The establishment of the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) always calls for histopathological confirmation. Further to the recognition of the CMM aspects, immunohistochemistry is helpful, in particular, in determining the size of the replicative compartment and the activity in each of the cell cycle phases (G(1), S, G(2), M). The involvement of cancer stem cells and transient ampl...

Anatomic M-mode (AMM) is an echocardiographic technique that is capable of generating M-mode studies from two-dimensional (2D) cine loops. Unlike conventional M-mode (CMM) whose scan line must lie along the axis of the ultrasound signal, AMM produces M-mode studies independent of the orientation of the ultrasound beam. We sought to determine the ability of AMM to measure cardiac dimensions in n...

This paper describes the case study of an application of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to a micro team with less than 10 people and very limited resources, clearly placed in the first CMM level of maturity, the Initial level. A major aim of the case, which extended over a period of one year, was to study the extent to which the CMM could be adapted to very small teams for software process...

An estimated 10% of all cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) cases are inherited, but the genetics of familial CMM are largely unknown. Ocular malignant melanoma (OMM), which is rare, may be associated with familial CMM. We performed a genome-wide scan of two Danish pedigrees with multiple cases of OMM (N = 10) and CMM (N = 3) and other malignancies (with no germline mutations in CDKN2A, CDK4, BR...

The Software CMM The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University developed the SW-CMM as a model for building organizational capability, and it has been widely adopted in the software community and beyond. As Table 1 shows, the SW-CMM is a five-level model that describes good engineering and management practices and prescribes improvement priorities for software organizations. ...

The focus of this paper is to outline the experience of a European based software organization utilizing the IDEAL model, while implementing a tailored Capability Maturity Model (CMM) software process improvement program. The goal was to achieve process improvement rather than a specific CMM maturity level. In doing this, the IDEAL model was extensively researched and employed. The benefits and...

Accurate prediction is probably the most pursued objective when solving real problems with machine learning, but there are situations where, added to the prediction, it is important to obtain a comprehensible output. The aim of this work is to compare the behaviour of two strategies to combine the knowledge of m classifiers in a single one in order to maintain the explaining capacity of the fin...

We review the main results on the generalization of the DGLAP evolution equations within the cut Mellin moments (CMM) approach, which allows one to overcome the problem of kinematic constraints in Bjorken x. CMM obtained by multiple integrations as well as multiple differentiations of the original parton distribution also satisfy the DGLAP equations with the simply transformed evolution kernel....

1CMM (Capability Maturity Model) is becoming a standard for organisations asking for a roadmap to evaluate and improve maturity of their processes in developing software/systems. Implementation of the CMM is also an important current activity in research & development at Iskratel, Ltd. The paper presents our experience with the use of the SE-CMM (Systems Engineering CMM), particularly with the ...

The test efficiency and reliability of loudness assessment using a computer-controlled method of cross-modality matching (CMM) between line length and loudness was investigated in children 4 to 12 years with normal hearing or mild to severe degrees of sensorineural hearing loss. Adult listeners with normal hearing served as a comparison group. Computer-generated visual and acoustic stimuli were...