Program refactoring, feature-based and aspect-oriented software synthesis, and model-driven development are disjoint research areas. However, they are all architectural metaprogramming technologies as they treat programs as values and use functions (a.k.a. transformations) to map programs to other programs. In this paper, I explore their underlying connections by reviewing recent advances in ea...

the right to development is comprised of both national and international dimensions and highlights the right of people to possess all human rights through developmental processes. such a significant aim differentiates the right to development from other instances of human rights. all national and international elements are supposed to cooperate regarding the right to development. the present st...

achieving to sustainable development requires high attention to environmental problems so in this head line, examining the relation between economic growth and environment quality gives us an outlook of optimum economic development. for this purpose, different development programs were investigated. variables used in this model were propagation co2 per capita (as a proxy of pollution ), gdp per...

BACKGROUND The importance of utilising the best available research evidence in the development of health policies, services, and programs is increasingly recognised, yet few standardised systems for quantifying policymakers' research use are available. We developed a comprehensive measurement and scoring tool that assesses four domains of research use (i.e. instrumental, conceptual, tactical, a...

Note: Most SVRC technical reports are available via anonymous ftp, from svrc.it.uq.edu.au in the directory /pub/techreports. Abstracts and compressed postscript les are available via Abstract The reenement calculus is a well-established theory for formal development of imperative program code and is supported by a number of automated tools. Via a detailed case study, this article shows how reen...

The program development process is viewed as a sequence of implementation steps leading from a spe-ciication to a program. Based on an elementary notion of reenement, two notions of implementation are studied: constructor implementations which involve a construction \on top of" the implementing speciication, and abstractor implementations which additionally provide for abstraction from some det...

This paper reports the findings of a case study in which a curriculum-based positive youth development program (Project P.A.T.H.S.) was implemented by the class teachers in a school. School-related factors which contributed to the success of program implementation were identified in the study. Results showed that factors facilitating the program implementation were closely related to the "5Ps" ...

The purpose of this article is to describe the process of creating a faculty development program for online instruction. Both educational and technological issues are discussed. Factors that will facilitate and barriers that will impede the implementation of online courses are included. Many faculty concerns regarding online courses relate to the issues of quality and student learning. Faculty ...

PURPOSE To measure overall retention of junior faculty and evaluate the effects of a junior faculty development program on the retention of junior faculty at one institution. METHOD Quantitative survival analysis techniques were used to characterize retention of all new assistant professors hired at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine for 18 years between July 19...