Scaling-up participation at USAID

Scaling-Up as a Grand Challenge for Public Participation GIS

For years, a GIS has been called a decision support system (Cowen 1988). When we connect GIS with participatory contexts we get “participatory GIS,” (PGIS) (Harris et al. 1995, Jankowski and Nyerges 2001) or a “public participation GIS” (PPGIS) (Nyerges, Barndt, Brooks 1997), or community integrated GIS (Craig, Harris, and Weiner 2001). The term public is defined by the American Heritage Dictio...

Scaling Up

Scaling Up

Most analytical and experimental results on evolutionary programming (EP) are obtained using low-dimensional problems, e.g., smaller than 50. It is unclear, however, whether the empirical results obtained from the low-dimensional problems still hold for high-dimensional cases. This paper investigates the behaviour of four diierent EP algorithms for large-scale problems, i.e., problems whose dim...

TIBET ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS for USAID

Scaling Up: Adapting a Phage-Hunting Course to Increase Participation of First-Year Students in Research

Authentic research experiences are valuable components of effective undergraduate education. Research experiences during the first years of college are especially critical to increase persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. The Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) model provides a high-impact research ...