A Trustability Metric for Code Search based on Developer Karma

The promise of search-driven development is that developers will save time and resources by reusing external code in their local projects. To efficiently integrate this code, users must be able to trust it, thus trustability of code search results is just as important as their relevance. In this paper, we introduce a trustability metric to help users assess the quality of code search results and therefore ease the cost-benefit analysis they undertake trying to find suitable integration candidates. The proposed trustability metric incorporates both user votes and cross-project activity of developers to calculate a "karma" value for each developer. Through the karma value of all its developers a project is ranked on a trustability scale. We present JBENDER, a proof-of-concept code search engine which implements our trustability metric and we discuss preliminary results from an evaluation of the prototype.

Paying with karma in the Buddha’s Flower Shop: Spiritual Economics in Early Indian Buddhism

Shen Weirong

A linguistically informed autosomal STR survey of human populations residing in the Greater Himalayan Region

The greater Himalayan region demarcates two of the most prominent linguistic phyla in Asia: Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European. Previous genetic surveys, mainly using Y-chromosome polymorphisms and/or mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms suggested a substantially reduced geneflow between populations belonging to these two phyla. These studies, however, have mainly focussed on populations residing far to the north and/or south of this mountain range, and have not been able to study geneflow patterns within the greater Himalayan region itself. We now report a detailed, linguistically informed, genetic survey of Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European speakers from the Himalayan countries Nepal and Bhutan based on autosomal microsatellite markers and compare these populations with surrounding regions. The genetic differentiation between populations within the Himalayas seems to be much higher than between populations in the neighbouring countries. We also observe a remarkable genetic differentiation between the Tibeto-Burman speaking populations on the one hand and Indo-European speaking populations on the other, suggesting that language and geography have played an equally large role in defining the genetic composition of present-day populations within the Himalayas.

Parlons dzongkha: Langue du Bhoutan

Le Bouthan, petit royaume himalayen, est caractérisé par la grande diversité de ses langues. Pour communiquer et créer une identité nationale, le dzongkha, "la langue des forteresses", est adoptée dans les années 1960. Cette langue de l'ouest du pays est apparentée au tibétain et au dränjoke, la langue du Sikkim. Ce livre présente le pays et une grammaire de dzongkha raisonnée. Il cherche à pallier le manque de documentation pour le public francophone.

Freude und Wohlbefinden sind auch in der Schule wichtig - Das Wohlbefinden der Schüler und Schülerinnen

Es gehört zum pädagogischen Auftrag einer Lehrperson, dass sie nicht bloss die Entstehung negativer Gefühle verhindert, sonder einen Kontext herstellt, in dem Emotionen eine stützende Funktion für den Lernprozess ihrer Lernenden übernehmen. Im Beitrag werden Hinweise gegeben, wie Lehrpersonen dies gewährleisten und gezielt fördern können.