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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"cost of testing"”.
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COST AND ACCURACY COMPARISONS IN MEDICAL TESTING USING SEQUENTIAL TESTING STRATEGIES
The practice of sequential testing is followed by the evaluation of accuracy, but often not by the evaluation of cost. This research described and compared three sequential testing strategies: believe the negative (BN), believe the positive (BP) and believe the extreme (BE), the latter being a …
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Modelling the Effects of Stressors and Treatment in a Honeybee Colony
… through their pollination work and production of honey. They are also vulnerable to the accumulation of stressors, which cause drastic colony losses. It is important to understand the effect of stress on a hive so that the cost of testing, treatment, and rest can be evaluated. We have developed …
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Contributions to planning and analysis of accelerated testing
… in saving time and expense,Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) and/or Accelerated Degradation Testing (ADT) are becoming an integral part of many programs for improving productsa??quality and reliability.However,appropriate analysis of ALT/ADT data and planning of ALT/ADT experiments are still a …
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Dynamic scan chains : a novel architecture to lower the cost of VLSI test
… become larger and more complex, larger amount of test data is required to test them. This results in longer test application times, therefore, increasing cost of testing each chip. This thesis describes an architecture, named Dynamic Scan, that allows to reduce this cost by reducing the test …
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Mixed Strain Identification of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus in Multiplexed Samples using Nanopore Sequencing
… to be insufficient in controlling the spread of this disease. We describe an alternative diagnostic method exploiting the rapid turnaround time and long-read capacity of Oxford Nanopore Technology's MinION next-generation sequencer. We have developed a novel primer set designed to span Open …
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Tool support for testing Java generics
… is an important, yet expensive activity in testing software applications. It is neither feasible nor cost effective to manually generate test cases with all possible inputs combinations. To cut down the cost of testing and to increase the reliability of it, researchers and practitioners have …
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Study of deposit formation inside diesel injectors nozzles
… such as in trucks, buses and ships because of their reliability and high torque output. A key diesel technology is the injection system which is constantly improved to produce better spray quality and deeper spray penetration in the combustion chamber by using high injection pressure and …
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Improving the performance of hierarchical hidden Markov models on information extraction tasks
… constraint in order to leverage the benefits of combining repeated sub-trees. These benefits include lowered cost of testing and an increased accuracy of the final model-thus providing the model with greater performance. The result is called a merged and simplified hierarchical hidden Markov …
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Assessing Patient Attitudes to ward Genetic Testing For Hereditary Hematologic Malignancy
… malignancy (HHM). Although the diagnostic yield of germline analysis for leukemia is similar to solid tumors, referral for genetic evaluation in adults with leukemia is underperformed. Identifying HHM is important for prognostication, treatment, and donor selection for hematopoietic stem cell …
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Comparative Study of Synchronous Remote and Traditional In-Lab Usability Evaluation Methods
… method for evaluating and improving usability of software user interfaces (Andre, Williges, & Hartson, 2000). However, traditional in lab evaluation has its drawbacks such as availability of representative end users, high cost of testing and lack of true representation of a user's actual work …
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Payer Perspectives On Preemptive Pharmacogenetic Testing
… further study is needed to assess the views of additional stakeholders in the marketplace on this technology and the barriers and facilitators to their uptake. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perspectives and opinions about coverage policies for preemptive pharmacogenetic …
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Learning by Doing: Transitioning Healthcare Technology Innovations from MIT Labs to Resource-Scarce Communities
The affordability and accessibility of healthcare innovations is critical for the well-being of resourcescarce communities around the world. Yet little research centers on precisely how and when financial, material, and logistical resource constraints enter the design cycle producing such …
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Evaluating long term benefits of genomic selection programs in beef cattle breeding programs in Western Canada
… was conducted to evaluate long-term benefits of genomic selection programs in natural service multi-sire breeding programs in Western Canada. A total of 24 breeding groups and 117 sires (some repeated) were followed over 6 breeding and calving years to determine the association between sire …
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High-Resolution Experimental Measurements and Mechanistic Modelling of Saturated Cryogenic Pool Boiling Heat Transfer
… significantly enhance the duration and the reach of future space missions. However, the development of such capabilities is not without challenges, which exacerbated by the complexity and the cost of testing such equipment in microgravity, e.g., a fuel depot placed in orbit. The low boiling point …
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Online Techniques for Enhancing the Diagnosis of Digital Circuits
… devices involves generation and application of test patterns, failure logging and diagnosis. Traditionally, most of these activities cater for all possible faults without making any assumptions about the actual defects present in the circuit. As the size of the circuits continues to increase …