Context: Distributed agile development (DAD) approach has been adopted by the software companies for cost and time benefits. However, it causes significant challenges considering the contradicting nature of the agile and distributed development. Objective: The objective of this study is to develop a risk management framework that comprises the perceived risks in DAD projects, their causes and t...

In Mobile IPv6 especially in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), Mobile Node’s handoff performance is greatly impaired by the Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) procedure for the newly formed Care-of Address. Based on the data gathered from our HMIPv6 test bed, this paper analyzed the origin of such performance degradation. To alleviate the impact of DAD on handoff performance, Greg Daley et al p...

Ss who receive information about a person's traits and behaviors in a social context are likely to focus their attention on the pragmatic implications of this information (i.e., why the information was conveyed). To examine this hypothesis, Ss listened to a taped conversation in which a male target (T) and another speaker (O) exchanged anecdotal accounts of T's behavior. Ss typically used O's t...

Determining Depth-Area-Duration (DAD) curves in drainage basins is one of the applied researches in hydrology. DAD curves exhibit the depth and the area covered by the rainfall with a particular duration. DAD analysis is widely used in characterization of precipitation extremes for specification of so-called design storms. In this study the DAD curves for the Kurdistan province were prepared an...

The aim of this clinical prospective study was to evaluate the alterations that occurred in the gingival dimensions of canine teeth following dentoalveolar distraction (DAD) during a 12 month follow-up period.The study sample comprised 36 maxillary canines of 18 growing or adult subjects with a mean age of 16.94 years (13.08-25.58 years) at the start of treatment. Full retraction of the canines...

2'-Deoxycoformycin (dCF) as a single agent has been reported to be less effective against myeloid than against lymphoid malignancies in clinical trials. However, previous studies have shown that in the presence of 2'-deoxyadenosine (dAd), human monocytoid leukemia cell lines are much more sensitive to dCF with regard to the inhibition of cell proliferation. Thus, dCF might be useful for treatin...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of resveratrol on delayed afterdepolarization (DAD) and triggered activity (TA) induced by ouabain in guinea pig papillary muscles and the underlying mechanism. Action potentials were recorded using intracellular microelectrode technique. The results obtained are as follows: (1) DAD and TA induced by ouabain (1 micromol/L) were inhibited ...

Directed aerial descent (DAD) is used by a variety of arboreal animals to escape predators, to remain in the canopy, and to access resources. Here, we build upon the discovery of DAD in ants of tropical canopies by summarizing its known phylogenetic distribution among ant genera, and within both the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae and the genus Cephalotes. DAD has multiple evolutionary origins in an...

BACKGROUND This study compares registry and non-registry approaches to linking 2006 Census of Population data for Manitoba and Ontario to hospital data from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD). DATA AND METHODS Using a probabilistic linkage, the registry approach linked the census data to provincial health insurance registries, followed by a deterministic linkage to the DAD based on health ...