Resonances in $$^{12}{\mathrm C}$$ and $$^{24}\mathrm{Mg}$$: what do we learn from a microscopic cluster theory?

What Do We Learn from Experimental Algorithmics?

Experimental Algorithmics is concerned with the design, implementation , tuning, debugging and performance analysis of computer programs for solving algorithmic problems. It provides methodologies and tools for designing, developing and experimentally analyzing eecient algorithmic codes and aims at integrating and reinforcing traditional theoretical approaches for the design and analysis of alg...

What do we learn from rating metaphors?

What makes some metaphors easier to understand than others? Theoretical accounts of metaphor processing appeal to dimensions like conventionality and aptness to explain variability in metaphor comprehensibility. In a typical experiment, one group of naive participants rates a set of metaphoric sentences along these dimensions, while another is timed reading the same sentences. Then, the ratings...

Theory-based evaluation in practice. What do we learn?

Theory-based evaluation (TBE) explores the how and why of program success or failure. Advocates of TBE claim that it produces information unavailable in traditional process and outcome studies. This article examines six published papers of TBEs. It finds that the authors of the papers do not always make explicit the relation of their data to the theory of the program. Nevertheless, it was evide...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

GLAST LAT and pulsars: what do we learn from simulations?

Gamma-ray pulsars are among the best targets for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the GLAST mission. The higher sensitivity, time and energy resolution of the LAT will provide data of fundamental importance to understand the physics of these fascinating objects. Powerful tools for studying the LAT capabilities for pulsar science are the simulation programs developed within the GLAST Collab...