Valentyn Bibik: reaching artistic maturity

Drug administration with ocular iontophoresis: reaching maturity.

Obituary for Jan Valentyn van der Merwe

Professor Jan Valentyn Van der Merwe passed away on Friday, 25 September, at the age of 71. Prof Jan’s illustrious career began after he completed a research fellowship at Duke University in the USA, and returned to South Africa as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Pretoria University. In this role, Prof Jan pioneered the establishment of an assisted reproduction unit in S...

FIRST MOVEMENT : Artistic Design

A support environment for audio-related artistic design is described. The rst part of the paper identiies requirements for artistic design support through an analysis of music composition activities, and presents an artistic design system object model adapted from the more conventional engineering design system technology. The second part examines the problems of representation, visualisation a...

Experimenting a Requirements Engineering Process Based on Rational Unified Process (RUP) Reaching Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 3 and Considering the Use of Agile Methods Practices

This work has the purpose of describing a software development process with the following characteristics: its scope lies within the requirements engineering activities; it fulfills CMMI requisites for Requirements Management and Requirements Development process areas (maturity level 2 and 3, respectively); it is based on RUP practices and activities where possible practices of agile methods ar...

Artistic Expression as Interpretation

According to R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art, art is the expression of emotion--a much-criticized view. I attempt to provide some groundwork for a defensible modern version of such a theory via some novel further criticisms of Collingwood, including the exposure of multiple ambiguities in his main concept of expression of emotion, and a demonstration that, surprisingly enough, his vi...