i The purpose of this special issue is to provide a rigorous examination of the open source software (OSS) movement, with special consideration to the impact it has on not only the software products, but also the software industry as a whole. Naturally, the OSS movement is large and has many facets that could be worthwhile to investigate. For this special issue, we tried to take as open an appr...

The free and open source software (F/OSS) computing movements have argued that F/OSS projects lead to better software, freedom from vendor control, and social benefits by sharing software and its associated source code. While these movement grew out of the interests of programmers to write better software for their own purposes, the open source movement has focused on gaining widespread adoptio...

Open Source Software (OSS) has been an effective replacement for proprietary software in many domains and especially the public ones. The Advantage of OSS led governments around the world to adopt this software and promote aggressively to their public agencies. However, many of the initiatives have failed to adopt the OSS within their organizations. As a consequence of this, it is important to ...

Open Source Software (OSS) development has gained significant importance in the production of software products. Open Source Software developers have produced systems with a functionality that is competitive with similar proprietary software developed by commercial software organizations. Yet OSS is usually designed for and by power-users, and OSS products have been criticized for having little...

Objectives: This paper evaluates the usefulness of a set of PROMs data collected prospectively, in a relational database, over several years. The data were collected as part of routine practice, to audit patients undergoing shoulder surgery. Methods: Data, rendered anonymous, which included all upper limb surgical procedures and all outcome questionnaires (including Oxford Shoulder Score, OSS) ...

Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming mainstream, and it is perhaps not surprising that public sector organisations seek to explore the potential of OSS in financially difficult times. Today, OSS has become an issue of strategic importance for many public sector organisations. In addition, related to OSS, many organisations and governments are also acknowledging Open Standards as important for...

BACKGROUND Integrated Infectious Diseases Capacity Building Evaluation (IDCAP) teams designed and implemented two health worker in-service training approaches: 1) an off-site classroom-based integrated management of infectious diseases (IMID) course with distance learning aspects, and 2) on-site support (OSS), an educational outreach intervention. We tested the effects of OSS on workload and 12...

introduction: bone regeneration grafts (brg) are widely used in the treatment of osseous defects and oral surgery. the various techniques and associated success rates of bone augmentation require evaluation by systematic review and meta-analysis of eligible studies. the aim of this systematic review was to compare alveolar bone regeneration in humans using bio-oss and autogenous bone graft. mat...

In recently, OSS may use to make a new alternative substitute for software development. However, detailed procedures and methods to utilize OSSs are inadequate. When we develop an application based on OSS, we may not apply to the traditional process models. Therefore, newly defined procedures have to be required to reuse the OSS. In this paper, we propose the comprehensive procedures based on M...