Feature Soft ware development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer's efficiency and can even contribute to project delays. oftware development consists of more than writing programming code. Developers also participate in discussions, meetings, phone calls, and activities undertaken...

How much do caloric requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a quantitative measure of individual ...

Few can dispute the tremendous values of linen, which is one of nature’s greatest treasures. Linen is a longer-staple category, and as such the fibre is spun on a long-fibre spinning system. Due to the coarseness and stiffness of the fibre, linen fabrics are subjected to a strong bleaching action to reduce the stiffness of the fabric. Linen is also blended with other compatible natural and manm...

This short paper was prepared for the NIJ Roundtable for Developing an Evaluation Methodology for Geographic Profiling Software (August 10 and 11, 2004) on approaches for validating geographic profiling (GP) methods. The paper presents a framework for validating any GP method or software package using solved serial crimes including data on crime locations and criminal residences or other anchor...

The Girujan Clay Formation is demarcated as Bangladeshopollenites barishalensis Zone, which equivalent to middle-upper Siwalik sediments of Punjab Basin. mangrove and coastal palynotaxa present in this formation indicate that these have been deposited under the delta condition a supratidal environment. considered be Mio-Pliocene age. DupiTila recognized here Corrugatisporites sp. Zone. This Nam...

buraq baba or buraq e rumi of mawlawiya sect was born in tuqat (between kunya and sivas) (mid of 7th century a.h).he became one of mashayikh of baba'iya after his apprentice to his murshid sari saltuq and was entitled buraq. apparently baba'iya was subdivision of mawlawiya specially its qalandari tariqas (ways) which was vocal in azerbaijan and anatolia for a long time. buraq baba&apo...

Since the syndrome now known as acute lung injury (ALI) was first described over 40 years ago, enormous progress has been made in the clinical practice of critical care. Nonetheless, if they had the ability to look forward into the future, practitioners of that era might be shocked at the lack of evident progress in the treatment of this deadly disease. Indeed, 4 decades later, the most importa...

Readers actively construct representational models of meaning when reading text, and they do so by drawing on a range of kinds of information, from the specifi c linguistic forms of the sentences to knowledge about how the world works (Ferretti, Kutas, & McRae, 2007 ; Madden & Zwaan, 2003 ). The present set of studies focused on how grammatical aspect is integrated into a situation model and ho...

When we build and maintain safety-, mission-, or security-critical systems, we are usually constrained by regulations or acquisition guidelines that require us to provide a documented body of evidence that the system satisfies specified critical properties. In other words, we must construct an “assurance case” to convince the purchaser or user of the system’s suitability or quality. However, in...