4 research outputs found
Agile at scale : a summary of the 8th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development
The Large-Scale Agile Development workshop explored the
main research challenges in large-scale software development. We considered multi-site organisations with large-scale projects that include a large
number of teams adopting agile methods. Such topics include inter-team
coordination, knowledge sharing, large project organisation, agile transformation, agile teamwork quality, project models that facilitate several
self-organising teams, and practices for scaling agile methods. We accepted five full research papers, which are included in this volume. The
accepted papers report empirical research studies using surveys, observations and case studies. Also, an interactive online discussion session was
conducted to compare the two approaches, SAFe and Spotify. The workshop participants, which were around a hundred people, joined this discussion to compare the two approaches and suggest some future research
questions about the hybridisation of SAFe and Spotify. This workshop
summary contributes as a current snapshot of research along with some
results from an interactive discussion about SAFe and Spotify
Formulas in inverse and ill-posed problems
The Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series is a series of monographs publishing postgraduate level information on inverse and ill-posed problems for an international readership of professional scientists and researchers. The series aims to publish works which involve both theory and applications in, e.g., physics, medicine, geophysics, acoustics, electrodynamics, tomography, and ecology
Structure optimization of a new class of PPARĪ³ antagonists
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARĪ³) modulators have found wide application for the treatment of cancers, metabolic disorders and inflammatory diseases. Contrary to PPARĪ³ agonists, PPARĪ³ antagonists have been much less studied and although they have shown immunomodulatory effects, there is still no therapeutically useful PPARĪ³ antagonist on the market. In contrast to non-competitive, irreversible inhibition caused by 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzanilide (GW9662), the recently described (E)-2-(5-((4-methoxy-2-(trifluoromethyl)quinolin-6-yl)methoxy)-2-((4-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl)oxy)-benzylidene)-hexanoic acid (MTTB, T-10017) is a promising prototype for a new class of PPARĪ³ antagonists. It exhibits competitive antagonism against rosiglitazone mediated activation of PPARĪ³ ligand binding domain (PPARĪ³LBD) in a transactivation assay in HEK293T cells with an IC50 of 4.3āÆĀµM against 1āÆĀµM rosiglitazone. The aim of this study was to investigate the structure-activity relationships (SAR) of the MTTB scaffold focusing on improving its physicochemical properties. Through this optimization, 34 new derivatives were prepared and characterized. Two new potent compounds (T-10075 and T-10106) with much improved drug-like properties and promising pharmacokinetic profile were identified