It is suggested that test-driven development (TDD) is one of the most fundamental practices in agile software development, which produces loosely coupled and highly cohesive code. However, how the TDD impacts on the structure of the program code have not been widely studied. This paper presents the results from a comparative case study of five small scale software development projects where the...

There exist problems in the actual evidence-based practice of medicine relating to time available and stringent algorithms employed by attending physicians. The mistakes are often serious. Illustrating clinical examples given as how things can go wrong under pressure baring on clinicians factors given.

This paper is particularly relevant in the context of a global pandemic when majority teaching conducted online or hybrid environment that requires long hours front screen. Online becoming increasingly important throughout education, and our findings draw attention to some challenges possible pitfalls extensive use digital technologies and, consequently, implications for teacher education. In p...

Social capital has been defined as the resources available to individuals and groups through membership in social networks. The definition is consistent with either an individualistic approach, i.e. resources (such as information or instrumental assistance) that are accessed by individuals through their network connections; or a collective approach, e.g. the benefits accruing to members of a gr...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Clinical practice guidelines are being increasingly recognized as critically important to an evidence-based practice. This article reviews the different approaches used by leading urological organizations to the development of prostate cancer guidelines. It further introduces the recommendations of the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) ...

We investigated the extent to which the human capacity for recognition helps to forecast political elections: We compared naïve recognition-based election forecasts computed from convenience samples of citizens’ recognition of party names to (i) standard polling forecasts computed from representative samples of citizens’ voting intentions, and to (ii) simple—and typically very accurate—wisdom-o...

Ad targeting is getting more powerful with introduction of new tools, such as Custom Audiences, behavioral targeting, and Audience Insights. Although this is beneficial for businesses as it enables people to receive more relevant advertising, the power of the tools has downsides. In this paper, we focus on three downsides: privacy violations, microtargeting (i.e., the ability to reach a specifi...