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William D. Davis, R Vettori, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, David G. Holmberg, Jodi Kostecki, Jessica Kratchman
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William D. Davis, David G. Holmberg, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, R Vettori
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Marti Frank, Hannah Friedman, Kristin Heinemeier, Cory Toole, David Claridge, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Haves
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Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley
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Mechanical assemblies are systems composed of modules that are either subassemblies or parts. Traditionally an assembly information model contains information
Large engineering projects have become the norm with new additional requirements arising from the point of view of life cycle management of the product
Junhwan Kim, Mike Pratt, Raj G. Iyer, Ram D. Sriram
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Mary Theofanos, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Brian Stanton, Nien F. Zhang
Although there is widespread deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprint systems, little attention is being paid to the human-computer interaction
Alicia Clay Jones, Jaime Montemayor, William Blackert, David Carman, Anusha Saksena, Paul Schuster, David Silberberg
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.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Brian J. Cochran, Patrick J. Grother, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a series of tests for evaluating the state of the art in Automated Latent Fingerprint
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