Context: Software development depends significantly on team performance, as does any process that involves human interaction. Objective: Most current development methods argue that teams should self-manage. Our objective is thus to provide a better understanding of the nature of self-managing agile teams, and the teamwork challenges that arise when introducing such teams. Method: We conducted e...

Any time that information about a patient's medication is communicated, there is a potential for error that occurs because of misinterpretation of abbreviations, acronyms, and dose designations. In the following discussion, corrective approaches for reducing the use of error-prone terms will be reviewed. Terms on the "Do Not Use" list are identified and the rationale for using "Tall Man" letter...

The situation is even more devastating in oncology. Not only is the attrition rate higher (nearly 60 percent of oncology drugs fail in Phase III2), but the stakes are also higher. Lives depend upon the success of anti-cancer therapies, and the industry is particularly heavily invested in this therapeutic area. Currently, nearly 1,000 new cancer drugs are in development3, and R&D companies are f...

Amino acids (AA) are important in poultry nutrition not only for protein deposition, but also for other metabolic functions; such as improving immune and gut functions. Although, some table values are available on amino acids requirement, AA requirements may vary due to changes in dietary composition and breeding selection. Thus amino acids requirements have remained an ongoing research topic. ...

since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. this could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. therefo...

Job processing times change over time in real-life production and manufacturing systems due to various factors including machine or worker learning, deterioration, system upgrades technological shocks. For step-improving times, job are reduced by a certain rate if they start process at, after, common critical date, which has wide applicability real-world settings, such as data gathering network...