Successful integration of classes makes functionalities work correctly in software. The individual class usually functions correctly, but when the classes are integrated several unexpected faults may occur. In Object-Oriented software it is particularly hard to detect faults when classes are integrated because of inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic binding. Software designers use Unified Modeling Language (UML) to create an abstract system scenario and to visualize the system's architecture. A lot of research reveals that UML is not only for software design, but also for software testing. More and more researchers have realized UML models can be a source for Object-Oriented software testing. This paper proposes an intermediate test model called the Polymorphism State SEquence Test Model (PSSETM), which is generated from sequence diagram, class diagram and state-charts for integration testing. The example of Bookstore System shows the PSSETM test model is able to exhibit the possible state of object and the polymorphic information of class. Based on the PSSETM test model, various coverage criteria are defined to generate valid test paths to enhance testing on interaction among classes and the polymorphism of class.
{"title":"The Test Path Generation from State-Based Polymorphic Interaction Graph for Object-Oriented Software","authors":"Ching-seh Wu, Chi-Hsin Huang, Yen-Ting Lee","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.52","url":null,"abstract":"Successful integration of classes makes functionalities work correctly in software. The individual class usually functions correctly, but when the classes are integrated several unexpected faults may occur. In Object-Oriented software it is particularly hard to detect faults when classes are integrated because of inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic binding. Software designers use Unified Modeling Language (UML) to create an abstract system scenario and to visualize the system's architecture. A lot of research reveals that UML is not only for software design, but also for software testing. More and more researchers have realized UML models can be a source for Object-Oriented software testing. This paper proposes an intermediate test model called the Polymorphism State SEquence Test Model (PSSETM), which is generated from sequence diagram, class diagram and state-charts for integration testing. The example of Bookstore System shows the PSSETM test model is able to exhibit the possible state of object and the polymorphic information of class. Based on the PSSETM test model, various coverage criteria are defined to generate valid test paths to enhance testing on interaction among classes and the polymorphism of class.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134303876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The threat of electromagnetic analysis attacks against cryptographic circuits is now becoming more evident. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the resistance of cryptographic circuits to electromagnetic analysis attacks at the design stage. In order to analyze electromagnetic waves at the design stage, an electromagnetic field simulator must be used. However, since electromagnetic analysis attacks use many waveforms, the use of an electromagnetic field simulator is not realistic from the standpoint of the processing time. The present study develops a verification platform to evaluate the vulnerability of cryptographic circuits to electromagnetic analysis attacks at the design stage. In the present study, a macro model for each element to be attacked is prepared. Using the results obtained by simulating each macro model and current, high-speed electromagnetic wave analysis is realized. The validity of the proposed method is verified by performing evaluation experiments.
{"title":"Platform for Verification of Electromagnetic Analysis Attacks against Cryptographic Circuits","authors":"M. Yoshikawa, T. Asai","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.101","url":null,"abstract":"The threat of electromagnetic analysis attacks against cryptographic circuits is now becoming more evident. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the resistance of cryptographic circuits to electromagnetic analysis attacks at the design stage. In order to analyze electromagnetic waves at the design stage, an electromagnetic field simulator must be used. However, since electromagnetic analysis attacks use many waveforms, the use of an electromagnetic field simulator is not realistic from the standpoint of the processing time. The present study develops a verification platform to evaluate the vulnerability of cryptographic circuits to electromagnetic analysis attacks at the design stage. In the present study, a macro model for each element to be attacked is prepared. Using the results obtained by simulating each macro model and current, high-speed electromagnetic wave analysis is realized. The validity of the proposed method is verified by performing evaluation experiments.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133375947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the influences of creating social tags for academic papers by novice users over time. This study distinguishes itself from related studies by examining users' perspectives through three factors - document, social and personal factors. In the study, which was conducted in two time periods, diaries and interviews were employed to elicit the subjects' influences of tags choices. During the two time periods, subjects were asked to collect and tag academic papers. They were requested to fill in their diaries after assigning tags to the papers. Subjects were also interviewed to gain more insights. The outcome from both diaries and interviews were then triangulated, where the themes related to the factors emerged. Themes that emerged include documents usage, document attributes, social ties, opinion expression and organizing strategies. Results showed that the tags assigned by the subjects were influenced by all the factors. The influence from documents usage, document attributes and organizing strategies tended to play a more dominant role than social ties and opinion expression. Also, there did not seem to be any change in the levels of influence between the two time periods. Implications of our findings are discussed.
{"title":"A User-centric Approach towards Understanding the Influences of Social Tags Choices for Academic Papers","authors":"K. Razikin, D. Goh, C. S. Lee","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the influences of creating social tags for academic papers by novice users over time. This study distinguishes itself from related studies by examining users' perspectives through three factors - document, social and personal factors. In the study, which was conducted in two time periods, diaries and interviews were employed to elicit the subjects' influences of tags choices. During the two time periods, subjects were asked to collect and tag academic papers. They were requested to fill in their diaries after assigning tags to the papers. Subjects were also interviewed to gain more insights. The outcome from both diaries and interviews were then triangulated, where the themes related to the factors emerged. Themes that emerged include documents usage, document attributes, social ties, opinion expression and organizing strategies. Results showed that the tags assigned by the subjects were influenced by all the factors. The influence from documents usage, document attributes and organizing strategies tended to play a more dominant role than social ties and opinion expression. Also, there did not seem to be any change in the levels of influence between the two time periods. Implications of our findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"31 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113959848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There have been a lot of challenges in monetizing the quality and failure cost generically due to the nature of software industry. An organization must monetize the benefits and cost of improvement programs. Measuring and reporting the cost of quality (CoQ) is an important pre-requisite for achieving delivery excellence. CoQ is computed by summing up price of conformance plus non-conformance into prevention, appraisal and failure cost incurred for delivering a product. The cost of software quality tries to quantify what is the cost incurred for quality as against each dollar that has been spend for development. Generic industry trend shows about 40% towards fixing and controlling quality, the optimal suggested industry benchmark is around 20-25%. The objective of CoQ model is to measure and control the cost of poor quality and provide tools that could enable delivery excellence.
{"title":"Optimizing the Cost of Software Quality - A Path to Delivery Excellence","authors":"B. Osteen, S. Ramanan, K. Jeganathan","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.118","url":null,"abstract":"There have been a lot of challenges in monetizing the quality and failure cost generically due to the nature of software industry. An organization must monetize the benefits and cost of improvement programs. Measuring and reporting the cost of quality (CoQ) is an important pre-requisite for achieving delivery excellence. CoQ is computed by summing up price of conformance plus non-conformance into prevention, appraisal and failure cost incurred for delivering a product. The cost of software quality tries to quantify what is the cost incurred for quality as against each dollar that has been spend for development. Generic industry trend shows about 40% towards fixing and controlling quality, the optimal suggested industry benchmark is around 20-25%. The objective of CoQ model is to measure and control the cost of poor quality and provide tools that could enable delivery excellence.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122848236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A novel flash fast-locking digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) is presented and behaviorally modeled using Verilog-AMS. The DPLL operation includes two stages: (1) a novel coarse-tuning stage for frequency tracking which employs a flash algorithm leading to a thermometer code as done in flash A/D converters (ADCs) and (2) a fine-tuning stage similar to conventional (classical) DPLLs. The coarse-tuning stage includes an array of frequency comparators, a priority encoder, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and control logic including a monostable multivibrator. Verilog-AMS (Smash) is used to design and simulate both the fast-locking DPLL and its classical counterpart. Simulations revealed a lock time improvement (reduction) by a factor of 1.50-3.00 depending on the size of the input frequency hop in favor of the fast-locking DPLL.
提出了一种新型的快锁数字锁相环(DPLL)，并利用Verilog-AMS进行了行为建模。DPLL操作包括两个阶段:(1)用于频率跟踪的新型粗调谐阶段，该阶段采用flash算法导致温度计代码，如flash a /D转换器(adc)中所做的;(2)类似于传统(经典)DPLL的微调阶段。粗调谐阶段包括一组频率比较器、一个优先编码器、一个数模转换器(DAC)和包括单稳态多谐振荡器的控制逻辑。Verilog-AMS (Smash)用于设计和模拟快速锁定DPLL及其经典对应器件。仿真结果表明，根据输入跳频的大小，锁定时间改善(减少)了1.50-3.00倍，这有利于快速锁定DPLL。
{"title":"A Novel Flash Fast-Locking Digital PLL: Verilog-AMS Modeling and Simulations","authors":"M. Wagdy, Sandesh Maraliga Jayaram","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.36","url":null,"abstract":"A novel flash fast-locking digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) is presented and behaviorally modeled using Verilog-AMS. The DPLL operation includes two stages: (1) a novel coarse-tuning stage for frequency tracking which employs a flash algorithm leading to a thermometer code as done in flash A/D converters (ADCs) and (2) a fine-tuning stage similar to conventional (classical) DPLLs. The coarse-tuning stage includes an array of frequency comparators, a priority encoder, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and control logic including a monostable multivibrator. Verilog-AMS (Smash) is used to design and simulate both the fast-locking DPLL and its classical counterpart. Simulations revealed a lock time improvement (reduction) by a factor of 1.50-3.00 depending on the size of the input frequency hop in favor of the fast-locking DPLL.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128497499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On-demand multimedia services are more popular than ever and continue to grow. Consumers can now stream music, movies, television, and video games at the push of a button. Such services typically require a minimum connection speed to support streaming. However, transient network effects such as packet loss and delay variation can play a crucial role in determining the user quality of experience (QoE) in streaming multimedia systems. This paper will seek to establish the subjective impact of negative network effects on the user experience of a popular cloud-based on-demand video game service.
{"title":"Subjective Evaluation of Latency and Packet Loss in a Cloud-Based Game","authors":"Victor A. Clincy, Brandon Wilgor","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.79","url":null,"abstract":"On-demand multimedia services are more popular than ever and continue to grow. Consumers can now stream music, movies, television, and video games at the push of a button. Such services typically require a minimum connection speed to support streaming. However, transient network effects such as packet loss and delay variation can play a crucial role in determining the user quality of experience (QoE) in streaming multimedia systems. This paper will seek to establish the subjective impact of negative network effects on the user experience of a popular cloud-based on-demand video game service.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128731091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Vesco, F. Harris, S. Dascalu, Del R. Jackson, J. Baker
Some of the work done in the Baker lab at the University of Nevada, Reno has been directed towards the analysis of muscle tissue in a single molecule arrangement. The process is a novel high-throughput single molecule binding assay or SiMBA for short. This assay is performed by binding single-headed skeletal muscle myosin to a cover slip and looking at how the fluorescently labeled actin filaments bind to these myosin as imaged with a fluorescence microscope. The conditions are varied and the effects on actin-myosin binding kinetics are observed. In order to analyze the binding times and unbound times, a researcher must observe the interactions and manually collect the data. This particular method of data collection is tedious and time consuming, thereby making this portion of the experiment the "rate limiting" factor for producing results in a timely manner. As this can take many hours to analyze a one minute long movie, an automated or semi-automated solution would be beneficial to this assay. This paper presents the design and implementation of a semi-automated solution for identifying and tracking a variable number of objects that exhibit a multitude of behaviors, and extracting the specific behaviors of motion and stagnation as well as the duration of these behaviors.
内华达大学里诺分校(University of Nevada, Reno)的贝克实验室(Baker lab)所做的一些工作是针对单分子排列的肌肉组织进行分析的。该方法是一种新型的高通量单分子结合试验，简称SiMBA。该试验通过将单头骨骼肌肌球蛋白结合到覆盖片上，并观察荧光标记的肌动蛋白丝如何与这些肌球蛋白结合，并用荧光显微镜成像。观察了不同条件对肌动蛋白-肌球蛋白结合动力学的影响。为了分析绑定时间和未绑定时间，研究人员必须观察相互作用并手动收集数据。这种特殊的数据收集方法是冗长而耗时的，因此使这部分实验成为及时产生结果的“速率限制”因素。由于分析一分钟长的电影可能需要几个小时，因此自动化或半自动化的解决方案将有利于此分析。本文提出了一种半自动化解决方案的设计和实现，用于识别和跟踪表现出多种行为的可变数量的对象，并提取运动和停滞的特定行为以及这些行为的持续时间。
{"title":"Semi-automated Analysis Software for a Novel Biochemistry Assay","authors":"J. Vesco, F. Harris, S. Dascalu, Del R. Jackson, J. Baker","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.15","url":null,"abstract":"Some of the work done in the Baker lab at the University of Nevada, Reno has been directed towards the analysis of muscle tissue in a single molecule arrangement. The process is a novel high-throughput single molecule binding assay or SiMBA for short. This assay is performed by binding single-headed skeletal muscle myosin to a cover slip and looking at how the fluorescently labeled actin filaments bind to these myosin as imaged with a fluorescence microscope. The conditions are varied and the effects on actin-myosin binding kinetics are observed. In order to analyze the binding times and unbound times, a researcher must observe the interactions and manually collect the data. This particular method of data collection is tedious and time consuming, thereby making this portion of the experiment the \"rate limiting\" factor for producing results in a timely manner. As this can take many hours to analyze a one minute long movie, an automated or semi-automated solution would be beneficial to this assay. This paper presents the design and implementation of a semi-automated solution for identifying and tracking a variable number of objects that exhibit a multitude of behaviors, and extracting the specific behaviors of motion and stagnation as well as the duration of these behaviors.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116993651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The utilization of technology is inevitable to be at par with the current developments in the academia around the world. The facilitation and academic leadership does not come only by the academic excellence but also by the use of technological advancements that have helped the world to be benefited from the electronic services. This paper unleashes several services that have been developed and deployed by the Deanship of E-Transaction and Communication. In this paper we only discuss the three of the available services namely 'Tawasal', 'Faculty Web sites' and 'New Student' applications. We also observe the positive impact of the electronic services and analyze the results for future development.
{"title":"Utilizing Technology in Education Environment: A Case Study","authors":"B. Shahzad, Esam Alwagait","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.48","url":null,"abstract":"The utilization of technology is inevitable to be at par with the current developments in the academia around the world. The facilitation and academic leadership does not come only by the academic excellence but also by the use of technological advancements that have helped the world to be benefited from the electronic services. This paper unleashes several services that have been developed and deployed by the Deanship of E-Transaction and Communication. In this paper we only discuss the three of the available services namely 'Tawasal', 'Faculty Web sites' and 'New Student' applications. We also observe the positive impact of the electronic services and analyze the results for future development.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127369474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The raise of social Web brought new ways of disseminating information, news and published content over the Web. Social news aggregator Web sites such as Digg and Reddit are already known for their role in promoting user-based content by utilizing story submission and voting system. Balatarin, the first and one of the most famous news aggregator in Persian language, is a social book marking Web site, which is developed by combining the underlying idea of Reddit, Digg, News vine and Del.icio.us. Although Balata in is among popular and influential Web sites in the Middle East, there has not been any analytical research on it. Here, we studied the user activity to see whether it is dominated by few users' participation, or social incidents can motivate users and influence their contribution. For our study, we collected data representing user activity over the course of three years. We carried out some computational analysis on user participation under social circumstances, such as blockade and election in Iran. The evaluation of the results shows that such social factors can motivate users to break the tyranny of the minority submitters by contributing more.
{"title":"User Participation in Social Networks: The Case of Balatarin, an Online Persian-Language Social Bookmarking System","authors":"A. Rostami","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2013.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2013.68","url":null,"abstract":"The raise of social Web brought new ways of disseminating information, news and published content over the Web. Social news aggregator Web sites such as Digg and Reddit are already known for their role in promoting user-based content by utilizing story submission and voting system. Balatarin, the first and one of the most famous news aggregator in Persian language, is a social book marking Web site, which is developed by combining the underlying idea of Reddit, Digg, News vine and Del.icio.us. Although Balata in is among popular and influential Web sites in the Middle East, there has not been any analytical research on it. Here, we studied the user activity to see whether it is dominated by few users' participation, or social incidents can motivate users and influence their contribution. For our study, we collected data representing user activity over the course of three years. We carried out some computational analysis on user participation under social circumstances, such as blockade and election in Iran. The evaluation of the results shows that such social factors can motivate users to break the tyranny of the minority submitters by contributing more.","PeriodicalId":320262,"journal":{"name":"2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121688911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Hashemi, M. Bahar, A. Bahrami, N. Tyler, M. Antonelli
The presence of Zinc-protoporphyrin (ZPP) in a patient's blood sample suggests: Iron depletion, unacceptable rate of iron delivery to bone marrow, and/or led toxicity in the patient. Therefore, existing of traceable amount of ZPP in a patient's blood causes gradual catastrophic health problems for the patient. Do the stresses in a work environment contribute to the presence of ZPP in workers' blood? In this paper, we investigate the answer to the proposed question in reference to the blue color workers of an aluminum factory. The workers are exposed to a spectrum of the stresses. The "bad body posture" is in one end of the spectrum and "exposure to magnetic field" is at the other end and a variety of stresses such as exposure to noise, gas, fume, extreme heat/cold, vibration, radiation, and allergens are in between. The goal of this investigation is two-fold: (a) introduction and utilization of the Soft Semantic Association Degrees (SSADs) approach for analysis of the relationship between work environment stresses and ZPP behavior and (b) identification of the conditions under which the workers can be relatively safe.
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