BACKGROUND The Government of India declared TB as a notifiable disease in 2012. There is a paucity of information on the government's mandatory TB notification order from the perspective of private medical practitioners (PPs). OBJECTIVE To understand the awareness, perception and barriers on TB notification among PPs in Chennai, India. METHODS Total of 190 PPs were approached in their clini...

The Personal Software Process, PSP, was developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute as a personal version of the Capability Maturity Model. The intention of the PSP is to educate individual software engineers in the processes they follow in completing a programming task with a view to improving the quality of future work. At each level of the PSP more and more usefu...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the impact of genetic notification of smoking-related disease risk on smoking cessation in the general population. Secondary objectives were to assess the impact of genetic notification on intention-to-quit smoking and on emotional outcomes as well as the understanding and the recall of this notification. METHODS A systematic review of articles from inc...

In order to examine whether a notification of genotypes related to a susceptibility to smoking has any influence on an intention to quit, a pilot study was conducted for 61 smokers out of 66 municipal government employees who attended an anti-smoking seminar in November 2005 or January 2006 (MG), and for 46 smokers (employees and students) on a medical campus (Tsurumai Campus) of Nagoya Univers...

Typically, software professionals are trained in undergraduate courses as a way of preparing to the industry. However, there is a shortage of qualified professionals in relation to Software Process field in the Brazilian industry. Thus, software companies have to provide skills related to the Software Process areas through training. To address this problem, this PhD research aims to analyze the...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the importance of genetic knowledge in coming decades and to outline necessary areas of genetic education. METHOD This article reviews research involving genetic testing of children for cancer syndromes, development disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other conditions. RESULTS The developmental, clinical, research, and consultation skills of well-trained pediatr...

Information discovery is a very difficult and frustrating aspect of software development. Novice developers are often assigned a mentor who preemptively provides answers and advice without requiring the novice to explicitly ask for help. A similar situation occurs among expert developers in radically collocated settings. The close proximity enhances communication between all members of a group,...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent notification of a new e-mail, and describe an implementation of the notification system. There are two ways to read e-mails by using a computer. One way is a mail system on a user’s personal computer. The other way is a web mail system on a web server. Using a web mail system is better for users because they can read e-mails by using other person’s perso...