CMA transformation initiative scrutinized

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI).

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) is a public-private partnership created in 2007 between the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Duke University for the purpose of identifying practices that will increase the quality and efficiency of clinical trials. The initiative was generated from the realization that the clinical trials system in the United States has b...

Digital Transformation Initiative Oil and Gas Industry

The Staging Transformation Approach to Mixing Initiative

Mixed-initiative interaction is an important facet of many conversational interfaces, flexible planning architectures, intelligent tutoring systems, and interactive information retrieval systems. Software systems for mixed-initiative interaction must enable us to both operationalize the mixing of initiative (i.e., support the creation of practical dialogs) and to reason in real-time about how a...

Java Smart Ticket Demo Application Scrutinized

For the Java component model J2EE, Sun has published guidelines which show how to use their technology effectively to create enterprise applications. These guidelines are illustrated in the two example enterprise application blueprints Pet Store and Smart Ticket. Since our group is working on a wireless project, we investigated the Smart Ticket demo application. This paper describes our experie...

Scrutinized: The TRIPS Agreement and Public Health

The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 1994 seeks to implement a uniform set of intellectual property protection across member nations to provide greater stability in international economic relations. Critics argue that the TRIPS agreement provides unnecessarily strong protection of intellectual property rights which ...