Creeping featurism is a process that produces complexity. This paper describes ways to prevent or escape from creeping featurism. We discuss limitations of current methods of user interface design and usability engineering, and propose a fitness management strategy to detect feature creep and to aid the search for innovations.

The source of repeating earthquakes on creeping faults is modeled as a weak asperity at a border between much larger locked and creeping patches on the fault plane. The x−1 2 / decrease in stress concentration with distance x from the boundary is shown to lead directly to the observed scaling T M ∝ 0 1 6 / between the average repeat time and average scalar moment for a repeating sequence. The s...

A 35 year old man presented with a two day history of a tender rash on the right thigh. Examination showed serpiginous erythema extending from a vesiculopustule on his right thigh. Staphylococcus aureus was identified in a culture of the vesiculopustular fluid. The diagnosis of lymphangitis spreading from folliculitis was made. The patient was successfully treated with oral ampicillin. Learning...

Soil creep is the most widespread and perhaps the least understood process of erosion on soil-mantled hillslopes. Soil is slowly ‘‘stirred’’ by burrowing creatures, and particles are displaced in wetting-drying cycles. These actions can cause downslope creep by processes analogous to particle diffusion. Other possible transport mechanisms include shear and viscous-like creep, such that precise ...

Thermal barrier coating systems are used on top of highly stressed components in gas turbines to protect the nickel-based substrates. A well-established thermal barrier coating system consist of the bond-coat (BC) and the thermal barrier coating (TBC). A third layer is grown during service: the thermally grown oxide (TGO) between the BC and the TBC. The coatings fail in service because of diffe...

tonia solani Kühn) and red thread [caused by Laetisaria fuciformis (McAlpine) Burdsall] (Beard, 1973; Brilman, Bentgrass species (Agrostis spp.) are cool season turfgrasses that 2001a). However, some cultivars of colonial bentgrass are tolerant of continuous, close mowing heights because of their prostrate growth habit. Some bentgrass species are difficult to distinare beginning to show improve...

We study creeping solitons of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE) using numerical simulations and analyze them with a lowdimensional model using the method of moments. We find the regions of existence of creeping solitons in the parameter space of the CGLE. We also provide a comparison with exact results obtained using numerical simulations. Crown Copyright © 2006 Published by Elsevier ...