Although the benefit of software measurement is commonly accepted, in operational practice one is often afraid of accomplishing the effort for the collection of software measures, because it seems to be out of proportion to the benefit. Therefore, software measurement should be automated as far as possible, which can be achieved by the integration of software measurement into the software devel...

Introduction: Pharmaceutical companies as well as food and cosmetics manufacturers are legally required to provide a shelf-life label on their products packaging as part of their stability study report. There are different recommended software like R software package and SAS which can perform as shelf-life estimating tools for analyzing the data achieved by the stability testing of drugs and va...

Software watermarking is a new research area that aims at providing copyright protection for commercial software. It minimizes software piracy by hiding copyright signatures inside the program code or its runtime state. Prior proposals hide the watermarks in dummy data structures, e.g., linked lists and graphs that are created during the execution of the hosting software for this reason. This m...

Women must work fifteen months and eight days to earn what men earn in a year" (Lesley, 1999). In a society where women are often single mothers who must support both themselves and children, why would they get paid less than men for doing the same job? When John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which promised women "equal pay for equal work," women earned only 58 cents for every do...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate research and development (R&D) activities on firm performance. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique balanced longitudinal dataset comparing top global software enterprises over the period 2005-2010. The software companies is divided into system software companies, application software compan...

Psychologists often model detection or discrimination decisions as being influenced by two components: perceptual discriminability and response bias. In the signal detection framework, these are estimated by d and β. Other, non-parametric parameters, A and B D , have also been proposed. This note provides the code to compute those parameters with the statistical software R (http://www.r-project...

One important success factor for Software Research and Development organizations is their ability to systematically manage knowledge and information. Based on our experiences, we examine the characteristics and the activities that need knowledge-based support in software R&D organizations in academic environments. A tailored KM solution is outlined considering knowledge content, process, organi...

We present a new software package (HZAR) that provides functions for fitting molecular genetic and morphological data from hybrid zones to classic equilibrium cline models using the Metropolis-Hastings Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. The software applies likelihood functions appropriate for different types of data, including diploid and haploid genetic markers and quantitative morpho...

The objective of this paper is to discuss aspects of high school students’ learning of probability in a context where they are supported by the statistical software R. We report on the application of a teaching experiment, constructed using the perspective of Gal’s probabilistic literacy and Papert’s constructionism. The results show improvement in students’ learning of basic concepts, such as:...

UNLABELLED Illumina produces a number of microarray-based technologies for human genotyping. An Infinium BeadChip is a two-color platform that types between 10(5) and 10(6) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) per sample. Despite being widely used, there is a shortage of open source software to process the raw intensities from this platform into genotype calls. To this end, we have developed ...