The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in the analysis of software projects is the amount of work being contributed, the commit size. Unfortunately, post-facto, the commit size can only be estimated, not measured. This paper presents several algorithms for e...

since the verses of the qur’ān have been revealed for the guidance of human beings and their eternal happiness, the holy qur’ān makes every endeavor to illustrate human destiny on the resurrection day. the behavioral reaction of the deniers of the truth and the people of falsity when witnessing the resurrection scenes after the appearance of truth is one of the thought-provoking issues in the q...

Proteases commit microbicide hite blood cells use proteases to kill their targets, according to new results from Emer Reeves, Hiu Lu, Anthony Segal (University College, London, England), and colleagues. The findings contradict previously accepted notions that reactive oxygen species (ROSs) are the killing agents. ROSs like superoxide are produced by NADPH oxidase activity when white blood cells...

Theorizing rebellion seems a self-contradictory task. The moment one encapsulates, staticizes, and, in effect, institutionalizes rebellion in academized walls of theory, is the moment at which one has stripped rebellion of its dignity and, in some respects, of its purpose. Rebellion, as Albert Camus deanes it, is the right to determine one’s own boundaries. It is the right to assert the truth a...