In this paper, we share the experience gathered in designing and implementing a software factory for healthcare systems based on Health Level Seven standard. We discuss the long term vision and the scoped down proof of concept developed so far. We also outline the challenges encountered in our project and the opportunities to widen the scope of the approach to different industries and, more in ...

[1] Variations in the speed and elemental and ionic charge composition of the solar wind are reported throughout the solar cycle, as observed by the SWICS instrument on Ulysses. The apparent bimodal nature of the solar wind during the solar minimum does not persist throughout the solar cycle. Rather, with increasing solar activity, a continuum of solar wind speeds and charge states is observed....

In the literature, The most mentioned issues about measuring poverty are its multi dimensionality and vagueness. Besides traditional approaches fuzzy approaches are widely employed. In this study fuzzy index of poverty (FIP) is calculated for Turkey based on approximately 25000 households. The indicators are disposable income, food expenditure, clothing and footwear expenditures and habitable a...

We suggest the ratio of the ψ′′(3770)/ψ′(3686) production cross sections as an unambiguous probe of the dominance of hard, pointlike physics in charmonium production. If hard physics dominates the charmonium production the ratio : σ(ψ ) σ(ψ) ≈ Γ(ψ→ll) Γ(ψ′→l+l−) ≈ 0.1 is independent of the process. We argue that since the dominant DD̄ decay mode of the ψ′′-meson can be detected with a high effic...

A pilot study was conducted to examine the manner in which Cantonese speakers use prosody to mark syntactic junctures in speech production. Test sentences were designed to create the intended experimental conditions — each sentence-pair consists of an identical array of morphemes with exactly two interpretations according to two different syntactic structures. These structures can be clarified ...

This paper describes the development of an experience factory in an Australian organization involved in the field of telecommunications. Faced with improvement needs, in 1998 the organization placed special attention on approaches to support improvement activities. Towards the end of 1998 a project was started between the company and the Centre for Advanced Empirical Software Research (CAESAR) ...

In this position paper, we present our approach of utilizing mobile devices (i.e., mobile phones and tablets) for assisting engineers and experts in understanding and maintaining the factory pipelines. For this, we present a platform, called assistME, that is composed of three main components: the assistME Server, the assistME mobile infrastructure, and the co-assistME collaborative environment...

BACKGROUND In 2013, an unusually high incidence of biliary tract cancer among current or former workers of the offset color proof printing department of a printing company in Osaka, Japan, was reported. The purpose of this study was to examine whether distance from the printing factory was associated with incidence of biliary tract cancer and whether incident biliary tract cancer cases clustere...