Quality of fisheries data and uncertainty in stock assessment

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

Tagging Methods for Stock Assessment and Research in Fisheries

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Stock assessment and end-to-end ecosystem models alter dynamics of fisheries data

Although all models are simplified approximations of reality, they remain useful tools for understanding, predicting, and managing populations and ecosystems. However, a model's utility is contingent on its suitability for a given task. Here, we examine two model types: single-species fishery stock assessment and multispecies marine ecosystem models. Both are efforts to predict trajectories of ...

Quality Assessment and Uncertainty Handling in Data Mining Process

The KDD process aims at the discovery and extraction of “useful” knowledge (such as interesting patterns, classification, rules etc) from large data repositories. A widely recognized requirement is that the patterns discovered must be valid and ultimately comprehensible (i.e., to be easily understood by analysts). Another requirement that is under-addressed in KDD process is the reveal and the ...