ABBREVIATIONS ADB — Asian Development Bank CAP — country assistance program CAPE — country assistance program evaluation CSP — country strategy and program DEC — Development Effectiveness Committee DG — director general DMC — developing member country DP — development partner EA — Executing Agency MDB — multilateral development bank MDG — Millennium Development Goal NGO — nongovernment organiza...

Automatic evaluation of fictional ideation systems and their output is a topic relevant to Computational Creativity. Models and techniques have been proposed for this task, but their applicability is limited to the field of fictional ideation. In this paper we describe an evaluation procedure for fictional ideation, which compares human validation of the ideas with a number of automatically gen...

Many of today’s most advanced government-sponsored systems engineering efforts are developing technology to address complex socio-technical problems. This paper describes some of the challenges associated with traditional field-based evaluation methods for supporting these types of systems engineering efforts, and offers modeling and simulation as a tool to supplement field-evaluation. One curr...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of digital tooth preparation imaging and evaluation technology on dental students' technical abilities, self-evaluation skills, and the assessment of their simulated clinical work. A total of 80 second-year students at one U.S. dental school were assigned to one of three groups: control (n=40), E4D Compare (n=20), and Sirona prepCheck (n=20). Stu...

The study aim was to compare expert with non-expert swimmers' rating of the aesthetic and technical qualities of front crawl in video-taped recordings of swimmers with low, middle, and high level proficiency. The results suggest that: i) observers' experience affects their judgment: only the expert observers correctly rated the swimmers' proficiency level; ii) evaluation of movement (technical ...

OBJECTIVE To provide a formative socio-technical evaluation of a pilot implementation of an integrated electronic prescribing, automated dispensing, barcode patient identification and electronic medication administration record (EMAR) system on one ward. DESIGN A qualitative observational approach using discourse analysis within a socio-technical evaluation framework addressing systems functi...