Zusammenfassung: Die Suche nach einer optimalen Vorgehensweise bei der Softwareentwicklung bringt öfter neue Vorschläge für Vorgehensmodelle hervor. Extreme Programming ist eine radikale, aus der Praxis motivierte Variante, die versucht „best practices“ der Software-Entwicklung in möglichst schlanker Weise zu kombinieren und soweit wie möglich auf organisatorischen Ballast zu verzichten. Aufgru...

conclusions: although our study showed the prevalence of internet addiction was not more than other populations and universities, since the prevalence of internet addiction is rapidly increasing worldwide, this population might also be at risk of addiction. thus, focusing on related factors can help us in designing more effective interventions and treatments for this susceptible group. results:...

In the rapidly growing world, the concept of the traditional development needs to evolve. When applied to the modern workplace, the traditional methods provide as much harm as they do good. Sadly, a lack of adaptability in the traditional methods has led to a rigid work structure that is really not compatible with today’s industry. The agile methodology is, therefore, a more acceptable practice...

Two studies are presented that investigate information seeking behaviour on the Internet. In Study One, soccer fans’ information seeking on the World Wide Web (WWW) is investigated. In Study Two, access rates to a cancer information website are analysed. It is tentatively argued that there is a tendency for people to access information more commonly avoided in ‘real life’, although in the case ...

background: internet is an important source of up-to-date dental information for delivering educational materials. the aim of this study was to determine the use of internet among dental students in yazd. methods: in this descriptive study, a questionnaire consisting of multiple choice questions was distributed to clinical undergraduate students studying at the school of dentistry at the shahid...

A parametric study approach evaluating drained/undrained behavior of sand has been developed as a simple/quick hypo-elastic model capable of being used in engineering applications. The volumetric interaction of sand grains behavior against pore water pressure induces the tendency of soil mass volume change to contract/dilate due to variation of effective mean stress on solid grain, pore water p...

Modern scientific discovery is increasingly driven by large-scale supercomputing simulations, followed by data analysis tasks. These data analyses are either performed offline, on smaller-scale clusters, or in-situ, on the supercomputer itself. Both of these strategies are rife with storage and I/O bottlenecks, energy inefficiencies due to increased data movement, and increased time to solution...

This study examined biological and psychosocial variables that are relevant to the etiology of gender-variance. Data were collected over the internet from 2277 participants of either gender who identified as transsexual, other gender-variant, and not gender-variant. We found number of gender-variant relatives, handedness, emotional abuse, finger length ratios (2D:4D), and systematizing signific...

Acceptance tests are of major importance for the successful roll-out of new software products. Any brilliantly engineered software unable to suit the user’s expectations will fail in practice. Tight time-to-market and limited resources makes acceptance testing difficult. This is especially true if multiple locations for development and testing are concerned. We argue that a solution must allow ...