Proprietary software

The introduction of computers to many companies allows proprietary software to be used for layout design. Spreadsheet, mathematical modeling and computer-aided design (CAD) techniques are available and greatly assist the design process, and have added to the resources available to planners. However, the traditional scale models described above will still be useful to present the result to management and shop floor personnel. 

Other factors include available resources in terms of money and manpower to develop the system in-house, outsource, or purchase from e-clinical proprietary vendors, reliability, flexibility, and security. Some coordinating centers have chosen OSS/FS over proprietary vendors based on the criteria of cost, reliability, flexibility, and security [38]. The rationale is that although both have service comparability, proprietary software licensing costs, both for initial purchases and annual licensing, are significant. 

Various issues must be considered before deciding on the type of the data collection and management system. The wide range of computer programming languages, database management, proprietary software, and hardware provide for the ability to select the most appropriate system design for a trial. 

The type of system chosen determines the types of hardware and software needed. It also determines the processes for acquiring the necessary hardware and software. The hardware selection may include desktops, laptops, printers, scanners, fax machines, and storage devices, and the software selection includes the system development software, the database management software, the data communication software, the data conversion software, specialized proprietary software, servers, and hrewalls. 

Christopher EF, Daniel S. Open source versus proprietary software in clinical trial coordinating center operations. Clin Trials 2005 2 S77. 

G. Grassy, R. Lahana and Oxford Molecular Ltd., TSAR, Tools for Structure-Activity Relationships, User s Guide, Issue 3. Proprietary Software developed by Oxford Molecular Ltd., Oxford, UK, 1993. 

There was a time long ago, in the days of SAS 6 and earlier versions, when you needed to rely on software external to SAS to convert some data into SAS data sets so SAS could use it. Conceptual Software produced just such a tool with its DBMS/Copy package, which could easily convert many proprietary software database formats into SAS data sets. In 2002, SAS purchased the DBMS/Copy line of software tools and now distributes that software under its Dataflux subsidiary. So DBMS/Copy is still available for use, but the good news is that it is now largely unnecessary if you have SAS/ACCESS and SAS 9. 

Orion Constellation This is a mosaic picture of 18 (6x3) frames. Additional four frames are added around the Barnard Loop region to increase S/N. Vignetting of the telescope is corrected by flat fielding, using proprietary software written in IDL. Distortion correction and initial colour match is done in Registar, with final colour correction and mosaic processed using Photoshop. (Reproduced by permission of Wei-Hao Wang, Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawaii)... 

The instrument is controlled by an IBM Think Pad laptop computer via a wireless network, utilizing ASD s proprietary software package. For this study, reference standard readings were collected before each sample reading to ensure consistent equipment function and to establish atmospheric conditions. 

Peak purity tests are used to demonstrate that an observed chromatographic peak is attributable to a single component. Mass spectrometry is the most sensitive and accurate technique to use for peak purity evaluation because of the specific information derived from the analysis. However, a good number of HPLC methods use mobile phase conditions that are incompatible with mass spectrometry detection. In this case, PDA spectrophotometers using peak purity algorithms may be used to support the specificity of the method. Almost all commercially available diode array detectors are equipped with proprietary software that will perform these calculations. Although this technique is more universal in application to HPLC methods, the data provided is neither particularly... 

A complete new system would have the benefit of system-control and data processing via a personal computer and proprietary software. An in-house system, however, would probably output readings to a chart-recorder. This can give a further opportunity of adjusting the scale-expansion to accommodate... 

Usually, imaging workstations and luminometers include proprietary software to operate the devices and allow the direct export of raw data and basic measurements to common spreadsheet software, including Microsoft Excel. More complex image analyses can be successfully performed with ImageJ or Matlab software packages. 

Redundant bespoke (custom) programming is considered dead code and should be removed. The only exception is rednndant code strategically introdnced to try to protect the cotmnercial confidentiality of proprietary software, nsnally by confnsing disassemblers that might be used by unethical competitor organizations to reverse engineer the product. 

This is the John Wiley and Sons. Inc (Wiley) limited use License Agreement, which governs your use of any Wiley proprietary software products (Licensed Program) and User Manual s) delivered with it. 

Proprietary software such as word processing and spreadsheet packages available from companies such as Microsoft and Corel remain unaltered until the manufacturer releases a new version of the software for sale. Reprogramming and correcting difficulties occur in house. If a released program is faulty, remediative repair is typically accomplished by the downloading of repair patches from a company s Web site. 

A cadre of software developers, such as Richard Stallman, continued to advocate for an open software development community. Under Stallman s direction, the Free Software Foundation was created in 1983. Stallman was also the driving force behind The GNU Project (GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU s not Unix ). The GNU Project was one of the first initiatives to challenge the emerging trend of proprietary software. 

We use our own curve-fitting software based on program listings and explanations of curve-fitting procedures provided by Barlow (7). However, current proprietary software packages for analysis of data generated by 96-well plate readers should permit this type of analysis. 

Similar to other rapid prototyping techniques, ACR s EFF process begins with a 3D drawing (AutoCAD,. DXF, etc...) of the component to be fabricated. The file is imported into ACR proprietary software and sliced into the individual layers and fill patterns which will be utilized to build the part. The fill pattern in each successive layer ultimately becomes an extrusion path for the EFF machine to follow while extruding the chosen material in the shape of the component being fabricated. 

The TurboWorx Builder is the graphical environment where a user can create new components that wrap existing commercial, open-source, or proprietary software tools. A user can create a workflow from new or preexisting components and execute it on the TurboWorx Enterprise runtime environment (see next), monitor progress, and view results. 

The technology is also applied to retrofit furnaces. The furnaces performances are optimized by using Technip s proprietary software SPYRO. Depending on the regulations various, options of NO abatement are incorporated. 

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