Nowadays, it is a matter of fact that a “one-size-fit-all” methodology or design process useful and fitting every kind of problem, situation, or design context does not exist. (Situational) Method Engineering (SME) discipline aims at determining techniques and tools for developing ad hoc design methodologies. SME mainly and highly focuses on the reuse of portion of existing design processes or ...

conclusions intake of water extract of silybum marianum is a useful treatment for liver function in drug-induced fatty liver. results concentrations of hdl-c and protein decreased and activity of alt increased in tmx group compared with the control group. the sme increased protein concentration and decreased alt activity in tmx-sme group compared with the tmx group. histopathological examinatio...

Swertia mussotii Franch. (SM) (Gentianaceae) was a traditional Tibetan folk herb for hepatitis in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau areas. For understanding the hepatoprotection and toxicity characteristics of Swertia mussotii Franch., the whole plant of Swertia mussotii was extracted by water (SME-b) and 75% ethanol (SME-a); then, SME-a was dissolved with water, the supernatant was SME-c, and the sedi...

Tacit knowledge (TK) exists in every corner of SME, in its structure and relationship especially in its people. Even though knowledge management will benefit SME as they are rich of tacit knowledge but lacking in expertise, financial capital and infrastructure, knowledge management (KM) is almost impossible for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) currently. Since SME have efficient and informal c...

We continue our previous work on soft margin estimation (SME) to large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) in two new aspects. The first is to formulate SME with different unit separation. SME methods focusing on string-, word-, and phonelevel separation are defined. The second is to compare SME with all the popular conventional discriminative training (DT) methods, including maxim...

The medical applications of degradable iron-based biomaterials have been targeted by re-searchers due to their special properties that they present after alloying with various elements and different technological methods obtaining. Compared other biodegradable materials, alloys are designed especially for the low production costs, non-magnetism obtained Mn, shape memory effect (SME) following S...

OBJECTIVES To compare transverse skeletal changes produced by rapid (RME) and slow (SME) maxillary expansion using low-dose computed tomography. The null hypothesis was that SME and RME are equally effective in producing skeletal maxillary expansion in patients with posterior crossbite. SETTING AND SAMPLE POPULATION This study was carried out at the Department of Oral Sciences, University of ...

Secure multi-execution (SME) is a dynamic technique to ensure secure information flow. In a nutshell, SME enforces security by running one execution of the program per security level, and by reinterpreting input/output operations w.r.t. their associated security level. SME is sound, in the sense that the execution of a program under SME is non-interfering, and precise, in the sense that for pro...