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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"OSS"”.
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An empirical investigation of inheritance trends in JAVA OSS evolution
… of evolution of eight Java Open-Source Systems (OSS) from an inheritance perspective and model the propensity for changes of inheritance in those systems. The systems used as testbed in this Thesis represent a variety of application domains with varying sizes and amount of inheritance employed. …
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De hjälper oss till rätta : normaliseringsarbete, självbestämmande och människor med psykisk utvecklingsstörning
For people with learning disabilities care in institutions has been replaced by a life in community settings e.g. group homes, where a number of persons (4-5) are living with staff support. My case-studies cover three elderly and three more lately produced such units as well as a ward in a nursing …
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Från oss och dem till vi : negativa intergruppsattityder och hur de kan förändras
Attityder är ett av de mest välforskade områden inom socialpsykologin. Syftet med avhandlingen är att beskriva hur negativa intergruppsattityder uppstår och hur dessa kan förändras utgående från tidigare socialpsykologisk forskning. Avhandlingens avsikt att bidra till det socialpsykologiska …
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Collaborative learning in Open Source Software (OSS) communities: The dynamics and challenges in networked learning environments
… learning occurring within open source software (OSS) communities. OSS communities are a dominant form of organizing in software development with implications not only for innovative product development but also for the training of a large number of software developers. The central catalyst of …
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An evaluative framework to measure the maturity of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) from user perspectives
Free/Open Source (F/OSS) refers to software that is available for free download and isusually packaged along with its source code. The F/OSS phenomenon has gathered animmense impetus in the past one or two decades. F/OSS differs from commercial orproprietary software in terms of its cost free …
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More Than Just A Pretty Face: The Women of the SOE and the OSS During World War II
… Britain and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the United States. The argument presented herein states that the existing historiography featuring female agents oversexualizes and deprives the women of their agency by suggesting that the women would have been less successful in their …
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Validation of the obese Ossabaw miniature pig as a model of the obese polycystic ovary syndrome phenotype with concomitant metabolic syndrome: exploration of polycystic ovary syndrome pathophysiology using in vivo and in vitro
… focused on the validation of the obese Ossabaw (OSS) pig as an animal model for the obese phenotype of PCOS with concomitant MetS. Unlike the currently available animal models for PCOS, this animal model incorporates both heritable (thrifty genotype breed) and non-heritable (obesogenic …
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Understanding Software Development in an Open Source Context:Network Analysis of Source Code Repositories
Open Source Software (OSS) created a paradigm shift within the software engineering field prompting further research to understand how mature, industry grade, software can be produced in an online milieu with distributed and lightly managed developers contributing source code in their free time. …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF COMMON CODING ERRORS IN OPEN SOURCE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE CODE
… of coding errors in the Open Source Software (OSS) Graphical User Interface (GUI) code. Characteristics of coding errors in the OSS GUI code are explored and analyzed so that guidelines are proposed to lower the influence of coding errors in OSS GUI software. Background: This thesis recognizes …
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An Organizational Analysis of Publishing the People's Code
… custom developed code as open source software (OSS). The federal government has the responsibility to account for public spending, including spending for IT. The publication of OSS is one way the public can know about government spending. OSS additionally benefits the public by providing access …
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The Oxford Shoulder Score: Cross-cultural adaption and translation validation into Afrikaans
Purpose: The Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) is a robust and universally utilised shoulder score that has been translated for use in Western and Asian countries. This study aimed to translate, cross-culturally adapt and psychometrically validate the Afrikaans version of the OSS for use in Africa. …
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A Usability Maturity Model for Open Source Software
… is closed proprietary or open source software (OSS). Although user-centered designs are gaining recognition among the OSS community, many design scenarios still do not incorporate usability as one of their primary goals. Accordingly, many individuals believe that if OSS was more usable, its …
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Modell und Optimierungsansatz für Open Source Softwareentwicklungsprozesse
… den letzten Jahren erfuhr Open Source Software (OSS) eine zunehmende Verbreitung und Popularität und hat sich in verschiedenen Anwendungsdomänen etabliert. Die Prozesse, welche sich im Kontext der OSS-Entwicklung (auch: OSSD – Open Source Software-Development) evolutionär herausgebildet …
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Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Organisations: The Case of Open Source Software Communities
… sharing processes is open source software (OSS) communities. This justifies my thesis, which undertakes primary research in OSS communities via qualitative and quantitative studies to find out how and to what extent knowledge is shared in those communities, in order to develop a Model for …
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Interest rate ceiling and financial sustainability of microfinance institutions in Zambia
… approach to analyse the effect of Yield on Gross Portfolio, Cost of Funds, Operating Expenses and Loan Loss provisions on Operational Self Sufficiency (OSS). OSS was used as a proxy for financial sustainability (dependent variable). Results of the time series analyses showed a positive and …
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Development of an excreta pathway for Kanyama peri-urban area of Lusaka using the shit flow diagram (SFD) tool.
… 90 percent of whom rely on onsite sanitation (OSS) systems which are in poor condition. The rapid population growth in these unplanned settlements coupled with poor sanitation conditions has resulted in severe exposure of the public and the environment to faecal contamination leading to the …
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Contemporary peer code review practices and associated benefits
… In the recent years, many Open Source Software (OSS) communities and commercial organizations have adopted 'contemporary' or 'modern' code review, an informal, regular, tool-based process. Because both OSS and commercial developers spend a significant amount of effort performing code reviews, the …
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Effects of Surface Characteristics of Hydroxyapatite and Substituted Hydroxyapatites on Protein Attachment and Angiogenesis
… crystal lattice, have also been assessed and Bio-Oss® has been applied widely in dentistry. While the biological performance of these materials has been of interest for many years, it remains unclear how distinct material characteristics influence the bioactivity due to the intertwined nature of …
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Improving Operating System Security, Reliability, and Performance through Intra-Unikernel Isolation, Asynchronous Out-of-kernel IPC, and Advanced System Servers
… entity that applications rely on. Traditional OSs have a monolithic design where all components are executed in a single privilege layer, but this design is increasingly inadequate as OS code sizes have become larger and expose a large attack surface. Microkernel OSs and multiserver OSs improve …
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