The advanced oxidation process (AOP) is used to increase the treatment efficiency of effluents however, it is necessary to compare the toxicity of treated and untreated effluents to evaluate if the decontamination process does not cause any biological harm. Cultured cells have been previously used to assess the genotoxic and cytotoxic potential of various compounds. Hence, the aim of this work ...

A human-in-the-loop experiment was conducted at the NASA Ames and Langley Research Centers, investigating the En Route Free Maneuvering component of a future air traffic management concept termed Distributed Air/Ground Traffic Management (DAG-TM). NASA Langley test subject pilots used the Autonomous Operations Planner (AOP) airborne toolset to detect and resolve traffic conflicts, interacting w...

Computer programs for the composition, performance and analysis of music generally involve the tangled interaction of many dimensions of musical and extramusical concern. In this paper we introduce the concepts of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to Music Computing and argue that AOP and related techniques and technologies form an appropriate solution to the separation and composition of such ...

Apart from adoption strategies, an existing Software Product Line (SPL) implemented using some variability mechanisms can be migrated to use another variability mechanism. In this paper, we present some migration strategies from one SPL implemented with conditional compilation to one using Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). The strategies present a variability pattern handled by the first mecha...

Efforts are underway to transform regulatory toxicology and chemical safety assessment from a largely empirical science based on direct observation of apical toxicity outcomes in whole organism toxicity tests to a predictive one in which outcomes and risk are inferred from accumulated mechanistic understanding. The adverse outcome pathway (AOP) framework provides a systematic approach for organ...

We present a design and initial prototype for Teams, a new aspect oriented programming framework designed specifically for usage as an abstract instrumentation capability for runtime monitoring and dynamic analysis. Our goals for this framework are simplicity, extensibility, portability, and monitoring concept coverage. If successful, Teams will provide us and other researchers an easy-to-use p...

The Aussie Optimism Program: Feelings and Friends (AOP-FF) is a 10 week, universal mental health promotion program based on social/emotional and cognitive and behavioral strategies. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of a universal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based program in preventing and reducing internalizing problems in 6-8 year olds (Years 1-3 in Australia). Year 1...

What exactly are aspects? How to weave? What are the join points used to anchor aspects into the component program? Is there a general purpose aspect language? We address these questions for a particular but quite general class of aspects: aspects which can be described as static, source-to-source program transformations. We discuss the design of a generic framework to express aspects as syntac...

As applications evolve, it becomes harder and harder to separate independent concerns. Small changes to a software system increasingly affect different parts of the source code. AOP and related approaches offer various ways to separate concerns into concrete software artifacts, but what is the essence of this process? We claim that first-class namespaces — which we refer to as forms — offer a s...

This paper describes a pilot study conducted with multiple teams during a period of three months using AspectJ on an Agile project. A number of studies have been published in the AO literature about the benefits and drawbacks of Aspect-Orientation (AO). But most of them are conducted under limited and unrealistic conditions with few participants. In this paper, we aim to provide information abo...