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A Project Based Approach to Statistics and Data Science
In an increasingly data-driven world, facility with statistics is more
important than ever for our students. At institutions without a statistician,
it often falls to the mathematics faculty to teach statistics courses. This
paper presents a model that a mathematician asked to teach statistics can
follow. This model entails connecting with faculty from numerous departments on
campus to develop a list of topics, building a repository of real-world
datasets from these faculty, and creating projects where students interface
with these datasets to write lab reports aimed at consumers of statistics in
other disciplines. The end result is students who are well prepared for
interdisciplinary research, who are accustomed to coping with the
idiosyncrasies of real data, and who have sharpened their technical writing and
speaking skills
Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
The purpose of the Sourcebook is to act as a guide for practitioners and technical staff in addressing gender issues and integrating gender-responsive actions in the design and implementation of agricultural projects and programs. It speaks not with gender specialists on how to improve their skills but rather reaches out to technical experts to guide them in thinking through how to integrate gender dimensions into their operations. The Sourcebook aims to deliver practical advice, guidelines, principles, and descriptions and illustrations of approaches that have worked so far to achieve the goal of effective gender mainstreaming in the agricultural operations of development agencies. It captures and expands the main messages of the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development and is considered an important tool to facilitate the operationalization and implementation of the report's key principles on gender equality and women's empowerment
A Self-Study on Preparing Future School Leaders
William C. Frick is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma. He holds a Ph.D. in educational theory and policy from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include valuation, ethics, and moral school leadership practices; school and community revitalization; and school district reform.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Report from GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 16394: Software Performance Engineering in the DevOps World
This report documents the program and the outcomes of GI-Dagstuhl Seminar
16394 "Software Performance Engineering in the DevOps World".
The seminar addressed the problem of performance-aware DevOps. Both, DevOps
and performance engineering have been growing trends over the past one to two
years, in no small part due to the rise in importance of identifying
performance anomalies in the operations (Ops) of cloud and big data systems and
feeding these back to the development (Dev). However, so far, the research
community has treated software engineering, performance engineering, and cloud
computing mostly as individual research areas. We aimed to identify
cross-community collaboration, and to set the path for long-lasting
collaborations towards performance-aware DevOps.
The main goal of the seminar was to bring together young researchers (PhD
students in a later stage of their PhD, as well as PostDocs or Junior
Professors) in the areas of (i) software engineering, (ii) performance
engineering, and (iii) cloud computing and big data to present their current
research projects, to exchange experience and expertise, to discuss research
challenges, and to develop ideas for future collaborations
Getting Ready for LISA: The Data, Support and Preparation Needed to Maximize US Participation in Space-Based Gravitational Wave Science
The NASA LISA Study Team was tasked to study how NASA might support US
scientists to participate and maximize the science return from the Laser
Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA is gravitational wave
observatory led by ESA with NASA as a junior partner, and is scheduled to
launch in 2034. Among our findings: LISA science productivity is greatly
enhanced by a full-featured US science center and an open access data model. As
other major missions have demonstrated, a science center acts as both a locus
and an amplifier of research innovation, data analysis, user support, user
training and user interaction. In its most basic function, a US Science Center
could facilitate entry into LISA science by hosting a Data Processing Center
and a portal for the US community to access LISA data products. However, an
enhanced LISA Science Center could: support one of the parallel independent
processing pipelines required for data product validation; stimulate the high
level of research on data analysis that LISA demands; support users unfamiliar
with a novel observatory; facilitate astrophysics and fundamental research;
provide an interface into the subtleties of the instrument to validate
extraordinary discoveries; train new users; and expand the research community
through guest investigator, postdoc and student programs. Establishing a US
LISA Science Center well before launch can have a beneficial impact on the
participation of the broader astronomical community by providing training,
hosting topical workshops, disseminating mock catalogs, software pipelines, and
documentation. Past experience indicates that successful science centers are
established several years before launch; this early adoption model may be
especially relevant for a pioneering mission like LISA.Comment: 93 pages with a lovely cover page thanks to Bernard Kelly and
Elizabeth Ferrar
Unequal prospects: disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa
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