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Achieving Foundation Accountability and Transparency: Lessons From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s \u3ci\u3eScorecard\u3c/i\u3e
No full text· The purpose of this article is to help foundations in their accountability and transparency efforts by sharing lessons from one foundation’s journey to develop a scorecard.
· A commitment to funding and sharing the results from rigorous evaluations set the tone for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) accountability.
· The Scorecard is a powerful tool for RWJF to set goals, track organizational effectiveness, and motivate responses to shortcomings.
· Foundations can tailor their scorecard to include what best serves their needs.
· With its Scorecard, RWJF found that comparative and quantitative measures are the most powerful forces to motivate change.
· Setting targets motivates staff to focus their efforts on certain areas and make improvements
Jazz Saxophone Etudes Volume 2
No full textBuku ini berisi 12 etude untuk jazz tenor & alto saxophone. Elemen-elemen yang terdapat dalam etude ini adalah tema, development dan sequence, syntax, voice-leading, frase, eight-note lines, konstruksi idiomatik dan akord. Selain itu dibahas pula tentang artikulasi, penjarian middle D, voice-leading, sequences, enclosure, reference (motifpendek di awal lagu) dan ornamen. Judul-judul etude yang dimuat adalah: Wacker Drive, Cicero Avenue, Oak Street, LaSelle Street, Roosevelt Road, Congress Parkway, Maxwell Street, Western Avenue, Sherida Road, JacksonDrive, Lawrence Avenue, Ashland Avenue. Buku ini dilengkapi dengan tabel detail dari etude mulai dari judul, tempo, bentuk lagu, jumlah birama, gaya lagu, sax key
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Fishman, Sarah, La bataille de l’enfance. Délinquance juvénile et justice des mineurs en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
No full textIl faut se féliciter de la publication par les Presses Universitaires de Rennes de la traduction française du livre de Sarah Fishman, The Battle for Children, paru en 2002 à Harvard University Press. En effet,cet ouvrage marque un jalon en matière d’historiographie de la jeunesse de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ou plus précisément d’« une » jeunesse dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale : la jeunesse délinquante. La réflexion brillamment menée par Sarah Fishman dans ce livre part d’un constat : perc..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Clayton, Colgate, & Fishman\u27s Determination of Gamma-Ray Lines from Supernova Remnants
No full textThe paper Gamma-Ray Lines from Young Supernova Remnants by Clayton, Colgate & Fishman (1969) introduced a realistic observational target for a new wave band of astronomy: nuclear gamma-ray lines that can identifiy newly synthesized nuclei
From classical to quantum criticality
No full textWe study the crossover from classical to quantum phase transitions at zero temperature within the framework of φ4 theory. The classical transition at zero temperature can be described by the Landau theory, turning into a quantum Ising transition with the addition of quantum fluctuations. We perform a calculation of the transition line in the regime where the quantum fluctuations are weak. The calculation is based on a renormalization group analysis of the crossover between classical and quantum transitions, and is well controlled even for space-time dimensionality D below 4. In particular, for D=2 we obtain an analytic expression for the transition line which is valid for a wide range of parameters, as confirmed by numerical calculations based on the density matrix renormalization group. This behavior could be tested by measuring the phase diagram of the linear-zigzag instability in systems of trapped ions or repulsively interacting dipoles. © 2014 American Physical Society
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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