Organizations have used systems planning and development methodologies for some time now. Results are mixed, with some reporting substantial benefits, and others abandoning the process without achieving the desired benefits. ...

Obstetric surgical repair is the common therapeutic intervention available to women with obstetrical fistula. While surgical repair can address the physical symptoms, it may not end the psychological challenges that women ...

The recent global financial crisis, regulatory and compliance requirements placed on organisations, and the need for scientific research in the project portfolio management discipline were factors that motivated this ...

Energy consumption in the form of fuel or electricity is ubiquitous globally. Among energy types, electricity is crucial to human life in terms of cooking, warming and cooling of shelters, powering of electronic devices ...

Redundancy in plaintext is a fertile source of attack in any encryption system. Compression before encryption reduces the redundancy in the plaintext, but this does not make a cipher more secure. The cipher text is still ...

In this paper we show how details of a software design emerges in two steps: software architecture and program organisation and from first having established careful descriptions of the application domain and of functional ...