Although there has been substantial research in software analytics for effort estimation in traditional software projects, little work has been done for estimation in agile projects, especially estimating user stories or issues. Story points are the most common unit of measure used for estimating the effort involved in implementing a user story or resolving an issue. In this paper, we offer for...

Only a few years ago the nature nurture issue seemed to have mercifully receded into a comfortable state of scientific oblivion. But as so many times before, this reliable ogre has now managed to raise its ugly head again. Due to the recent wildfirelike spreading of evolutionary thinking to the social sciences the problem is once more in need of clarification. A kind of tacit agreement that see...

and we moved from theory to a real clinical case. A 37-year-old lady presented with two consecutive episodes of syncope. She was seen on a Friday afternoon in a hospital 100 km south of Barcelona, Spain. An ECG was recorded and forwarded for a second opinion to our Arrhythmia Unit in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. The ECG (fig. 3 of the original paper) showed a QTc interval of 248 ms. During...

The Riemann integral is founded on the following idea: divide up the domain of a function f : [a, b] −→ R into subintervals, estimate f from above and below on each interval, and approximate the integral of f by the upper and lower sums—the summation of the widths of the intervals times the upper and lower estimates on each. The limit over partitions of [a, b] of these two approximations, shoul...

The new concept of embodied cognition theories has been enthusiastically studied by the cognitive sciences, by as well as such disparate disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience, and robotics. Embodiment theory provides the framework for ongoing discussions on the linkage between "low" cognitive processes as perception and "high" cognition as language processing and comprehension, ...