The values invoked by journalists in the reporting of water issues influence public support for policy and assessment tradeoffs. This qualitative framing analysis coverage from six newspapers Floridan aquifer region 2010 to 2018 reveals used stimulate reader engagement on a range challenges including weather, residential behavior, agriculture, algae, industry, springs, energy, municipalities, f...

This work examines the problem of case prioritization in digital investigations for better utilization of limited criminal investigation resources. Current methods of case prioritization, as well as observed prioritization methods used in digital forensic investigation laboratories are examined. After, a multi-stakeholder approach to case prioritization is given that may help reduce reputationa...

Requirement prioritization facilitates requirement engineering process. It also helps requirement engineer’s makes crucial decisions about requirements in a software development process. Requirement prioritization process is used to determine which candidate requirement of a software project should be included in a certain release, for this purpose different techniques are used. These technique...

We analyze the role that popularity and novelty play in attracting the attention of users to dynamic websites. We do so by determining the performance of three different strategies that can be utilized to maximize attention. The first one prioritizes novelty while the second emphasizes popularity. A third strategy looks myopically into the future and prioritizes stories that are expected to gen...

This study investigates the impact of internationalization on the results achieved by agricultural cooperatives in the State of Parana, at the same time examining strategies for diversification of markets as well as diversification of products aimed exclusively at international markets. Of the 28 cooperatives to be included in the study, 67.9% returned valid structured questionnaires. The colle...

In the last 30 years, China has achieved high economic growth and successfully transformed its economy from a planned economy to a market-based system. The country, to a large extent, has attained success through the recommendations proposed by standard economic theory. However, the role of political economy has been omitted from the literature: how did China adopt the right economic policies a...

Alarm events occurring in telecommunication networks can be an invaluable tool for network operators. However, given the size and complexity of today’s networks, handling of alarm events represents a challenge in itself, due to two key aspects: high volume and lack of descriptiveness. The latter derives from the fact that not all alarm events report the actual source of failure. A failure in a ...

The average percent of faults detected (APFD) and its variant versions are widely used to evaluate prioritized test suite’s efficiency. However, APFD is only available for classic test case prioritization, where all prioritized test suites under comparison contain the same number of test cases. If people overlook this phenomenon, they may obtain incorrect results in some non-classic scenarios, ...

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for today’s applications are extremely large. Moreover, they provide many degrees of freedom to the end-user, thus allowing the user to perform a very large number of event sequences on the GUI. The large sizes and degrees of freedom create severe problems for GUI quality assurance, including GUI testing. In this paper, we leverage methods and measures from netw...