Rather than seeing landscape as an invisible backdrop to sanitary reform, this article offers another context through which to consider the problems facing local authorities and sanitary officials in identifying and tackling sanitary problems. Using Wales as a case study, this article first addresses how rural landscapes were imagined and second how as "environments" and "territories" they infl...

Capture-recapture (CR) models have been proposed as an objective method for controlling software inspections. CR models were originally developed to estimate the size of animal populations. They have also been used to estimate the number of defects in an inspected artifact. Armed with this estimate, one can decide whether the artifact requires a reinspection to ensure that a minimal inspection ...

On-line carcass inspection of chickens in the United States is currently done using visual (organoleptic) methods. Inspectors from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspect the viscera and carcass and, for older birds, the heads using a sequence of observations and palpations at a postmortem inspection station. The streamlined inspection system (SIS) and the new line speed insp...

Inspections of software artifacts during early software development aids managers to detect early faults that may be hard to find and fix later. While inspections are effective, evidence suggests that inspection abilities of individuals vary widely which affect overall inspection effectiveness. Cognitive psychologists have used Learning Styles (LS) to measure an individual’s characteristic stre...

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ine ective. We developed perspective-based usability inspection, which divides the large variety of usability issues along di erent perspectives and focuses each inspection session on one perspective. We conducted a controlled experiment to study i...

The paper studies the relationship between organisational memory, team work and organisational learning. A development project carried out by a Finnish labour protection ofice during 1988-1992 is taken as a case study. During the development project the labour protection inspectors radically changed their work orientation and practices. At the same time as creating a new way of working the insp...

At present, the image quality of LCD panels has been determined subjectively by human visual inspection. In fact, the inspectors need to memorize a large number of instructions. The inspection tasks include a series of complicated procedures that increase the workload of the inspectors. This research focuses on the improvement of LCD inspection. The knowledge extracting of inspection data was t...

School inspections are a common feature of education systems across the world. These involve trained professionals visiting schools and reaching judgements about quality they provide. Yet there is currently little academic research investigating consistency school inspections, including how vary inspectors with different characteristics. We present new empirical evidence on this matter, drawing...

Ensuring inspection performance is not a trivial design problem, because inspection is a complex and difficult task that tends to be error-prone, whether performed by human or by automated machines. Due to economical or technological reasons, human inspectors are responsible for inspection functions in many cases. Humans, however, are rarely perfect. A system of manual inspection was found to b...