The traditional distinction between education as something which is done at a university and training as something which is done by industry, is not only incorrect but the focus on this distinction leads us to ignore more critical issues in the development of competent sofnYare engineers. The adequacy and success of a variety of delivery techniques for the education and training of software eng...

We report the discovery of H2O maser emission at 1.35 cm wavelength in seven active galactic nuclei (at distances up to < 80 Mpc) during a survey conducted at the 70-m diameter antenna of the NASA Deep Space Network near Canberra, Australia. The detection rate was ∼ 4%. Two of the maser sources are particularly interesting because they display satellite high-velocity emission lines, which are a...

OBJECTIVES A new method was developed to harvest bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts using a subxiphoid approach and robotic assistance. The present study compared the potential utility of the subxiphoid method with that of the lateral thoracic approach. METHODS The first part of the study examined the optimal placement of the instrument ports to maximize the robotic arms' range of moti...

period of 5 years. Any person with an approved or pending drug product application who knowingly uses the services of Mr. Feuer in any in any capacity during his period of debarment will be subject to civil money penalties (section 307(a)(6) of the act (21 U.S.C. 335b(a)(6))). If Mr. Feuer, during his period of debarment, provides services in any capacity to a person with an approved or pending...

Literature comparing national ambient air quality standards (AAQSs) globally is scattered and sparse. Twenty-four hour AAQSs for particulate matter <10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(10)) and sulfur dioxide (SO(2)) in 96 countries were identified through literature review, an international survey, and querying an international legal database. Eighty three percent, of the 96 countries with infor...

Given 3-D sensor data of points slightly moving in space, we consider the problem of discerning whether or not translation, rotation, and scale change take place and to what extent. For this purpose, we propose a new method for fitting various motion models to 3-D sensor data. Based on the observation that subgroups of 3-D affinity are defined by imposing various internal constraints on the par...

Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common autosomal hereditary pediatric disease, is no longer restricted to childhood as modern therapy has given patients both increased longevity and better quality of life. When the gene was identified more than 16 years ago and the most common mutation, F508, found, general hope of a rapid cure for the disease was expressed. The discovery entailed a marked incre...

We combine the concepts of legitimacy, institutional (mis)alignments, strategic responses and organizing visions to develop a conceptual framework to analyze the adoption of innovations that span organizational fields. We apply this framework to examine a telehealth innovation connecting a public sector hospital-based Eye Clinic with private sector optometry practices. We find that while compro...

XML signature technology is the major approach for ensuring XML data authentication. An XML signature should satisfy multiple data authentication requirements for XML data which pass a hierarchical network of responsibilities. Through investigation, existing XML multisignature schemes can not satisfy this requirement. This paper presents a series-parallel XML multisignature scheme based on Lu’s...

fusarium wilt of melon is a destructive fungal disease throughout the world. in this study, the evolutionary relationships among isolates of different formae speciales of fusarium oxysporum was examined, with a special emphasis on the forma specialis melonis. bootstrapped maximum likelihood analysis of the elongation factor-1α (ef-1α) sequence was conducted on 16 iranian and 11 foreign isolates...