Throughout the software products industry, companies everywhere strive for a common goal: to develop and deliver a software product that reaches a dominant position in the marketplace. To achieve this goal, the software team must deliver the right product to the market -one that meets the individual user's needs, has the right features, and delivers the right benefits, including economic advant...

In considering good practice in relation to e-Government, this paper contributes to critical discussion on the value placed on methodologies in implementing e-Government programmes. Assessments are made regarding institutional, technological and organisational factors within the public sector, and the manner in which methodologies have been and are currently being applied. An exploration is mad...

Criteria are used to help decide whether the risk associated with a project or activity is low enough to proceed. The key question then, is when is low enough good enough? This paper describes the flexible framework in use in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries for deciding on the tolerability of risk. The levels of individual risk that are generally accepted world-wide as intolerable are...

In this paper, two issues about wire width are investigated. The first one is that “Is the minimum wire width under the minimum wire pitch for a process technology good enough from the perspective of timing performance?” The second is that “Is delay sensitive to wire width variation around the optimal width?” We find that the answer to the first issue is “yes”, whereas the answer to the second ...

Reducing redundant medical lab tests has been discussed in the literature as a cost saving benefit of Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption; however the literature does not provide a great deal of information on the mechanics of achieving this goal. Laboratory ordering using an EHR occurs within a complex socio-technical context that can be difficult to understand. A case study was performed ...

distribution of population depends on the distribution of goods and services. the distribution of population is very important not only for its effects on different aspects of population but also because of its relations with the general features of area. programmers can control the distribution of the population if they control the distribution of goods and services. the purpose of the present...

Methods that might work are not good enough; what is preserved today should be reliably useful whenever someone wants it. Here, “reliably” is intended to include “without error introduced after the data leaves the purported author’s control.” Prior proposals—called “transformative migration” and “preservation emulation”—fail because what they save is confounded with details about today’s inform...

(Non-)portability of Prolog programs is widely considered as an important factor in the lack of acceptance of the language. Since 1995, the core of the language is covered by the ISO standard 13211-1. Since 2007, YAP and SWI-Prolog have established a basic compatibility framework. This article describes and evaluates this framework. The aim of the framework is running the same code on both syst...

unproblematically, continuing on a trajectory set out in the 1880s, as if there were a giant conspiracy to chastise homosexuality through discussions of the homosexual body, then to more psychological markers, and finally back to the body in terms of the genetic arguments about homosexuality that are current today. I am not suggesting that homosexuality was not often spurned by scientists, but ...

There is overwhelming evidence suggesting that the real users of IR systems often prefer using extremely short queries (one or two individual words) but they try out several queries if needed. Such behavior is fundamentally different from the process modeled in the traditional test collection-based IR evaluation based on using more verbose queries and only one query per topic. In the present pa...