In seven pedigrees displaying the familial atypical multiple mole-melanoma (FAMMM) syndrome, three successive linkage analyses were performed between HLA and an assumed dominant gene determining respectively each of the following affected phenotypes: (1) precursor lesions, (2) cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), and (3) precursor lesions or CMM or both. Close linkage could be excluded in (1) an...

E-Business has now become a buzzword. Businesses and organizations are paying more attention on resolving and implementing e-Business (EB) issues and solutions. Ad-hoc EB implementations conducted by organizations have in fact different levels or scopes, but they are all called e-Business achievement. Based on the concepts of capability and maturity from CMM, this paper proposes process orienta...

Reifegradmodelle gewinnen in der Disziplin der Wirtschaftsinformatik immer mehr Bedeutung. Der gegenwärtige Diskurs betrachtet hauptsächlich die wissenschaftlichen Methoden zur Modellentwicklung (rigor), und weniger den Beitrag eines Reifegradmodells zur realweltlichen Problemlösung (relevance). Dies zeigt sich z.B. in Form zahlreicher Reifegradmodelle zur zwischenbetrieblichen Integration, die...

Moral perfectionism has a long tradition in philosophical inquiry, but so far has been ignored in psychological research. This article presents a first psychological investigation of moral perfectionism exploring its relationships with moral values, virtues, and judgments. In three studies, 539 university students responded to items of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost et al...

In this paper, we investigated one of the promising applications of left-handed metamaterials: composite metamaterial based cavities. Four different cavity structures operating in the microwave regime were constructed, and we observed cavity modes on the transmission spectrum with different quality factors. The effective permittivity and permeability of the CMM structure and cavity structure we...

Nowadays in China, there is a huge gap between the capability of newly graduate students and that required by software industry, which caused a severe supply-demand contradiction between universities and software industry. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a novel practice capability maturity model for software talent cultivation (STP-CMM). It consists of four levels: Awareness Level, ...

The evaluation of 14F7 Mab (anti-N-glycolyl GM3 ganglioside) immunorecognition in normal skin, cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), and in lymph node metastases (LNM) has been previously reported. In this work we extended the study to benign (BMN) and dysplastic (DMN) melanocytic nevi, basal (BCC), and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Immunohistochemical assays with 14F7 followed by a biotinylated...

The relationship between agile methods and Software Engineering Institute’s CMM approach is often debated. Some authors argue that the approaches are compatible, while others have criticized the application of agile methods from the CMM perspective. Only few CMM based assessments have been performed on projects using agile approaches. This paper explores an empirical case where a project using ...

Development of a protection profile under the Common Criteria is a demanding task, requiring difficult engineering decisions, complex analyses, and detailed knowledge about the intended environment and use for a product or system. We believe that building a protection profile is essentially a security engineering problem and is best approached by applying the Systems Security Engineering Capabi...