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Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques

Requirements Engineering Processes and Techniques Why this book was written The value of introducing requirements engineering to trainee software engineers is to equip them for the real world of software and systems development. What is involved in Requirements Engineering? As a discipline, newly emerging from software engineering, there are a range of views on where requirements engineering starts and finishes and what it should encompass. This book offers the most comprehensive coverage of the requirements engineering process to date - from initial requirements elicitation through to requirements validation. How and Which methods and techniques should you use? As there is no one catch-all technique applicable to all types of system, requirements engineers need to know about a range of different techniques. Tried and tested techniques such as data-flow and object-oriented models are covered as well as some promising new ones. They are all based on real systems descriptions to demonstrate the applicability of the approach. Who should read it? Principally written for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science, software engineering or systems engineering, this text will also be helpful for those in industry new to requirements engineering. Accompanying Website: http: //www.comp.lancs.ac. uk/computing/resources/re Visit our Website: http://www.wiley. com/college/wws
Estilos de vida y estado nutricional de trabajadores en empresas públicas y privadas de dos regiones de Chile

Feeding habits werecharacterized by a low consumption of fruits, vegetables, fish and dairy products and a highconsumption of fat and sugar. Forty five percent smoked and 88% were sedentary. Forty two percentwere overweight, 18% were obese, 39% had high blood cholesterol, 23% hypertension and 4%diabetes. There was a positive relationship between obesity and hypertension with an odds ratio (OR)adjusted for sex and educational levels of 2.6 (95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.9-3.7) and diabeteswith an OR of 2.8 (95% CI 1.6-4.7). Eighty two percent of obese and 28% of overweight subjectsunderestimated their nutritional status.
Exploiting Vocabulary, Morphological, and Subtree Knowledge to Improve Chinese Syntactic Analysis

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Smoking Scenes in Movies and Antismoking Advertisements before Movies: Effects on Youth

In two experiments, the authors test rival theses regarding the effects of smoking in feature films on youths and the ability of antismoking advertising to nullify those effects. Eight hundred ninth graders watched either original movie footage with smoking or control footage with the smoking edited out. Emotional reactions were recorded during viewing, and smoking-related thoughts, beliefs, and intent were assessed afterward. The findings support the Forbidden Fruit thesis, in that smoking (versus nonsmoking) scenes positively aroused the young viewers, enhanced their perceptions of smokers’ social stature, and increased their intent to smoke. However, youths’ opinions were malleable, and showing them an antismoking advertisement before the film effectively repositioned the smoking from forbidden to tainted, thereby nullifying the aforementioned effects. No support was obtained for the Excitation Transfer theory, which predicts that the positive arousal evoked by movie scenes would transfer to smokers who were depicted in those scenes. The authors discuss policy implications for film content and antismoking advertising.
Some Hormonal Changes in Women with Primary Hypothyroidism under the Effect of Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hypothyroidism has been associated with disorders of glucose and insulin metabolism.The present study was designed to evaluate the possible change in some hormones (free testosterone, estradiol, prolactin, insulin), glucose and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in women with primary hypothyroidism under thyroid hormone replacement therapy . This cross-sectional study was carried on 62 hypothyroid patients׳ women and 22 healthy women as control group at the specialized center for endocrinology and diabetes, AL-Rasafa Directorate of Health Baghdad, with age range(15-60 years), diagnosed as having primary hypothyroidism on thyroxine replacement therapy with duration not less than four months. Each of the selected patients women and the healthy control were distributed into two groups, normal cyclic and postmenopausal. Blood samples were collected to measure thyroid stimulating hormone(TSH), total thyroxine (TT4) , total triiodothyronine (TT3), free thyroxine(fT4), free testosterone (FT), estradiol(E2) ,prolactin(PRL), insulin , fasting blood glucose( FBG), homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance(HOMA-IR). The results showed that the majority of hypothyroid women (older than 40 years and obese) had high levels of TSH in normal cyclic and postmenopausal patients women. A significant increase in f T4 and TT4 in postmenopausal patients women when compared with postmenopausal control group f T4 and TT4. A significant increase in free testosterone and FBG and significant decrease in TT3 and E2 levels in normal cyclic patients women when compared with normal cycle control group. High prolactin levels were found in the normal cyclic patients women in comparism with control group. Higher levels of insulin were found in normal cyclic and postmenopausal patients women as compared with control groups, however insulin was not statistically different. Significant increase in HOMA-IR of normal cyclic patients women compared with control group. In conclusion, elevation of TSH levels in postmenopausal patients women were less than in normal cyclic patients women this explain the increase levels of thyroxine hormone(T4)in this group of patients as compared with both control group and normal cyclic patients women. Some hormonal changes were found in normal cyclic hypothyroid patients women as compared with control group.The alteration of these hormones disappear when euthyroid state restored, so adjustment of thyroxine therapy is required in these patients.
Knowledge Management Strategies: A Handbook of Applied Technologies

We recognize knowledge management as a socio-technical phenomenon where the basic social constructs such as person, team, and organization require support from information communication technology applications. In an era of business transition, the effective management of knowledge is proposed as a strategy that effectively utilizes organizational intangible assets. Knowledge Management Strategies: A Handbook of Applied Technologies provides practical guidelines for the implementation of knowledge management strategies through the discussion of specific technologies and taxonomies of knowledge management applications. A critical mass of some of the most sough-after research of our information technology and business world, this book proves an essential addition to every reference library collection.
Marsden's Book of Movement Disorders

Professor Marsden was arguably the most influential movement disorders clinician investigator of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed articles. His untimely death in 1998 left this textbook, which he had labored on for more than 15 years, uncompleted. Fortunately, 3 of his very able former acolytes have completed the task. The result is a worthy capstone to Professor Marsden's brilliant career.
Patient participation in transitional care of older patients

Patient participation is highlighted in healthcare policy documents as an important area to address in order to improve and secure healthcare quality. The literature on healthcare quality and safety furthermore reveals that transitional care carries a risk of adverse events. Elderly persons with co-morbidities are in need of treatment and healthcare from several care professionals and are transferred between different care levels. Patient-centered care, shared decision-making and user involvement are concepts of care that incorporate patient participation and the patients’ experiences with care. Even though these care concepts are highlighted in healthcare policy documents, limited knowledge exists about their use in transitions, and therefore points to a need for a review of the existing literature. The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of studies including patient participation as applied in transitional care of the elderly. The methodology used is a literature review searching electronic databases. Results show that participation from elderly in discharge planning and decision-making was low, although patients wanted to participate. Some tools were successfully implemented, but several did not stimulate patient participation. The paper has documented that improvements in quality of transitional care of elderly is called for, but has not been well explored in the research literature and a need for future research is revealed. Clinical practice should take into consideration implementing tools to support patient participation to improve the quality of transitional care of the elderly.
Design of Delay Independent State Feedback Control for Roll-to-Roll Printing Applications

Control of print quality (registration) in roll-to-roll (R2R) printing is challenging because of the presence of transport delays involved in the printing process. In this work we present a delay-independent state feedback control design to stabilize a R2R printing press by considering all the significant dynamics involved in the printing process. State feedback control design using past state measurements (controllers with memory) are discussed first. Since controllers with memory are less desirable in industrial applications, we investigate and discuss the feasibility of designing a simple, memoryless, delay-independent state feedback controller for printing applications. The feasibility is shown by the use of a control design procedure that exploits the structure information in the system matrix to find a stabilizing controller. The design procedure is also extended to other common industrial R2R control strategies, such as decentralized control and state feedback with integral action for R2R printing applications.Copyright © 2014 by ASME
Apoptosis The Life And Death Of Cells

Thank you very much for reading apoptosis the life and death of cells. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their favorite books like this apoptosis the life and death of cells, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious bugs inside their laptop. apoptosis the life and death of cells is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly. Our digital library saves in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Merely said, the apoptosis the life and death of cells is universally compatible with any devices to read.
A systematic approach to give bedside ultrasound-guided celiac plexus block

Celiac plexus neurolysis (CPN) is an established modality of choice for the management of pain due to advanced upper abdominal malignancies. The procedure is usually performed under imaging guidance, traditionally, using fluoroscopy. Numerous techniques and approaches have been described in literature for conducting CPN with fluoroscopy and computed tomography guidance. Ultrasound (USG) has gained popularity recently for performing the procedure with added advantage of being radiation free, enabling real-time visualization of the needle tract, and possibility of performing CPN in bedside setting. This article describes the technique of USG-guided CPN using percutaneous anterior approach and discusses the dos and don'ts associated with it.
Comics and/as documentary : the implications of graphic truth-telling

Examining examples from a cluster of early twenty-first century comics this thesis argues that these are comics adopting a documentary mode of address. The recognition that they share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world, in turn calls for a closer examination of the contribution such comics present in terms of documentary’s repertoire. This thesis challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. In so doing, it aligns with debates and questions raised by recent academic work around animated documentary. Shared concerns include conventions, truth-claims and trust, and the limitations of representation as verisimilitude. Mindful not to overstate correspondence with animated and inherently moving image forms, however, this contribution explicitly concerns documentary in comics form: as constituted by static and silent pages. The enquiry is structured according to concerns and themes that have been identified as central to documentary theory: the relation between documentary image and its referent; the production of archives and popular history; the social function of documentary as visibility and ‘voice’, and the travelogue as cultural narrative and production of knowledge. In other words, examples of comics that address actual, as opposed to imagined, persons and events of the historical world, are read through the lens of documentary. Close reading and visual analysis, engaging comics-specific frameworks, asks how comics by means of their formal qualities might offer alternative strategies and even the possibility to overcome certain problems associated with audiovisual modes of documentary representation. The thesis simultaneously extends an alternative perspective to literary frameworks, in particular the categories of memoir and autobiography, which have come to dominate in a steadily growing field of comics studies.
Handbuch der physiologischen Optik

Dark brown calf leather cover, 240 x 160 mm, gold stamped on the front and back with the heraldic crest of Pembroke College, Oxford, and gold stamped with the book title on the spine, 874 pages and one page addendum. A pocket formed by the back paste down contains five of originally eight folding plates. There are pencil notes in English in a few margins. The book is volume 9 in the series Allgemeine Encylopaedie der Physik edited by Gustav Karsten. (see page facing the title page). Digital images of the missing plates are on a CD held in the Pamphlet and Ephemera filing cabinet under Catalogue number 2924 together with print-outs of the images. They were copied courtesy of the BOA Museum Curator, Neil Handley, from a copy of this book in the Library of the the College of Optometrists, London. Images of this missing plates are on the Museum iPhoto
Deep Learning Models for Unsupervised and Transfer Learning

Deep Learning Models for Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Nitish Srivastava Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2016 This thesis is a compilation of five research contributions whose goal is to do unsupervised and transfer learning by designing models that learn distributed representations using deep neural networks. First, we describe a Deep Boltzmann Machine model applied to image-text and audio-video multimodal data. We show that the learned generative probabilistic model can jointly model both modalities and also produce good conditional distributions on one modality given the other. We use this model to infer fused high-level representations and evaluate them using retrieval and classification tasks. Second, we propose a Boltzmann Machine based topic model for modeling bag-of-words documents. This model augments the Replicated Softmax Model with a second hidden layer of latent words without sacrificing RBM-like inference and training. We describe how this can be viewed as a beneficial modification of the otherwise rigid, complementary prior that is implicit in RBM-like models. Third, we describe an RNN-based encoder-decoder model that learns to represent video sequences. This model is inspired by sequence-to-sequence learning for machine translation. Given an input sequence there are at least two distinct sources of unsupervised learning signal – predicting the future and modeling the input itself. We attempt to combine these by asking an RNN encoder to come up with a representation of the input sequence can be used to both decode the input back, and predict the future sequence. This representation is evaluated using action recognition benchmarks. Fourth, we develop a theory of directional units and use them to construct Boltzmann Machines and Autoencoders. A directional unit is a structured, vector-valued hidden unit which represents a continuous space of features. The magnitude and direction of a directional unit represent the strength and pose of a feature within this space, respectively. Networks of these units can potentially do better coincidence detection and learn general classes of equivariance. Temporal coherence based learning can be used with these units to factor out the dynamic properties of a feature, part, or object from static properties such as identity. Last, we describe a contribution to transfer learning. We show how a deep convolutional net trained to classify among a given set of categories can transfer its knowledge to new categories even when very few labelled examples are available for the new categories.
Persuading Students with Emotional Disabilities to Write: Findings from a Design Experiment*

Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs Yojanna Cuenca-Sanchez, Nancy Irby and Sara Mills George Mason University Linda Mason and Rick Kubina Penn State University *Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, 2009, Seattle This project was supported in part from grants: Grant No. R324A070199-07 from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences, and Grant No. H325D070008 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. Design Experiment
La mise en valeur des sites archéologiques: un rapprochement entre archéologie, tourisme et développement : le cas de la Syrie

La these examine les rapports complexes entre Archeologie, Tourisme et Developpement a travers l’analyse des enjeux et modalites de la mise en valeur des sites archeologiques en Syrie. Le contexte syrien offre a ces egards un terrain d’observation particulierement riche puisque les sites archeologiques y ont ete investis des la fin du XIXeme siecle de valeurs cognitives, identitaires et plus recemment economiques et touristiques dans le cadre des politiques de developpement et d’amenagement du territoire « national ». Alors que les relations entre Archeologie, Tourisme et Developpement sont stigmatisees par les archeologues, elles tendent a etre concues sous la forme d’une complementarite « naturelle » par les gestionnaires et institutions patrimoniales et touristiques. Ces derniers voient dans le patrimoine (culturel) un levier potentiel de developpement a la fois socio-economique et socio-culturel. Les discours archeologiques, manageriaux et institutionnels se fondent neanmoins sur une conception limitative du site archeologique et de sa valorisation, terme connote qui renverrait exclusivement a une exploitation marchande de la « ressource » archeologique. Or, il y a lieu de proposer une autre approche et d’adopter une voix mediane en soulignant que le rapprochement entre les trois dimensions evoquees ci-dessus est possible mais non oblige. Par consequent, cette these propose une conception renouvelee des sites archeologiques et de leur mise en valeur. The thesis examines the complex relationships between Archaeology, Tourism and Development through the analysis of the stakes and modalities of the development of archeological sites in Syria. The Syrian context offers a ground of particularly rich observation because archeological sites were invested from the end of the XIXth century of cognitive, identical values and more recently economic and touristic values in the framework of development policies. Within the framework of policies of development and "national" land settlement. While the relations between Archaeology, Tourism and Development are stigmatized by the archaeologists, they tend to be conceived under the shape of a "natural" complementarity by the administrators and the heritage and tourist institutions. These last ones see in the (cultural) heritage a potential lever of socio-economic and socio-cultural development. The archaeological, managerial and institutional rethorics base themselves nevertheless on a restrictive conception of the archeological site and its valuation (valorisation), a connoted term which would send back exclusively to a commercial exploitation of the archaeological "resource". Now, it seems important to propose another approach and to adopt a "median voice" by underlining that the link between three dimensions. Consequently, this thesis proposes a renewed conception of archeological sites and their development.
The Relationship Between Leadership Styles of Nurse Managers and Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction in Hospital Settings

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership styles of nurse managers and job satisfaction of registered staff nurses in hospital settings in an Appalachian state. Names and addresses of 7,190 registered staff nurses were obtained from the state Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses and 200 subjects were selected using simple random sampling. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was used to measure leadership style of nurse managers as perceived by staff nurses. The Work Quality Index was used to measure job satisfaction of registered staff nurses. A positive, moderate correlation was found between job satisfaction of registered staff nurses and transformational leadership of nurse managers (r = .38, p = .001). An inverse, weak relationship was found between job satisfaction of registered staff nurses and transactional leadership of nurse managers (r = -.25, p = .03). The findings supported a positive relationship between transformational leadership styles and registered staff nurse job satisfaction.