Este livro apresenta o resultado de uma pesquisa-ação, realizada em uma pequena empresa de base tecnológica, na qual se aplicou o método ágil Scrum em um projeto de desenvolvimento de um produto de Software. Estudos mostram que a indústria de produção de software é extremamente ineficiente e ineficaz. E as micro e pequenas empresas de base tecnológica tem um desafio ainda maior devido aos seus recursos restritos. Além disso, os métodos tradicionais de desenvolvimento de produtos ...

Adaptiveness in distributed parallel applications is an essential feature whose importance has been assessed in research fields such as scientific computing, large-scale real-time simulations and emergency management systems. This feature is of special interest to properly and promptly respond to time-varying QoS requirements, to react to highly variable workload peaks and to deal with irregular parallel problems. Starting out from the performance predictability of structured parallelism schemes, this book describes a novel formalization of adaptive parallel ...

Given the difficulties of our times, these traditional short prayers can be a great help in our spiritual life: Easy to remember and needing little time, they are suitable for almost any situation. Also included is the traditional Service with the Prayer of the Name (the Jesus Prayer) - as handed on by various ascetics from the Holy Mountain for the benefit of the faithful, even those living 'in the world'. This special first edition, in full colour , presents both the prayers and accompanying introductions and commentary in a beautiful calligraphic ...

Ce travail répond à une problématique suscitée par la critique génétique. Cette discipline étudie la genèse des oeuvres littéraires grâce aux brouillons d'écrivains en recherchant, entre autres, les déplacements entre deux versions d'un même texte. Ceci nous a amené à définir la problématique de l'alignement textuel monolingue avec recherche de déplacements. D'un point de vue informatique, nous avons mis à jour la nécessité ...

This book is dedicated to all those innocent children born with HIV/AIDS out of no fault of their own with the hope that with the advancement of modern medicine, enhancement of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS the prevalence rates among newborns will drop to almost negligible levels. It is hoped that more funding will be sought to ensure more research is done in a bid to rid us all of the scourge that has wreaked havoc in mainly sub-saharan Africa, disrupting socio-economic activities, ruining families and causing untold misery to many.

Although a group affair, this booklet is an introduction to Kho-N'gha Dhao by selected members of the Kho-N'gha Dhao Religious Order. But the final draft was executed by our HeadMaster, Rev. Bro. Kho-N'gha Dhao. Any fault in its information the Rev. Bro. Khang Fre Y takes full responsibility.

This book contains a comprehensive treatise on the practice of welding cast iron, malleable iron, steel, copper, brass, bronze, and aluminium by the oxy-acetylene method, together with concise information on the equipment required for both welding and cutting by this process. Complete with easy-to-digest information and a veritable plethora of exquisite photographs and illustrations, this text will be of much value to anyone with an interest in Oxy-acetylene welding and will make for a great addition to collections of antiquarian construction literature. ...

A new edition celebrating the 400th anniversary of one of the most outlandish stories in Western literature. With new illustrations.

Faith fled her compound one wintry night with four other genetically modified women. Glory, Honor, Charity, and Hope have all found men who adore them. Faith is happy for her sisters, but it’s lonely on her own. A man piqued her interest, but she ran the probabilities, and the odds of him ever being interested in her are thin. Tough and forbidding, Reginald was a field surgeon in the Middle East. He eats and breathes medicine. Besides, he’s married to the CIA. No wives in his past. Faith hacked into the personnel database to check. Reginald ...