Mutations in Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor 2A (CDKN2A) and Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4 (CDK4) contribute to susceptibility in approximately 40% of high-density cutaneous melanoma (CMM) families and about 2% of unselected CMM cases. BRCA-1 associated protein-1 (BAP1) has been more recently shown to predispose to CMM and uveal melanoma (UMM) in some families; however, its contribution to CMM de...

The Capability Maturity ModelSM for Software (CMM or SW-CMM), developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), has had a major influence on software process and quality improvement around the world. The SW-CMM continues to eVolVe, and we plan to release Version 2.0 in mid-to-late 1997 and version 2.1, a minor revision, in 1998. Version 2.1 will be the baseline that replaces Version 1.1. I...

In this paper, electronic nose (E-nose) was used to discriminate the 11 Chinese Materia Medica (CMM) from Umbelliferae by the difference of their odors. The E-nose generated data were analyzed by discriminant function analysis (DFA) and the responses of 18 sensors of E-nose were evaluated by CA analysis. Results showed that a rapid evaluation of complex response of the samples could be obtained...

Literature presents attributes of effective quality management in building software systems. The value of the capability maturity model (CMM), ISO 9000, and total quality management (TQM) concepts in managing software quality has been widely acknowledged. However, shortcomings of these approaches have also been recognized. For instance, scholars have acknowledged CMM implementation difficulties...

Reifegradmodelle gewinnen in der Disziplin der Wirtschaftsinformatik immer mehr Bedeutung. Der gegenwärtige Diskurs betrachtet hauptsächlich die wissenschaftlichen Methoden zur Modellentwicklung (rigor), und weniger den Beitrag eines Reifegradmodells zur realweltlichen Problemlösung (relevance). Dies zeigt sich z.B. in Form zahlreicher Reifegradmodelle zur zwischenbetrieblichen Integration, die...

In this paper, we investigated one of the promising applications of left-handed metamaterials: composite metamaterial based cavities. Four different cavity structures operating in the microwave regime were constructed, and we observed cavity modes on the transmission spectrum with different quality factors. The effective permittivity and permeability of the CMM structure and cavity structure we...

Nowadays in China, there is a huge gap between the capability of newly graduate students and that required by software industry, which caused a severe supply-demand contradiction between universities and software industry. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a novel practice capability maturity model for software talent cultivation (STP-CMM). It consists of four levels: Awareness Level, ...

The relationship between agile methods and Software Engineering Institute’s CMM approach is often debated. Some authors argue that the approaches are compatible, while others have criticized the application of agile methods from the CMM perspective. Only few CMM based assessments have been performed on projects using agile approaches. This paper explores an empirical case where a project using ...

Development of a protection profile under the Common Criteria is a demanding task, requiring difficult engineering decisions, complex analyses, and detailed knowledge about the intended environment and use for a product or system. We believe that building a protection profile is essentially a security engineering problem and is best approached by applying the Systems Security Engineering Capabi...

1. Introduction The Collaboration Management Infrastructure (CMI) has been developed at MCC to manage collaboration processes in both traditional and virtual enterprises, and to provide combined process and situation awareness. CMI technology development is driven by the requirements of many advanced applications provided by the companies that are members of the consortial CMI project. Such adv...