The Real World Software Process

The industry-wide demand for rapid development in concert with greater process maturity has seen many software development firms adopt tightly structured iterative processes. While a number of commercial vendors offer suitable process infrastructure and tool support, the cost of licensing, configuration and staff training may be prohibitive for the small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) which dominate the Asia-Pacific software industry. This work addresses these problems through the introduction of the Real World Software Process (RWSP), a freely available, Web-based iterative scheme designed specifically for small teams and organisations. RWSP provides a detailed process description, high quality document templates - including code review and inspection guidelines - and the integrated tutorial support necessary for successful usage by inexperienced developers and teams. In particular it is intended that the process be readily usable by software houses which at present do not follow a formal process, and that the free RWSP process infrastructure should be a vehicle for improving industry standards

How do Economic Conditions Affect How the Environment is Treated

This paper focuses on how economic conditions affect how the environment is treated. It creates a correlation between the ease of doing business ranking, human freedom index, economic freedom index, Real GDP growth, inflation, and environmental ranking to see how they impact each other. It also looks into historical changes in environmentalism and finds how the changes correlated with changes in economic conditions

Astrophysical Effects of Scalar Dark Matter Miniclusters

We model the formation, evolution and astrophysical effects of dark compact Scalar Miniclusters (``ScaMs''). These objects arise when a scalar field, with an axion-like or Higgs-like potential, undergoes a second order phase transition below the QCD scale. Such a scalar field may couple too weakly to the standard model to be detectable directly through particle interactions, but may still be detectable by gravitational effects, such as lensing and baryon accretion by large, gravitationally bound miniclusters. The masses of these objects are shown to be constrained by the Ly$\alpha$ power spectrum to be less than $\sim 10^4 M_\odot$, but they may be as light as classical axion miniclusters, of the order of $10^{-12} M_\odot$. We simulate the formation and nonlinear gravitational collapse of these objects around matter-radiation equality using an N-body code, estimate their gravitational lensing properties, and assess the feasibility of studying them using current and future lensing experiments. Future MACHO-type variability surveys of many background sources can reveal either high-amplification, strong lensing events, or measure density profiles directly via weak-lensing variability, depending on ScaM parameters and survey depth. However, ScaMs, due to their low internal densities, are unlikely to be responsible for apparent MACHO events already detected in the Galactic halo. A simple estimate is made of parameters that would give rise to early structure formation; in principle, early stellar collapse could be triggered by ScaMs as early as recombination, and significantly affect cosmic reionization.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures. Replaced to reflect published versio

Stability and Independence for Multivariate Refinable Distributions

AbstractDue to their so-called time-frequency localization properties, wavelets have become a powerful tool in signal analysis and image processing. Typical constructions of wavelets depend on the stability of the shifts of an underlying refinable function. In this paper, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of the shifts of certain compactly supported refinable functions. These conditions are in terms of the zeros of the refinement mask. Our results are actually applicable to more general distributions which are not of function type, if we generalize the notion of stability appropriately. We also provide a similar characterization of the (global) linear independence of the shifts. We present several examples illustrating our results, as well as one example in which known results on box splines are derived using the theorems of this paper

Alien Registration- Hogan, Thomas L. (New Portland, Somerset County)

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Motivational Orientation, Motivational Climate, and Burnout in Rehabilitation: Three Interelated Studies

Research has examined motivational orientation, motivational climate, and burnout; however, this research has been conducted primarily within sport and academic contexts. Empirical research examining these constructs within a rehabilitation setting is limited, or nonexistent. Therefore, three interrelated studies were conducted in order to gain knowledge of how these constructs could influence psychological responses and rehabilitation of athletes in the athletic training room environment. The purpose of the first study is to determine which motivational orientations are the strongest predictors of rehabilitation behaviors, if rehabilitation motivational orientation, attendance, and adherence differences are present between high school and collegiate athletes, and finally, if collegiate scholarship athletes and non-scholarship athletes differ in their rehabilitation motivational orientation, attendance, and adherence. Participants will include male and female high school and collegiate athletes, ages 13 to 24 years from each year of eligibility and their athletic trainers. The purpose of the second study is to identify the motivational orientation of collegiate athletes, determine athletic training room motivational climate perceptions of athletes within each motivational orientation, and establish how motivational orientation and perceptions of the motivational climate within the athletic training room influences rehabilitation behaviors and adherence. Participants will include male and female collegiate athletes (n = 150) between 18 and 24 years. The third study will investigate athletes with chronic or persistent injuries, or of grade four severity that required long-term rehabilitation programs of 2 months or longer. The primary objectives of the third study was to determine the motivational orientation, if athletes with motivational orientation differences also have dissimilar perceptions of the athletic training room motivational climate, how adherence and rehabilitation behaviors are influenced by athletes\u27 motivational orientation and perception of the athletic training room motivational climate. These studies expand upon the findings from current research in the sport and academic contexts relating to competitive level, scholarship status, motivational orientation, motivational climate, and burnout. Specifically, these studies provide insight into how these particular factors may influence athletes\u27 responses within a rehabilitation setting, which is particularly valuable for athletic trainers and physical therapists