This tipsheet summarises strategies which have worked in practice, based on findings from a review of 85 evaluations undertaken by bilateral and multilateral agencies from 1999 to 2002. There was a great deal of consistency in evaluation reports about the most effective strategies for addressing gender equality issues, regardless of the type of assistance, the donor agency, the partner country ...

Introduction We discuss the problem of creating a reminder generation system that successfully alerts a user to daily tasks while adapting the features of its reminders to the user’s reminding preferences. There are many example applications in which reminding is useful; we motivate the discussion by focusing on two such applications. The first is an office environment in which users require as...

Network representation is the basis of many applications and of extensive interest in various fields such as information retrieval, social network analysis, and recommendation systems. Majority of previous methods on network representation only considered incomplete aspects of the problem, such as link structure, node information, or partial integration. The present paper proposes a comprehensi...

In the United States, railways are the major means to trans-continentally move goods from ports to the various inland destinations. Due to mergers and abandonment of rail lines, there has been a reduction in the track capacity, concentrating rail traffic to fewer lines. In addition to this, booming trade with Pacific Rim nations has seen the annual trade in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Bea...

Plant systems for the production of recombinant immunogens have the potential to overcome obstacles currently impeding the delivery of vaccines to poorer, more remote populations by localizing production and reducing associated costs. The nature of the future plant-derived vaccine candidates will have an important impact on the extent to which universal access to vaccines can be achieved using ...

We describe an experimental Wizard-of-Oz-setup for the integration of emotional strategies into spoken dialogue management. With this setup we seek to evaluate different approaches to emotional dialogue strategies in human computer interaction with a spoken dialogue system. The study aims to analyse what kinds of emotional strategies work best in spoken dialogue management especially facing the...

The paper presents an exceptional four matching strategies: systematic, random, gradient and simulated annealing using diferent metrics. We consider two kinds of image matching algorithms. The first one oriented on the whole image matching where we compare corresponding pixels or chosen image characteristics. The second one is oriented on finding the region in the target image (region of intere...

We consider the effectiveness of targeted vaccination at preventing the spread of infectious disease in a realistic social network. We compare vaccination strategies based on no information (random vaccination) to complete information (PageRank) about the network. The most effective strategy we find is to vaccinate those people with the most unvaccinated contacts. However, this strategy require...