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We conducted a survey on Executable Acceptance Test Driven Development (or: Story Test Driven Development). The results show that there is often a substantial delay between defining an acceptance test and its first successful pass. Therefore, it becomes important for teams to easily be able to distinguish between tasks that were never tackled before and tasks that were already completed but who...

The paper addresses a scalable objective echo assessment method to evaluate echo disturbances in telecommunication scenarios. In the first section the perceptual based echo analysis method is presented. It is designed for the aurally-adequate evaluation of residual single talk echoes in narrowband as well as in wideband transmission scenarios. The core of the model consists of the Relative Appr...

The knowledge and the competence of the firm members are substantial success factors in the world-wide competition. For a "Hidden Champion" like the middle-sized manufacturer of Top-Class Concrete Pumps and Plastering Machines, Putzmeister, Inc./Germany, a systematic and anticipating Competence Development System is essential. The article describes a pilot project started in spring 2002 to gain...

This study investigates whether new enrollees in the Alabama Children's Health Insurance Program have different claims experience from renewing enrollees who do not have a lapse in coverage and from continuing enrollees. The analysis compared health services utilization in the first month of enrollment for new enrollees (who had not been in the program for at least 12 months) with utilization a...

context distributing health care services in remote and rural areas have become a major health problem for many developing countries. telemedicine presents solutions to developing countries for better disease prevention, disease management, emergency services and practicing medicine in areas with limited access to healthcare services and facilities. although the willingness of developing countr...

backgrounds: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for children with chronic pain (chact) on quality of life of 7 to 12 year-old children. thus, the basic problem of the current study is whether chact can increase the quality of life on 7 to 12 year-old children with chronic pain?   materials and methods: according to the criteria of chronic pa...

davood became fearful when he encountered with his diabetes diagnosis for first time. what effect does this disease can have on davood ’ s lifestyle? in this case, the nurse describes how davood ’ s fear is released by education. i met davood in 1992 for first time. he had been admitted in ward since two days ago, and he had been forced to stay at the hospital through neu-rooz holidays. he acce...

In every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties must accept an offer to avoid a break off. As a break off is usually an undesirable outcome for both parties, it is important that a negotiator employs a proficient mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. When designing such conditions, one is faced with the acceptance dilemma: accepting the current offer may be ...