Dependencies among software projects and libraries are an indicator of the often implicit collaboration among many developers in software ecosystems. Negotiating change can be tricky: changes to one module may cause ripple effects to many other modules that depend on it, yet insisting on only backwardcompatible changes may incur significant opportunity cost and stifle change. We argue that awar...

Long wavelength UV irradiation (302/313 nm) of hybrid and bifilarly labeled BrU-DNA of B. subtilis results in a degradation of the molecular weight of BrU and of parental thymine con­ taining DNA strands. Hydrogen donors present during UV irradiation are able to prevent these “primary” and “secondary” strand breaks. The protection factors are especially large for secondary breaks in parental no...

In this paper, it is demonstrated by simulation that, contrary to a widely held belief, pure seasonal mean shifts — i.e., seasonal structural breaks which affect only the seasonal cycle — really do matter for DickeyFuller long-run unit root tests. Both size and power properties are affected by such breaks but using the t-sig method for lag selection induces a stabilizing effect. Although most r...

The following report presents the results of a I to 6 year follow-up study of I53 untreated retinal breaks in Io8 eyes, with regard to the development of retinal detachment. This is the first series with a water-tight follow-up. Most of the breaks under study were dangerous according to the accepted criteria. A review of the literature reveals only isolated cases in which a long-standing retina...

Bundle Adjustment is a key process to enhance the global accuracy of the 3D camera pose and structure estimation in the framework of structure from motion over long video sequences. However, most bundle adjustment algorithms require sufficient visual feature correspondences from each camera frame to its neighboring frames in video sequences, which are hard to collect in real environments, espec...

Morphological analysis of mitotic chromosomes is used to detect mutagenic chemical compounds and to estimate the dose of ionizing radiation to be administered. It has long been believed that chromosomal breaks are always associated with double-strand breaks (DSBs). We here provide compelling evidence against this canonical theory. We employed a genetic approach using two cell lines, chicken DT4...

Alignment of text to recorded audio is limited by the fact that standard techniques do not handle very long utterances well. This work presents a model for segmenting long recordings into smaller utterances. Our approach differs from typical forced alignment techniques in that prosodic phrase break locations are first estimated, and then words are placed around breaks based on length and break ...