The development and evolution of enterprise-wide software architectures is influenced by multiple stakeholders and decision makers in development organizations. Architectural design and evolution is embedded in a larger distributed network of organizational participants, who actively contribute to the identification, interpretation, delegation, reasoning, and enacting of decision processes. In ...

Software development is a dynamic process where engineers constantly modify and refine their systems. As a consequence, everything evolves including designs, system's architectural structure, and implementation source code. Software evolution can easily make architectural traceability relationships between software architectural entities and corresponding source code become out of date. This pa...

The writing of Iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. Portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the Iranian throught world. To have a truly Iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

The purpose of this paper is to gain experience in solving real problems faced by a company. We first specify the system architecture of the AFS Master System ® using our Component Specification Language (CSL). We then identified various problems evident in the current architecture of the AFS Master System ®. Based on an analysis of the architecture and these problems, we proposed a modificatio...

The environment in which acute clinical psychiatric nursing occurs actively militates against the possibility of 'counselling' taking place at a ward level. However, a proportion of mental health nurses working in this area continue to describe themselves as counsellors thus perpetuating a cycle of misconception. This article examines the reality of acute psychiatric service provision in an att...

The food we eat ultimately comes from plants, either directly or indirectly. The importance of plants as the global kitchen can never be underestimated. Plants “eat” sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce their own food and food for the millions of other organisms dependent on them. A molecule, chlorophyll (Chl), is crucial for this process, since it absorbs sunlight. However, the way land plan...

BACKGROUND The vision of transforming health systems into learning health systems (LHSs) that rapidly and continuously transform knowledge into improved health outcomes at lower cost is generating increased interest in government agencies, health organizations, and health research communities. While existing initiatives demonstrate that different approaches can succeed in making the LHS vision ...