COMPLIANCE TO QUALITY CRITERIA OF EXISTING REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION METHODS

In this article we define a requirements elicitation method based on natural language modelling. We argue that our method complies with synthesized quality criteria for RE methods, and compare this with the compliance of traditional RE methods (EER, ORM, UML). We show limited empirical evidence to support our theoretical argument.computer science applications;

[Review] Ann C. Colley, Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014

You should never judge a book by its cover but, of course, that’s exactly what the Victorians did when they looked at animals—or so Professor Ann Colley claims, and with some justification. This book is a contribution to the growing list of valuable and entertaining studies of the collection and exhibition of wild animals in Victorian Britain and beyond, and it is highly recommended to anyone researching the field. I was looking forward to reading this as although there has been a fair bit of work on zoos and menageries and, especially recently, on taxidermy, the habit of collecting skins is less well documented. But it was on skins that the Victorian naturalists often depended for their knowledge of new animals. For example, one of the chief requirements that the great ornithologist John Gould had of his field collectors was that they have a good knowledge and high ability in the techniques for skinning and preserving specimens, for only that way could organic remains make the long journey from desert or jungle back to England in the days before climate control. It is thanks to these skinners that we have records of otherwise extinct birds although, of course, it is also, in some cases, thanks to them, that the birds became extinct

[Review] Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic . Duke University Press, 2020, xv + 181pp.

Animal Studies Journal 2021 10(1): [Review] Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic . Duke University Press, 2020, xv + 181pp

Assessing the Effects of Ownership Change on Women and Minority Employees: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

While there have been numerous papers on the employment and wage effects of mergers and acquisitions, there has been no direct analysis of the impact of such ownership changes on minority and female workers. This is an unexplored "equity" dimension of these transactions. We fill this gap by analyzing linked employer-employee data for the entire population of Swedish workers and approximately 16,000 manufacturing plants for the period 1985-1998. For each worker employed in these establishments (as well as the entire population of workers), we have data on gender, age, national origin, level of education, type of education, location, industrial sector, annual earnings, as well as each employee's complete work history during the period. We also have data on numerous plant and firm-level characteristics, which allows us to control for additional factors that might result in changes in labor composition and relative compensation. Our findings suggest that ownership change does not significantly alter the relative earnings and employment status of minority and female workers.

A simple (inductive) proof for the non-existence of 2-cycles of the 3x+1 problem

A 2-cycle of the 3x + 1 problem has two local odd minima x(0) and x(1) with x(1) = a(i)2(ki) - 1. Such a cycle exists if and only if an integer solution exists of a diophantine system of equations in the coefficients a(i). We derive a numerical lower bound for a(0) center dot a(1), based on Steiner's proof for the non-existence of 1-cycles. We derive an analytical expression for an upper bound for a(0) center dot a(1) as a function of K and L (the number of odd and even numbers in the cycle). We apply a result of de Weger on linear logarithmic forms to show that these lower and upper bounds are contrary. The proof does not use exterior lower bounds for numbers in a cycle and for the cycle length. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.</p

Deep drains : a case study and discussion

Typically, deep, open drains are about 2 in deep and about 1 in wide at the base and dug with a backhoe or excavator. The movement of groundwater is controlled by two factors. One is the physical ability of the material to transmit fluid. Permeability is the measure used to describe the ability of a material to transmit fluid through pores and cracks. It depends largely upon porosity (the percentage of the total volume of thematerial that is pore space) and the degree of interconnectedness of the pore spaces. The other factor controlling groundwater flow is gradient. George (1985) found that it was important to detemine the factors or profile characteristics controlling groundwater flow, such asthe depth of permeable or impermeable layers, in order to calculate appropriate drain design

Groundwater trends in the Esperance sandplain and malleee sub-regions

The South Coast Regional Initiative Planning Team (SCRIPT) has divided the South Coast region of Western Australia into six sub-regions. The Esperance Sandplain and Mallee subregions encompass the Esperance agricultural district, which contains about 1.5 million hectares of agricultural land. This publication describes the groundwater trends, risk of shallow watertables, and technical feasibility of salinity management in the soil-landscape zones within the Esperance agricultural district

Measurement of Radio-Frequency Radiation Pressure

We perform measurements of the radiation pressure of a radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic field which may lead to a new SI-traceable power calibration. There are several groups around the world investigating methods to perform more direct SI traceable measurement of RF power (where RF is defined to range from 100s of MHz to THz). A measurement of radiation pressure offers the possibility for a power measure traceable to the kilogram and to Planck's constant through the redefined SI. Towards this goal, we demonstrate the ability to measure the radiation pressure/force carried in a field at 15~GHz.Comment: 2 pages 4 figure