In Software Quality Assurance, system status reports are key to the stakeholders for controlling software quality. Although we may rely on a large number of low level measurements to this end, their interpretation and the way of connecting them to high level quality attributes is always a challenge. In this paper we report on a complex project involving industrial partners whose aim is the deve...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT This paper details the construction of a high resolution, stereoscopic rear-projection display specially optimized for collaborative, computer-based surgical planning. The projection display was designed to improve the image quality, reduce floor space, and to address a number of drawbacks that exist in the use of other, more general-purpose projection displays for this task. ...

The continuous media applications have an implied temporal dimension, i.e. they are presented at a particular rate for a particular length of time and if the required rate of presentation is not met the integrity of these media is destroyed. We present a set of language constructs suitable for the de nition of the required QoS and a new real-time environment that provides low-level support to t...

A study of the impact of coin8urance on phye& ciun 2li8it8, physician expense, ancillary 8e?YJiCe8, and ancillary services eopense. When a SQ-percent coinsurance rate was introduced to the Palo Alto Group Health Plan, the members’ demand for me&al care wa8 significantly reduced, other thing8 remaining the 8ame. Th,i8 study differ8 from the preceding article in that it hold8 all other oariableo ...

photorefractive keratectomy (prk) is a safe and effective surgical keratorefractive technique which is done with the application of mitomycin-c (mmc) in cases of high myopia to prevent the formation of corneal haze this study was conducted to evaluate 3-year visual acuity and quality outcomes of prk-mmc in high myopia. this before-after study was conducted on 20 individuals (40 eyes) with myopi...

Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demands the competing factors of high spatial resolution, good temporal resolution, high signal-to-noise ratios, and complete bilateral breast coverage. Achieving these competing factors requires modern MRI equipment with high magnetic field strength and homogeneity, high maximum gradient strength with short rise times, dedicated multichannel bilateral br...

We present an overview over our graph partitioners KaFFPa (Karlsruhe Fast Flow Partitioner) and KaFFPaE (KaFFPa Evolutionary). KaFFPa is a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm which on the one hand uses novel local improvement algorithms based on max-flow and min-cut computations and more localized FM searches and on the other hand uses more sophisticated global search strategies transferred...

This paper presents a new universal approach for the computer-based patient record, based on the quality requirements for the patient record that rose throughout the years of practice. The expression "computer-based patient record" includes not only the data contained in the record, but also the data distribution techniques, the tools and the access methodologies; therefore it presents a comple...

Biochemical reactions form large and complex networks. Comprehensible visual representations of these networks help biochemists understand the relationships between the chemical components. Typically pathway diagrams are manually produced drawings. Because of the steady progress of knowledge and the complex relationships in these networks, automatic visualizations are necessary. BioPath is a sy...

An increasing amount of display devices with fixed sizes call for an adaptive strategy for optimal display. For this purpose, content aware image resizing techniques are developed. Previous works mainly lay their attention on the shrinkage operation of the examined image. Less efforts are paid on the expansion manipulation. Though some literatures claim an extension of their shrinkage operation...