Excited Mob

From Pair Programming to Mob Programming to Mob Architecting

Software Development and Quality Assurance From Agile Development to DevOps: Going Towards Faster Releases at High Quality – Experiences from an Industrial Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Frank Elberzhager, Taslim Arif, Matthias Naab, Inge Süß, and Sener Koban Learning to Rank Extract Method Refactoring Suggestions for Long Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The mob response

One for all and all for one; strength is in numbers—humans have successfully used the strategy of working together whether as nations, tribes, groups or families. yet, many other species use the same strategy to equally good effect, whether they are fish or birds that school or flock together to evade and confuse predators, or hive insects, such as bees, that developed communal societies long b...

Mob culture unravelled

One of the most intriguing issues in animal behaviour is that of altruism, particularly between unrelated individuals. For if such altruism is not reciprocated, biologists believe that it would not be able to persist as cheats would win out. So when does it pay to help others? One puzzling case is that of prey mobbing potential predators. Members of many species of small birds will mob a potent...

[Toxicology of UV-absorber MOB].

You mob my owl, I'll mob yours: birds play tit-for-tat game

Reciprocity is fundamental to cooperative behaviour and has been verified in theoretical models. However, there is still limited experimental evidence for reciprocity in non-primate species. Our results more decisively clarify that reciprocity with a tit-for-tat enforcement strategy can occur among breeding pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca separate from considerations of byproduct mutualism....