Some Problems and Pitfalls in Developing Countries

Developing with UML - Some Pitfalls and Workarounds

The object-oriented modeling language UML offers various notations for all phases of application development. The user is left alone, however, when applying UML in up-to-date application development involving distribution, data management, and component-oriented mechanisms. Moreover, various shortcomings have been encountered, most notably w.r.t. refinement of model elements throughout the deve...

Some Pitfalls for Developing Enculturated Conversational Agents

A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behaviors that underlie face-to-face encounters, it is indispensable to incorporate cultural heuristics of such behaviors into the system. In this paper we examine some of the pitfalls that arise in developing such

Emerging Water Quality Problems in Developing Countries

1 Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam 784028, India 2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka 4Hanoi Architectural University, Vietnam 5Center for Environmental Risk Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa...

Casemix funding in psychiatry: some problems and common pitfalls.

The aims of this study were to evaluate the accuracy of AN-DRG version 2.0 codings. Ninety-two separations, covering three of the most commonly occurring AN-DRG in psychiatry, were reviewed by a psychiatrist. The AN-DRG diagnosis was then compared to that given by morbidity coders. There was agreement for 69 (79 per cent) separations and disagreement for 18 (21 per cent) separations. Recoding o...

Problems of haematology training in developing countries.