Successfully introducing a reuse program into an organization requires many things, such as proven processes, an organization for reuse, and management support. However, management needs to understand the value of reuse before they will allocate resources. Key to showing this value is a business case based on consistent, realistic, and easy to understand metrics. I have found that combining rea...

the probable maximum precipitation (pmp) is the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular geographical location at a certain time of the year. in this study a physically based method was compared with a statistical procedure to calculate pmp in the southwest arid regions of iran. in order to estimate pmp using a...

during past decades, increased wastewater production by human activities intensified the problem of wastewater usewithout causing undesirable impacts on the environment and human life. however, practice of wastewater use inirrigation crops and green spaces needs careful control because of the potential presence of unwanted constituents such asheavy metals and organic contaminants. this research...

decolorization of aqueous solutions containing ionic dyes (reactive blue 19 and acid black 172) by a tfc commercial polyamide nanofilter (nf) in a spiral wound configuration was studied. the effect of operating parameters including feed concentration (60-180 mg/l), pressure (0.5-1.1 mpa) and ph (6-10) on dye removal efficiency was evaluated. the response surface method (rsm) was utilized for th...

As the marketplace becomes increasingly competitive greater attention is being given to software reuse and object-oriented paradigms. This paper presents an overview of the objectoriented reuse arena. It should serve as a pointer to research within the OO-reuse area in which the reader has a specific interest. It discusses what OO-reuse is, its different forms, problems with reuse and solutions...

We investigate the current extent of term reuse and overlap among biomedical ontologies. We use the corpus of biomedical ontologies stored in the BioPortal repository, and analyze three types of reuse constructs: (a) explicit term reuse, (b) xref reuse, and (c) Concept Unique Identifier (CUI) reuse. While there is a term label similarity of approximately 14.4% of the total terms, we observed th...

We propose a methodology for the reuse of contextualized learning content. The current reuse methodology requires context independent learning content and introduces a reuse paradox: "the most reusable objects are context-independent, while the best instruction is highly contextualized". We identify two aspects of contextualization: specialisation on the educational context the content is creat...

ABSTRACT Due to the specific approach to reuse in product line engineering, this approach brings a specific point of view to reuse economics. As a consequence some established assumptions and abstractions of reuse economics that are valid in most opportunistic approaches to reuse must be revisited. The list of issues ranges from the basic estimation models used as input to reuse economics model...

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been succes...