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Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debt [PDF]
, 2016 Technical debt is a metaphor coined to express the trade off between productivity and quality, e.g., when developers take shortcuts or perform quick hacks during the development of software projects.
da S. Maldonado, Everton
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Nutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background The landscape of nutrition support faces challenges, including rising costs, product shortages, reimbursement gaps, and infusion providers closing. This nationwide survey aimed to describe the perceptions and attitudes related to costs, therapy access, and mental health among households with at least one family member requiring ...
Gabriela Gardner +2 more
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Self-Admitted Technical Debt in R Packages: An Exploratory Study
, 2021 Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a particular case of Technical Debt (TD) where developers explicitly acknowledge their sub-optimal implementation decisions.
Melina Vidoni (9407651)
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Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier +4 more
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Self-Admitted Technical Debt in the Embedded Systems Industry: An Exploratory Case Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023 Technical debt denotes shortcuts taken during software development, mostly for the sake of expedience. When such shortcuts are admitted explicitly by developers (e.g., writing a TODO/Fixme comment), they are termed as Self-Admitted Technical Debt or SATD. There has been a fair amount of work studying SATD management in Open Source projects, but SATD in
Yikun Li +3 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Management of Self-Admitted Technical Debt using Machine Learning [PDF]
Technical debt is a prevalent phenomenon in software development, where developers make sub-optimal decisions to achieve short-term goals, often at the expense of long-term evolvability and maintainability.
Li, Yikun, Li, Yikun; id_orcid
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Iron Ore Pricing in China: Financialization Through a Marxist Lens
Abacus, EarlyView.We offer a Marxist interpretation of financialization as we examine the Chinese market for iron ore and the shift in the pricing mechanism from an annual fixed price to an indexed price from 2010. Drawing upon Marx's theory of the circuit of capital, we illustrate an empirical case of financialization that results from the conflict between social ...
Xun Gong, Eagle Zhang, Corinne Cortese
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