Opportunities in Software Engineering Research for Web API Consumption

Nowadays, invoking third party code increasingly involves calling web services via their web APIs, as opposed to the more traditional scenario of downloading a library and invoking the library's API. However, there are also new challenges for developers calling these web APIs. In this paper, we highlight a broad set of these challenges and argue for resulting opportunities for software engineering research to support developers in consuming web APIs. We outline two specific research threads in this context: (1) web API specification curation, which enables us to know the signatures of web APIs, and (2) static analysis that is capable of extracting URLs, HTTP methods etc. of web API calls. Furthermore, we present new work on how we combine (1) and (2) to provide IDE support for application developers consuming web APIs. As web APIs are used broadly, research in supporting the consumption of web APIs offers exciting opportunities.Comment: Erik Wittern and Annie Ying are both first author

Anxious and Angry: A Replication Investigating the Effects of Emotions on Perceptions of Online Review Helpfulness

This study is an exact replication of three studies investigating how emotional content embedded in a product review influences perceptions of review helpfulness (Yin, Bond, and Zhang 2014). The replication confirms that emotional content influences perceptions of review helpfulness. Consistent with the original study, our experimental findings indicate that the relationship between review helpfulness and the emotion embedded in a review is mediated by the perception of reviewer cognitive effort. However, this experiment found that angry as well as anxious reviews were considered helpful, deviating from the original findings in which only anxious reviews were perceived as helpful. Further, examination of a large sample of reviews confirms that reviews with anxious content are rated as more helpful, while angry content does not influence helpfulness. However, we were unable to replicate the findings of the second experiment reported in the original research as neither anxious nor angry reviews were considered helpful in our second study. It may be that, at this time, reviews with high levels of emotional content are not perceived as helpful. Instead, we found that only empathy (perceptions of shared emotion with the reviewer) impacted perceptions of review helpfulness. Therefore, the influence of empathy on review helpfulness may be worth investigating in future studies. That our findings deviate slightly from those of the original study provides further support for the importance of replications

The Fabric of Myth

Group exhibition at Compton Verney This exhibition will explore the theme of myths through the medium and history of textiles. From Ariadne's thread to the story of Arachne transformed from weaver to spider, these narratives have communicated associations including redemption, protection, metamorphosis and communication. The exhibition will explore the way textiles have shaped both cultural and personal myths. The Fabric of Myth will include historic textiles, sculpture and work by artists such as: Louise Bourgeois, William Morris, William Holman Hunt, Henry Moore, Mary Queen of Scots, Edward Burne-Jones, Joseph Beuys, Delaine De Bas, Ray Materson, Elaine Reichek, Alice Kettle, Judith Scott, Shane Waltner, Tilleke Schwarz and Annie Whiles Annie Whiles exhibited two pieces "The Moment Ago" 2005 and "Hover Boys" 200

Exercises for improving quick perception grades I, II, III.

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Helping patients discuss CINV management : development of a patient charter

In April 2012, an Expert Group of specialist cancer nurses working in a variety of settings (e.g. chemotherapy delivery, chemotherapy service design, research, nurse leadership and patient information/advocacy) participated in telephone/web-based meetings, with the aim of sharing current experience of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) management, and reaching a consensus on the development of a Patient Charter, designed to help patients understand CINV management, and setting out key questions they may wish to ask their healthcare professionals

Standards for Specialized Nutrition Support: Home Care Patients

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The Fast and the Spurious: Geographies of Youth Car Culture in Hamilton, New Zealand

“Boy racers” or “hoons” attract extensive media attention and are often the focus of public concern. Discourses about “hooning” often focus on notions of public safety and illegal behaviour. What is largely absent from these debates is alternative explanations as to why young people choose to engage in “hooning” behaviour, what drives them to congregate in public spaces and why they choose to express themselves through an “autocentric” culture. When these issues are addressed it is usually within broader policy frameworks which seek ways of dissipating youth activities in spaces constructed as “trouble spots”. This thesis represents an attempt to provide a reverse discourse about youth car culture and young people's presence in public spaces. Criminal activity not withstanding, youth car culture behaviour in this context is treated as a legitimate form of cultural expression that has the same social validity as other non-mainstream phenomena. Through feminist and poststructuralist understandings of identities, landscapes and place, the complexities of youth car culture will be unpacked in an attempt to expose “concerns” which may turn out to be little more than moral panic

The Health Consequences of Asian Immigrant Integration.

This dissertation consists of three papers that explore contextual influences on the health trajectories of Asian immigrants. Current public health research has largely attributed Asian immigrants’ changing health patterns to lifestyle and behavioral changing stemming from acculturation. My first paper developed an alternative framework of Asian immigrant integration that incorporates health influences from economic, social and cultural integration processes. Each form of integration produces health stressors and resources, which in turn interact and accumulate to form broad contexts of disease. I also considered how health trajectories may vary across distinct Asian immigrant groups. I identified three potential sources of group heterogeneity: year of entry cohorts, gender and Asian ethnicity. In my second paper, I examined whether separate year of entry cohorts of Asian immigrants have unique disability, self-rated health and obesity health trajectories with increased duration in the United States. I identified four cohorts of modern Asian immigrants and hypothesized that they would display different baseline health and duration patterns according to the selectivity of concurrent immigration policy, home country circumstances, openness of societal reception and labor market opportunities. Using the 1995-2005 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), I found that immigrants who entered during selective policy periods had better baseline disability status and self-reported health. Immigrants who entered during more open periods of societal reception displayed better disability status and self-rated health with duration. My final paper examines the health consequences of concurrent economic and social integration. Using the 2005-2007 waves of the American Community Survey (ACS), I found that immigrants displayed both rising wages and higher odds for disability with increased duration. While higher wages was consistently associated with lower odds of disability, this relationship was weaker among immigrants with longer duration. When I tested this interaction among separate Asian ethnic groups, I found the same pattern among Asian Indian and Filipino groups. I suggested that longer-term immigrants have been exposed longer to health-degrading processes, such as racial discrimination and occupational barriers, which can counteract the health-protective benefits of SES.Ph.D.Health Behavior & Health EducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89680/1/anniero_1.pd

Text messaging to help women with overweight or obesity lose weight after childbirth:the intervention adaptation and SMS feasibility RCT

Background There is a need to develop weight management interventions that fit seamlessly into the busy lives of women during the postpartum period. Objective The objective was to develop and pilot-test an evidence- and theory-based intervention, delivered by short message service, which supported weight loss and weight loss maintenance in the postpartum period. Design Stage 1 involved the development of a library of short message service messages to support weight loss and weight loss maintenance, with personal and public involvement, focusing on diet and physical activity with embedded behaviour change techniques, and the programming of a short message service platform to allow fully automated intervention delivery. Stage 2 comprised a 12-month, single-centre, two-arm, pilot, randomised controlled trial with an active control. Setting This study was set in Northern Ireland; women were recruited via community-based approaches. Participants A total of 100 women with overweight or obesity who had given birth in the previous 24 months were recruited. Interventions The intervention group received an automated short message service intervention about weight loss and weight loss maintenance for 12 months. The active control group received automated short message service messages about child health and development for 12 months. Main outcome measures The main outcomes measured were the feasibility of recruitment and retention, acceptability of the intervention and trial procedures, and evidence of positive indicative effects on weight. Weight, waist circumference and blood pressure were measured by the researchers; participants completed a questionnaire booklet and wore a sealed pedometer for 7 days at baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Outcome assessments were collected during home visits and women received a voucher on completion of each of the assessments. Qualitative interviews were conducted with women at 3 and 12 months, to gather feedback on the intervention and active control and the study procedures. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to inform the process evaluation and to assess fidelity, acceptability, dose, reach, recruitment, retention, contamination and context. Results The recruitment target of 100 participants was achieved (intervention, n = 51; control, n = 49); the mean age was 32.5 years (standard deviation 4.3 years); 28 (28%) participants had a household income o