Medical device manufacturers face the same intense competition that other manufacturers face, but with the added burden of having to plan, develop, test and produce in an environment rigidly controlled by regulatory requirements. To meet regulatory mandates, medical device manufacturers must be able to provide, upon request, documentation supporting the entire product lifecycle, from concept th...

Background: Awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. This study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of Birjand University of Medical sciences. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on syste...

We describe our work in developing specialized software applications to support a large collaborative engineering program. We find that despite many of the applications being bespoke efforts, designed to the requirements of the users, virtually all major applications have an unofficial spreadsheet or database backing up the official application. This spreadsheet is invariably where the actual w...

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The subject of groundness analysis for (constraint) logic programs has been widely studied, and interesting domains have been proposed. Pos has been recognized as the most suitable domain for capturing the kind of dependencies arising in groundness analysis. Its (by now standard) implementation is based on reduced ordered binary-decision diagrams (ROBDDs), a well-known symbolic representation f...