Projects that are over-budget, delivered late, and fall short of user’s expectations have been a common problem area for software development efforts for years. Agile methods, which represent an emerging set of software development methodologies based on the concepts of adaptability and flexibility, are currently touted as a way to alleviate these reoccurring problems and pave the way for the f...

religion, as a social phenomenon, affects society and is affected by it interactively. in iran, basically with religious norms and laws, many scholars and researchers concern with religion and level of religiosity. the paper is a comparative analysis of level of religiosity based on glynn and stark’s dimensions of religiosity, in three different generations in sari city: first generation (pre-r...

Michael E. Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; email: [email protected]. His research interests include Aztec society, the archaeological study of early states and cities, and comparative urbanism. ‘The Urban Revolution’ by V. Gordon Childe (Town Planning Review, 1950) is one of the most heavily ci...

The imaging revolution with Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging entered the world of treatment planning in external beam radiation therapy in the 80ies and 90ies, step by step (9). With the support of modern computer technology, this has led to sophisticated, widespread, 3D sectional image based treatment planning, that nowadays increasingly forms an essential integr...

before constitution revolution, advocacy in our country governed by islamic law and lawyers introduced as a free profession in means of that law. after that revolution the government promulgated some rules for its regulation as an official profession. by act of bar association independence, this profession declared independent. many lawyers after islamic revolution have been filtrated and by th...

The past four decades have seen two waves of agricultural technology development and diffusion to developing countries. The first wave was initiated by the Green Revolution in which an explicit strategy for technology development and diffusion targeting poor farmers in poor countries made improved germplasm freely available as a public good. The second wave was generated by the Gene Revolution ...

Pierre-Gerlier Forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. I would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. To Dr. Forest’s list, I wou...

Information is the main element that implicit in concept of planned development. Although role information has been underappreciated for decades, fact need communication and something no less important than human food clothing. Implementation activities can only run achieve targets at each stage monitoring planning on basis adequate information. Furthermore, be obtained from a but it actually o...

Software development processes are highly creative, and subject to frequent changes-making it hard to plan and schedule these processes in advance. Also, distributed projects cannot be planned centrally, especially if the involved parties are individual companies with their own areas of responsibility (as is the case in virtual Software corporations). On the other hand, certain aspects of the o...