Faced with the need to find new anti-inflammatory agents, great effort has been expended on the development of drugs for the treatment of inflammation. This disorder reduces the quality of life and overall average productivity, causing huge financial losses. In this review the anti-inflammatory activity of 32 bioactive monoterpenes found in essential oils is discussed. The data demonstrate the ...

Investment in human capital builds and enhances the capacity and skills of the labour force and generates the appropriate knowledge for technological progress, all with the main goal of higher productivity, growth and development. Yet a conscious effort must be made to integrate education fully into economic plans of African economies, such that educational reforms move at least simultaneously ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether PSP can be adopted to foster pedagogical effect in an academic class. In this study we examined five personal process improvement areas of the PSP: size and effort estimation accuracy, product quality, process quality, and personal productivity. Surveys were taken at the end of this course to understand students’ attitudes toward the Personal ...

We test the effects of informal rewards in online peer production. Using a randomized, experimental design, we assigned editing awards or "barnstars" to a subset of the 1% most productive Wikipedia contributors. Comparison with the control group shows that receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other c...

This white paper discusses how market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA design methodology is changing the paradigms of safety designs and will greatly reduce development effort, system complexity, and time to market. This allows FPGA users to design their own customized sa...

Innovation is essential to productivity growth. Innovation does not just happen. It will involve decisions made in both private sector and government sectors to invest time, effort and money in exploring new ideas. From a business perspective, the profit motive and competition will be important drivers of innovation. Similarly, flexibility in the workplace and regulatory environment can facilit...

Program comprehension is an emerging interest area within the software engineering field. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the productivity of the software development process and the quality of the systems it produces. However, as currently practiced, the majority of the software development effort is spent on maintaining existing systems rather than developing new ones....

Traditionally, studies of scientific productivity are biased in two ways: they are based on Current Contents, an index centered in British and American journals, and they seldom correct for population size, ignoring the relative effort that each society places in research. We studied national productivity for biology using a more representative index, the Biological Abstracts, and analyzed both...

Supercomputer designers traditionally focus on low-level hardware performance criteria such as CPU cycle speed, disk bandwidth, and memory latency. The High-Performance Computing (HPC) community has more recently begun to realize that escalating hardware performance is, by itself, contributing less and less to real productivity—the ability to develop and deploy high-performance supercomputer ap...

a. estimate a software size from its requirements, early in the life of a project b. enter that size together with other parameters into formulae to estimate project effort and duration (where the formulae had been calibrated on recently-completed projects in the same domain) c. track the software size as requirements evolve (e.g. for contract control purposes) and compute project performance p...