The systems and software development industry is characterized by a paradigm of project failure. There are various factors that can lead to project failure .One such factor is gold plating. Gold plating can cause various problems in the projects like increase in project complexity, use of more resources, and increase in time and budget of the project and many more. If effects of gold plating ar...

This is an analysis of different approaches in the use of technology by Boeing and DoD to determine how they may have affected development time for the C-17 and the Boeing 777. Boeing’s focus on cost, schedule, performance, and market competition is contrasted to DoD’s focus on performance. The paper concludes that the mere existence of a technology should not obscure (a) the impact its maturit...

Determination of the characteristic CP-violating quantity sin(2β) should be the central goal of a B-meson factory in its first-round experiments. Except the gold-plated channels B d → ψK S and ψK L , three other types of B d decays to CP eigenstates can also serve for the extraction of sin(2β) in the standard model: (a) the CP-forbidden

The loss at 210-280 GHz of room temperature waveguides plated with BDT 200 bright gold and Pur-A-Gold 125 soft gold is within ~10% of the theoretical loss based on the DC conductivity of pure gold and the classical skin effect. This is not the case for some other types of gold plating meeting the same ASTM (or MIL) specs but in which a trace of nickel is used as a brightener. Introduction Follo...

We study the gold-plated purely leptonic signal and background rates at the LHC for the ZZ, W + W − , W ± Z and W ± W ± final states associated with strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking. We work at an energy of √ s = 14 TeV, and develop a combination of back-to-back leptonic, central-jet-vetoing and forward-jet-tagging cuts that suppresses the Standard-Model backgrounds. We find t...