Pain problems are more prevalent in Native Americans than in any other group in the U.S., and this might result from group differences in pain modulation. This study was designed to examine emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in healthy, pain-free Native Americans (n = 21) relative to non-Hispanic Whites (n = 20). To assess emotional modulation of pain and the nociceptive flexio...

Despite the importance of capturing a precise and complete set of requirements in the requirements engineering stage, there are few tools that adequately support requirements analysis in the process of capturing quality related requirements (non-functional requirements). This paper presents ElicitO, a requirements elicitation tool aimed at empowering requirements analysts with a knowledge repos...

Pervasive environments support users’ daily routines in an invisible and unobtrusive way. To do so, they include a technical pervasive infrastructure, which is aware of and adaptive to both the operational context and the users at hand. Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) have been effectively used to inform decision-making in software engineering: functional alternatives are compared in terms o...

Purpose Non-financial reporting (NFR) is viewed as a major step towards organisational transparency and accountability. While the number of non-financial reports published every year has been growing exponentially over last two decades, their quality effectiveness in managing environmental, social governance (ESG) performance have questioned. Addressing these concerns, several jurisdictions, in...

Witten recently gave further evidence for the conjectured relationship between the A series of the N = 2 minimal models and certain Landau-Ginzburg models by computing the elliptic genus for the latter. The results agree with those of the N = 2 minimal models, as can be calculated from the known characters of the discrete series representations of the N = 2 superconformal algebra. The N = 2 min...

We discuss magnetic moments of the baryons allowing for avour symmetry breaking in the quark magnetic moments. We nd that such a symmetry breaking is necessary to achieve consistency with data for the nucleon spin structure obtained from deep inelastic scattering. For the e ective magnetic moments we nd u= d = 1:79 0:06 and s= d = 0:68 0:05. We also calculate weak decay form factors, which in o...

This paper presents an account of the experience observed when obtaining a set of requirements for the development of educational software for people with impaired vision. Numerous techniques of requirements engineering, specifically review and prototyping techniques, were applied to elicit, analyze, and validate 51 requirements for educational software for the vision impaired. Requirements wer...

Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) have been frequently neglected or forgotten in software design. In order to treat them as first class citizens it is necessary not only to provide methods and representations, but also to deal with their organization, as to promote future reuse. In this article we offer a preliminary insight on how this knowledge could be organized as catalogues in order to fa...

Multi-criteria decision making problems exist everywhere. In a complex system, for all involved players, it is inevitable to face task/service selection situations where multiple qualities of tasks/services criteria need to be taken into account. In addition, complex interrelationships between different impact factors and actors need to be understood and traded off. In this paper, we present a ...

Requirements prioritization (RP), part of engineering (RE), is an essential activity Software Product-Lines (SPL) paradigm. Similar to standard systems, the identification and user needs are relevant software quality challenging in SPL due common requirements, increasing dependencies, diversity stakeholders involved. As process might become impractical when number derived products grows, recent...