The Capability Maturity Model for Software is a model for building organizational capability that has been widely adopted in the software community and beyond. The Software CMM is a five-level model that prescribes process improvement priorities for software organizations. Level 4 in the CMM focuses on using quantitative techniques, particularly statistical techniques, for controlling the soft...

In this paper, we propose a capability maturity model (CMM) for scientific data management (SDM) practices, with the goal of supporting assessment and improvement of these practices. The model describes key process areas and practices necessary for effective SDM. Appropriate SDM practices were identified by content analysis of papers about SDM and include both those specific SDM practices and g...

The mu and theta classes of glutathione S-transferases (GST) may affect the development of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) by decreasing cellular oxidative stress in skin. These isozymes are absent in a large proportion of the population because of germ-line homozygous deletions in the genes encoding GSTM1 and GSTT1. To determine the association between GSTM1 and GSTT1 homozygous deletions (...

OBJECTIVES Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an effective method of relieving chronic intractable pain, and one of its key indications is failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS). The objective of the current study was to evaluate the cost effectiveness of 10 kHz high-frequency SCS (HF10 SCS) compared to conventional medical management (CMM), reoperation, and traditional nonrechargeable (TNR-SCS) and...

The CDKN2A gene has been implicated in cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) in about 40% of families with linkage to chromosome 9p21, while a small proportion of families have mutations in the CDK4 gene. In order to estimate the importance of these genes in the predisposition to CMM in Spanish families and patients we have analysed, by SSCA, a total of 56 subjects belonging to 34 CMM families, an...

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM), published by the Software Engineering Institute has been used by software development organizations to improve the processes used to develop software products. The System Administration Maturity Model (SAMM) is an adaptation of the CMM to make it more relevant for system and network administration organizations. The SAMM seeks to describe the key processes r...

Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is a neoplasm which has always evoked scientific interest out of proportion to its frequency. Over the past decades, CMM has shown the most rapidly increasing neoplasm in yearly incidence. Such increased incidence outweighed the moderate improvements in therapy, causing a global increase in mortality. The disease progresses from the primary CMM (stages I and I...

This paper focuses on the management of the requirements engineering process and on the contributions a process supporting environment (PSE) can provide to perform this task. We use the key practices defined by the capability maturity model for software (CMM), one of the most prominent software process improvement approaches, as a requirements management scenario. For each activity proposed by ...