Developing Information Systems (ISs) is a hard task for which Requirements Engineering (RE) offers a good starting point. ISs can be viewed as a support for organisational communication. Therefore, we argue in favour of communication-oriented RE methods. This paper presents Communication Analysis, a method for IS development and computerisation. The focus is put on requirements modelling techni...

Management of traumatic injuries to the teeth is a challenge to the practising dentist. It has no prescriptive method for occurring, possesses no significant predictable pattern of intensity or extensiveness and occurring at times when dentists are least prepared for it. Ninety-two percent of traumatic injuries results in fracture of maxillary permanent central incisors because its protrusive a...

A method of non-prescriptive neurofeedback is described that is based on the brain interacting with its own tonic slow cortical potential. In the absence of any explicit guidance by the clinician, the training depends entirely on the brain’s response to the unfolding signal. When this training is performed under optimal conditions in terms of placement and target frequency, there is a bias towa...

BACKGROUND Minimal efficacy differences have been found between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapies for depression, but little is known about patient characteristics that might moderate differential treatment effects. We aimed to generate hypotheses regarding such potential prescriptive factors. METHOD We conducted post-hoc model-based recursive partitioning analyse...

In the context of early intervention, infants will wear their hearing aids at fixed, cliniciandetermined settings for months or years before they are able to clearly express their preferences. Therefore, the validity of the clinician-determined hearing aid settings may be of crucial importance for auditory development in the early years of life. In this chapter the validity of prescriptive appr...

Applied ecology is the science of managing ecosystems for defined outcomes, such as conservation, sustainable harvest, and animal pest and weed control. Robust knowledge in science is often expressed as “principles”. Principles in applied ecology have utility by assisting scientists andmanagers to evaluate currentmanagement and to plan future activities. Principles also have a unifying role by ...

It is largely accepted that inspection is the most effective means of finding defects, and thus plays an important role in the software development process. This paper therefore focuses on inspection, its evaluation and improvement, and presents a set of prescriptive software metrics for evaluating software inspections. The usability of the metrics is further illustrated with a case study invol...

Prescriptive screening is defined as screening for diseases solely for the benefit of the individuals participating in the programme. Currently used screening programmes are examined at each stage of life-antenatal, postnatal, school age, adult life, and old age. It is concluded that most disorders for which screening can be confidently recommended for the benefit of the individual are those oc...

In this paper I describe how a narrative approach to science communication may help audiences to more fully understand how science is relevant to their own lives and behaviors. The use of prescriptive scientific narrative can help to overcome challenges specific to scientific concepts, especially the need to reconsider long-held beliefs in the face of new empirical findings. Narrative can capti...