Aspects of the Linguistic Culture of the Ural Mari People in XIXth-XXIst Centuries

This article adopts a linguoculturological approach to analyze the transformation of the Ural Mari culture between the XVIIIth and the XXIst centuries as an interconnection between language, mentality, and cultural identity.Ural Fed Univ, Ural Inst Humanities, Dept Art Hist & Socio Cultural Technologies, Ural Fed Univ, Ural Inst Humanitie

Reduced length checking sequences

Here, the method proposed by Ural, Wu and Zhang (1997) for constructing minimal-length checking sequences based on distinguishing sequences is improved. The improvement is based on optimizations of the state recognition sequences and their use in constructing test segments. It is shown that the proposed improvement further reduces the length of checking sequences produced from minimal, completely specified, and deterministic finite state machines

Reducing the cost of applying adaptive test cases

The testing of a state-based system may involve the application of a number of adaptive test cases. Where the implementation under test (IUT) is deterministic, the response of the IUT to some adaptive test case $\gamma_1$ could be capable of determining the response of the IUT to another adaptive test case $\gamma_2". Thus, the expected cost of applying a set of adaptive test cases depends upon the order in which they are applied. This paper explores properties of adaptive test cases and considers the problem of finding an order of application of the elements from some set of adaptive test cases, which minimises the expected cost of testing