Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare recessive heredity disease caused by DNA repair impairment characterized by photosensitivity and neurologic symptoms in half of the cases. There are eight subtypes of XP: XP-A-XP-G and XP variant. Among eight subtypes, XP complementation group A (XP-A) display the lowest DNA repair ability and the severest cutaneous and neurologic symptoms. While its pathoge...

Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile (lightweight) software development methodology and it becomes more and more popular. XP proposes many interesting practices, but it also has some weaknesses. From the software engineering point of view the most important issues are: maintenance problems resulting from very limited documentation (XP relies on code and test cases only), and lack of wider persp...

Agile methods, such as eXtreme Programming (XP), have been criticised for being inadequate for the development of secure software. In this paper, we analyse XP from a security engineering standpoint, to assess to what extent the method can be used for development of security critical software. This is done by analysing XP in the light of two security engineering standards; the Systems Security ...

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a genetic disorder characterised by hypo-/hyperpigmentation, increased sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV)-radiation and an up to 2000-fold increased skin cancer risk. Cells from XP-patients are defective in nucleotide excision repair (NER) responsible for repair of UV-induced DNA damage. This defect accounts for their mutator phenotype but does not predict their incre...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (XP, Diamond V, Cedar Rapids, IA) on in vitro ruminal fermentation of single forage and mixed diets. In Exp. 1, an in vitro test was used to determine the effects of various concentrations (0, 1, 2, and 3 g/L) of XP on ruminal fermentation of the major forage sources of China (rice straw...

Introducing Extreme Programming (XP) to an industrial software development team usually involves technical and professional aspects as well as social and organizational ones. The introducing of a new software development method in general and XP in particular into a software project team that operates in the army emphasizes and extends these issues. In this paper we present a process through wh...

Rosenthal [R] introduced the Lp space Xp in 1971. Among its interesting properties are that it contains and is contained in isomorphs of lp ⊕ l2, but is not isomorphic to a complemented subspace of lp⊕ l2. These properties have made Xp rather resistant to standard approaches to classifying its complemented subspaces. For example it was first proved that Xp was primary in [JO2] where the device ...

XP is a culture not a method. As a culture, XP has significant appeal to those seeking a more humane and effective way to develop software. Recognition of XP as a culture, and establishing mechanisms for expanding that culture, is essential for success. However, characterization of XP as a culture, by outsiders, is a significant threat to adoption, unless the XP community acknowledges being a c...