Group work has long been an effective approach to solving organizational problems and making high quality management decisions. This has been particularly true for information systems projects. This research effort attempts to define the constructs for group interaction as it pertains to small groups (i.e. 3-7 members). The subjects were students who were placed into groups and then assigned a ...

This paper presents an overview of NASA Langley’s research program in formal methods. The major goals of this work are to make formal methods practical for use on high integrity systems, to orchestrate the transfer of this technology to U.S. industry through use of carefully designed demonstration projects, and to exploit this technology to help achieve NASA’s goals in aeronautics. Several dire...

Funding Information This study was supported by the Major Science and Technology Projects of Changzhou Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning (No: ZD201505), Program of Bureau of Science and Technology Foundation of Changzhou (No: CJ20159022), Changzhou Health Administration Instructional Technology Project (No: wz201008) and The Hospital-Level Care Special Pre-Research Fund of the ...

1. Auriculotherapy was effective in relieving the symptoms of constipation and improving quality of life for elderly people. 2. Auriculotherapy had a significant time effect in relieving symptoms of constipation, a greater reduction in scores for symptoms of constipation and quality of life, and an increased number of bowel movements per week, compared with controls. 3. The methodology of this ...

Learning from high performance projects is crucial for software process improvement. Therefore, we need to identify outstanding projects that may serve as role models. It is common to measure productivity as an indicator of performance. It is vital that productivity measurements deal correctly with variable returns to scale and multivariate data. Software projects generally exhibit variable ret...

In this paper we analyze how a Technology Transfer Office (TTO) developing a reputation in the sale of university research may affect a scientist’s willingness to disclose ideas to the university. The TTO receives projects from academic scientists each period and then must decide whether to check the quality of each project. Checking the quality of projects and only licensing high valued projec...

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice provides a framework for building the baccalaureate education for the twenty-first century. One of the exemplars included in the essentials toolkit includes student participation in an actual root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode effects analysis. To align with this exemplar, faculty at the University of Michigan Sc...

The author has a wide variety of topics for projects in Algebra and Combinatorics. Three candidates are an investigation of the graph theoretical properties of the subgroup graph of a group, the study of simplicial monomial rings, and the search for Hurwitz groups. All three projects are appropriate for undergraduates, each has a high probability of success, and each offers a wide range of poss...