In software-intensive organizations, an organizational management system will not guarantee organizational success unless the business strategy can be translated into a set of operational software goals. The Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach has proven itself useful in a variety of industrial settings to support quantitative software project management. However, it does not address linking so...

Extensive studies of the mixed lymphocyte interaction (MLI) 1 have shown it to be an immunologically specific proliferative reaction in which a large proportion of immunologically competent, predominately thymus-derived, circulating lymphocytes from nonimmunized donors recognize and respond to the presence of major histocompatibility (H) isoantigens in culture (1-7). Prior immunization of the c...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...

In line with the advancement of science and technology and the achievement of facilities that bring about welfare, the studies done in psychology have also have furthered the boundaries of knowledge in this domain. Psychologists emphasize that for a better life, people should be taught “the life skills.” This international skill has its roots in Islam, with the only difference being in the new ...

The ABS control problem is described, with a discussion on relevant hybrid control aspects. Next, we comment on conventional ABS design methods and present some new ideas and results on model-based ABS control design that relies on elements of hybrid control.

Models of human control strategy (HCS), which accurately emulate dynamic human behavior, have far reaching potential in areas ranging from robotics to virtual reality to the intelligent vehicle highway project. A number of learning algorithms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and locally weighted regression exist for modeling continuous human control strategies. These algorithms, however...

In this paper, written for a general audience, I review and contrast various strategies that the body uses to control homeostasis and movement. Messages, signals, communication channels, and control systems are dealt with from both a cellular and an integrative perspective. The major global control strategies are feedback, feedforward, and adaptive control, and examples of each are presented to...

Background—Ca overload plays an important role in the pathogenesis of cardioplegic ischemia-reperfusion injury. The standard technique to control Ca overload has been to reduce Ca in the cardioplegic solution (CP). Recent reports suggest that Na/H exchange inhibitors can also prevent Ca overload. We compared 4 crystalloid CPs that might minimize Ca overload in comparison with standard Mg-contai...