in this research, the chemical and microbiological characteristics of white brined cheeses produced with five differen starter cultures, namely: traditional kefir grain, commercial kefir, commercial yogurt, traditional yogurt and commercial cheese starter culture, were examined during 60- day ripening period. results of statistical analysis showed that the type of starter culture had a signific...

Army vehicle software interacts with complex electronics from multiple vendors. The software structure complexity is influenced by many factors prior to software development. Understanding, predicting and resolving complexity of vehicle software prior to its development is a necessity for Army mission success. Current complexity metrics focus on software and its technical structure with no cons...

The purpose of this study is to follow-up on ERP implementation after five years. The original study of ERP implementation in five organizations was accomplished in 2000 (Sumner, 2002). The purpose of the follow-up interviews in 2005 was to identify changes in ERP planning, design, and implementation strategy as these projects evolved over time. The organizations participating in these case stu...

Measures of the Big Five factors of personality were used to predict a variety of criterion variables thought to represent behaviors of some social and cultural significance (e.g., alcohol consumption, grade point average). Analyses focused on replicated predictions across 2 independent samples of participants (Ns = 276 and 142) with 3 different measures of the Big Five (the NEO Five-Factor Inv...

This research had three basic goals: (a) to identify manipulation tactics used in close relationships; (b) to document empirically the degree of generality and specificity of tactical deployment across relationship types (mates, friends, parents); and (c) to identify links between five major personality dimensions and the usage of manipulation tactics. Twelve manipulation tactics were identifie...

Discussion of teaching cases can make a significant difference in teacher preparation, as long as it helps teachers reflect on their professional practices, by reviewing both other teachers’ cases and their own documented experiences(Barnett, 1998). On this basis, teachers build, or refine, teaching knowledge. In the last two decades there have been major efforts for creating, using and learnin...

In this paper a tool is proposed to foster reflection in agile software development teams. Based upon the qualitative model of Moe et al. [11], we contribute a quantitative questionnaire organized along five dimensions of agile teamwork analogous to the “Five Factor Model” in contemporary psychology. To test this survey tool and its alignment with existing studies, we have executed an empirical...

The responses of cortical neurons to repeated presentation of a stimulus are highly variable, yet correlated. These "noise correlations" reflect a low-dimensional structure of population dynamics. Here, we examine noise correlations in 22,705 pairs of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) of anesthetized cats, during ongoing activity and in response to artificial and natural visual stimuli. We ...

We perform the classical gravity calculations of the fixed scalar absorption cross-sections by D = 5 black holes with three charges and by D = 4 black holes with four charges. We obtain analytic results for the cases where the energy and the left and right moving temperatures are sufficiently low but have arbitrary ratios. In D = 5 the greybody factor is in perfect agreement with the recent cal...

Extending our previous research on personality and prejudice, we tested the predictive power of Big Five facet compared with factor scores in three studies. Study 1 (N=170) examined the predictive power of factors and facets when explaining generalized prejudice, a composite of four prejudice types. Study 2 (N=158) focused on sexism and Study 3 (N=80) examined the impact of personality and expe...