GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

Constructor Systems (CSs) are an important subclass of Term Rewriting Systems (TRSs) which can be used as an abstract model of some programming languages. While normalizing strategies are always desirable for achieving a good computational behavior of programs, when dealing with lazy languages infinitary normalizing strategies should be considered instead since (finite approximations of) infini...

Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) has a propensity to cervical lymph node metastases (LNM). Recent studies have shown that both the number of involved lymph nodes (LNs) and the metastatic lymph node ratio (MLNR) confer prognostic information. This study was to determine the predictive value of MLNR on cancer-specific survival (CSS) in SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results)-registered MT...

BACKGROUND The classical clinical presentation, neuroradiographic features, and conservative vs. surgical management of traumatic cervical central spinal cord (CSS) injury remain controversial. METHODS CSS injuries, occurring in approximately 9.2% of all cord injuries, are usually attributed to significant hyperextension trauma combined with congenital/acquired cervical stenosis/spondylosis. ...

In the absence of a vaccine, treatment SARS-CoV2 has focused on eliminating virus with antivirals or mitigating cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) that leads to most common cause death: respiratory failure. Herein we discuss mechanisms antiviral treatments for and strategies CSS. Antivirals have shown in vitro activity against SARS-CoV2, closely related SARS-CoV1 MERS-CoV, are compared enzymatic lev...

Cognitive radio (CR) technology has been suggested for effective use of spectral resources. Spectrum sensing is one of the main operations of CR users to identify the vacant frequency bands. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is used to increase the performance of CR networks by providing spatial diversity. The accuracy of spectrum sensing is the most important challenge in the CSS process sinc...

In order to investigate the impact of food insecurity on college students in a highly health disparate region we (1) assessed the prevalence of food insecurity among young adults at a large, rural university in Appalachia, and (2) investigated the relationship between food insecurity and behavioral characteristics including academic performance, coping strategies, and money expenditure. A cross...

Evolutionary branching points are a paradigmatic feature of adaptive dynamics, because they are potential starting points for adaptive diversification. The antithesis to evolutionary branching points are continuously stable strategies (CSS's), which are convergent stable and evolutionarily stable equilibrium points of the adaptive dynamics and hence are thought to represent endpoints of adaptiv...

omalizumab. Both patients have also been on long-acting b2 agonists and inhaled corticosteroids in standard doses throughout the time to control mild asthma symptoms (GINA I). In addition, they have required low dose prednisolone (5–10 mg) over the course of time to control blood eosinophilia, a hallmark of CSS exacerbation. We agree with Giavina-Bianchi et al that the longterm control of CSS r...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...