The objective of our study was to evaluate bladder outlet obstruction number (BOON) in order to predict infravesical obstruction in patients with benign prostatic enlargement (BPE). Two hundred patients with proven BPE from daily urological practice at the Urology Department of the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre were covered by a prospective study in period 2009-2011. All patients complete...

Purely hydrodynamic numerical experiments into the evolution of astrophysical discs typically include some sort of viscosity in order to cause accretion. In this paper, we demonstrate an alternative method of implementing viscous forces, with extremely good angular momentum conservation properties. The method is based on altering the cell fluxes, rather than incorporating a viscous force. We te...

Is it possible to achieve non-repudiation during electronic contractsigning? How can this be achieved in an e-mail based environment? These are the questions we will try to answer. The process of getting these answers will involve a short introduction to some of the available contract-signing standards and an analysis of how well the given standard would work in a e-mail environment. Additional...

What is the capacity to care and why does it matter? How is it acquired? What are its origins in the early development of self and morality? Are women better at caring than men and, if so, is this likely to change with contemporary changes in parenting and gender relations? What would constitute a good enough family, as opposed to good enough mothering? How does the capacity to care inform the ...

Throughout the software products industry, companies everywhere strive for a common goal: to develop and deliver a software product that reaches a dominant position in the marketplace. To achieve this goal, the software team must deliver the right product to the market -one that meets the individual user's needs, has the right features, and delivers the right benefits, including economic advant...

In considering good practice in relation to e-Government, this paper contributes to critical discussion on the value placed on methodologies in implementing e-Government programmes. Assessments are made regarding institutional, technological and organisational factors within the public sector, and the manner in which methodologies have been and are currently being applied. An exploration is mad...

Criteria are used to help decide whether the risk associated with a project or activity is low enough to proceed. The key question then, is when is low enough good enough? This paper describes the flexible framework in use in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries for deciding on the tolerability of risk. The levels of individual risk that are generally accepted world-wide as intolerable are...

In this paper, two issues about wire width are investigated. The first one is that “Is the minimum wire width under the minimum wire pitch for a process technology good enough from the perspective of timing performance?” The second is that “Is delay sensitive to wire width variation around the optimal width?” We find that the answer to the first issue is “yes”, whereas the answer to the second ...

Reducing redundant medical lab tests has been discussed in the literature as a cost saving benefit of Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption; however the literature does not provide a great deal of information on the mechanics of achieving this goal. Laboratory ordering using an EHR occurs within a complex socio-technical context that can be difficult to understand. A case study was performed ...

Methods that might work are not good enough; what is preserved today should be reliably useful whenever someone wants it. Here, “reliably” is intended to include “without error introduced after the data leaves the purported author’s control.” Prior proposals—called “transformative migration” and “preservation emulation”—fail because what they save is confounded with details about today’s inform...