Software project offshoring is a rapidly growing trend. With this rapid growth, the software engineering research community is facing many challenges like cultural differences, linguistic problem etc because offshore software development is largely different from co-located software development OSD. This variance in software development nature has introduced many challenges. One of them is comm...

In client-server based storage systems, the knowledge of access behavior of client results in better quality of service. One of its uses is in prefetching to reduce the response time. In this paper, we propose a graph based model for access analysis of objects in the Object based device (OSD) system [1,2]. OSD technology promises to satisfy requirements of enterprise’s rapidly growing storage r...

Osgood-Schlatter Disease (OSD) is a painful, growth-related overuse condition of the tibial tuberosity, leading to inflammation of the patellar ligament at the tibial tuberosity. It primarily affects young adolescents, athletic population, and usually, resolves with age or skeletal maturity. Therapy is usually conservative, with surgery indicated in a minority of cases. For patients with treatm...

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench), a healthy vegetable, is widely spread in tropical and subtropical areas. Previous studies have proven that okra pods possess anti-fatigue activity, and the aim of this research is to clarify the anti-fatigue constituents. To achieve this, we divided okra pods (OPD) into seeds (OSD) and skins (OSK), and compared the contents of total polysaccharides, to...

Forms of onchocerciasis-related stigmatisation, following over 10 years of implementation of community directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI), were documented through a survey conducted between September and November 2009 to look at perceived changes in stigma over the past 7-10 years. We documented people's perceptions towards stigma before and after the introduction of CDTI from 1600 struc...

D-Lactate is oxidized by two classes of D-lactate dehydrogenase (D-LDH), namely, NAD-dependent and NAD-independent D-LDHs. Little is known about the characteristics and biological functions of D-LDHs in rice. In this study, a functional NAD-independent D-LDH (LOC_Os07g06890) was identified in rice, as a result of alternative splicing events. Characterization of the expression profile, subcellul...

This chapter presents an approach to organizational-self design (OSD), a method of designing organizations at run-time in which the agents are responsible for generating their own organizational structures. OSD is especially suitable for environments that are dynamic, albeit slowly changing. Such environments preclude the use of static, design-time generated, organizational structures, and yet ...

In this paper, we propose a new linear-equation ordered-statistics decoding (LE-OSD). Unlike the OSD, LE-OSD uses high reliable parity bits rather than information to recover codeword estimates, which is equivalent solving system of linear equations (SLE). Only test error patterns (TEPs) that create feasible SLEs, referred as valid TEPs, are used obtain different estimates. We introduce several...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to describe the demographics, risk factors, clinical signs, severity, and outcome of ocular surface disease (OSD) in 12 patients who had undergone trabeculectomy augmented with mitomycin C (MMC). METHODS Twelve glaucoma patients were referred to the Dry Eye Clinic (Singapore National Eye Centre) for further management of clinically significant OSD. RESULTS Of the 15 e...

This paper presents a proposal to em bed the file access control into object-based storage devices (OSD) to achieve powerf ul storage security with rich semantics; and two application pr ototypes, the OSD-based intrusion detection ( ID) and the f iner-grained (than the f ile-level) acce ss control, are im plemented to show its feasibility. To embed file access control into st orage, one of vita...