Search results for "valuation"

AnyDSL: a partial evaluation framework for programming high-performance libraries

2023

This paper advocates programming high-performance code using partial evaluation. We present a clean-slate programming system with a simple, annotation-based, online partial evaluator that operates on a CPS-style intermediate representation. Our system exposes code generation for accelerators (vectorization/parallelization for CPUs and GPUs) via compiler-known higher-order functions that can be subjected to partial evaluation. This way, generic implementations can be instantiated with target-specific code at compile time. In our experimental evaluation we present three extensive case studies from image processing, ray tracing, and genome sequence alignment. We demonstrate that using partial …

: Opinions of involved People and external Assessment : a Comparison in the Framework of an after school Programme

2002

This article confronts two ordinary approaches towards assessment process in education. In order to assess the effectiveness of a "study support", the first approach focuses on the opinions of involved people while the second one uses some statistical indicators. The comparison has been drawn up both on assessment tools and results (i.e; gaining a place in the programme, school achievement). The main result shows that those two approaches lead to opposite results and it strongly questions the validity of the assessment and the way people who are involved in education use it.

Automated Procedures Based on Market Comparison Approach in Italy

2017

The question about objective valuation is linked on the one hand to the identification of a large number of reliable sale data, on the other hand to the ability to control the critical evaluation protocol. Automating the valuation process, ensured by computerization of real estate data properly detected, provides a concrete answer to the problem of objectivity, allowing a significant control of the subjective component which characterizes the more traditional appraisals. Automatic methods traditionally proposed at international level are often set on multiple regression models, designed to build prediction functions that are valid throughout the study area, calibrating the coefficients on t…

Board Evaluation in Italian Listed Companies

2016

In the last decade performance evaluation of the Board of Directors has become a best practice at national and international level. Italy is an interesting area of analysis given the high concentration of ownership that characterizes companies, including listed companies. In this context the choices of governance that affect the level of disclosure, for which the expectation is to have a low level of disclosure on the practice of BE (Board Evaluation).The first purpose of this paper is to present a resume on the state of the art in terms of BE for Italian listed companies at 31st December 2012, in terms of presence/absence of the practice of disclosure and its more or less extensive disclos…

Methodological approaches to the valuation of forest ecosystem services: An overview of recent international research trends

2021

Forests represent the most important source of ecosystem services (ES) on a global level both for the production of goods and for the provision of services and externalities, nevertheless scientific research in the economic field is lacking. Currently the number of documents relating to ES is 16 673, of which only 1 379 concern the forestry sector. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of scientific research trends in the field of economic evaluation of forest ecosystem services (FES). To this end, an on-line bibliographic survey was carried out on the main scientific search engines, which made it possible to quantify the works and at the same time to detect the main evaluation me…

Monte Carlo evaluation of kerma in an HDR brachytherapy bunker

2004

In recent years, the use of high dose rate (HDR) after-loader machines has greatly increased due to the shift from traditional Cs-137/Ir-192 low dose rate (LDR) to HDR brachytherapy. The method used to calculate the required concrete and, where appropriate, lead shielding in the door is based on analytical methods provided by documents published by the ICRP, the IAEA and the NCRP. The purpose of this study is to perform a more realistic kerma evaluation at the entrance maze door of an HDR bunker using the Monte Carlo code GEANT4. The Monte Carlo results were validated experimentally. The spectrum at the maze entrance door, obtained with Monte Carlo, has an average energy of about 110 keV, m…

AI for Resource Allocation and Resource Allocation for AI: a two-fold paradigm at the network edge

2022

5G-and-beyond and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are pushing a shift from the classic cloud-centric view of the network to a new edge-centric vision. In such a perspective, the computation, communication and storage resources are moved closer to the user, to the benefit of network responsiveness/latency, and of an improved context-awareness, that is, the ability to tailor the network services to the live user's experience. However, these improvements do not come for free: edge networks are highly constrained, and do not match the resource abundance of their cloud counterparts. In such a perspective, the proper management of the few available resources is of crucial importance to impr…

Examining the structure of credibility evaluation when sixth graders read online texts

2023

Background Previous research indicates that students lack sufficient online credibility evaluation skills. However, the results are fragmented and difficult to compare as they are based on different types of measures and indicators. Consequently, there is no clear understanding of the structure of credibility evaluation. Objectives The present study sought to establish the structure of credibility evaluation of online texts among 265 sixth graders. Methods Students' credibility evaluation skills were measured with a task in which they read four online texts, two more credible (a popular science text and a newspaper article) and two less credible (a layperson's blog text and a commercial tex…

Online reading as an individual and social practice

2012

Propuesta de análisis fenomenológico de los datos obtenidos en la entrevista

2010

El presente trabajo pretende mostrar los pasos para la elaboración de un protocolo de investigación fenomenológica de los datos de una entrevista. El proceso de evaluación fenomenológica presenta una serie de etapas y estrategias que deben ser congruentes y estar dirigidos a estudiar la experiencia vivida respecto a una circunstancia por el propio protagonista. De esta forma, el entrevistador tiene garantías de haber alcanzado el objetivo y permite, mediante la estrategia de análisis y de priorización de necesidades, la toma de decisiones. This work intends to show the steps for the elaboration of an investigation through phenomenological protocol of an interview data. The process of Phenom…