The aim of this work is to point out through experimentation some of the problems that arise with distributed software development, such as the need for new techniques and methods for managing projects and processes, so as to achieve better assignment of activities among the various working groups, together with efficient communication among the members of each team. The paper analyzes the post...

Buying and supplying organizations rely on each other for developing better products in an efficient manner, which explains the popularity of involving suppliers in new product development (NPD). However, such involvement is not always successful, partially due to the challenges of structuring a buyer–supplier team to manage joint dependence and dependence asymmetry. This study adopts an organi...

In 1990-1992, residents (12026 men and 11917 women aged 30 to 65 years) in 7 townships, Taiwan, were interviewed and recruited into a cancer-screening cohort and annually followed up. Colorectal cancer cases in this cohort were identified from cancer registry and death certificates. Incidence rates of this disease by the end of 2001 were calculated by gender for the primary study variable and c...

Nowadays, Collaborative Virtual Environments offer new working methods allowing for the association of several experts in the same problem-solving process. These new platforms have the potential to improve the processing of complex environments with large dataflow and requiring different skills. This article proposes the investigation of a synchronous and colocated approach for a molecular desi...

The predicted capacity gain of a traditional colocated MIMO system is often severely limited in realistic propagation scenarios, especially when the number of antennas becomes large. Recently, a generalized paradigm for multiple-antenna communications, distributed MIMO, is proposed as a remedy. In this paper, through asymptotic large-system analysis, we provide solid justifications on the advan...

Student project teams are an important and integral part of many engineering classrooms. This paper examines the socialand task-related dimensions of such co-located and distributed teams.Studies of distributed teams in the workplace observe that members often face social issues of building trust and cohesion that co-located teams do not. It is posited that distributed teams in the classroom mu...

The Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) onboard Envisat is designed to provide very accurate measurements of sea surface temperature (SST). Using colocated in situ drifting buoys, a dynamical matchup database (MDB) is used to assess the AATSR-derived SST products more precisely. SST biases are then computed. Currently, Medspiration AATSR SST biases are discrete values and can intro...

Retailers often co-locate spatially to draw consumers, even though it increases price competition. The paper develops a structural model of entry and location choice that isolates the agglomeration benefit of co-location, after controlling for pure differentiation rationales for colocation such as (1) high demand and/or low cost at the location; (2) zoning restrictions and (3) format differenti...

We determined that the spatial heterogeneity in aquifer properties governing the reactive transport of volatile organic contaminants is defined by the arrangement of lithofacies. We measured permeability (k) and perchloroethene sorption distribution coefficient (Kd) for lithofacies that we delineated for samples from the Canadian Forces Base Borden Aquifer. We compiled existing data and collect...

The relationship between surface transfer impedance and stirred mode chamber shielding effectiveness proposed by Eicher and Boillot has been simplified. This simplified relationship was used to compare the measured stirred mode chamber shielding effectiveness of nine shielding artifacts with the shielding effectiveness of the same samples calculated from transfer impedance measurements made at ...