In essence, public sector evaluations of major government programs provide signals which proxy those which make the market function. In discussing the role of evaluation, Havens (1992) has articulated a complementary point: “the more that we [public administrators] know about how our programs are functioning, the effects they are having, and at what cost, the more likely we are to search out wa...

Ocean color algorithms have been successfully developed to estimate chlorophyll a and total suspended solids concentrations in coastal and estuarine waters but few have been created to estimate light absorption due to colored dissolved inorganic matter (CDOM) and salinity from the spectral signatures of these waters. In this study, we used remotely sensed reflectances in the red and blue-green ...

This thesis explores performance criteria adequate to validate simulation models. An overview on the most widely performance criteria used in literature is firstly provided. The thesis proceeds with the proposal of two new criteria that assess the distortion of the warping path obtained after applying the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm: the Warping Path Distortion (WPD) and the Percentage Warpi...

The practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action. However, the effectiveness of restoration actions in increasing provision of both biodiversity and ecosystem services have not been evaluated systematically. A meta-analysis of 20 restoration assessments in a wide range of ecosystem types acr...

This study applies scientometric approach to meso level data. The objective was to evaluate Institutional level hindex’s (IHI) reliability with respect to other Journal Related Indices (JRI). Most of the studies in the literature considered journal’s h-index as contrasted measure. Nevertheless, there has been no study that explores the relation between IHI and institutional level JRI. To get fu...

In this article we extend the comparative analysis between the results of a pooled OLS regression and the use of fixed effects panel models concerning the determinants of debt, comparing the results of using static panel models and dynamic panel estimators, including the dynamic estimator of correction of fixed effects. The results show that the differences between the results of static panel m...

Assessment of student learning outcomes plays an important role in educational effectiveness, improvement, and sustainability that is increasingly being recognized and required by accrediting bodies (Buzzetto-More, 2006; Haken, 2006). A form of performance-based assessment that is growing in popularity and is heralded for its purposeful, dynamic, and integrated nature is the portfolio (Cooper, ...

Few studies directly compare the various fitness components of collegiate dancers and athletes in acknowledged sports. The limited studies that do exist fail to consider certain variables or to assess multiple fitness components. The purpose of this study was to provide a more comprehensive comparison of collegiate dancers and collegiate volleyball and softball players. We used multiple fitness...

An environmental scan of the demand for and varied levels of success of online learning products and services suggests that dropout numbers are higher in online learning. One response is to enhance strategies for supporting learners who are engaged in online distributed learning environments. These strategies are examined within the ADDIE framework. A comparative analysis of learner evaluations...

DNA sequence copy number has been shown to be associated with cancer development and progression. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a recent development that seeks to identify the copy number ratio at large numbers of markers across the genome. Due to experimental and biological variations across chromosomes and hybridizations, current methods are limited to analyses of si...