A new discipline, Usability Design, is proposed as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best practices for user-centred design and contains activities that have been carefully tested. Five new roles are introduced to take responsibility for the different activities. An example is given to show the content of the ...

Methods We studied 50 patients with infrequent ( 1 episode/month), sustained ( 1 min) palpitations. Before enrollment, patients had a negative initial evaluation, including history, physical examination, and ECG. Patients were randomized either to conventional strategy (24-h Holter recording, a 4-week period of ambulatory ECG monitoring with an external recorder, and electrophysiological study)...

This paper describes an assessment of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). For each key practice (KP) identified in each key process area (KPA) of CMM levels 2 and 3, the Rational Unified Process was assessed to determine whether it satisfied the KP or not. For each KPA, the percentage of the key practices supported was calculated, and the results wer...

It is impossible to produce systems of any size which do not need to be changed. Once software is put into use, new requirements emerge and existing requirements change as the business running that software changes. Ontogenetic software systems have the ability to evolve dynamically in an autonomous way to meet the user needs and the anticipated and unanticipated changes of requirements. The ev...

A evolução genética das linhagens de frango corte desencadeou ganhos nos índices desempenho e alterações corpóreas. Isto posto, evidencia-se um desafio às indústrias avícolas o cumprimento dos padrões legais teores da Relação Umidade:Proteína (RUP) para deter fraudes por inserção água na carne. Neste sentido, sabe-se que os defeitos musculares peito amadeirado estrias brancas influenciam compos...

INTRODUCTION Software development has become a more complex activity over the last years. Clients have been increasingly demanding higher productivity, better software quality and shorter time to market. Additional strain results from new common requirements such as distribution and concurrent access. These and other non-functional aspects complicate implementation, test and maintenance activit...

The generation of renewable H2 through an efficient photochemical route requires photoinduced electron transfer (ET) from a light harvester to an efficient electrocatalyst in water. Here, we report on a molecular H2 evolution catalyst (NiP) with a DuBois-type [Ni(P2(R')N2(R"))2](2+) core (P2(R')N2(R") = bis(1,5-R'-diphospha-3,7-R"-diazacyclooctane), which contains an outer coordination sphere w...

This discussion describes a study of a particulate semiconductor assembly consisting of a photoactive ruthenium dye-sensitised metal oxide nanoparticle loaded with a synthetic cobaloxime proton reduction catalyst (CoP). The colloidal system evolves H2 during visible light illumination in pH neutral aqueous solution in the presence of a sacrificial electron donor. The ruthenium photosensitiser (...