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Spice Compendium

Sugar and spice

Even as little as two decades ago, science writers could not assume that the word ‘gene’ was widely understood. It had to be defined and discussed. Today, stories about genes for various traits come so thick and fast that journalists no longer need to pause and explain what genes are. Awareness of material inheritance is now widespread. The only problem is that everyday parlance has simplified ...

CME review Spice allergy

Objectives: To provide a review on spice allergy and its implementation in clinical practice. Data Sources: PubMed searches were performed using spice allergy as the keyword for original and review articles. Selected references were also procured from the reviewed articles’ references list. Study Selection: Articles were selected based on their relevance to the topic. Results: Spices are availa...

SPICE: An Empiricist's Perspective

The SPICE project aims to deliver an international standard for software process assessment by the end of 1996. As part of this project there is an empirical trials phase whose purpose is to ascertain the effectiveness of the prospective SPICE standard. Two of the objectives of the trials phase are: (a) to determine the extent to which SPICEconformant assessments are repeatable (i.e., reliabili...

The Gamification of SPICE

Process Improvement has been used for decades as a means to become better and more efficient. Whilst many organizations have used considerable resources for process improvement, investments in process improvement have not always led to changes and improvements expected. One most important aspects of management is to motivate the work force. However, management often fails to deliver. In fact, b...