Requirement elicitation is an important task, which can lead to cost reduction in the overall software process, as it avoids failures due to lack of proper understanding about what to build. However, usually, there is a lack of time devoted to proper elicitation during software construction. We assume information from similar projects is a valuable knowledge for requirements engineers when faci...

The German Biography Portal “Deutsche Biographie” is a joint effort of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Bavarian State Library and supported by cultural heritage institutions to develop a historical and biographical information system for the German-speaking world. It includes digital full texts of more than 48.000 articles about persons and f...

In information systems, a system is analyzed using a modeling tool. Analysis is an important phase prior to implementation in order to obtain the correct requirements of the system. During the requirements phase, the software requirements specification (SRS) is used to specify the system requirements. Then, this requirements specification is used to implement the system. The requirements specif...

The host cell cytoskeleton plays a key role in the life cycle of viral pathogens whose propagation depends on mandatory intracellular steps. Accordingly, also the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has evolved strategies to exploit and modulate in particular the actin cytoskeleton for its purposes. This review will recapitulate recent findings on how HIV-1 hijacks the cytoskeleton to f...

A program, INV2P5DSB, has been developed to simultaneously estimate the depth of a 2.5-D sedimentary basin and regional background from observed gravity anomalies. The density contrast is assumed to be varying parabolically with depth above the basement interface. The main program is supported with two subroutines GRAV2P5D and SIMEQ and a function GPRM. The analysis of gravity anomalies due to ...

The Page equation is the most widely used equation to predict the tensile strength of paper. In this paper, the derivation of the Page equation is examined critically and a modified Page equation is proposed based on a newly developed method to calculate the relative bonded area from sheet density and fibre shape. The predictions of the original and modified Page equations were then tested agai...

Web Modeling Language (WebML, http://webml.org) is a notation for visually specifying complex Web sites at the conceptual level. All the concepts of WebML are specified both graphically and in XML; in particular, navigation and composition abstractions are based on a restricted number of hypertext components (units) which are assembled into pages and interconnected by links. During implementati...

In the past, the human rights agenda lacked persuasive power over international development practitioners for two main reasons: 1) human rights are inherently political and therefore threaten the acceptance of international development agendas by recipient governments, and 2) human rights are not conducive to benchmarks and indicators, which donors require as measures of accountability, transpa...