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Online Appendix of the Paper "The Power of Words in Agile vs. Waterfall Development: Written Communication in Hybrid Software Teams"
<h2>GENERAL INFORMATION</h2> <div>In our publication “<em><strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2024.112243">The Power of Words in Agile vs. Waterfall Development: Written Communication in Hybrid Software Teams</a>,”</strong></em> in the Journal of Systems and Software, we present an exploratory case study conducted in a large software organization, AFAS Software. Our study investigates the influence of the development paradigm and the formality of communication channels on written communication within hybrid development teams. Our main research question is: <em>“<strong>How do the employed development paradigm and the formality of the communication channel impact the written communication content within hybrid software development teams?”</strong> </em>To address the main research question, we operationalize communication content through a coding scheme comprising codes derived from the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC), the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and speech acts types, which leads to the following sub-research questions:</div> <ul> <li><em>How do the employed development paradigm and the formality of the communication channel impact </em><em>the content of written communication pertaining to the Project Management Life Cycle phases? </em><em>(RQ1A & RQ1B)</em></li> <li><em>How do the employed development paradigm and the formality of the communication channel impact </em><em>the content of written communication pertaining to the Software Development Life Cycle phases? </em><em>(RQ2A & RQ2B)</em></li> <li><em>How do the employed development paradigm and the formality of the communication channel impact </em><em>the use of speech acts types in written communication? (RQ3A & RQ3B)</em></li> </ul> <div>To answer these research questions, we test the following hypotheses regarding the PMLC, the SDLC, and speech acts types:</div> <div> </div> <div><em><strong>The content of written communication within a development team</strong></em></div> <div> <ul> <li><strong>H1</strong>: is affected by the development paradigm. <ul> <li><strong>H1.1</strong>: in formal communication channels is affected by the development paradigm.</li> <li><strong>H1.2:</strong> in informal communication channels is affected by the development paradigm.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div><em><strong>The content of written communication within</strong></em></div> <div> <ul> <li><strong>H2:</strong> a development team is affected by the formality of the communication channel. <ul> <li><strong>H2.1:</strong> a non-agile development team is affected by the formality of the communication channel.</li> <li><strong>H2.2:</strong> an agile development team is affected by the formality of the communication channel.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div>This online appendix contains supplementary material to uphold transparency and facilitate the reproduction of the statistical analysis. For more information, refer to the publication:</div> <ul> <li>Section 2.5 for the projects sampling</li> <li>Section 2.6 for data extraction and preparation</li> <li>Section 2.7 for the coding scheme and data analysis</li> </ul> <p><strong>Software Dependencies: </strong></p> <ul> <li>PDF Viewer (e.g. Acrobat Reader)</li> <li>IBM SPSS</li> <li>Microsoft Excel</li> <li>Python</li> </ul> <h2>FILES OVERVIEW</h2> <h3>JSS Online Appendix</h3> <div>The root folder includes the <strong>“Project Teams Composition.pdf</strong><em><strong>”</strong></em> file, which contains the anonymized compositions of 20 project teams: 11 agile (PrAG) projects and 9 waterfall (PrWF) projects. This file lists the project team members involved in communication within the Microsoft Teams and Insite channels. </div> <h3>Subfolder “SPSS Files”</h3> <div>This subfolder includes the SPSS files, which contain the normality test and Mann-Whitney U Tests. </div> <div> <ul> <li><strong>Normality Test.spv</strong>: This file contains the results of the normality test.</li> </ul> </div> <div>We performed the normality test. In most cases, the significance of Shapiro-Wilk is below 0.05; thus, the data is not normally distributed and fails to meet the assumption for the t-test. We, therefore, opted for the Mann-Whitney U test, the non-parametric alternative of the t-test.</div> <div> </div> <div>The files below contain the results of Mann-Whitney U Tests, which are presented in Appendix A - Tables A.7 (a), A.8 (a), A.9 (a):</div> <ul> <li><strong>H1 - PrAG vs PrWF Product.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 1. </li> <li><strong>H1.1 - PrAG vs PrWF Formal.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 1.1.</li> <li><strong>H1.2 - PrAG vs PrWF Informal.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 1.2.</li> </ul> <div>The files below contain the results of Mann-Whitney U Tests, which are presented in Appendix A - Tables A.7 (b), A.8 (b), A.9 (b):</div> <ul> <li><strong>H2 - PrAG vs PrWF Formality.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 2.</li> <li><strong>H2.1 - PrWF Formal vs Informal.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 2.1.</li> <li><strong>H2.2 - PrAG Formal vs Informal.spv</strong>: This file contains the results for hypothesis 2.2.</li> </ul> <h3>Subfolder “Excel Files”</h3> <div>This subfolder includes the necessary files to perform calculations and the results of these calculations.</div> <ul> <li><strong>JSS Paper.xlsx</strong>: This file contains the absolute numbers, which are used as input for the calculations.</li> <li><strong>JSS-Statistics.py</strong>: This Python script uses the <strong>“</strong><strong>JSS Paper. xlsx<em>”</em></strong><em><strong> </strong></em>file to perform calculations based on the hypotheses for Project Life Cycle Management (PMLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Speech Acts.</li> </ul> <div>The files below contain the results of the calculations:</div> <ul> <li><strong>PMLC (RQ1A & RQ1B)_v1.xlsx:</strong> This file contains the results for the PMLC phases. The results are presented in Appendix A.1.</li> <li><strong>SDLC (RQ2A & RQ2B)_v1.xlsx:</strong> This file contains the results for the SDLC phases. The results are presented in Appendix A.2.</li> <li><strong>Speech Acts (RQ3A & RQ3B)_v1.xlsx:</strong> This file contains the results for the speech act types. The results are presented in Appendix A.3.</li> </ul> <h2>DATA ACCESS AND SHARING</h2> <div><strong>Recommended citation for this dataset:</strong> Ly, D., Overeem, M., Brinkkemper, S., Dalpiaz, F., 2024. Online Appendix of the Paper “The Power of Words in Agile vs. Waterfall Development: Written Communication in Hybrid Software Teams”. [Data set]. In The Journal of Systems and Software. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13894086.</div> <div> </div> <div><strong>License information:</strong><em><strong> </strong></em>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</div>
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Agri-Environmental Communication Interaction Strategic Link to Food Security Solution
<p>Developing countries face challenges of food production (food insecurity) and malnutrition on daily basis and this mainly affects women and children who are culprits of hunger and death. Kenya faces the worst scenario over food deficits and malnutrition. Meeting sustainable food requirements as it is in developed countries becomes an uphill task. Kenya imports more food grains such as maize, rice, sugar and wheat among others. Nearly 40% of our food stores contain imported foods. What could be the reason for this shortage of food? Information captured by local farmers indicates the scientific language used in training and instructing farmers is foreign and scientific hence difficult to conceptualize and interpret to a local environmental language that is simpleto understand and implement by farmers. Farmers therefore end up not doing the right things. This essential agri-environmental communication technique between farmers and instructional language complexity contributes significantly to poor agricultural output. The farmers' claim has been thinly covered in research studies regardingthe food production system. This is the reason for carrying out this research. This paper seeks to address the claim that agri-environmental communication interaction can be key to enhancing food production and nutrition as well as improving human health. The objective was to find out the causes of low food production dueto lack of agri-environmental communication interaction; To assess the effect of food insecurity and malnutrition on human health due to agri-environmental communication interactions and to make recommendations towards enhancing food production and nutrition in improving human health in Kenya through agri-environmental communication interaction. The research study and data was collected from secondary sources, media observations and focus group discussions from the forty-seven counties in Kenya. The findings revealed that, food production is very low due to poor communication in scientific agricultural terminologies interpretation inlocal language for effective use by farmers. The recommendation is that, government and stakeholders should take action and improve on effective agri- environmental communication interaction in order to solve food insecurity and malnutrition. The scientific language used in instructions product labels should include local languages.</p>
Data from: Identifying patterns of non-communicable diseases in developed eastern coastal China: a longitudinal study of electronic health records from 12 public hospitals
Objective: Few studies have examined the spectrum and trends of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in inpatients in eastern coastal China, which is transforming from an industrial economy to a service-oriented economy and is the most economically developed region in the country. This study aimed to dynamically elucidate the spectrum and characteristics of severe NCDs in eastern coastal China by analysing patients' longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs). Setting: To monitor the spectrum of NCDs dynamically, we extracted the EHR data from 12 general tertiary hospitals in eastern coastal China from 2003 to 2014. The rankings of and trends in the proportions of different NCDs presented by inpatients in different gender and age groups were calculated and analysed. Participants: We obtained a total sample of 1,907,484 inpatients with NCDs from 2003 to 2014, 50.05% of whom were male and 81.53% were aged 50 years or older. Results: There was an increase in the number of total NCD inpatients in eastern coastal China from 2003 to 2014. However, the proportion of chronic respiratory diseases and cancer inpatients decreased over the 12-year period. Compared with men, women displayed a significant increase in the proportion of mental and behavioural disorders (P<0.001) over time. Additionally, digestive diseases and sensory organ diseases significantly decreased among men, but not women. The older group accounted for a larger and growing proportion of the NCD inpatients, and the most common conditions in this group were cerebral infarctions, coronary heart disease and hypertension. In addition, the proportion of 21- to 50-year-old inpatients with diabetes, blood diseases or endocrine diseases skyrocketed from 2003 to 2014 (P<0.001). Conclusions: The burden of inpatients' NCDs increased rapidly, particularly among women and younger people. The NCD spectrum observed in eastern coastal China is a good source of evidence for developing prevention guides for regions experiencing transition.
Data from: Sex-specific responses to territorial intrusions in a communication network: evidence from radio-tagged great tits
Signals play a key role in the ecology and evolution of animal populations, influencing processes such as sexual selection and conflict resolution. In many species, sexually selected signals have a dual function: attracting mates and repelling rivals. Yet, to what extent males and females under natural conditions differentially respond to such signals remains poorly understood, due to a lack of field studies that simultaneously track both sexes. Using a novel spatial tracking system, we tested whether or not the spatial behavior of male and female great tits (Parus major) changes in relation to the response of a territorial male neighbor to an intruder. We tracked the spatial behavior of male and female great tits (N = 44), 1 hr before and 1 hr after simulating territory intrusions, employing automatized Encounternet radio-tracking technology. We recorded the spatial and vocal response of the challenged males and quantified attraction and repulsion of neighboring males and females to the intrusion site. We additionally quantified the direct proximity network of the challenged male. The strength of a male's vocal response to an intruder induced sex-dependent movements in the neighborhood, via female attraction and male repulsion. Stronger vocal responders were older and in better body condition. The proximity networks of the male vocal responders, including the number of sex-dependent connections and average time spent with connections, did not change directly following the intrusion. The effects on neighbor movements suggest that the strength of a male's vocal response can provide relevant social information to both the males and the females in the neighborhood, resulting in both sexes adjusting their spatial behavior in contrasting ways, while the social proximity network remained stable. Moreover, our study underlines the importance of the "silent" eavesdroppers within communication networks for studying the dual functioning and evolution of sexually selected signals.
Data from Schmitt et al. 2020: A causal role of area hMST for self-motion perception in humans. Cerebral Cortex Communications
<p><strong>Dataset associated with the following publication:</strong></p> <p>Constanze Schmitt, Bianca R Baltaretu, J Douglas Crawford, Frank Bremmer, A Causal Role of Area hMST for Self-Motion Perception in Humans, <em>Cerebral Cortex Communications</em>, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, tgaa042, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa042">https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa042</a> Published 2020 July 20.</p> <p><strong>Description of dataset:</strong></p> <p>In our study we presented an optic flow stimulus simulating forward self-motion across a ground plane in one of three directions (30° to the left, straight ahead, 30° to the right) to eight human participants. In 57% of all trials TMS pulses were applied either to right hemisphere hMST or a control area while the optic flow stimulus was presented. Participants indicated the perceived heading of the self-motion stimulus.</p> <p>The dataset contains the responses (perceived headings) of all eight participants (s1 to s8). The responses are reported here in degrees with 0 degrees representing a movement straight ahead, negative values describing movements forward to the left and positive values describing movements forward to the right.</p> <p> </p>
A New Model of Interpretation and Communication for Ensemble Music-Making - Appendices
<p>Appendices for Music Ph.D</p>
The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates
<p>Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds, frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely unstudied. Here, we address several fundamental questions about the origins of acoustic communication in terrestrial vertebrates (tetrapods), using phylogenetic methods. We show that origins of acoustic communication are significantly associated with nocturnal activity. We find that acoustic communication does not increase diversification rates, a surprising result given the many speciation-focused studies of frog calls and bird songs. We also demonstrate that the presence of acoustic communication is strongly conserved over time. Finally, we find that acoustic communication evolved independently in most major tetrapod groups, often with remarkably ancient origins (~100–200 million years ago). Overall, we show that the role of ecology in shaping signal evolution applies to surprisingly deep timescales, whereas the role of signal evolution in diversification may not.</p>
Figure 3 in Vocal communication in the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius, in dyadic encounters and intraspecific cage groups
Figure 3. Examples of the calls resembling clucks: (A) shorter and more rapidly modulated and (B) longer and slightly modulated.
Figure 2 in Vocal communication in the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius, in dyadic encounters and intraspecific cage groups
Figure 2. Harsh calls produced by Apodemus agrarius at (A) threatening postures and (B) harsh calls (the second, third and fifth signals) alternated by calls, resembling clucks (the first and fourth signals).
Figure 1 in Vocal communication in the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius, in dyadic encounters and intraspecific cage groups
Figure 1. Examples of the vocal sounds produced by Apodemus agrarius in response to (A) opponent approach and (B) during attacks and fights.
Data accompanying "Coherent optical communications using coherence-cloned Kerr soliton microcombs"
<p>This dataset contains measurement data and digital signal processing (DSP) code for the results presented in "Coherent optical communications using coherence-cloned Kerr soliton microcombs". </p> <p> The program code included in this dataset is distributed under a GPLv3 license.</p>
Plots source data for the Communications Earth & Environment research article titled: Diurnal expansion and contraction of englacial fracture networks revealed by seismic shear wave splitting
<p>The source data for plotting figures presented in the main text of article titled: Diurnal expansion and contraction of englacial fracture networks revealed by seismic shear wave splitting.</p>
Data from the article: Narrative Risk Communication as a Lingua Franca for Environmental Hazard Preparation
<p>Incorporating narrative elements into risk communication may encourage preparation for environmental hazards in ways that scientific language alone does not. We integrate narrative theory, narrative persuasion, and risk theories into a Narrative Risk Communication Framework and then assess the effectiveness of character selection as a narrative mechanism in scientific risk communication as compared to conventional science messaging alone. We utilize a survey experiment with residents along the flood-prone Yellowstone River in Montana and analyze the resulting data with a parallel and serial mediation statistical model. We find that positive affective response mediates the influence of narratives featuring hero character language. Positive affective response appears to overcome the risk perception paradox both by circumventing rational analysis of risk and by shaping risk perception. Overall, the results suggest that inspirational hero language is superior to language of fear or victimization in encouraging preparation – an important lesson for practitioners working to help citizens prepare for environmental disasters.</p>
Supporting data for: Risk factors common to leading eye health conditions and major non-communicable diseases: A rapid review and commentary
<p><strong><span>Background</span></strong><span>: </span><span>To gain an understanding of the intersection of risk factors between the most prevalent eye health conditions that are associated with vision impairment and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).</span></p> <p><span><strong>Methods</strong>:</span><span> A</span><span> series of rapid reviews of reviews reporting on non-modifiable risk factors, age and sex, and modifiable risk factors, including social determinants, were conducted for five common eye health conditions that are the leading causes of vision impairment globally (refractive error including uncorrected refractive error, cataract, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy) and five prevalent NCDs (cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, dementia, and depressive disorders). </span></p> <p><span><strong>Results</strong>: </span><span>Eye health conditions and NCDs share many risk factors. Increased age was found to be the most common shared risk factor, associated with increased risks of AMD, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, refractive error, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia. Other shared risk factors included smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption (mixed results), and physical activity was protective, though limited evidence was found for eye conditions. Social determinants are well documented as risk factors for NCDs.</span></p> <p><span><strong>Conclusion</strong>:</span><span> There is substantial overlap in common established risk factors for the most frequent vision-impairing eye conditions and leading NCDs. Increasing efforts should be made to integrate preventative and risk reduction interventions to improve health, with the greatest shared benefits for initiatives that aim to reduce smoking, improve diet, and promote physical activity.</span></p>
Urbanus and Cosgrove et al Nature Communications (2023) - Fastq files for In Situ Barcoding experiments
<p>fastq files relating to in situ barcoding experiments. If you have any questions about these datasets please contact Leila Perie (leila.perie@curie.fr)</p>
FIGURES 2–5 in Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae
FIGURES 2–5. Photos of Karawajew's collection: 2—cupboard with the collection, outside view; 3—cupboard with the collection, inside view; 4—one of the boxes; 5—example of mounted ants with Karawajew's original labels.
EQ3/6 model results for Randolph-Flagg et al., "Phosphate availability and implications for life on ocean worlds," Nature Communications, 2023
<p>These output files are provided as pickle format at (10.5281/zenodo.7683874) and readable using standard open-source data processing software (<em>e.g.</em>, <a href="https://www.python.org/">https://www.python.org/</a>). The authors declare that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper and supporting information files.</p> <p>Thermodynamic calculations were performed with the program EQ3/6, a thoroughly vetted and commonly used aqueous geochemistry code that computes the equilibrium distribution of dissolved and solid phase species based on a specified initial composition and reaction conditions. For detailed description of please see Randolph-Flagg et al., Nature Communications, 2023.</p>
Brief Communication: Monitoring active layer dynamic using a lightweight nimble Ground-Penetrating Radar system. A laboratory analog test case
<p>GPR dataset from Leger et al., 2023 (https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-214/)</p> <p> </p>
Tweets IDs related to Twitter communication in the CSR area (2017-2022)
<p>Tweets IDs related to Twitter communication in the CSR area (2017-2022)</p>
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