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Collaborative quality assurance in information systems development : the interaction of software development techniques and team cognition
This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams. Prior research on these extremely popular but also costly techniques has focused on isolated pairs of developers and ignored the fact that they are typically applied in larger, enduring teams. This book is one of the first studies to investigate how these techniques depend on and influence the joint cognitive accomplishments of entire development teams rather than individuals. It employs theories on transactive memory systems and functional affordances to provide answers based on empirical research. The mixed-methods research presented includes several in-depth case studies and survey results from more than 500 software developers, team leaders, and product managers in 81 software development teams. The book's findings will advance IS research and have explicit implications for developers of code review tools, information systems development teams, and software development managers.
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Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs
Most policymakers see counterinsurgency and counternarcotics policy as two sides of the same coin. Stop the flow of drug money, the logic goes, and the insurgency will wither away. But the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrongheaded, as Vanda Felbab-Brown argues in Shooting Up.
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Research on the open space ratios of residential plots in major Chinese cities meeting public centralized green space standards
The indicator of open space ratio has garnered significant international attention due to its ability to effectively balance equity and efficiency in urban development. In China, many studies have investigated the introduction of the open space ratio to address the disconnect between public benefit factors and development efficiency factors during the land development control process. However, these studies have not yet succeeded in linking the open space ratio with the core element of public interest—public centralized green spaces—resulting in an inability to further localize the open space ratio within the Chinese context. To address the gaps in existing research, our study focuses on residential plots in 15 major cities across different climate zones in China, exploring the open space ratios that meet the country’s standards for public centralized green spaces. We find that, after achieving standards, the open space ratios in residential plots across various cities have increased to varying degrees. The differences in open space ratios among specific cities are significantly influenced by factors such as geographical latitude, the intensity of per capita land use, regional economic development levels, and local construction practices. The application of the open space ratio with Chinese characteristics must be based on the premise of meeting the public interest baseline. It should be tailored to local conditions, stratified and classified, and scientifically determined, thereby promoting an effective balance between equity and efficiency in the urban land development process and advancing the sustainable development of the living environment.
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The effects of an unfamiliar experimenter on proactive and reactive control in children
Cognitive control development across childhood is critical for later academic achievement. Despite recent advances in the comprehension of how the context influences cognitive control development, no study has ever addressed whether one of the most frequent contextual features of children’s lives (i.e., the presence of another person) impacts control engagement. Here, 123 Chinese children aged 5 and 9 years-old performed, either in the presence of an experimenter or alone, an AX-CPT, a task assessing reactive and proactive control. We found that children were overall negatively affected by the experimenter presence in terms of latencies but not of accuracy. Further, when analysing the trial types separately, we observed that this effect mainly concerned trials requiring children to engage more proactive control and was greater for younger than older children. These results indicate that direct social factors such as the presence of an unfamiliar experimenter seem to modulate cognitive control performance. Future research should continue to examine these effects in the light of the numerous existing social presence theories in order to unravel what are the cognitive mechanisms affected by social presence in childhood.
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Jenkins 2 : up and running : evolve your deployment pipeline for next-generation automation
Design, implement, and execute continuous delivery pipelines with a level of flexibility, control, and ease of maintenance that was not possible with Jenkins before. With this practical book, build administrators, developers, testers, and other professionals will learn how the features in Jenkins 2 let you define pipelines as code, leverage integration with other key technologies, and create automated, reliable pipelines to simplify and accelerate your DevOps environments.
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Nuclear Apartheid
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world.Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out.An Indian diplomat called the system \"nuclear apartheid.\" Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S.
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Experience in the Application of Hydrocarbon Optical Studies in Oil Field Development
This article reviews the results of measurement of optical properties of oil, such as polarimetry, refractometric, luminescent-bituminological research, IR-spectrometry and UV-visible-NIR spectrometry used to solve geo-bituminology development of hydrocarbon deposits. The authors pay special attention to optical research in the field of UV-visible-NIR electromagnetic radiation, the results of which allow us to estimate the residual oil reserves, separate production for each formation during the operation of multi-layer objects, determine the producing gas-oil ratio, density and content of hydrocarbons, efficiency of hydraulic fracturing, flow-reducing technologies, and injection of solvents of heavy oil sediments, etc. The published approaches to methods of optical research, which are carried out by laboratories or in-well devices, have been analyzed. This article analyzes the main advantages and disadvantages of current technologies for determining the optical properties of oil. The authors propose wellhead devices for determining the optical properties of oil in UV-visible-NIR radiation (190–1100 nm) and their functional schemes, with a description of the operating principle.
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