Ste. Therese

A work of creative non-fiction in which the author explores his French Canadian-American spiritual roots through encounters with the stories of Ste. Therese of France and St. Teresa of Spain

The combinatorics of open covers (II)

We continue to investigate various diagonalization properties for sequences of open covers of separable metrizable spaces introduced in Part I. These properties generalize classical ones of Rothberger, Menger, Hurewicz, and Gerlits-Nagy. In particular, we show that most of the properties introduced in Part I are indeed distinct. We characterize two of the new properties by showing that they are equivalent to saying all finite powers have one of the classical properties above (Hurewicz property in one case and in the Menger property in other). We consider for each property the smallest cardinality of metric space which fails to have that property. In each case this cardinal turns out to equal another well-known cardinal less than the continuum. We also disprove (in ZFC) a conjecture of Hurewicz which is analogous to the Borel conjecture. Finally, we answer several questions from Part I concerning partition properties of covers

Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts

Welfare Reform: Politics, Policy and The Courts is a detailed analysis of welfare reform as directed by Congress in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996. The thesis entails the following: an analysis of the historical factors that have led to legislative reform of the US welfare policy; an examination of the requirements the Act has placed on the states and the states\u27 efforts to meet those requirements; issues of legitimacy that surround welfare reform, as well as US Supreme Court decisions that have helped shape welfare policy. Finally, an assessment of the direction of future welfare reform

Piloting MDevSPICE: the medical device software process assessment framework

Software development companies moving into the medical device domain often find themselves overwhelmed by the number of regulatory requirements they need to satisfy before they can market their device. Several international standards and guidance documents have been developed to help companies on their road to regulatory compliance but working their way through the various standards is a challenge in itself. In order to help software companies in the medical device domain, we have developed an integrated framework of medical device software development best practices called MDevSPICE®. This framework integrates generic software development best practices with medical device standards’ requirements enabling consistent and thorough assessment of medical device processes. MDevSPICE® can be used by software companies evaluating their readiness for regulatory audits as well as by large medical device manufacturers for selecting suitable software suppliers. The MDevSPICE® framework consists of a process reference model, a process assessment model, an assessment method, and training and certification schemes. The framework has been validated using expert reviews and through MDevSPICE® assessments in industry. In this paper, we describe the MDevSPICE® process assessment framework focusing on its benefits and significance for the medical device manufacturing community as learned from MDevSPICE® assessments conducted to date

The acceptability of promotional policies to teachers and administrators in five selected communities.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Medical device software as a subsystem of an overall medical device

Embedded software is a sub-system that needs to be integrated with the electrical and mechanical subsystems for a functional medical device to be developed and marketed. In order to be able to develop a medical device system through integrating its sub-systems, the complete system requirements should be known at the start of the project and managed throughout development. Software requirements are then derived from the systems requirements. We have developed and piloted a medical device software process assessment framework called MDevSPICE® that integrates processes from various medical device software standards as well as generic software development standards. This paper describes how the MDevSPICE® framework has been designed so as to enable medical device software developers to produce software that will be safe and easily integrated with other sub-systems of the overall medical device. We also describe the lessons learned from piloting MDevSPICE® in the medical device industry and challenges medical device software developers meet in tracing requirements and risks to and from the system level

Down De Lover\u27s Lane : Plantation Croon

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