Abstract Modern service-based processes in mobile environments are highly complex due to the necessary spatial–temporal coordination between multiple participating users and consideration of context information. Due dynamic nature environments, disruptive events occur at runtime, which require a re-selection planned service compositions respecting context-awareness. Thereby, when re-selecting s...

BACKGROUND Low compliance is one of the crucial problems of contemporary psychiatry. Relapses, deterioration of cognitive functioning, negative symptoms, neuroleptic resistance are the examples of many consequences of noncompliance in schizophrenia SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study was designed to assess the compliance in the 200 patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, all in the state o...

OBJECTIVE The sampling and recruitment methods, response rate, and cohort description for the all-African-American Jackson Heart Study (JHS) are detailed. METHODS Four subsamples of participants residing in the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan statistical area (MSA) were included: random, volunteer, ARIC (continuing from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study), and family. A community-dri...

Requirements-related problems are reported to be the main reason in failures of global software development (GSD) projects. There is not much work done to improve requirements practices for GSD projects. In this paper, we report results of a study conducted in an ongoing project whose aim is to develop a framework for the requirements engineering process of global software development projects....