We reflect on the worthiness and impact of software engineering research and we observe that much of the research output by the academic community brings little value to SE practitioners. To understand the situation, we analyze the motivations behind conducting SE research, and the issues that prevent SE research from becoming more valuable and impactful. To address some of these issues, we pro...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Safety measures like airbags and safety belts are nowadays commonly applied to improve the crash worthiness of road vehicles. Many governments stimulate or oblige by law car producers to include these devices in the vehicle design. Maximum values are imposed on parameters that quantitatively describe the severity of injuries. Examples are the Head Injury Criterion (HIC...

A mathematical model was developed for estimating the net present value (NPV) of the cash flow resulting from an investment in an intervention to prevent occupational low back pain (LBP). It combines biomechanics, epidemiology, and finance to give an integrated tool for a firm to use to estimate the investment worthiness of an intervention based on a biomechanical analysis of working postures a...

Main duties: Underwriting and processing loan applications; collecting and analyzing information which reflects the credit worthiness of applicant; monitoring loan repayment activities; completing the monthly various financial reports for both loan department and CB.

Finite element post-processing has been dominated by software that is tightly integrated with simulation packages. Many of these packages have not kept up with the state-of-the-art developments in graphics technology and visualization techniques. Especially the large and time-dependent data sets resulting from crash-worthiness simulations in the automotive development process demand for new vis...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the views of Lebanese hospitals on the worthiness of accreditation vis-à-vis its associated expenses in addition to examining the type and source of financial investments incurred during the accreditation process. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS All private short-stay hospitals registered with the Syndicate of Private Hospitals in Leba...

The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to critically investigate Kuhn’s stance on the assessment of the pursuit worthiness of scientific theories, and, on the other hand, to show the actuality of some of Kuhn’s points on this issue, in view of their critical analysis. To this end we show that Kuhn presents certain tools, which may help scientists to overcome communication breakdowns when en...

[1] This study considers the worthiness of the Henry saltwater intrusion problem as a test case to benchmark density-dependent groundwater flow models. Previously published results from a coupled versus uncoupled analysis indicate that the flow patterns associated with the standard Henry problem are largely dictated by the boundary forcing and not necessarily a result of density-dependent effec...

It has been argued that evolutionary considerations favour utilitarianism by selectively debunking its competitors. However, also seem to undermine the practical significance of utilitarianism, since commonsense beliefs about well-being like prime candidates for debunking. We argue is not undermined in this way if we understand requirements rationality as sensitive normative uncertainty. consid...