4,548 research outputs found
Can using Fagan Inspections improve the quality of specification in 2011? A Case Study
No full textIn this paper, we explore why Fagan Inspections have become obsolete in the software industry, given the body of evidence which supports their use to improve the quality of software artefacts and the software development process.
Since the late 1970’s, much has been written about how Fagan Inspections improve the quality of both processes and outputs of the software development process. The literature indicates that the Fagan Inspection technique can improve quality of software (or other software development artefacts) by a reduction in defects of 60 – 90%. However, recent literature suggests that inspection techniques in general and Fagan Inspections in particular, are no longer used. A study in 1998 found that respondents used inspections either irregularly or not at all. Teams often review artefacts informally, but believe that they are performing an inspection or formal review. The lack of rigour in the review process results in reduced benefits and more defects in the artefacts.
To explore this situation, we conducted a case study with a local enterprise and we report on the early findings. These suggest that the introduction of Fagan Inspections may have a number of benefits before they have even been introduced fully, including recognition of flaws in the current development process, development of technical knowledge relating to the software process domain, and improved team relations and a ‘quality’ culture. In addition, the personnel using Fagan Inspection gain experience in the production of ‘quality’ artefacts
Contemporary interventions in historic fabric: context and authenticity in the work of Gabriel Fagan
No full textThis study focuses on three projects by Gabriel Fagan, one of South Africa’s most respected and awarded architects, namely The Dias Museum in Mossel Bay, the SA Breweries Visitor’s Centre in Newlands and the University of Cape Town’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. These projects are all essentially contemporary interventions in historic fabric and each contains easily identifiable and iconic new portions – the sail-like roof of the Dias Museum, the glass lift shaft at SAB and the circular glazed pavilion at UCT’s Medical School
Letter from M. Fagan to Monsignor Hickey and Fr. C. Curran
No full textHolograph letter from M.[Fagan] Dublin, to Monsignor Hickey and Fr. C. Curran [intending principals of the Irish College], introducing himself as a friend of Arthur Griffith's wife. Sketching Mrs. Griffith's hard life on the side of a husband who suffered greatly for Ireland. She did not follow calls to campaign for a Dáil seat in Cavan. Her family have been friends of the friars minor; some comments on her brothers; she knows Mr. Con Curran and his wife Miss Laird. Recommending acknowledging her presence in Rome. 'Here it is said the propaganda of the Irish College is dead against the present government, that should not be visited on a woman who just waits in patience for the Last Day for her husband's vindication'
Still photographs of musicians performing from Dreaming Protected Me album by Fionnuala Fagan
No full textStill photographs of musicians performing a live performance of tracks from "Dreaming Protected Me" album by Fionnuala Fagan. Zip folder contains images of the following performers: *Patrick Davey (performer, teacher and composed of traditional Irish music. He is a Senior All-Ireland uilleann pipes champion) *Fionnuala Fagan (singer, song-writer, sound and installation artist) *Clare Galway (musician and performer) Photographed by John Darcy C. 201
Box 5, Neg. No. 1676: E. C. Fagan and His Wife
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of E. C. Fagan and his wife - he is sitting in a chair and is wearing a suit, and she is standing next to him and is wearing a long light dress. Her hat is next to her on a stool. E. C. Fagan ordered the photograph.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/stafford_county/1446/thumbnail.jp
Choeras ramcomarmorata Fagan-Jeffries & Austin & Investigators 2021, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Choeras ramcomarmorata</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin sp. nov. <p>(Fig. 2)</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 233DB1DE-BF33-44B9-8E5C-878002D8851C</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>Holotype: South Australia:</b> ♀ Ramco Primary School, -34.169522 139.93407, 19.v– 2.vi.2020, E. Fagan-Jeffries and Ramco PS 5/6/7 class, M/T EFJ2020MT40, Extraction 1673 (SAMA: 32-45151, BOLD: AUMIC550-20).</p> <p> <b>Paratype: Western Australia:</b> ♂ Albany Highway, Gleneagle State Forest, 3.iv–7.v.2005, M.S. Harvey, M/T, Extraction 1491 (WAM: WAME109656, BOLD: AUMIC551-20).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species can be separated morphologically from the other Australasian members of the genera <i>Sathon</i> Mason and <i>Choeras</i> as follows:</p> <p> • From <i>C. calacte</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. dissors</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. papua</i> (Wilkinson, 1936), <i>C. parvoculus</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, and <i>C. zygon</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019 by having a large forewing areolet.</p> <p> • From <i>C. ceto</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. tegularis</i> (Szepligeti, 1905), <i>S. albicoxus</i> Austin & Dangerfield, 1992, <i>S. moratus</i> (Wilkinson, 1929), <i>S. naryciae</i> Austin & Dangerfield, 1992, <i>S. oreo</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, and <i>S. resplendens</i> (Wilkinson, 1929) by having a complete, strong medial carina on the propodeum.</p> <p> • From <i>C. epaphus</i> (Nixon, 1965), and <i>C. koalascatocola</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017 by having T2 narrowing posteriorly.</p> <p> • From <i>C. helespas</i> Walker, 1996 by T1 without strong rugose sculpturing along length and T1 much wider anteriorly than posteriorly.</p> <p> • From <i>C. bushblitz</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019 by the mesosoma being completely dark</p> <p> • From <i>C. morialta</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017 by the ovipositor gently curving (not strongly bent near tip).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> FEMALE. Colour. Head, antenna and mesosoma all dark; all tergites and most of metasoma dark other than small pale patch at posterior end of T1, non-sclerotised areas of T1–2 and anterior sternites pale; hypopygium dark laterally with pale area ventrally, ovipositor sheaths dark (fore-, mid-, hind coxa) pale, pale, dark; (fore-, mid-, hind- trochanter) pale, pale, pale; femora (fore-, mid-, hind femur) pale to light brown, pale to light brown, mostly dark with pale stripe in proximal half; tibiae (fore-, mid-, hind tibia) pale to light brown, pale to light brown, dark with pale area proximally, all tarsi dark; tegula and humeral complex orange-brown; pterostigma dark; fore wing veins dark.</p> <p>Body length. Head to apex of metasoma: 4.0 mm.</p> <p>Head. Antenna slightly longer than body length; OOL/POD 1.7; POL/ POD 1.6; antennal flagellomere 2 length/ width 3.5; antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.9.</p> <p>Mesosoma. Anteromesoscutum punctulate, punctures small (space between punctures larger than their diameter, particularly in posterior two-thirds of anteromesoscutum, punctures slightly larger and closer together anteriorly); number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus 12; scutellar disc very smooth with only tiny punctures associated with setae. Propodeum with medial carina present and complete, clearly distinguishable from surrounding rugosity. Propodeum coarsely rugose in centre, transitioning to smoother punctate areas antero-laterally.</p> <p>Wings. Fore wing length 4.0 mm; length of veins r/2RS 0.8; length of veins 2RS/2M 1.0; length of veins 2M/(RS+M)b 1.9; pterostigma length/width 2.9. Forewing areolet large, four-sided with sharp angle between veins 3RSa and rs-m, vein rs-m slightly curved at distal end.</p> <p>Legs. Hind tibia inner spur length/hind basitarsus length 0.4.</p> <p>Metasoma. T1 length / T1 width at posterior margin 3.1; narrowing posteriorly, smooth in anterior half, punctures associated with setae in posterior half; T2 width at posterior margin / T2 length 3.5, sclerotised area well differentiated from surrounding tergite, scattered punctures associated with setae, border with T3 smooth and only just distinguishable; T3 sculpture smooth and shiny; both T2 and T3 irregularly setose for all of length; ovipositor sheaths length/hind tibial length 1.9.</p> <p>MALE. Smaller in size than female, body length 3.3 mm; T1 lighter in colouration than female specimen, light brown anteriorly with dark area in centre, fading to pale posteriorly.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Named by the 2020 year 5–7 students of Ramco Primary School, where the holotype was collected. The students chose to use the name of the school along with the epithet ‘marmorata’ from the Latin ‘marmor’, for marble, as they felt that the striking black and white colouration of the species, and variation of colours on the tergites, looked like polished marble. The species name therefore unconventionally combines a place name with a Latin adjective, and should be regarded as a noun in apposition.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Known from only a female specimen from the Riverland region, South Australia, and from a male specimen from Gleneagle, Western Australia.</p> <p> <b>Molecular information.</b> The species constitutes BIN: BOLD:AEF8695, and is 9.63% divergent from the nearest relative on BOLD.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This species falls within a large clade of Australian species, all with a large forewing areolet, that morphologically are intermediate between the current definition of the genera <i>Sathon</i> and <i>Choeras</i> (Fig. 3). We place this species in the genus <i>Choeras</i> as there appears to be some flexibility in the hypopygium which would exclude it from the strict definition of <i>Sathon</i>, and because it is morphologically and molecularly closely related to <i>Choeras morialta</i>. However, we note that this clade may end up being recognised as a new genus, which is not related to the group of species that possess a small forewing areolet. To confirm and revise the genus, phylogenetic studies that include the type species of <i>Choeras</i> and <i>Sathon</i> will need to be conducted.</p>Published as part of <i>Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1)</i> on pages 83-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4635871">http://zenodo.org/record/4635871</a>
Bird movement data in response to playbacks, Fagan et al. 2016
No full textThis file contains the data for the experimental playback trials with four species of birds, as described in Fagan et al. 2016. See the readme for more details. If you want the control data for the subset of birds that responded to playbacks, please contact the author
I finally understand how applying the Fagan nomogram can change medical decision-making
No full textThe author reflects on the case that changed his opinion on the efficacy of the Fagan nomogram
R v Fagan [1969] 1 QB 439, Court of Appeal
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Fagan [1969] 1 QB 439, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
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