The question addressed in this paper seems simple: Can economic development programs be evaluated? But the answer is not simple because of the nature of evaluation. To determine a program's effectiveness requires a sophisticated evaluation because it requires the evaluator to distinguish changes due to the program from changes due to nonprogram factors. The evaluator must focus on the outcomes ...

■ Weather phenomena such as microburst wind shear and severe thunderstorms are major concerns to the aviation industry. A number of significant airplane accidents have resulted from wind-shear encounters during takeoff and landing, and thunderstorms are a major contributor to airplane delay. Providing fully automated and timely warnings of these phenomena by radar is challenging because it requ...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is committed to its mission of improving the public health through a comprehensive program of basic and clinical investigations, clinical trials and other population-based studies, and demonstration and education research projects. Fulfillment of this goal hinges on the existence of sufficient numbers of highly trained individuals from a wid...

In this paper, we describe a canonical program representation, Semantic Program Graphs (SPGs), and we show how SPGs can act as the foundation for multiparadigm software develop ment environments. Using SPGs as the basis for program representation allows developers to see different views of programs that correspond to different ways of thinking about them, and it allows editors to be created so ...

predictable than that of more traditional distributed memory systems, such as hypercubes [22], since both the For computation-intensive computations, or applications nodes and the network are shared with other users. The with heterogeneous components, partitioning the unpredictable nature of the network environment makes application over a group of computer systems connected the already difficu...

Organizing the programming effort for large projects can be a daunting task. Programming teams are under pressure to complete work accurately and rapidly, while using standard templates and macros whenever possible. Add to that several levels of documentation and a manager’s need for frequent status updates and you have an administrative nightmare. A system is necessary to integrate programming...

The authors provide examples of sports-based youth development programs and offer information about program mission and vision, program design and content, evaluation results, and program sustainability. The four sports-based youth development programs presented are Harlem RBI, Tenacity, Snowsports Outreach Society, and Hoops & Leaders Basketball Camp. These programs serve diverse audiences wit...

The authors describe intermediary organizations whose aim is to provide technical assistance to sports organizations about infusing a youth development emphasis into their programming. Team-Up for Youth, Sports PLUS Global, and the National Recreation and Park Association are the three organizations highlighted in this article. Team-Up for Youth's mission is to pioneer innovative strategies to ...