Authors: Stephen Goodall and Rosalie Viney Prepared: July 2011 SUMMARY • The aim of economic evaluation is to inform clinical and health system decision making and policy • Every time a decision is made about a new technology or treatment, a decision is also made about resource allocation • Economic evaluation is a formal and systematic comparison of the costs and benefits associated with two o...

The impact of library instruction on student learning and attitudes has been regularly evaluated in the Ohio State University freshman program. Using the pre/posttest method, the evaluations have measured both cognitive and affective learning. Evaluations document that library instruction produces significant i'!!J'rovement in students' knowledge about libraries, their abili to use librari s an...

In August 2002, the Geological Survey Branch (GSB) of the Ministry of Energy and Mines was asked by the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management to undertake a Level 2 Mineral Resource Assessment (MRA) of the Coast Information Team’s (CIT) project area which encompasses approximately 11 million hectares. This was followed by a similar request in February 2003 to do the Lillooet Land Resource...

User demand on the computational resources of cloud computing platforms varies over time. These variations in demand can be predictable or unpredictable, resulting in ‘bursty’ fluctuations in demand. Furthermore, demand can arrive in batches, and users whose demands are not met can be impatient. We demonstrate how to compute the expected revenue loss over a finite time horizon in the presence o...

WiMAX is an emerging technology and has many issues that are yet to be addressed. This paper aims at the burst mapping analysis and improvement of the resource allocation scheme for WiMAX. The main aim is to do Performance Improvement of WiMAX downlink OFDMA using Various Burst Mapping algorithms.

This special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation includes a selection of extended papers from the Ninth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2014. The conference drew a record number of participants, reflecting the steadily increasing interest and activity in the field of language resource creation, enhancement, management, and evaluation since...