758 research outputs found
UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp
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Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India
This is a book about improving cancer care in Africa and India that is a child of its pandemic times. It has been collaboratively researched and written by colleagues in Kenya, Tanzania, India and the UK, working within a cross-country, multidisciplinary research project, Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa (ICCA). Since this was a health-focused research project, ICCA researchers during the pandemic not only continued to work on the cancer research project but were also called upon by their governments to respond to immediate pandemic needs. In combining these two concerns, for improving cancer care and responding to pandemic needs, our original project aims have been challenged, deepened and reworked. ICCA’s initial collaborative research focus included—against the grain of most global health literature—the potential role of enhanced local production of essential healthcare supplies for improving cancer care in African countries. The pandemic experience has strikingly validated these earlier findings on the importance of industrial development for health care. The pandemic crystallised for researchers and policymakers an often overlooked phenomenon: global health security is built on the foundations of strong local health security. We argue in this book that new analytical thinking from social scientists and others is required on how to build local health security. We use the “lens” of original research on cancer care in East Africa and India to build up an understanding of the scope for the development of stronger synergies between local health industries and health care, in order to strengthen local health security and develop tools for policy making. The rethinking and reimagining presented here is required for different African countries, for India and the wider world, and this research on cancer care has taught us that this imperative goes much wider than infectious diseases
UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023
The 2022-2023 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1087/thumbnail.jp
Software Design Change Artifacts Generation through Software Architectural Change Detection and Categorisation
Software is solely designed, implemented, tested, and inspected by expert people, unlike other engineering projects where they are mostly implemented by workers (non-experts) after designing by engineers. Researchers and practitioners have linked software bugs, security holes, problematic integration of changes, complex-to-understand codebase, unwarranted mental pressure, and so on in software development and maintenance to inconsistent and complex design and a lack of ways to easily understand what is going on and what to plan in a software system. The unavailability of proper information and insights needed by the development teams to make good decisions makes these challenges worse. Therefore, software design documents and other insightful information extraction are essential to reduce the above mentioned anomalies. Moreover, architectural design artifacts extraction is required to create the developer’s profile to be available to the market for many crucial scenarios. To that end, architectural change detection, categorization, and change description generation are crucial because they are the primary artifacts to trace other software artifacts.
However, it is not feasible for humans to analyze all the changes for a single release for detecting change and impact because it is time-consuming, laborious, costly, and inconsistent. In this thesis, we conduct six studies considering the mentioned challenges to automate the architectural change information extraction and document generation that could potentially assist the development and maintenance teams. In particular, (1) we detect architectural changes using lightweight techniques leveraging textual and codebase properties, (2) categorize them considering intelligent perspectives, and (3) generate design change documents by exploiting precise contexts of components’ relations and change purposes which were previously unexplored. Our experiment using 4000+ architectural change samples and 200+ design change documents suggests that our proposed approaches are promising in accuracy and scalability to deploy frequently. Our proposed change detection approach can detect up to 100% of the architectural change instances (and is very scalable). On the other hand, our proposed change classifier’s F1 score is 70%, which is promising given the challenges. Finally, our proposed system can produce descriptive design change artifacts with 75% significance. Since most of our studies are foundational, our approaches and prepared datasets can be used as baselines for advancing research in design change information extraction and documentation
Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue 'Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management' that was published in the journal Buildings
How do Developers Improve Code Readability? An Empirical Study of Pull Requests
Readability models and tools have been proposed to measure the effort to read
code. However, these models are not completely able to capture the quality
improvements in code as perceived by developers. To investigate possible
features for new readability models and production-ready tools, we aim to
better understand the types of readability improvements performed by developers
when actually improving code readability, and identify discrepancies between
suggestions of automatic static tools and the actual improvements performed by
developers. We collected 370 code readability improvements from 284 Merged Pull
Requests (PRs) under 109 GitHub repositories and produce a catalog with 26
different types of code readability improvements, where in most of the
scenarios, the developers improved the code readability to be more intuitive,
modular, and less verbose. Surprisingly, SonarQube only detected 26 out of the
370 code readability improvements. This suggests that some of the catalog
produced has not yet been addressed by SonarQube rules, highlighting the
potential for improvement in Automatic static analysis tools (ASAT) code
readability rules as they are perceived by developers
Paving the path towards platform engineering using a comprehensive reference model
Amidst the growing popularity of platform engineering, promising improved productivity and enhanced
developer experience through an internal developer platform (IDP), this research addresses the prevalent
challenge of a lack of a shared understanding in the field and the complications in defining effective,
customized strategies. Introducing a definitive Platform Engineering Reference Model (PE-RM) based
on the Open Distributed Processing reference model (ODP-RM) framework to provide a common under-
standing. This model offers a structured framework for software organizations to create tailored platform
engineering strategies and realize the full potential of platform engineering. The reference model is val-
idated by conducting a case study in which a contextual design and technical implementation guided
by the reference model is proposed. The case study offers guidance in designing platform engineering in
the context of a software organization. Furthermore, it showcases how to construct a technical platform
engineering implementation, which includes experiments exposing the productivity improvements and
applicability of the implementation. By facilitating a shared vocabulary and providing a roadmap for
implementation, this research aims to mitigate prevailing complexities and accelerate the adoption and
effectiveness of platform engineering across organizations
Morris Catalog 2023-2025
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Durable Economies: Organizing the Material Foundations of Society
Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies, which rest on ever-larger stocks of infrastructures, buildings, machinery and household goods, durable things are both a hugely significant source of wealth and a constant source of struggle. The contributors argue that a deeper engagement with durability is essential for reaching an understanding of how economies work; and for envisaging alternative economies built on principles of environmental stewardship and social justice. Placing durability at the core of economic analysis, this volume explores the work and tensions involved in the production and valuation of durability to outline a new agenda for more sustainable economies
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