picture to be true, both to its object and to its cause. In return, photography has acquired the reputation of being somewhat soul-less, unable to convey the per...

Testbeds proposed so far to evaluate, compare, and eventually improve SPARQL query federation systems have still some limitations. Some variables and configurations that may have an impact on the behavior of these systems (e.g., network latency, data partitioning and query properties) are not sufficiently defined; this affects the results and repeatability of independent evaluation studies, and...

Three surveys of relative gravity and depth measurements have been carried out over the Troll field during gas production. Due to several improvements in the methodology, precision (intra-survey repeatability measured as standard deviation) has improved from 26 μGal to 11 μGal and 4 μGal in the latest survey. This will improve the reliability of future monitoring, and also opens the range of ap...

Excess workload in vehicle control and inappropriateness of the common two interaction modalities vision and sound requires to consider ways and means for new interaction capabilities in vehicles. We have investigated haptic force displays for transmitting feedback from vehicular services to the driving person with vibro-tactile elements, integrated into the car seat and backrest. A haptic disp...

Reproducibility and repeatability are key properties of benchmarks. However, achieving reproducibility can be difficult. We faced this while applying the microbenchmark MooBench [5] to the resource monitoring framework SPASS-meter. In this paper, we discuss some interesting problems that occurred while trying to reproduce previous benchmarking results. In the process of reproduction, we extende...

Interest point detectors are commonly employed to reduce the amount of data to be processed. The ideal interest point detector would robustly select those features which are most appropriate or salient for the application and data at hand. There is however a tradeoff between the robustness and the discriminance of the selected features. Whereas robustness in terms of repeatability is relatively...

In addition to these innovations, a specific initiative has also been making its presence felt. Known as the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Initiative, its goal is to understand and better control the entire manufacturing process within the pharmaceutical industry. Processes are actively managed to achieve a high degree of repeatability and efficiency, and quality assurance becomes continu...

In Part I, some practical aspects of cortical thickness analysis are examined, using the software package Freesurfer. Repeatability of surface measurements and intra-subject surface alignment are tested, and optimization is discussed. In Part II, the thickness measurements generated by Freesurfer are compared with the thickness measurements generated by solving Laplace's Equation in the cortica...