So far there have been limited attempts to model the individual development patterns, however, non invasive measurements techniques, by providing a very detailed view of how people operate, open the door to completely new opportunities for understanding the behavior of developers. This study reports about the analysis of the development process patterns of a limited set of programmers across a ...

Patterns of social mixing are key determinants of epidemic spread. Here we present the results of an internet-based social contact survey completed by a cohort of participants over 9,000 times between July 2009 and March 2010, during the 2009 H1N1v influenza epidemic. We quantify the changes in social contact patterns over time, finding that school children make 40% fewer contacts during holida...

The potential cardiovascular benefits of several trending foods and dietary patterns are still incompletely understood, and nutritional science continues to evolve. However, in the meantime, a number of controversial dietary patterns, foods, and nutrients have received significant media exposure and are mired by hype. This review addresses some of the more popular foods and dietary patterns tha...

We present a set of process patterns that can be used to as a systematic way of analysing the security requirements in a novel domain, taking ubiquitous healthcare as an example.

Past dietary patterns may be more important than recent dietary patterns in the aetiology of chronic diseases because of the long latency in their development. We developed an instrument to recall vegetarian dietary patterns during the lifetime and examined its reliability of recall over 5·3 and 32·6 years on average. The short-term/5-year recall ability study (5-RAS) was done using 24 690 part...

intense temperature variations are not only an unfavorable phenomenon for life but have adverse effects on natural elements of structures and installations. when the temperature falls bellow certain levels, the conditions for organic activity become harsh. this level is known as temperature threshold of life. similar thresholds can also be defined for machinery, structures and installations. fu...

Texture segmentation is a process of segmenting an image into differently textured regions. This paper is aimed at the segmentation of multitextured images by using Optimized Local Ternary Patterns (OLTP), a new texture model which is recently proposed for texture analysis. This paper uses unsupervised texture segmentation method with the application of optimized local ternary patterns for find...