Inomed rapidly automated their established processes, enforced compliance with IEC 62034 coding standards, and introduced full requirements traceability by implementing the Parasoft Development Testing Platform. Moreover, the Development Testing Platform seamlessly integrated into Inomed’s existing infrastructure which made implementation fast and simple. As a result, Inomed significantly reduc...

For more than a dozen years most components of the Department of Defense (DoD) have been exploring the means for incorporating effects based thinking into their planning, execution, and assessment activities of the command and control process. Over the same period of time effects based tools that support the development of analytical models relating actions to effects have been developed by the...

The effects of invasive plants on the species diversity of plant communities are controversial, showing either a positive or negative linear relationship. Based on community data collected from forty 5 m×5 m plots invaded by Sphagneticola trilobata in eight cities across Hainan Island, China, we found S. trilobata decreased plant community diversity once its cover was beyond 10%. We demonstrate...

The human potential for language is based in human biology but makes requirements of the social environment to be realized. This paper reports evidence regarding (1) the nature of those environmental requirements, (2) the ways in which the varied social contexts in which children live meet those requirements, and (3) the effects of environmental variability in meeting those requirements on the ...

Whilst the literature of academic identity is well represented in the sociology of Higher Education (HE) in the UK, personal narratives of journeys through the process of being and becoming an academic are less present. The potential of narrative methodology to produce different knowledge by producing knowledge differently (St. Pierre, 1997) is used as a conceptual framework to co-construct cas...

PURPOSE To explore whether there is a relationship between resilience and academic productivity of minority faculty members in U.S. academic health centers. For the purposes of the study, the authors defined academic productivity as peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, grants, and academic promotion. METHOD In 2007, the authors simultaneously collected quantitative and qualitativ...

We report the successful implementation of structured resident academic projects in our Department of Anesthesiology at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, we adopted an expectation that each resident complete a project that results in a manuscript of publishable quality. Defining a clear timeline for all steps in the project and providing researc...