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ISO Initiatives on Software Product Line Engineering: Vision and Current Status Invited Talk for Variability@ER2011
2011
Software product line engineering and management is still a relatively young discipline and its industrial diffusion is somewhat limited, partly due to the lack of international standards. It involves sub-disciplines that may not necessarily be mature enough yet for standardization. On the other hand, well-focused standardization efforts contribute to the diffusion of best product line practices and help raise the maturity of these practices. Careful roadmapping and execution of the standardization initiative is thus vital. This talk discusses the current roadmap for the international standardization initiative of software product line engineering and management methods and tools and the st…
1977: Hopes Fulfilled—Building Democracy in Turbulent Economic Times
2020
This chapter offers an analysis of the main economic and institutional transformations in Spain from 1977 onwards. The severe economic and financial crisis that hit Spain in the mid-1970s coincided with the arrival of democracy after Franco’s death and shaped the nature and scope of the implemented reforms (Pactos de la Moncloa). While the crisis and political instability limited the possibility of making a more radical adjustment, the consensus among different social actors, unions and political parties was fundamental to the reforms. This time hopes were fulfilled and although some reforms were left pending, those that were adopted played a seminal role in putting the Spanish economy and …
Airway assessment by four-phase rhinomanometry in septal surgery
2011
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article updates the state of the art in functional ventilation tests of the nasal airway. Multidisciplinary international cooperation has led within the last years to the development of four-phase rhinomanometry (4PR) by eradicating the errors of the 'classic' rhinomanometry. RECENT FINDINGS Physical experiments, mathematical models and comprehensive statistical analyses implicate that the nasal breath consists of four phases of different diagnostic importance. Presuming the motility of the nasal entrance, it is necessary to depict the elastic behavior within the rhinomanometric curve, as well as to use new parameters for the clinical evaluation of the nasal obstructi…