In a large software company in Denmark, much effort was expended capturing metrics about the company’s software operation. The purpose of the metrics program was to change and improve the software operation. Writing software can be understood as a socially constructed practice, which can be analyzed using structuration theory. This structurational analysis showed that the company’s software ope...

Commercially used per- and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been widely detected in humans, but the sources of human exposure are not fully characterized. The objectives of this study were to assess the relative importance of different exposure pathways of PFCs in a group of Norwegians and compare estimated intakes with internal doses obtained through biomonitoring. Individual PFC intakes ...

We used a large panel of pedigreed, genetically admixed house mice to study patterns of recombination rate variation in a leading mammalian model system. We found considerable inter-individual differences in genomic recombination rates and documented a significant heritable component to this variation. These findings point to clear variation in recombination rate among common laboratory strains...

Keeping Watch of Time: The Temporal Impact of the Digital in Cinema Humans are fundamentally analog creatures...Being in digital time differs from analog time in that events in digital time exist without an event horizon. Digital time occurs in sharp breaks and contrasts from one state to another without the flow of analog time, such as the slow procession of a sunset or the transition from a w...

The house mouse is probably the most widespread invasive mammalian species, being ubiquitous worldwide. In commensal situations, they are known mainly for property damage, for consumption and contamination of stored foods, as a noise/sanitation/odor nuisance, and as a vector of some diseases. In some field settings, they also cause considerable damage to field crops and to natural resources, su...

Nothing does a software company’s reputation more harm than poor quality. One significant contributor to delivered quality is how thoroughly the software is tested. In this issue of Strategic Software Engineering I will describe a test process that has a strategic impact on the organization.

The composition problem involves how to coordinate a set of available modules (e.g., concrete devices installed in a smart house, such as video cameras, lights, blinds, etc.) so as to implement a desired but non-existent target complex component (e.g., a complex entertainment house system). This paper summarizes the results in (De Giacomo, Patrizi, and Sardina 2013), by formally defining the pr...

An examination of the way the cinema has dealt with mental illness and the introspective fascination with which it has mirrored the spirit of experimentation and fragmentation of the last decade.