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Final Report-Workshop on Experiences and Options for Priority Setting in NARS, August 12-16, 1996, Nairobi, Kenya
The motivation for this workshop came from two sources. First, under a project funded by USAID (AFR/SD/PSGE/TDT Office), Michigan State University (MSU) has been carrying out various activities to assist African national agricultural research systems (NARS) and regional organizations to improve their capacity for strategic agricultural research planning, including technology assessment and priority setting within a commodity sector framework. Second, recent collaborative work by the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has focused on the development of a process and methods for program-level priority setting. The objectives of the workshop were (1) to provide a forum for ASARECA member NARS to synthesize their experiences with institute and program-level priority setting and technology assessment; (2) to examine the process and methods developed by KARI/ISNAR and other NARS in commodity program planning; and (3) to develop country-specific frameworks and action plans for a priority-setting/technology assessment study in a focus program area, to be carried out beginning in late 1996.food security, food policy, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 11, F0,
1992 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
For the 28th consecutive year, a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program was conducted at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The program was conducted by the University of Alabama and MSFC during the period June 1, 1992 through August 7, 1992. Operated under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education, the MSFC program, was well as those at other centers, was sponsored by the Office of Educational Affairs, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. The basic objectives of the programs, which are the 29th year of operation nationally, are (1) to further the professional knowledge of qualified engineering and science faculty members; (2) to stimulate and exchange ideas between participants and NASA; (3) to enrich and refresh the research and teaching activities of the participants' institutions; and (4) to contribute to the research objectives of the NASA centers
The BG News February 28, 2007
The BGSU campus student newspaper February 28, 2007. Volume 97 - Issue 109https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8727/thumbnail.jp
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Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts
The goal of this research is to develop explanation presentation mechanisms for knowledge based
systems which enable them to define domain terminology and concepts, narrate events, elucidate plans,
processes, or propositions and argue to support a claim or advocate action. This requires the development
of devices which select, structure, order and then linguistically realize explanation content as coherent and
cohesive English text.
With the goal of identifying generic explanation presentation strategies, a wide range of naturally
occurring texts were analyzed with respect to their communicative sttucture, function, content and intended
effects on the reader. This motivated an integrated theory of communicative acts which characterizes text at
the level of rhetorical acts (e.g., describe, define, narrate), illocutionary acts (e.g., inform, request), and
locutionary acts (e.g., ask, command). Taken as a whole, the identified communicative acts characterize
the structure, content and intended effects of four types of text: description, narration, exposition,
argument. These text types have distinct effects such as getting the reader to know about entities, to know
about events, to understand plans, processes, or propositions, or to believe propositions or want to
perform actions. In addition to identifying the communicative function and effect of text at multiple levels
of abstraction, this dissertation details a tripartite theory of focus of attention (discourse focus, temporal
focus, and spatial focus) which constrains the planning and linguistic realization of text.
To test the integrated theory of communicative acts and tripartite theory of focus of attention, a text
generation system TEXPLAN (Textual EXplanation PLANner) was implemented that plans and
linguistically realizes multisentential and multiparagraph explanations from knowledge based systems. The
communicative acts identified during text analysis were formalized as over sixty compositional and (in
some cases) recursive plan operators in the library of a hierarchical planner. Discourse, temporal, and
spatial focus models were implemented to track and use attentional information to guide the organization
and realization of text. Because the plan operators distinguish between the communicative function (e.g.,
argue for a proposition) and the expected effect (e.g., the reader believes the proposition) of communicative
acts, the system is able to construct a discourse model of the structure and function of its textual responses
as well as a user model of the expected effects of its responses on the reader's knowledge, beliefs, and
desires. The system uses both the discourse model and user model to guide subsequent utterances. To test
its generality, the system was interfaced to a variety of domain applications including a neuropsychological
diagnosis system, a mission planning system, and a knowledge based mission simulator. The system
produces descriptions, narrations, expositions, and arguments from these applications, thus exhibiting a
broader range of rhetorical coverage than previous text generation systems
Energy: A continuing bibliography with indexes, issue 39
This bibliography lists 1377 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system from July 1, 1983 through September 30, 1983
The Play\u27s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds
This Article looks at the potential tax issues arising from a new life activity: online role-playing games in virtual worlds. Currently, some thirty million people regularly play such games and the number is growing. Exploring the reach of the Tax Code into virtual world transactions not only responds to the potentially practical needs of millions of U.S. taxpayers, it also permits a reevaluation of core principles of income tax as they interplay with life activities in the context of twenty-first century American culture.
This Article\u27s central thesis is that while player activity in virtual worlds undoubtedly produces measurable economic value to the player, player activity that occurs solely within the online virtual world is not gross income under the law. The Article argues for a cash out rule. Players whose added wealth consists solely in units of play should not be taxed unless and until they convert those units into cash or property that is something other than a unit of play. Conversely, when the play ceases, taxation begins. The resulting line-drawing difficulties have nothing to do with player intent nor with fun and games. Instead, the issue presented is as old as the Tax Code itself: at what point does economic gain become legal gain? The new context of virtual worlds allows for a renewed exploration of how and why the legal concept of income differs, and indeed must differ, from the economic concept
Risk Assessment of Deadly Economic Socio-Political Crisis with Correlational Network and Convolutional Neural Network
From social analysis to biology to machine learning, graphs naturally occur in a wide range of applications. In contrast to studying data one at a time, graphs' unique capacity to capture structural relationships among data enables them to yield additional insights. Nevertheless, the capacity to learn from graphs can be difficult because meaningful connectivity should exist between data and the form of data such as text, numbers or categories should allow for building a graph from their relationships. Investigating hidden patterns in the variation of development indicators and severe socio-political crises that happened in low-income countries is an analytical approach that has been experimented with in this research. Evidence of a correlation between socio-political crises and development indicators suggests that a method to assess the risk of crisis should consider the context of each country, as well as the relative means of crisis. This research reviewed different risk assessment methods and proposed a novel method based on a weighted correlation network, and convolution neural network, to generate images representing the signature of development indicators correlating with a crisis. The convolution neural network trained to identify changes in indicators will be able to find countries with similar signatures and provide insights about important indicators that might reduce the number of deadly crises in a country. This research enhances the knowledge of developing a quantitative risk assessment for crisis prevention with development indicators
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