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Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise
Year: 2012

Master IBMs Breakthrough DAD Process Framework for Succeeding with Agile in Large, Complex, Mission Critical IT Projects It is widely recognized that moving from traditional to agile approaches to build software solutions is a critical source of competitive advantage. Mainstream agile approaches that are indeed suitable for small projects require significant tailoring for larger, complex enterprise projects. In Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines introduce IBMs breakthrough Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework, which describes how to do this tailoring. DAD applies a more disciplined approach to agile development by acknowledging and dealing with the realities and complexities of a portfolio of interdependent program initiatives. Ambler and Lines show how to extend Scrum with supplementary agile and lean strategies from Agile Modeling (AM) Extreme Programming (XP) Kanban, Unified Process (UP) and other proven methods to provide a hybrid approach that is adaptable to your organizations unique needs. They candidly describe what practices work best, why they work, what the trade offs are, and when to consider alternatives, all within the context of your situation. Disciplined Agile Delivery addresses agile practices across the entire lifecycle, from requirements, architecture, and development to delivery and governance. The authors show how these best practice techniques fit together in an end to end process for successfully delivering large, complex systems from project initiation through delivery. Coverage includes Scaling agile for mission critical enterprise endeavorsAvoiding mistakes that drive poorly run agile projects to chaosEffectively initiating an agile projectTransitioning as an individual to agileIncrementally building consumable solutionsDeploying agile solutions into complex production environmentsLeveraging DevOps, architecture, and other enterprise disciplinesAdapting your governance strategy for agile projects Based on facts, research, and extensive experience, this book will be an indispensable resource for every enterprise software leader and practitioner whether theyre seeking to optimize their existing agile/Scrum process or improve the agility of an iterative process.
The Role of Mast Cells in Bone Metabolism and Bone Disorders
Venue: Frontiers in Immunology
Year: 2020

Mast cells (MCs) are important sensor and effector cells of the immune system that are involved in many physiological and pathological conditions. Increasing evidence suggests that they also play an important role in bone metabolism and bone disorders. MCs are located in the bone marrow and secrete a wide spectrum of mediators, which can be rapidly released upon activation of mature MCs following their differentiation in mucosal or connective tissues. Many of these mediators can exert osteocatabolic effects by promoting osteoclast formation [e.g. histamine, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) interleukin 6 (IL 6) and/or by inhibiting osteoblast activity (e.g. IL 1, TNF) By contrast, MCs could potentially act in an osteoprotective manner by stimulating osteoblasts (e.g. transforming growth factor b) or reducing osteoclastogenesis (e.g. IL 12, interferon g) Experimental studies investigating MC functions in physiological bone turnover using MC deficient mouse lines give contradictory results, reporting delayed or increased bone turnover or no influence depending on the mouse model used. By contrast, the involvement of MCs in various pathological conditions affecting bone is evident. MCs may contribute to the pathogenesis of primary and secondary osteoporosis as well as inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, because increased numbers of MCs were found in patients suffering from these diseases. The clinical observations could be largely confirmed in experimental studies using MC deficient mouse models, which also provide mechanistic insights. MCs also regulate bone healing after fracture by influencing the inflammatory response toward the fracture, vascularization, bone formation, and callus remodeling by osteoclasts. This review summarizes the current view and understanding of the role of MCs on bone in both physiological and pathological conditions.
The Social Sciences and Rationality: Promise, Limits, and Problems
Year: 2017

In recent decades, rational choice theory has emerged as the single most powerful, controversial claimant to provide a unified, theoretical framework for all the social sciences. In its simplest form, the theory postulates that humans are purposive beings who pursue their goals in a rational, efficient manner, seeking the greatest benefit at the lowest cost. This volume brings together prominent scholars working in several social science disciplines and the philosophy of science to debate the promise and problems of rational choice theory. As rational choice theory has spread from its home base in economics to other disciplines, it has come under fierce criticism. To its critics, the extension of the explanatory model mistakenly assumes that the logic of economic rationality can explain non economic behavior and, at its worst, commits the ethnocentric error of imposing Western concepts of rationality on non Western societies and cultures. This volume includes strong advocates as well as forceful critics of the rational choice approach. However, in contrast to previous debates, all the contributors share a commitment to open, constructive and knowledgeable dialogue. Well known advocates of rational choice theory (Michael Hechter, Michael Smith, Chris Manfredi) explicitly ponder some of its serious limitations, while equally well known critics (Ian Shapiro, Mario Bunge) strike a surprisingly conciliatory tone in contemplating its legitimate uses. Vociferous critics of neoclassical economics (Bunge) favorably discuss sociological proponents of rational choice theory while two economists who are not particularly anti mainstream (Robin Rowley, George Grantham) critically assess the problems of such assumptions in their discipline. Philosophers (Storrs McCall) and sociologists (John Hall) alike reflect on the variable meaning of rationality in explaining social behavior. In the introduction and conclusion, the editors survey the current state of the debate and show how open, constructive dialogue enables us to move beyond hackneyed accusations and dismissals that have characterized much previous debate.
Effect of Corporate Governance Mechanism on the Quality Financial Reporting (Evidence in Indonesia and Singapore)
Year: 2019

This electronic document is a "live" template and already define This study aimed to analyze the influence of corporate governance mechanisms (by proxy of the board of directors and independent board, audit committee, the quality of KAP big 4, specialization auditors, and corporate governance country level) on the quality of financial reporting to the control variable leverage, size, and GDP companies the sub sectors energy, raw materials, industrial, consumer discretionary, information and technology, essential goods, health, telecommunications services listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange 2010 2013. The method of analysis in this research is descriptive method with multiple linear regression approach and hypothesis test to test coefficient of determination, and partial regression coefficient. Selection of the sample through purposive sampling method. There are 31 companies in Indonesia and 41 companies in Singapore companies that have met the criteria in the sample research. The data used is secondary data. The results of this study prove that the board of directors and independent board, KAP Big 4 audit quality and corporate governance country level a significant effect on the quality of financial reports while the audit committee and the audit specialization did not significantly affect the quality of the financial statements. Keywords corporate governance country level; quality of financial statements; specialization auditor; the audit committe
Energy balance of algal biomass production in a 1 ha "Green Wall Panel" plant: How to produce algal biomass in a closed reactor achieving a high Net Energy Ratio
Year: 2015

The annual productivity of Tetraselmis suecica in a 1 ha Green Wall Panel II (GWP II) plant in Tuscany (Italy) is 36t (dry weight)ha 1year 1, which corresponds to an energy output of 799GJha 1year 1. The energy inputs necessary to attain that productivity amount to 1362GJha 1year 1, mainly given by the embodied energy of the reactor (about 30% mixing (about 40% fertilizers (11% and harvesting (10% The Net Energy Ratio (NER) of T. suecica production is thus 0.6. In a more suitable location (North Africa) productivity nearly doubles, reaching 66tha 1year 1, but the NER increases only by 40% and the gain (difference between output and inputs) remains negative. In a GWP II integrated with photovoltaics (PV) the NER becomes 1.7 and the gain surpasses 600GJha 1year 1. Marine microalgae cultivation in a GWP plant, in a suitable location, can attain high biomass productivities and protein yields 30times higher than those achievable with traditional crops (soya) When the GWP reactor is integrated with PV, the process attains a positive energy balance, which substantially enhances its sustainability.
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: An Analysis of a Potential Meme
Year: 2007

The purpose of this study was to discover whether the phrase "men are from Mars, women are from Venus, " from John Gray's book, had become a meme and to explore what its usage implied. Analysis of 510 references was guided by grounded theory. Coding over a decade of newspaper usage of the phrase into seven emergent themes allowed examination of usage against the theories of gender research, communication research, media research and meme theory research. This analysis revealed that this phrase meets the requirements to be considered a meme, and as a meme it has successfully assisted the survival, evolution and permeance of Gray's premise that communication differences are inherent and immutable. While this premise is not based on established clinical and academic principles, it is an example of how incorrect and baseless ideas can displace good reasoned thinking based on research.  To Patrick, for his boundless support on this " 2 year " journey. To Paul and Will, for doing their own laundry. To Nelson and Mary, for never saying, " You can't do that. " v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Tinjauan Fikih Muamalah terhadap Pembiayaan Mikro dengan Akad Ijarah Muntahiya Bittamlik (IMBT) di Bri Syariah KCP Bandung Cijerah
Year: 2020

Muntahiya Bittamlik (IMBT) Akad is a type of sale and purchase agreement that is permitted in Islam. IMBT contract is a combination of sale and purchase agreement, which requires the Bank to provide IMBT objects for rent to the Customer. In practice, Islamic banks do not provide rental objects that are required by the customer. This shows that the IMBT contract in Islamic Banks still has the potential to fall to usury. The objectives of this study are: 1) to review the implementation of the IMBT contract on micro financing products at Bank BRIS KCP Bandung Cijerah with muamalah fiqh analysis; 2) to find out the legal consequences arising from the IMBT contract on micro financing products at BRI Syariah KCP Bandung Cijerah. This type of research used in this study is qualitative with a normative juridical approach, namely legal research conducted by examining literature or secondary data as a basic material to be investigated by conducting a search of the regulations and literature relating to the problem under study Based on the results of the author's analysis, the application of IMBT contracts on micro financing products is not in accordance with muamalah fiqh, because in the IMBT contract practices on micro financing products there are still transactions containing ribawi hilah and there are legal incompatibilities between the fatwa and its practices at BRIS Cijerah.
IoT based intelligent irrigation management and monitoring system using arduino
Venue: TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Year: 2019

Plants, flowers and crops are living things around us that makes our earth more productive and beautiful. In order to growth healthy, they need water, light and nutrition from the soil in order to effect cleaning air naturally and produce oxygen to the world. Therefore, a technology that manage to brilliantly control plants watering rate according to its soil moisture and user requirement is proposed in this paper. The developed system included an Internet of Things (IoT) in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment where it manages and monitors the irrigation system either manually or automatically, depending on the user requirement. This proposed system applied Arduino technology and NRF24L01 as the microprocessor and transceiver for the communication channel, respectively. Smart agriculture and smart lifestyle can be developed by implementing this technology for the future work. It will save the budget for hiring employees and prevent from water wastage in daily necessities.
Glutamatergic basolateral amygdala to anterior insular cortex circuitry maintains rewarding contextual memory
Venue: Communications Biology
Year: 2020

Findings have shown that anterior insular cortex (aIC) lesions disrupt the maintenance of drug addiction, while imaging studies suggest that connections between amygdala and aIC participate in drug seeking. However, the role of the BLA aIC pathway in rewarding contextual memory has not been assessed. Using a cre recombinase under the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH+ promoter mouse model to induce a real time conditioned place preference (rtCPP) we show that photoactivation of TH+ neurons induced electrophysiological responses in VTA neurons, dopamine release and neuronal modulation in the aIC. Conversely, memory retrieval induced a strong release of glutamate, dopamine, and norepinephrine in the aIC. Only intra aIC blockade of the glutamatergic N methyl D aspartate receptor accelerated rtCPP extinction. Finally, photoinhibition of glutamatergic BLA aIC pathway produced disinhibition of local circuits in the aIC, accelerating rtCPP extinction and impairing reinstatement. Thus, activity of the glutamatergic projection from the BLA to the aIC is critical for maintenance of rewarding contextual memory. Gil Lievana et al. show that the basolateral amygdala anterior insular cortex (BLA aIC) pathway is involved in the maintenance of rewarding contextual memory. They use pharmacological, behavioral and electrophysiological approaches to demonstrate that this is due to the glutamatergic projection from the BLA to the aIC.
A cadeira de rodas infantil sob a perspectiva do design emocional e da ergonomia
Year: 2020

Considerando a contribuicao do design no desenvolvimento das Tecnologias Assistivas, propoe se, neste artigo, analisar a cadeira de rodas infantil sob a perspectiva do design emocional e da ergonomia, partindo da percepcao das criancas usuarias e de seus cuidadores. Em termos metodologicos, este estudo se caracteriza como uma pesquisa observacional descritiva, com analise de dados sob o paradigma qualitativo. Foi utilizada na fase exploratoria a ferramenta de Design Macroergonomico que incorpora as demandas dos usuarios em todas as fases do processo. Embora os resultados apresentados nas entrevistas tenham apontado para a necessidade de alteracoes relacionadas a seguranca da cadeira de rodas, verificou se que as criancas usuarias identificaram os aspectos esteticos como fatores relevantes passiveis de mudanca.
Independent audit committee characteristics and real earnings management
Year: 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of independent audit committees in constraining real earnings management. This study examines the relationships between audit committee characteristics and real activities manipulation.  US firms with stronger incentives to undertake real earnings management are selected as a sample. Regressions are run for the empirical analyses.  It is found that audit committee members' additional directorships are positively associated with real earnings management measured by abnormal cash flows from operations, abnormal discretionary expenses and abnormal production costs, suggesting that audit committees with high additional directorships are less effective in constraining real earnings management. The findings are consistent with the notion that audit committee members' busyness impairs their monitoring effectiveness.  This study extends the extant research on audit committees' oversigh.
Fast Hardware Architecture for 2 D Separable Convolution Operations
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Year: 2018

2 D convolution is a widely used low level image processing operation, especially in spatial filtering, sharpening, and edge detection. Real time implementation of the convolution operation is a challenging task due to its increasing computational cost with increasing kernel and input image size. This brief focuses on the real time implementation of a separable convolution operation based on distributed arithmetic with support for processing high resolution images using large size kernel. The architecture processes pixels immediately whenever available from external memory, achieving low processing time compared to existing works. Two FPGA architectures, namely single window separable convolution (SWSC) architecture and multi window separable convolution (MWSC) architecture, are proposed. These architectures are realized based on concurrent access of stored pixels and parallel processing of overlapped window in order to attain higher performance/area utilization. Implementation results show that SWSC architecture achieves better processing time and area utilization at the cost of lower throughput compared to MWSC architecture.
Sentiment Classification in Bangla Textual Content: A Comparative Study
Venue: 2020 23rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT)
Year: 2020

Sentiment analysis has been widely used to understand our views on social and political agendas or user experiences over a product. It is one of the cores and well researched areas in NLP. However, for low resource languages, like Bangla, one of the prominent challenge is the lack of resources. Another important limitation, in the current literature for Bangla, is the absence of comparable results due to the lack of a well defined train/test split. In this study, we explore several publicly available sentiment labeled datasets and designed classifiers using both classical and deep learning algorithms. In our study, the classical algorithms include SVM and Random Forest, and deep learning algorithms include CNN, FastText, and transformer based models. We compare these models in terms of model performance and time resource complexity. Our finding suggests transformer based models, which have not been explored earlier for Bangla, outperform all other models. Furthermore, we created a weighted list of lexicon content based on the valence score per class. We then analyzed the content for high significance entries per class, in the datasets. For reproducibility, we make publicly available data splits and the ranked lexicon list. The presented results can be used for future studies as a benchmark.
Embedded learning for computerized production of movie trailers
Venue: Multimedia Tools and Applications
Year: 2018

Movie trailers are usually extracted from the most exciting, interesting, or other noteworthy parts of the movies in order to attract the audience and persuade them to see the film. At present, hand crafted movie trailers currently occupy almost all the filming market, which is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we propose an embedded learning algorithm to generate movie trailers automatically without human interventions. Firstly, we use CNN to extract features of candidate frames from the film by a rank tracing technique. Secondly, SURF algorithm is utilized to match the frames of the movie with the corresponding trailer, thus the labeled and unlabeled dataset are prepared. Thirdly, the mutual information theory is introduced into the embedded machine learning to formulate a new embedded classification algorithm and hence characterize similar key elements of the trailers. Finally, semi supervised support vector machine is applied as the classifier to obtain the satisfactory key frames to produce the predicted trailers. By treating several famous movies and their manual handling trailers as the ground truth, series of experiments are carried out, which indicate that our method is feasible and competitive, providing a good potential for promoting the rapid development of the film industry in terms of publicity, as well as providing users with possible solutions for filtering large amounts of Internet videos.
A low power circuit for medical drip infusion monitoring system
Venue: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT)
Year: 2020

We developed a low power monitor for medical drip infusion monitoring system, it can operate for a year, and longer than other designs. The monitoring system consists of many drip infusion monitoring nodes and a monitoring center, and transmits the message by the Zigbee wireless sensor network. The capacitive sensor in the monitor node differentiates that air and water are different dielectric material, and has a feature of low power consumption. The status of the drip infusion tube is detected by the capacitive sensor, the monitor transmits the alarm message to the monitoring center when there is no water in the drip infusion tube, the nurses can handle quickly the drip infusion task.
A Cascade Disaster Caused by Geological and Coupled Hydro Mechanical Factors Water Inrush Mechanism from Karst Collapse Column under Confining Pressure
Year: 2017

The water inrush from karst collapse column (KCC) is a cascading, vicious cycle disaster caused by geological and mining activities, that can cause serious casualties and property losses. The key to preventing this risk is to study the mechanism of water inrush under confining pressure. Aiming at the investigationg the characteristics of the KCC named X1 in Chensilou mine, a series of methods, including connectivity experiments, water pressure monitoring tests in two side walls, and numerical simulations based on plastic damage seepage (PD S) theory have been developed. The methods are used to test the security of the 2519 mining area, the damage thickness, pore water pressure, and seepage vector in the X1. The results indicate that the X1 has a certain water blocking capacity. In addition, with the decrease of confining pressure and increase of shear stress, deviatoric stress could cause the increase of permeability, the reduction of strength, and the reduction of pore water pressure in KCC. Therefore the increased effective stress in the rock will force the rock to become more fractured. Conversely, the broken rock could cause the change of stress, and further initiate new plastic strains, damage and pore water pressure until a new equilibrium is reached. This cascading water inrush mechanism will contribute to the exploitation of deep coal resources in complex geological and hydrogeological conditions.