The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) has obtained world-wide status as a premier process improvement framework. This influence has not gone unnoticed by the academic community who has utilized the CMM as a key construct representing a firm’s IT project management and development capabilities. However, an examination of the current state of research reveals no consensus on how to best operational...

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is a Gram-positive seed-transmitted bacterial phytopathogen responsible for substantial economic losses by adversely affecting tomato production worldwide. A high-throughput, cell-based screen was adapted to identify novel small molecule growth inhibitors to serve as leads for future bactericide development. A library of 4,182 compounds known...

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of cervical mucus monitoring (CMM) in women trying to conceive and determine whether monitoring is associated with increased cycle-specific probability of conception (fecundability). DESIGN Time-to-pregnancy cohort study. SETTING Population-based cohort. PATIENT(S) Three hundred thirty-one women trying to conceive, ages 30 to 44 years, without known infertility...

CMM has been well accepted by the world as the standard for software development process control, quality improvement, and software company capacity evaluation. Aiming at the software outsourcing service market, more and more Chinese software companies are involved in the CMM certifications rush. However, to most of them, CMM is a very challenging goal. As China’s software industry is still at ...

This paper describes a calibrated and an uncalibrated method for integrating a vision system with touch sensors and a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). Traditionally, vision systems are used to measure machined parts and to localize manufacturing defects based on appearances. Our system relies on a “coarse-fine” approach to integrating vision with CMMs. Vision guides the CMM to the feature to...

BACKGROUND Several major analyses have identified a consistent set of independent risk factors for cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). A few prognostic models have been presented but some are based on a limited number of patients and others are based on selected groups of patients referred to major institutions. No nationwide population-based prognostic instrument for survival of CMM has been p...

STUDY DESIGN This study was a prospective, randomized, crossover, multicenter trial for the evaluation of comparative effectiveness of intradiscal biacuplasty (IDB) versus conventional medical management (CMM) in the treatment of lumbar discogenic pain. OBJECTIVE The objective was to demonstrate the superiority of IDB over CMM in the treatment of discogenic pain with respect to the primary ou...

Organizations wishing to remain competitive often want to comply with all possible contractor evaluation criteria, process models, and quality standards, but the field is evolving rapidly. This paper describes the categories of compliance frameworks and characteristics of seven important frameworks: the CMM, SE-CMM, IPD-CMM, ISO 9000, SDCE, MIL-STD-498, and Trillium. The paper also discusses tr...

One of the major sources that affect measurement accuracy and limit the use of high motion speeds in coordinate measuring machines (CMM) is the position error. In fact, static and dynamic probe errors are more direct factors in measuring machine accuracy, but are not the subject of this research. However the accuracy of acquisition of component position errors using a CMM in motion is also of i...