The data analysis has been completed during the research stay of Malgorzata Wasmer at the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique in Paris. We would like to thank Didier Blanchet for his hospitality. We would also like to thank Sébastien Roux and Anthony Briant for their fruitful remarks as our work was progressing and to Virginie Régnier for her assistance in the dataset c...

Economists have observed a shift in productivity growth from IT-producing to IT-using industries after the dot-com bust, but the causes of this shift remain unexplained. This paper uses fine-grained data on IT labor movements from online resume databases to track the flow of skills out of IT producing firms after the dot-com bust, and to test the hypothesis that a reallocation of these technica...

We examine the relationships between observational ratings of teacher performance, principals’ evaluations of teachers’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills and test-score based measures of teachers’ productivity. We find that principals can distinguish between high and low performing teachers, but the overall correlation between principal ratings of teachers and teachers’ valueadded contribution...

background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

The emerging paradigm of Federated Learning enables mobile users to collaboratively train a model without disclosing their privacy-sensitive data. Nevertheless, data collected from different may not be independent and identically distributed. Thus directly applying the trained new user usually leads performance degradation due so-called domain shift. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation is an effecti...

overuse of chemical inputs and inappropriate use of water resources have caused unsustainability in most agricultural regions of marvdasht county in fars province. for an attainment of sustainable production of wheat, it is necessary to design appropriate communicational models for agricultural inputs and for water optimum usage, however, reviewing agricultural development literature revealed t...

planning for productivity factors of engineering resources is the main concern that should be addressed in the training and engineering management in different organizations. productivity of engineering resources, which eventually results in the organizational productivity, may be viewed from different perspectives. one of the best approaches is to study the engineering resources productivity w...