Toward Specialization

Attitudes of County Extension Agents Toward Agent Specialization in Ohio

Agent specialization as a concept of providing expertise closer to program delivery, was introduced by the Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service as a way to improve the county agent’s ability to work across county lines and across program lines. While the extension agent was still to be a resident community educator working with a broad range of county problems, he/she also would be expected ...

Survival of the Fittest: Health Care Accelerators Evolve Toward Specialization

Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes

Species-rich tropical communities are expected to be more specialized than their temperate counterparts. Several studies have reported increasing biotic specialization toward the tropics, whereas others have not found latitudinal trends once accounting for sampling bias or differences in plant diversity. Thus, the direction of the latitudinal specialization gradient remains contentious. With an...

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Specialization inheritance and specialization bounded polymorphism

We define a specialization inheritance mechanism for object-oriented programming, admitting covariant redefinition of both methods and instance variables in subclassing. We investigate on the semantic weakness that makes such very flexible inheritance infeasible for a statically type-checked programming language supporting polymorphic assignment and polymorphic method invocation. We show that t...