Project management for effective software process improvement must be achieved based on quantitative data. However, because data collection for measurement requires high costs and collaboration with developers, it is difficult to collect coherent, quantitative data continuously and to utilize the data for practicing software process improvement. In this paper, we describe Empirical Project Moni...

Roberta M. Cysneiros, Ricardo M. Arida, Vera C. Terra, Mariana B. Nejm, Fulvio A. Scorza I Programa de Pós-Graduação em Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento do Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. SP, Brazil. II Departamento de Fisiologia. Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM). São Paulo, Brazil. III Centro de Cirurgia ...

Due to the high costs and strategic importance of expatriate assignments, performance management (EPM) plays an increasingly important role for multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, research on EPM is still in its infancy. Drawing from convergence/divergence debate international human resource management, this study investigates compares strategies practices across MNEs three different cou...

Electromagnetic processing of materials requires generation of magnetic field in a very wide range of frequencies (from DC to several hundred kilohertz) and intensities (up to 12 T). AC magnetic systems are used for material stirring, casting, pouring control, transportation, forming etc. These systems typically may have magnetic circuits made of soft magnetic materials: laminations, ferrites a...

Conductive rubber nanocomposites were prepared by dispersing conductive nanotubes (CNT) in thermoreversibly cross-linked ethylene propylene rubbers grafted with furan groups (EPM-g-furan) rubbers. Their features were studied with a strong focus on conductive and mechanical properties relevant for strain-sensor applications. The Diels-Alder chemistry used for thermoreversible cross-linking allow...

Electronic performance monitoring (EPM), or the use of technological means to observe, record, and analyze information that directly indirectly relates employee job performance, is a now-ubiquitous work practice. We conducted comprehensive meta-analysis effects EPM on workers (K = 94 independent samples, N 23,461). Results provide no evidence improves worker performance. Moreover, findings indi...

Abstract Recent observations in HL-2A tokamak give new experimental evidences of energetic particle mode (EPM) avalanche. In a strong EPM burst, the structure propagates radially outward within two hundred Alfvén time, while frequency dominant changes self-consistently to maximize wave-particle power exchange and growth. This suggests that significant transport occurs this avalanche phase, agre...