Abstract Although extensive research has been conducted on the characteristics of agile developer, little attention given to features software-testing role. This paper explores human factors software testers working in projects through a qualitative study focusing how these are perceived. We interviewed 22 practitioners three international companies: 14 testers, five developers, and designers. ...

By linking HRM practices with employees’ intrinsic motivation and creativity, we sought to evaluate the effectiveness of for improving enthusiasm ingenuity workers. More specifically, investigated impact a package (i.e., job training design) on inherent influence this has their creativeness while performing roles. Data were gathered from 416 employees in private sector Saudi Arabia study how de...

creativeness / a pleasing field / of bloom Word associations are an important element of linguistic creativity. Traditional lexical knowledge bases such as WordNet formalize a limited set of systematic relations among words, such as synonymy, polysemy and hypernymy. Such relations maintain their systematicity when composed into lexical chains. We claim that such relations cannot explain the typ...

A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people’s perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen before. The geographer’s taxonomic effort to re-designate urban places and typologies involves a political and ideological content. Most urban spaces are unmanageable because they fit neither w...

Enhancing speech recognition is the primary intention of this work. In this paper a novel speech recognition method based on vector quantization and improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) is suggested. The suggested methodology contains four stages, namely, (i) denoising, (ii) feature mining (iii), vector quantization, and (iv) IPSO based hidden Markov model (HMM) technique (IP-HMM). At fi...