The V-Model 97 is a widely used process model in Germany and Europe. It is the development standard for IT-Systems of the Federal Republic of Germany and the basis of Austria’s and Switzerland’s corresponding standards. Software process assessment and improvement efforts world-wide are based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software. We present a detailed evaluation of the V-Model 97 ...

A 45-year-old man with a known history of hemophilia and AIDS presented with right upper quadrant pain for 3 weeks, associated with weight loss and fever. He had declined antiviral therapy. Physical examination revealed tenderness in the right upper quadrant and splenomegaly. Laboratory tests included the following: white blood cell count, 2000/cmm (reference range, 4000-10,000/cmm), hemoglobin...

Fertility awareness based methods (FABMs) can be used to ameliorate the likelihood to conceive. A literature search was performed to evaluate the relationship of cervical mucus monitoring (CMM) and the day-specific -pregnancy rate, in case of subfertility. A MEDLINE search revealed a total of 3331 articles. After excluding articles based on their relevance, 10 studies and were selected. The obs...

This paper describes a generic and fast classifier that uses a binary CMM (Correlation Matrix Memory) neural network for storing and matching a large amount of patterns efficiently, and a k-NN rule for classification. To meet CMM input requirements, a robust encoding method is proposed to convert numerical inputs into binary ones with the maximally achievable uniformity. To reduce the execution...

In order to decrease the measuring cycle time on the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) a robot workstation for the positioning of measuring objects was created. The application of a simple 5-axis industrial robot enables the positioning of the objects within the working space of CMM and measuring of different surfaces on the same object without human intervention. In this article an upgrade of...

To test the cognitive mediation model (CMM), a virtual lab study was carried out where participants (N = 602) read 1 of 5 cancer news articles and completed a knowledge posttest (assessing recognition and comprehension). Results were consistent with the CMM and past news learning research, as (a) news surveillance motivation was positively related to story comprehension (but not recognition of ...

Skin cancer has become the most common neoplasm in the United States. With early diagnosis and appropriate management, most skin cancers have an overall 5-year survival rate of 95%. Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), however, has a significantly higher morbidity and mortality, resulting in 65% of all skin cancer deaths. Although the long-term survival rate for patients with metastatic melanoma...

The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a seed film coating with Origanum vulgare Linnaeus essential oil (EO) against Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. (Cmm) on tomatoes. Tomato seeds (cv. Rio Grande) coated different doses EO derived from O. were inoculated Cmm (1.8 × 108 CFU/mL). vulgare's showed remarkable inhibition effect growth. was determined based parameters, such as zone and bacteri...

This paper provides an overview of the latest version of the Capability Maturity Model for Software, CMM v1.1. Based on over six years of experience with software process improvement and the contributions of hundreds of reviewers, CMM v1.1 describes the software engineering and management practices that characterize organizations as they mature their processes for developing and maintaining sof...

AURA (Advanced Uncertain Reasoning Architecture) is a generic family of techniques and implementations intended for high-speed approximate search and match operations on large unstructured datasets. This paper continues the AURA II (Advanced Uncertain Reasoning Architecture) project’s research into distributed binary Correlation Matrix Memory (CMM) based upon the PRESENCE (PaRallEl Structured N...