The main agenda of Requirements Engineering (RE) is the development of tools, techniques and languages for the elicitation, specification, negotiation, and validation of software requirements. However, this development has traditionally been focused on functional requirements (FRs), rather than non-functional requirements (NFRs). Consequently, NFR approaches developed over the years have been f...

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE/SA approach which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and selection of COTS components, using a representation of COTS components ...

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Compound (N,N-bis (salicylidene) 1,2-diaminophenylene) was prepared by condensation of ethanolsolution of 2-Hydroxybanzaldehyde and 1,2-diaminophenylene. The compound was characterized by1H NMR, infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) data and analytical data. The geometrical parameters andenergies have been obtained from Density Functional Theory (DFT) B3LYP method and Hartree-Fock (HF) method with 3-21...

Methods Patients diagnosed as JIA according to ILAR criteria in Pediatric Rheumatology Department of Dokuz Eylül University Hospital were consecutively enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Demographic, clinical and functional characteristics of patients were evaluated. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, patients’ and physicians’ global VAS, number of involved joints were recorded as nonfunction...

Introduction: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) are non-fatal, unknown etiology disorders with absence of a structural or biochemical explanation and accounting for up to 50% of gastroenterology referrals. Infant regurgitation, rumination and cyclic vomiting constitute the vomiting disorders. Abdominal pain disorders are classified as: functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome (...

conclusion significant functional performance deficits were observed in the fai group in all tests except single hop test with greater deficits observed in the fai-gw group. hence, these tests can be used to determine the presence of fai. however no deficits were identified for the test involving sagittal plane functional activities suggesting that this test can not be used as a criterion to di...

Background Acute myocarditis (AM) is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle. Clinical presentation and outcome are variable, ranging from asymptomatic to fulminant myocarditis (FM), presenting with decompensated heart failure or cardiogenic shock needing inotropic or mechanical circulatory support. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly employed in the diagnosis and follow-up (f....

Automatic discovery and invocation of services will only be accepted in practise, if the non-functional, especially QoS, parameters are taken into consideration during matchmaking. In this paper we present how this can be achieved. As an example, we use the DIANE framework and explain how the concepts developed there can be extended to easily accommodate non-functional aspects. Thereby, these a...