Extreme Programming (XP) is an Agile Methodology (AM) which doesn’t require any specific supporting tool for being successfully applied. Despite this starting observation, there are many reasons leading a XP team to adopt Web based tools to support XP practices. For example, such tools could be useful for process and product data collection and analysis or for supporting distributed development...

Extreme neutropenia has very rarely been recorded as a complication of glandular fever. Two non-fatal cases, with mild secondary infections, are now reported. Extreme neutropenia may in fact be less rare in this disease than it appears to be, but serious illness as a result is exceedingly unusual.

Consider a sequence of outcomes of descending value, A > B > C > ... > Z. According to Larry Temkin, there are reasons to deny the continuity axiom in certain ‘extreme’ cases, i.e. cases of triplets of outcomes A, B and Z, where A and B differ little in value, but B and Z differ greatly. But, Temkin argues, if we assume continuity for ‘easy’ cases, i.e. cases where the loss is small, we can der...

UNLABELLED We studied the bias and variance characteristics of the ordered-subset expectation maximization (OSEM) and rescaled block-iterative EM (RBIEM) iterative reconstruction algorithms in myocardial SPECT under extreme, but realistic, conditions. METHOD We used the 2-dimensional mathematic cardiac torso phantom to simulate 2 patient anatomies: a large male with a raised diaphragm and a f...

introduction: over the past hundred years, human activity has significantly altered the atmosphere and increase of concentration of greenhouse gases lead to warm the earth's surface. this global warming leads to change of climatic extreme index and increases the intensity and frequency of occurrence of extreme climate events. investigation of extreme values for planning and policy for the agric...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is an increasingly common disorder that predisposes to several medical conditions, including type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether large and rare copy-number variations (CNVs) differentiate moderate to extreme obesity from never-overweight control subjects. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays, we performed a genome-wide CNV survey...