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Path To a Healthy Work-Life Balance: Mobile Application for Work and Personal Life Mastery

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering
Drawing insights from diverse organizational methods, this study endeavors to facilitate effective self-development and organization in the face of contemporary demands as solutions for integrating goal tracking, event coordination, and task management ...
Erfan Rahmani, Zarina Che Embi
doaj   +1 more source

A Disciplined Approach to Adopting Agile Practices: The Agile Adoption Framework [PDF]

arXiv, 2007
Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes to take advantage of the numerous benefits that it offers to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction.
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Spring and Power in Hovering Ornithopters

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Only small ornithopters can hover, longest at the hummingbird size. This article reviews the drive and power of these hovering machines, focusing on elastic energy and thrust boosters. Unlike two‐winged designs, X‐winged and multiple‐V‐winged ornithopters benefit from lower disk loading and slower, smaller wingbeats, and the clap‐and‐fling effect ...
Gih‐Keong Lau, Yao‐Wei Chin, Shih‐Chun Lin, Yu‐Hsiang Lai, Boo Cheong Khoo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecosystem supporting the commercialization of digital health innovations

Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
Digitalization has significantly impacted various industries; however, its full potential in healthcare remains unrealized. Despite the promise of digital health solutions to modernize healthcare and benefit the population at scale, their adoption and ...
Pauliina Tryykilä, Elina Kontio
doaj   +1 more source

Using the agile adoption framework to assess agility and guide improvements [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Agility implies a set of principles that need to be followed in order to have the proposed responsiveness to change. This paper presents how the Agile Adoption Framework can be used to assess agility and pinpoint focus areas for companies that want to improve. Management found it useful in general to get data on possible focus points for improvement in
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Morphy: A Compliant and Morphologically Aware Flying Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents Morphy, a 25.2 cm‐wide, 260 g aerial robot with flexible, sensorized joints that enable it to withstand high‐speed collisions and squeeze through narrow spaces. Powered by an adaptive control scheme exploiting real‐time morphology feedback, Morphy demonstrates resilience in trajectory tracking, collision, and impact recovery and ...
Paolo De Petris, Morten Nissov, Kostas Alexis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agile Adoption Process Framework [PDF]

arXiv, 2006
Today many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes in hope of overcoming some of the difficulties they are facing with their current software development process. There is no structured framework for the agile adoption process. This paper presents a 3-Stage process framework that assists organization and guides organizations through their agile ...
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PairTilt: Design and Control of an Active Tilt‐Rotor Quadcopter for Improved Efficiency and Agility

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
PairTilt is an actuated tilt‐rotor unmanned aerial vehicle capable of active shape reconfiguration, balancing simplicity, efficiency, and agility. Its H‐shaped frame incorporates pairwise tiltable rotors, which reduce gyroscopic torque and decouple key dynamics, enhancing maneuverability and reducing drag.
Jerry Tang, Mark W. Mueller
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Recycling for Plastic Waste: Status and Perspectives 

ChemBioEng Reviews, Volume 9, Issue 6, Page 541-555, December 2022., 2022
The already well‐established industrial‐scale mechanical recycling of plastics has technical and economic limits. New goods for all areas of plastics application can be generated by chemical recycling processes. This review focuses on pyrolysis and solvolysis processes. The procedures and their most important features are described.
Arkadi Maisels, Andreas Hiller, Franz‐Georg Simon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective factors in agile transformation process from change management perspective [PDF]

Taghi Javdani Gandomani, et al., Effective factors in agile transformation process from change management perspective, 2nd Int. Conf. on Advance Information System, E-Education & Development (CAISED 2013), Jan. 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2013
After introducing agile approach in 2001, several agile methods were founded over the last decade. Agile values such as customer collaboration, embracing changes, iteration and frequent delivery, continuous integration, etc. motivate all software stakeholders to use these methods in their projects. The main issue is that for using these methods instead
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