The goal of partial evaluation is the specialization of programs w.r.t. part of their input data. Although this technique is already well-known in the context of functional languages, current approaches are either overly restrictive or destroy sharing through the specialization process, which is unacceptable from a performance point of view. In this work, we present a new partial evaluation sch...

B. At least one course will be taken in each of the following areas: social science, humanities, and history. C. At least four courses will be taken in one of the following disciplines as a field of specialization: literature, music, history, political science, sociology, and economics. A candidate may elect a five-course interdisciplinary focus on Africa or Afro-American affairs as a specializ...

OBJECTIVES Early sports specialization is being seen with increasing frequency in children and adolescents in an attempt to achieve elite performance status. This phenomenon has attracted negative medical and lay media attention due, in part, to the possibility of an increased risk of acute and overuse injuries. The purpose of this study was to systematically review available research on youth ...

A recent review of individual specialization suggests it is widespread and has important implications for conservation, ecology and evolution (Bolnick et al. 2003). Dozens of studies have identified ‘‘individual foraging specialization’’ in a variety of species, yet upon closer examination these studies differ markedly in how they define and quantify specialization. Given such diverse approache...

Yuriy Gorodnichenko Department of Economics, UC Berkeley One of the central questions in economic growth and development is why disparities in income and development across countries are large and persistent. After decades of research, however, the question continues to puzzle the profession. Most of the difference in income across countries is attributed to differences in productivity which, i...