2,713 research outputs found
Description by author Alex Irvine of his recent participation in the San Diego C
No full textDescription by author Alex Irvine of his recent participation in the San Diego Comic-Con, one of the largest conferences of comic/media/book producers and consumers. Irvine was there to promote his new fiction book, One King, One Soldier, published by Del Rey
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The Lane to My House, Joan L. Lea 4;
The Water Angel, Alex Lobdell 5;
Forgive Me Lord, John Buckley 9;
The Bridge, John Amoroso 10;
Reason Enough, Bill Monroe 12;
Unrestricted Exploration, Colin C. Irvine 13;
"Wrote, Write, Writing, Wrought", Bridget Moylan 16;
Solace of Internal Spaces, Alicia Felstead 17;
Renewed by Quietness, Joan L. Lea 19;
Tiffany Marie Two Teeth 1985-1989, Mark A. Meister 20;
Veterans Day, Julien Gariepy 22;
You Taught Me Meaning, Bill Monroe 24;
The "Lost" Cemetery, Lenore Puhek 25;
My Dad, Jackie Carr 26;
Homework to Do, Tina Devena-Price 29;
"... ever after," The End, Bridget Moylan 30;
Flies and Paisley-Print, Joan L. Lea 33;
A Student Re-Orientation, Alex Lobdell 34;
Mathew, John Buckley 35;
Cares of Yesterday, Angie Glammons and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 36;
Changes, Michael Madden 38;
My Prayer, Dorothy Loughridge 40
Chronicles of the Cariboo: Dunlevy's Discovery of Gold on the Horsefly:
No full textwritten by Alex P. McInnes.Being a true story of the first discovery of gold in the Cariboo District on the Horsefly River by Peter C. Dunlevey
sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155231210969 - Supplemental material for A programme evaluation of ‘First Steps’: A peer-conceived, developed and led self-management intervention for people after a Parkinson's diagnosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155231210969 for A programme evaluation of ‘First Steps’: A peer-conceived, developed and led self-management intervention for people after a Parkinson's diagnosis by Johnny Collett, Sophie Lawrie, Sally Bromley, Peter Harling, Alex Reed, Natasha Brusco, Shelly Coe, Jan Coebergh, Camille Carroll, Helen C Roberts, Michele T. Hu and Helen Dawes in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity : a study of Indonesian and Thai cities
No full textThis research project followed an earlier similar project on Nigeria, applying the same methods. A sample of manufacturers was surveyed to document their responses to infrastructure deficiencies in electricity, water, transport, telecommunications, and waste disposal. They found the manufacturers undertook significant expenditures to offset deficiencies in publicly provided infrastructure services, and that changing public policy toward privately supplied infrastructure and changing the pricing of public infrastructure could yield significant savings in social costs. Thailand and Indonesia have made significant strides in following the policies for private sector participation in infrastructure provision. Nigeria, where public infrastructure monopolies still dominate, lags behind, yet stands to benefit most from such policy reform. Government policy toward the industrial organization and pricing of infrastructure sectors can significantly help a developing economy realize the benefits of private sector participation in the provision of infrastructure services.Banks&Banking Reform,Decentralization,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Municipal Financial Management,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Urban Services to the Poor,Urban Services to the Poor,Public Sector Economics&Finance
Cluster over individual randomization: are study design choices appropriately justified? Review of a random sample of trials
No full textTaljaard, M., Goldstein, C. E., Giraudeau, B., Nicholls, S. G., Carroll, K., Hey, S. P., … Weijer, C. (2020). Cluster over individual randomization: are study design choices appropriately justified? Review of a random sample of trials. Clinical Trials. Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/174077451989679
Sustainability and Bioethics
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Multi-Objective Calibration For Agent-Based Models
No full textAgent-based modelling is already proving to be an immensely useful tool for scientific and industrial modelling applications. Whilst the building of such models will always be something between an art and a science, once a detailed model has been built, the process of parameter calibration should be performed as precisely as possible. This task is often made difficult by the proliferation of model parameters with non-linear interactions. In addition to this, these models generate a large number of outputs, and their ‘accuracy’ can be measured by many different, often conflicting, criteria. In this paper we demonstrate the use of multi-objective optimisation tools to calibrate just such an agent-based model. We use an agent-based model of a financial market as an exemplar and calibrate the model using a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The technique is automated and requires no explicit weighting of criteria prior to calibration. The final choice of parameter set can be made after calibration with the additional input of the domain expert
Methodology of Provable Events in Distributed Socio-Technical Systems (UTE / TCR / TLI / GLOW)
No full textA hierarchical publication package for authorship priority claim. Universal Theory of Events (UTE) — ontological foundation defining event as triple e=(A,C,X). Theory of Converging Realities (TCR) — epistemological extension with polyvector convergence model. Theory of Labor Infrastructure (TLI) — domain application for human, algorithmic, and robotic labor. Mathematical Appendix — formal proofs including Stability Phase Boundary theorem, Hoeffding/Bernstein concentration bounds, adversarial breakdown analysis, and K-class extension. GLOW — global infrastructure vision. Bilingual (Russian/English). Author: Song Dal No (Alex Noh, 노송달). December 2025 — February 2026
Development of the Zimbabwe family planning program
No full textFamily planning was introduced in Zimbabwe as a voluntary movement in the 1950s. Volunteers formed a Family Planning Association in the mid-1960s. The government became interested in family planning in the late 1960s after analysis of the 1961 population census. It gave the Family Planning Association an annual grant, allowed contraceptives to be available through Ministry of Health facilities, and allowed nonmedical personnel to initiate and resupply family planning clients with condoms and pills. But before Zimbabwe achieved independence in 1980, family planning was viewed with great suspicion by the black majority, so the program's effectiveness was limited to the urban few. A new era began after independence. The new government took over theFamily Planning Association and changed its outlook completely. Through government and international donor support, the family planning program was restructured and expanded. The number of family planning personnel more than doubled in some units. More service delivery points were set up - particularly in rural areas. And the information, education, and communication and evaluation and research units were established. Through a World Bank-assisted project (with grant funding from Norway and Denmark), the Ministry of Health began strengthening its family planning capabilities. These efforts helped increase the contraceptive prevalence rate from about 14 percent in 1982 to 43 percent in 1988. But the program's growth is beginning to stall. More effort and resources are needed if the program is to grow or even maintain its present status. Particularly important are the following: designing innovative strategies to reach hard-to-reach populations; giving more emphasis to information, education, and communication, especially for men and youths, using multimedia; involving other sectors in the delivery of family planning services; broadening the mix of contraceptive methods (especially promoting long-term and permanent methods); making use of alternative family planning delivery systems, such as the use of depot holders, volunteers, and government extension workers; establishing a national population policy; and considering cost recovery and other measures for self-sustainment and program growth.Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,ICT Policy and Strategies,Gender and Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Adolescent Health
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