Today’s software companies face the challenges of highly distributed development projects and constant changing requirements. To be competitive, the software time to market has to be reduced as much as possible while keeping the expected quality. Development methodologies try to address this challenges by introducing new practices, techniques and methods for communication, requirements manageme...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to describe oral health behaviour the individuals and determine relationship level knowledge participants about dental procedures their personal variables. Methods: total number who answered questionnaire was 575. Oral behaviours were assessed according tooth brushing frequency, floss or interdental brush use, when last time he/she went dentist reason for...

The apparent success of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) development projects such as Linux, Apache, and many others has raised the question, what lessons from FLOSS development can be transferred to mainstream software development? In this paper, we use coordination theory to analyze coordination mechanisms in FLOSS development and compare our analysis with existing literature on coordi...

OBJECTIVE Moxibustion is an important traditional Chinese medicine therapy using heat from ignited moxa floss for disease treatment. The purpose of the present study is to establish a reproducible method to assess the color of moxa floss, discriminate the samples based on chromatic coordinates and explore the relationship between chromatic coordinates and total flavonoid content (TFC). METHOD...

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in general and the Linux operating system in particular have increased in economic significance during the past decade and are now an in­ tegral component of professional information and communication technology (IT). The soft­ ware is continuously developed by an online community with numerous contributions from companies, universities, foundations a...

Objective: Oral physiotherapy is described as the maintenance of oral hygiene, and its goal daily, full elimination plaque with least amount work, time, equipment feasible.
 Methods: Materials procedures In order to evaluate brushing effective duration brushing, pattern, sextants, use dental floss, 30 patients aged 18 65 were divided into two groups, one without prior instruction, other in...

10 11 The apparent success of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) development projects such as Linux, Apache, 12 and many others has raised the question, what lessons from FLOSS development can be transferred to main13 stream software development? In this paper, we use coordination theory to analyze coordination mechanisms 14 in FLOSS development and compare our analysis with existing liter...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of knowledge acquired in preventive aspects of dental education on dental students' own health attitudes, oral hygiene and gingival status in the United Arab Emirates. METHODS To compare the self-reported oral health behavior of first year dental students in the University of Sharjah with their actual oral hygiene and gingival condit...