The shrimp harvesting sector is the largest component of the Southeastern United States fishing industry, accounting
for 57% of the total value of landings in the region in 1996. U.S. shrimp imports were valued at $2.6 billion in 1996. Together,
domestic production and imports of raw products support a large...
Every activity of a pharmacy is related in some measure to the financial results of the business. The need for sound financial management permeates almost every phase of pharmacy operations. Pharmacy bankruptcies were at a 20-year high in 1961. The lack of specific literature on pharmacy financial management, especially at...
The "style metric" of Berry and Meekings is purported to quantify the lucidity of software written in the C programming language. We used a modification of this metric to try and identify error-prone software. Our results indicate that this metric seems to bear little relationship to the density of errors...
A computer program complexity measure is a measure of how easy the program is to understand, test, modify, maintain, etc. Many of these measures are derived from the control or flow graph of the program. We describe these measures graph theoretically, indicate what aspect or aspects of the program they...
There is some debate over the effect of using deeply nested control structures upon programmer comprehension. In order to test the effect of deeply nested IF-THEN-ELSE statements, we split 148 computer science students of varing backgrounds into two groups. One group received a listing of a program that made excessive...
This paper develops a new model of software maintenance based upon an objective decision rule which determines whether a given software module can be effectively modified, or if it should instead be rewritten. Completely rewriting a module can be expensive, but it can be even more expensive if the module's...
During their migrations, marine predators experience varying levels of protection and face many threats as they travel through multiple countries' jurisdictions and across ocean basins. Some populations are declining rapidly. Contributing to such declines is a failure of some international agreements to ensure effective cooperation by the stakeholders responsible for...