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A case study of risk management in agile systems development
(2009-06-08)
A principal objective of agile development methods is to reduce risk thereby resulting in more
successful and effective information systems. However, while there is an extensive body of academic
literature on risk ...
Semantic Service-Oriented Design And Development Methodology For Enterprise Healthcare Integration
(WEBIST, 2009-03-23)
The application of ontologies (semantic) to enhance any existing or proposed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based software architecture has various levels of use in terms of intra and inter enterprise integration. The ...
Connecting Interdisciplinary theoretical research questions with current policy debates in the context of your own PhD research
(2009)
Recent policy debates surrounding issues regarding health service delivery and escalating costs have come to the fore within political and policy discourses. Indeed within the current economic climate this debate has ...
What's technology got to do With IT? A Dephi study on collaborative learning in distance educatio
(London School of Economics, 2009)
Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been
identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low
quality of learning ...
Project managers - do they need to be certified?
(Springer, 2009-12-16)
The purpose of this study is to examine the drivers behind the certification of project managers in Irish organisations, to identify the benefits and drawbacks of project management certification and to determine whether ...
A coevolving systems approach to the organization of agile software development.
(Institute of Management Sciences, 2009)
Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by
organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack
of understanding of ...
The Irish National Innovation System: Structures, Performance and Challenges
(CISC, 2009-07)
This paper deals with three elements of the Irish National Innovation System namely structures, performance and challenges. The paper begins by outlining the policy context and then focuses on technology trajectories and ...
A Speech Based Approach to Surveillance Video Retrieval
(2009)
This paper describes the anatomy of a pilot surveillance system with a speech-based interface for content-based retrieval of video data. The proposed system relies on an ontology-based information sharing architecture and ...
Modulation of human uterine smooth muscle cell collagen contractility by thrombin, Y-27632, TNF alpha and indomethacin
(BioMed Central, 2009-01-08)
Background: Preterm labour occurs in approximately 10% of pregnancies and is a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality. However, the pathways involved in regulating contractility in normal and preterm labour are not ...