Component-test plans are often designed by allocating system reliability among the system's components, then choosing individual component plans suitable for demonstrating achievement of each ...

The Linnaean or binomial system of nomenclature for naming organisms has been in use for over 200 years and is a cornerstone of taxonomy. The conventions followed in naming species have recently come ...

AUGUSTO PINOCHET was never fond of democracy. In 1990, at the end of his 17-year dictatorship, he engineered a stifling electoral system. It made voter-registration voluntary, but voting mandatory for ...

Abstract: Many complex engineering systems have reliability growth in successive test stages. In most existing reliability demonstration test models, reliability growth is not incorporated as modeling ...

The Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognizes the need for a standardized nomenclature for virus species. This article sets out the case for ...

Most of us are not fluent in Latin so distinguishing between an Aesculus parviflora and an Aesculus pavia may take some extra effort. Throw hybrids and cultivars into the mix and our plant choices may ...