A core goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make small incremental changes to software projects. Those changes should then be integrated frequently into a mainline repository or branch. This paper presents an empirical study investigating if developers adjust their commit activity towards this goal after projects start using CI. To this end, we analyzed the commit and merge activity in 93 ...

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Seth A. Marvel, Travis Martin, Charles R. Doering, 3 David Lusseau, and M. E. J. Newman Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. ...

Color adjectives have played a central role in work on language typology and variation, but there has been relatively little investigation of their meanings by researchers in formal semantics. This is surprising given the fact that color terms have been at the center of debates in the philosophy of language over foundational questions, in particular whether the idea of a compositional, truth-co...

The rate of bactericidal activity of a new quinolone, CI-934, was compared with that of amoxicillin for 20 strains of Streptococcus faecalis. At 10 and 100 micrograms/ml, the bactericidal activity of CI-934 was more rapid at 6 h than that of amoxicillin. A paradoxical effect (a killing rate higher at 1 microgram/ml than at 100 micrograms/ml at 6 h) was observed for 19 of the 20 strains with amo...

1 AN INTERSECTION ORIGIN-DESTINATION FLOW OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM 2 FOR EVACUATION NETWORK DESIGN 3 4 Dr. Chi Xie, Associate Professor S. Travis Waller, and Professor Kara M. Kockelman 5 Center for Transportation Research 6 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering 7 The University of Texas at Austin 8 1 University Station, C1761 9 Austin, TX 78712 10 Phone: (512) 471-4622 1...

In this issue of Clinical Cancer Research, Dees et al. (1) describe the use of PGDE (2) in a Phase 1 trial of CI-958. PGDE was proposed (2, 3) as a more informative and efficient alternative to the standard design for Phase 1 studies (“modified Fibonacci”). Compared with the modified Fibonacci design, the authors estimate that the use of PGDE in this trial required 15–18 fewer patients. All of ...

Deforestation does not progress randomly throughout landscapes (Viana et al., 1997; Ezard & Travis, 2006; Silva et al., 2007) because of the non-random spatial distribution of land suitable for specific human activities and laws that often protect particular habitats or vegetation types. Riparian vegetation, for example, is protected by law in many countries (Gregory et al., 1991). Thus, if enf...