Agile methodology continues to evolve due to business and technological demands. However, there are few studies reported related to encouraging new organizations to adopt agile practices especially in Asian countries. This paper presents the initial findings from an action research study on agile-extreme programming (XP) adoption amongst software engineering (SE) teams. The results showed that ...

The strengths of product line engineering have been described before. But how can an organization make the move from developing one-of products to product line engineering without major interruptions in the day-today work? This paper describes how to perform the transition to product line engineering and lists the various strategies for such a transition. It also describes how to create an adop...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the benefits both organisations and individuals in adopting heutagogy within management education development. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual based on a systematic review literature relating learning theory. Findings calls for adoption heutagogic It provides several practical examples how may be implemented. Research limitations/impl...

     The simplest and fastest way of producing an acceptable and accurate cast is by adopting the two-pour or inversion method. This process is slightly cumbersome and messy due to difficulty of access. A much more efficient, easy and artistic way of accomplishing it is described by adopting a Rotating Cake Icing Table with a Silicone Baking Mat on top as an autoclavable non-stick barrier.    

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this study tries to review the reasons for which young girls tend to perform beauty surgeries on their faces, within the framework of veblen’s “theory of the leisure class” and his “social models” such as fiscal ownership. the statistical society has been the girl students of the university of tehran selected through snow ball sampling and discourse analysis was applied to analyze the semi-stru...

among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. adopting critical discourse analysis (cda) with particular emphasis on the framework of van dijk (1999), the present investigation is an attempt to shed light on the relationship between language and ideology involved in translation in general, and more speci...

The majority of functional models language, which purport to account for text, do not recognize the distinct dimension corresponding “discourse”, as conceived here. Instead, various semantic-pragmatic aspects use indexical expressions, in particular, tend be uniquely terms textual environment markers involved. Correlatively, invocation “context” such approaches tends limited essentially co-text...