System Metaphor is one of the key practices of Extreme Programming (XP). Unfortunately, the System Metaphor practice is poorly understood, and is the practice XP teams most commonly choose to ignore. In this paper, we provide a small collection of patterns that teams can use to develop metaphors for their systems, and for evaluating system metaphors. We hope these patterns will encourage Extrem...

CESAR Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research – EWIV (CESAR) is an association of scientists in the area of basic sciences, preclinical oncology and clinical oncology (see also I. Preamble of the Bylaws of CESAR). CESAR is organized in specific working groups dealing with drug development and preclinical pharmacology, Phase I, phase II, and phase III study performance and clinical...

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BACKGROUND Chip pan fires are responsible for 25% of fire related injury in the UK, despite government strategies to encourage safer frying. To establish the feasibility of promoting oven ready chips (fries), the residents in a materially deprived ward of London were surveyed. Sample frame: 1073 of 2145 households participating in a randomised controlled trial. RESULTS Approximately half of t...