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Quantitation of eukaryotic ribosomal proteins separated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
Measuring affective states from technical debt: A psychoempirical software engineering experiment
Software engineering is a human activity. Despite this, human aspects are
under-represented in technical debt research, perhaps because they are
challenging to evaluate.
This study's objective was to investigate the relationship between technical
debt and affective states (feelings, emotions, and moods) from software
practitioners. Forty participants (N = 40) from twelve companies took part in a
mixed-methods design, consisting of a repeated-measures (r = 5) experiment (n =
200), a survey employing a questionnaire, and semi-structured interviews.
The statistical analysis shows that different design smells negatively or
positively impact affective states. From the qualitative data, it is clear that
technical debt activates a substantial portion of the emotional spectrum and is
psychologically taxing. Further, the practitioner's reactions to technical debt
appear to fall in different levels of maturity.
We argue that human aspects in technical debt are important factors to
consider, as they may result in, e.g., procrastination, apprehension, and
burnout.Comment: 48 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Empirical Software Engineerin
Оптимизация вычисления обратного БПФ на многоядерном процессоре
The article describes the method of calculating the inverse FFT N-point sequence with a N-point complex FFT, also the implementation of similar approach for computing on multi-core computing architecture. The main quality parameters of similar organization such as speedup and efficiency of computing resources were analyzed
Simulations of the OzDES AGN Reverberation Mapping Project
As part of the OzDES spectroscopic survey we are carrying out a large scale
reverberation mapping study of 500 quasars over five years in the 30
deg area of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova fields. These quasars
have redshifts ranging up to 4 and have apparent AB magnitudes between
mag. The aim of the survey is to measure time lags between
fluctuations in the quasar continuum and broad emission line fluxes of
individual objects in order to measure black hole masses for a broad range of
AGN and constrain the radius-luminosity () relationship. Here we
investigate the expected efficiency of the OzDES reverberation mapping campaign
and its possible extensions. We expect to recover lags for 35-45\% of the
quasars. AGN with shorter lags and greater variability are more likely to yield
a lag, and objects with lags 6 months or 1 year are expected be
recovered the most accurately. The baseline OzDES reverberation mapping
campaign is predicted to produce an unbiased measurement of the
relationship parameters for H, Mg II 2798, and C IV
1549. However, extending the baseline survey by either increasing the
spectroscopic cadence, extending the survey season, or improving the emission
line flux measurement accuracy will significantly improve the parameter
constraints for all broad emission lines.Comment: Published online in MNRAS. 28 page
Chandra Observations of Candidate "True" Seyfert 2 Nuclei
The Unification Model for active galactic nuclei posits that Seyfert 2s are
intrinsically like Seyfert 1s, but that their broad-line regions (BLRs) are
hidden from our view. A Seyfert 2 nucleus that truly lacked a BLR, instead of
simply having it hidden, would be a so-called "true" Seyfert 2. No object has
as yet been conclusively proven to be one. We present a detailed analysis of
four of the best "true" Seyfert 2 candidates discovered to date: IC 3639, NGC
3982, NGC 5283, and NGC 5427. None of the four has a broad H-alpha emission
line, either in direct or polarized light. All four have rich, high-excitation
spectra, blue continua, and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images showing them to
be unresolved sources with no host-galaxy obscuration. To check for possible
obscuration on scales smaller than that resolvable by HST, we obtained X-ray
observations using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. All four objects show
evidence of obscuration and therefore could have hidden BLRs. The picture that
emerges is of moderate to high, but not necessarily Compton-thick, obscuration
of the nucleus, with extra-nuclear soft emission extended on the
hundreds-of-parsecs scale that may originate in the narrow-line region. Since
the extended soft emission compensates, in part, for the nuclear soft emission
lost to absorption, both absorption and luminosity are likely to be severely
underestimated unless the X-ray spectrum is of sufficient quality to
distinguish the two components. This is of special concern where the source is
too faint to produce a large number of counts, or where the source is too far
away to resolve the extended soft X-ray emitting region.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Ap
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