Computer A nalysts frequently describe troubled projects with the tar pit metaphor used so effectively in Fred Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month (2nd ed., AddisonWesley, Reading, Mass., 1995). We have found a similarly effective metaphor: Think of a troubled software project as an insect caught in a spiderweb of sticky constraints, trying desperately to break free before the spider arrives to feed.

In Situational Method Engineering, the concepts of both fragment and chunk have been proposed as the atomic element. These are examined here in terms of their conceptual integrity and in terms of how they may be used in method construction, drawing parallels to show that the similarities are more than the differences. The new ISO/IEC 24744 standard metamodel is used as a conceptual framework to...

since 1895 cardamom has been cultivated in the cardamom hills of western ghats, india, which form a part of global biodiversity hot spots. these tropical forests in the last couple of decades have been subjected for severe periodical shade lopping and selective felling for maximizing cardamom production. photosynthesis, transpiration, leaf temperature and leaf relative humidity was studied in r...

We previously reported higher anti-HPV-16 and -18 immune responses induced by HPV-16/18 vaccine compared with HPV-6/11/16/18 vaccine at Month 7 (one month after completion of full vaccination series) in women aged 18-45 y in an observer-blind study NCT00423046; the differences of immune response magnitudes were maintained up to Month 24. Here we report follow-up data through Month 48. At Month ...

BACKGROUND the Minimum Dataset Mortality Risk Index-Revised (MMRI-R) is a prognostic score predicting 6-month mortality in US nursing homes. It has not been validated in the UK nor at the hospital-nursing home interface. METHODS prospective cohort study of consecutive patients discharged from hospital or intermediate care to nursing homes from January 2012 to January 2014. MMRI-R scoring was ...

toxins ISSN 2072-6651 www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins Correction Correction: Duke, S.O., et al., Modes of Action of MicrobiallyProduced Phytotoxins. Toxins 2011, 3, 1038–1064 Stephen O. Duke * and Franck E. Dayan United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, P. O. Box 8048, MS 38677, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] * Autho...

A 48-year-old man residing in a mental health department inpatient program with a history of schizoaffective disorder presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of fever and intense abdominal pain for one day. The patient stated he initially fell in the shower and afterwards experienced back pain. He was transferred to an acute care unit within the facility for further evaluat...

A 48-year-old man with no significant past medical history but a family history of collagen vascular disorders presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of being unable to walk. The patient had been in his usual state of health until approximately three weeks prior, when he first visited the emergency department for fever, chills, and bilateral shoulder pain. The physical exa...