In spite of the many achievements in software engineering, proper treatment of extra-functional requirements (also known as non-functional requirements) within the software development process is still a challenge to our discipline. The application of functionality-biased software development methodologies can lead to major contradictions in the joint modelling of functional and extra-functiona...

OBJECTIVE To examine the rate of change in body mass index (BMI) percentile across 3 years in relation to emotion identification ability and brain-based reactivity in emotional processing regions. STUDY DESIGN A longitudinal sample of 202 youths completed 3 functional magnetic resonance imaging-based facial processing tasks and behavioral emotion differentiation tasks. We examined the rate of...

Normalization has become traditional in database design theory and practice. One disadvantage of the model-driven development is that usage of concepts normalization, and functional dependency in the enterprise software engineering is limited to only one stage of system development life cycle (SDLC) the database design stage. The provided research of these concepts motivate normalization of the...

For the development of a psychosomatic disorder there are three requisites: (1) a psychoneurotic predisposition; (2) an exciting emotional conflict, and (3) restriction of outward expression of the conflict. All individuals, whether normal or psychoneurotic, seek relief from the mental suffering occasioned by disturbing life problems. When emotional tension is expended by outward expression, mu...

In this paper it is proposed that the prefrontal lobe participates in two closely related but different executive function abilities: (1) "metacognitive executive functions": problem solving, planning, concept formation, strategy development and implementation, controlling attention, working memory, and the like; that is, executive functions as they are usually understood in contemporary neuros...

A new software development methodology based on the language NIL is presented. The methodology emphasizes ( I ) the separation of program development into functional specification and tuning phases, (2) the use of a fully compilable and executable design, (3) an interface definition and verification mechanism. This approach reduces life-cycle costs and improves software quality because (a) erro...

This study identified profiles of functional disability (FD) paralleled by increasing levels of disability. We assessed 96 subjects using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II). Clustering Based on Rules (ClBR) (a hybrid technique of Statistics and Artificial Intelligence) was used in the analysis. Four groups of subjects with different profiles of FD were o...

Adolescence is a time of dramatic physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes as well as a time for the development of many social-emotional problems. These characteristics raise compelling questions about accompanying neural changes that are unique to this period of development. Here, we propose that studying adolescent-specific changes in face processing and its underlying neural circu...

Requirements and architecture are two essential inter-related products in the software lifecycle. Software architecture has long been recognized to have a profound impact on non-functional requirements about security, fault tolerance, performance, evolvability, and so forth. In spite of this, very few techniques are available to date for systematically building software architectures from funct...