UNLABELLED The nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) is a physiological tool to study spinal nociception. However, NFR assessment can take several minutes and expose participants to repeated suprathreshold stimulations. The 4 studies reported here assessed the reliability and validity of a brief method to assess NFR threshold that uses a single ascending series of stimulations (Peak 1 NFR), by compa...

The notion of Non Functional Requirement (NFR) of software system is not homogeneous. There is lack of consensus to answer questions as: What are they? How do they classify within the software development context? Also, knowing, how there are classified in the Web application development? In [1] we compared six Methodological approaches used for the development of Web applications in order to a...

BACKGROUND With both a high need for recovery (NFR) and overweight and obesity being a potential burden for organizations (e.g. productivity loss and sickness absence), the aim of this paper was to examine the associations between overweight and obesity and several other health measures and NFR in office workers. METHODS Baseline data of 412 office employees participating in a randomised cont...

Despite the widespread use of the nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) paradigm in clinical and experimental pain research, there is currently no consensus on how best to define NFR threshold. Accordingly, the present studies were designed to assess the accuracy and reliability of different NFR threshold scoring criteria. Study 1 compared 13 scoring criteria in their accuracy for identifying the pr...

Temporal summation of pain (TS-pain) is the progressive increase in pain ratings during a series of noxious stimulations. TS-pain has been used to make inferences about sensitization of spinal nociceptive processes; however, pain report can be biased thereby leading to problems with this inference. Temporal summation of the nociceptive flexion reflex (TS-NFR, a physiological measure of spinal n...

We address the problem of how to provide guarantees to a user that an automatically generated composition of independently developed web services meets the non-functional requirements (NFR). The user-specified NFR are in the form of hard constraints. We introduce an automata-based model for representing and reasoning about non-functional requirements for verifying the conformance to NFR. The ap...

Pain catastrophizing is associated with enhanced temporal summation of pain (TS-Pain). However, because prior studies have found that pain catastrophizing is not associated with a measure of spinal nociception (nociceptive flexion reflex [NFR] threshold), this association may not result from changes in spinal nociceptive processes. The goal of the present study in healthy participants was to ex...

PURPOSE To evaluate the fracture strength and the failure mode of endodontically treated teeth restored with composite resin overlays with and without glass-fiber reinforcement. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 32 extracted molars were divided into four equal groups. In the NFR-NFRC (no foundation restoration, no fiber-reinforced composite) and NFR-FRC (no foundation restoration, fiber-reinfo...

A key to successful software development is a clear understanding of the requirements. Requirement analysis is to be carried out at the earlier stage of software development life cycle to avoid requirement related problem at a later stage. Both functional (FR) and non-functional requirement (NFR) play crucial role in software development. A common industrial practice is not to consider NFR at t...

Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) can be seen as qualities that software should deliver to cope with the stakeholders’ demands. NFRs are fuzzy in nature and hence hard to identify. Despite the fact that both developers and users may value NFRs, they frequently do not identify the need for an NFR. Even when an NFR is identified as required, possible solutions to implement this NFR may be hard to...