Developing diversity

Farm Production Diversity and Dietary Diversity in Developing Countries

Developing a Test Collection to Support Diversity Analysis

Promoting diversity in search has gained much recent interest, however there exists a lack of sufficient benchmarks for evaluation. In this paper, we describe the creation of a new test collection for evaluating diversity in image search. To ensure the creation of a realistic resource, query variations from an image search log were used as the basis for identifying topics that might require a s...

Developing a Culture and Diversity Curriculum: An Integrated Approach

In response to the need to educate future physicians about culture and diversity in healthcare issues, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Medicine developed a culture and diversity curriculum in the late 1990s. Institutional leadership, an approach that integrated learning activities into existing courses and clerkships, and use of local experts overcame initial curricul...

Rural Livelihood Diversity in Developing Countries: Evidence and Policy Implications

This paper examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas. The paper’s objectives are first, to increase awareness of livelihood diversification in approaches to rural development; second, to consider th...

Developing a Novel Beamforming Technique in Antenna Diversity

The transmitted symbol is affected by the channel noise and diversity is an efficient method to reduce the noise and interference. Recently, the channel noise is cancelled by using a novel beamforming technique, where the transmitted symbols are weighted and the same weighting vectors are used at the receiver. In this paper, the authors use the proposed beamforming technique in antenna diversit...