Position The role of humans in the software development process must be studied in the context of their organizational connguration. The organizational structure within which the process executes has a profound effect on its outcome. The communication and interaction problems associated with human involvement in development cannot be addressed by process improvement alone. The solution must inc...

Enzymes are one of the most important biomolecules which has a wide range of applications in industrial as well as biomedical field. They are important due to their many useful properties. Their development, to a great extent, has been possible due to the availability of microbial sources. Microorganisms are of much attention because they can be produced economically and are amenable to genetic...

1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

At the last Pig Genetics Workshop two papers described aspects of the lost potential in pig production at the commercial level. Black (2000) estimated that slower growth, reduced efficiency of feed use and fatter carcases decreased the profitability of pig enterprises by as much as 25%. Walters (2000) estimated that successful progress had been achieved in backfat reduction but that there were ...

The subject of this research is about studying of relationship between the dimensions of empowerment and creativity improvement in educational organization of North khorasan. This research has one major hypothesis and five minor ones. The main purpose of this research is exploring the relationship between the dimensions of empowerment and creativity improvement in educational organization of No...

perhaps before establishing the psychology and counseling organization of iran by the parliament in 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. on this basis, the biggest opportunity for this discipline was establishing this organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. on 14/11/2012 counseling centers regulation was in...

the aim of this research was to explain the difference in the dimensions of learning organization between federations of team and individual sports. this research was a comparative survey. the statistical population consisted of 795 fulltime employees of iran sport federations. out of 212 returned questionnaires, 158 questioners were from individual sport federations and 54 from team sport fede...

This tutorial presents an in-house software engineering training program used within a software development organization at a large, national, U.S. research laboratory. The program is designed to train experienced software engineers in the requirements and methodology of a software process improvement program being implemented within the software development organization. The software process i...

We present a novel dynamic organization to solve DCSP(Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem). DCSP provides a formal framework for studying cooperative distributed problem solving[Yokoo 921. To solve DCSP, we have developed a simple algorithm using iterative improvement. This technique has had great success on certain CSP(Constraint Satisfaction Problems)[Minton 9O][Selman 921. In our alg...

This paper provides an approach for organizational learning through the collection of "Lessons Learned." The approach focuses on organizations in the Information Technology area, but is applicable to any organization having defined processes and a mechanism for process improvement. This approach ties the lessons learned program to the process infrastructure used by the organization to collect l...