The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a use case driven iterative software engineering process User Interface design within the RUP involves user interface modelling and user interface prototyping. This paper describes two support artefacts extended tabular use cases and UI element clusters which provide a bridge between these two activities. They provide support for ‘flow of events’ storyboard...

Mixed model analysis of data from 32 studies (122 diets) was used to evaluate the precision and accuracy of the omasal sampling technique for quantifying ruminal-N metabolism and to assess the relationships between nonammonia-N flow at the omasal canal and milk protein yield. Data were derived from experiments in cattle fed North American diets (n=36) based on alfalfa silage, corn silage, and c...

Treatment under H2 at 300 °C of Ru(COD)(COT) dispersed on silica yields 2 nm ruthenium nanoparticles, [Rup/SiO2], according to EXAFS, HRTEM and XPS. H2 adsorption measurements on [Rup/SiO2] in the absence of O2 show that Ru particles adsorb up to ca. 2 H per surface ruthenium atoms (2H/Rus) on various samples; this technique can therefore be used to measure the dispersion of Ru particles. In co...

A new discipline, Usability Design, is introduced as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best practices for user-centred design and contains activities that have been carefully tested. Five new roles are introduced to take responsibility for the different activities. An example is given to show the content of th...

The Rational Unified Process provides a valuable framework for approaching the business of developing software. As a framework, however, it must be adapted to the needs of each project team and their circumstances; it is intended to be applied in a light and agile style, and not adopted as a one-size-fits-all process. This article shares a number of common pitfalls experienced by teams attempti...

This experiment evaluated the effect of 2 levels of diet concentrate (20 and 40% of DM) and 2 levels of ruminally undegraded protein (RUP: 25 and 40% of CP) on nutrient intake, total and partial apparent nutrient digestibility, microbial protein synthesis, and ruminal and physiological variables. Eight Nellore heifers (233 +/- 14 kg of BW) fitted with ruminal, abomasal, and ileal cannulas were ...

Models from methods like Contextual Design (CD) are a sound basis for requirements engineering. But current software engineering processes are not prepared to use such models. Together with tight schedule and budget project teams settle for the minimal work needed, which is writing use cases in case of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). HCI practitioners more and more need HCI methods effectiv...

Author uses software engineering tools and RUP methodology to manage design of control for complex systems. UML diagrams are used to describe requirements and to model the system on high level of abstraction. Graphical approach with RUP and UML helps to integrate subsystems of different nature and to eliminate main risks of failure of the control subsystem project. Examples of different UML dia...

In this paper1, I describe new process elements that allow RUP to overcome these weaknesses. I discuss some experiences in which RUP has been used to assist IT organizations in achieving a higher level of process capabilities, then present the software process improvement approach that we are using to guide our work. I also describe the new process elements that would be created to overcome the...

BACKGROUND Studies of perennial peanut (Arachis glabrata Benth.) suggest its hay and haylage have greater levels of rumen undegraded protein (RUP) than other legume forages such as alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Greater RUP can result in more efficient nitrogen utilization by ruminant animals with positive economic and environmental effects. We sought to determine whether, like red clover (Trifo...