Despite their impor tance in assess ing the impact of pol i cies, out come eval u a tions—and in par tic u lar ran dom ized exper i ments—are rel a tively rare. The ratio nal iza tions used to jus tify the absence of out come eval u a tions include such asser tions as “we know our pro grams are work ing,” “they can’t pos si bly harm any one,” and “if they only help one kid they’re worth it.” Us...

Understanding the responses of soil organic carbon to an increase in global temperature is crucial to estimate potential feedbacks on global warming. In such a context, Rock-Eval pyrolysis has been recently proposed as a screening tool to investigate soil organic matter (SOM) chemistry and vulnerability. In order to test the validity of Rock-Eval as an indicator of SOM chemistry and of OM trans...

We describe the core of a new strongly-typed functional programming language called LEAP, a \Language with Eval And Polymorphism." Pure LEAP is an extension of the !-order polymorphic -calculus (F ! ) by global de nitions that allows the representation of programs and the de nition of versions of reify, reflect, and eval for all of F ! . Pure LEAP is therefore highly re exive and strongly typed...

Higher-order languages that encourage currying are typically implemented using one of two basic evaluation models: push/enter or eval/apply. Implementors use their intuition and qualitative judgements to choose one model or the other. Our goal in this paper is to provide, for the first time, a more substantial basis for this choice, based on our qualitative and quantitative experience of implem...

Commands introduced in this tutorial: :scm-echo-result, :eval, lots of scheme functions Macros introduced in this tutorial: (None)

The LCF tradition of interactive theorem proving, which was started by Milner in the 1970-ies, appears to be tied to the classic READ-EVAL-PRINT-LOOP of sequential and synchronous evaluation of prover commands. We break up this loop and retrofit the read-eval-print phases into a model of parallel and asynchronous proof processing. Thus we explain some key concepts of the Isabelle/Scala approach...

In this squib, I present an alternative view of the Gen and Eval mechanisms that lie at the heart of Optimality Theory (“OT”) (see Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993). As originally conceived, Gen is a pattern generator which creates an infinite set of possible phonological realizations of a lexical input string (“candidates”). Eval then evaluates the entire (infinite) set to d...

ABSTRACT: Linda1 is a model for parallel processing based on distributed data structures. Processors and data objects communicate by means of the tuple space (TS) or Linda memory. The interaction between the tuple space and the processors is carried out by four basic operations: out, in, eval, and rd. These operations add/remove/read data objects from/to the tuple space . eval on the other hand...

As the sheer volume of new knowledge increases, there is a need to find effective ways to convey and correlate emerging knowledge in machine-readable form. The success of the Semantic Web hinges on the ability to formalize distributed knowledge in terms of a varied set of ontologies. We present Pan-Onto-Eval, a comprehensive approach to evaluating an ontology by considering its structure, seman...

The complexities of food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH) programs projects require faculty to write secure funding in addition mastering skills such as evaluation competencies that integrate abilities quantitative qualitative research methods theory practice. EVAL Framework was developed advance skill development among FANH graduates include these increase the pipelin...