BACKGROUND We evaluated the accuracy and repeatability of a 3D method for polyethylene acetabular cup wear measurements using computed tomography (CT). We propose that the method be used for clinical in vivo assessment of wear in acetabular cups. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene cups with a titanium mesh molded on the outside were subjected to wear using a hip sim...

STUDY DESIGN This study was a prospective, randomized, crossover, multicenter trial for the evaluation of comparative effectiveness of intradiscal biacuplasty (IDB) versus conventional medical management (CMM) in the treatment of lumbar discogenic pain. OBJECTIVE The objective was to demonstrate the superiority of IDB over CMM in the treatment of discogenic pain with respect to the primary ou...

Organizations wishing to remain competitive often want to comply with all possible contractor evaluation criteria, process models, and quality standards, but the field is evolving rapidly. This paper describes the categories of compliance frameworks and characteristics of seven important frameworks: the CMM, SE-CMM, IPD-CMM, ISO 9000, SDCE, MIL-STD-498, and Trillium. The paper also discusses tr...

Many organizations provide information technology services, either to external or internal customers. They maintain software, operate information systems, manage and maintain workstations, networks or mainframes or provide contingency services. A widely used framework on IT service quality (at least in the Netherlands) is the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which seeks to ...

Oral canine malignant melanoma (CMM) is a spontaneously occurring aggressive tumour with relatively few medical treatment options, which provides a suitable model for the disease in humans. Historically, multiple immunotherapeutic strategies aimed at provoking both innate and adaptive anti-tumour immune responses have been published with varying levels of activity against CMM. Recently, a plasm...

The Enterprise Knowledge Development Change Management Method (EKD-CMM) provides a systematic way to organise and to guide the organisational change management. The EKD-CMM road map, implemented in the electronic guide book, describes the different routes to manage change through modelling using EKD-CMM. Roughly speaking a route is a sequence of steps to be followed by the EKDCMM user. Every st...

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM), developed by the Software Engineering Institute, and the ISO 9000 series of standards, developed by the International Standards Organization, share a common concern with quality and process management. The two are driven by similar concerns and intuitively correlated. The purpose of this report is to contrast the CMM and ISO 9001, showing both t...

Contemporary organizations are producing and storing more information then ever before in history. The resulting information overload, combined with the lack of quality assurance for information management, has led to a questionable state of information quality in many organizations. Furthermore, assessing, enhancing, and managing information quality has proven to be a notoriously difficult und...

Much of the research on food environments suggests that problematic access to healthy restricts its consumption, contributing adverse outcomes such as obesity, stroke, and heart disease. In addition these direct relationships, we propose indirect relationships involving Communication Mediation Model (CMM). Using nationally representative survey data from 1435 adults in United States, explore mu...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E into this environment of self-proclaimed cowboys presents a challenge to even the most skilled champion. We often hear software developers say that their organization and applications are different, their projects have unique challenges, and their customers are more indecisive or inflexible than most. Because of these differences, they think...