Naked Objects and agile software development have been suggested to complement each other. Very few empirical studies to date exist where a product has been developed using the Naked Objects technologies in an agile development environment. This study reports results of a case study where a mobile application was developed using the Naked Objects Framework. Qualitative and quantitative data was...

By now, many examples of naked singularities in classical general rela-tivity are known. It may however be that a physical principle over and above the general theory prevents the occurrence of such singularities in nature. Assuming the validity of the Weyl curvature hypothesis, we propose that naked singularities are forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics.

Necessary conditions are proposed for the admissibility of singular classical solutions with 3 + 1-dimensional Poincaré invariance to five-dimensional gravity coupled to scalars. Finite temperature considerations and examples from AdS/CFT support the conjecture that the scalar potential must remain bounded above for a solution to be physical. Having imposed some restrictions on naked singularit...

The naked mole-rat is a subterranean rodent lacking several pain behaviors found in humans, rats, and mice. For example, nerve growth factor (NGF), an important mediator of pain sensitization, fails to produce thermal hyperalgesia in naked mole-rats. The sensitization of capsaicin-sensitive TRPV1 ion channels is necessary for NGF-induced hyperalgesia, but naked mole-rats have fully functional T...

The performance of naked neck and normal chicken was evaluated with respect to growth, carcass, immune, biochemical and stress parameters under winter and summer seasons to assess the suitability of naked neck birds under high temperatures in the global scenario of climate change. The growth performance was significantly (p≤0.05) higher in naked neck chicken in the summer season. The dressing p...

In this research, a simple and efficient cathodic electrochemical deposition (CED) route wasdeveloped for the preparation of magnetite nanoparticles (NPs) in an aqueous media. Thesurface of magnetite NPs was also coated for the first time via an in situ procedure during theCED process. In this method, initially, the Fe3O4 NPs (with size ~10 nm) were prepared from theFe2+/Fe3+ chloride bath thro...

Freshly harvested sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seeds are considered to be dormant because they fail to germinate at relatively low temperatures (10 degrees C). This dormancy results mainly from an embryo dormancy and disappears during dry storage. Although endogenous ethylene is known to be involved in sunflower seed alleviation of dormancy, little attention had been paid to the possible ro...