As software houses increasingly align themselves to Agile Software Development paradigm, the issue of what constitutes agility is coming to the forefront. Is it enough to follow the rituals and practices of some agile method to deliver the promises of the paradigm? Or, certain enablers need to be in place to prepare the context for the methods to deliver? What are these attributes of agility an...

BACKGROUND Knowledge bases that summarize the published literature provide useful online references for specific areas of systems-level biology that are not otherwise supported by large-scale databases. In the field of neuroanatomy, groups of small focused teams have constructed medium size knowledge bases to summarize the literature describing tract-tracing experiments in several species. Desp...

This paper explores the decisions involved in a digital stemmatology project. Traditionally, transcription, collation, and creation of stemma have been processes linked to edition texts. However, on its own can provide valuable insight further understanding literary works since it sheds light their production process. The research textual tradition Troilus Criseyde offers possibility reconsider...

more perfect history must be the systematic collation of existing materials. It is necessary to remark that, in the subsequent report, I have, as a rule, substituted the term continued fever for the word typhus, so commonly made use of in the reports of local registrars, unless there is other evidence that the disease referred to was typhus properly so-called. In the old nosological arrangement...

Background Country-specific patient rare disease registries are rarely used to make international comparisons because of protocol discrepancies in data collation. Here, we attempt to overcome this limitation by using the inherited disease Cystic Fibrosis (CF) as a paradigm. CF provides a good example because its common form (homozygous F508del-CFTR) occurs across all European social strata appe...

The SGVs and the additional advice found here should be used only in conjunction with the introductory guide to the series entitled Using Soil Guideline Values (Environment Agency, 2009a), the framework documents Updated technical background to the CLEA model (Environment Agency, 2009b) and Human health toxicological assessment of contaminants in soil (Environment Agency, 2009c), and Contaminan...

Although most collations are simple, with one term coming from first sequence, the next from second sequence, and so on, this is not always the case. For example, two terms may come from one sequence, three from another, and in all sorts of variations. We’ll handle this by introducing an index sequence whose terms are indexes that determine from which sequences the terms of the collation come. ...