research design for program evaluation the regressiondiscontinuity approach

... the program office, depending on who requests the information. For instance, when submitting a DAES, a program office staff member may receive input first from the program manager and then from the ... funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense ... and splits over the years. A standardized data format makes it easier for the program office to derive reliable estimates on the cost of future acquisition programs. Programs (and their prime contractors)...

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... shows the right-hand columns now 2 m deep when considering their resistance in the y direction. The sum of the inertia force still acts at the CoM. (The influence of the increased weight of the ... be designed for only 10 per cent of the design force of a building of the same weight with T ϭ 0.2 seconds (two storeys). In general, the longer the nat- ural period of vibration, the less the ... is required in the roof plane to resist inertia forces from the top of the gables as well as the inertia force from the roof itself ( Fig. 2.22 ). The bracing transfers these forces through...

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... Sources for Data Interpretation – U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program Master Criteria for Safer Ingredients [35] – U.S. EPA ECOSAR [124] U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program ... EPA Design for the Environment Program Version 2.0 Alternatives Assessment Criteria for Hazard Evaluation August 2011 - 40 - 7.10.1 Sources for Data Interpretation – U.S. EPA Design for ... Sources for Data Interpretation – U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program Master Criteria for Safer Ingredients [35] – U.S. EPA EPI Suite™ [25] – SPARC [33] U.S. EPA Design for the Environment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... Sources for Data Interpretation – U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program Master Criteria for Safer Ingredients [35] – U.S. EPA ECOSAR [124] U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program ... search for a specific chemical or download the entire list of classified substances (Annex U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program Version 2.0 Alternatives Assessment Criteria for Hazard Evaluation ... REACH because they are of minimum risk based on their intrinsic properties [29].) U.S. EPA Design for the Environment Program Version 2.0 Alternatives Assessment Criteria for Hazard Evaluation...

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... alloy development program and recommen- dations for the future focus of the program, as well as an assessment of the impli- cations for the entire OIT program and the transition to the IOF strategy ... Ridge. The report included a review and assessment of the program and recommendations for the future, as well as an assessment of impli- cations for the entire OIT program and the transition to the ... arbitrarily. ãIndustry research agendas assure researchers that their research is im- portant to the industry. ã Government and industry share the cost of research. ã Researchers and their universities or not -for- profit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... set of fuels. The results reported to the committee were only for the first phase of the program. The PNGV made the results public through publication in technical papers, namely the Society of Automotive ... of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate ... status of the partners’ joint R&D efforts for diesel engines and the identi- fication of the critical barriers that need to be surmounted for success in the PNGV program. 12 PARTNERSHIP FOR A...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... before they have adequately formulated the goals of the research and thor- oughly understood the research questions. Many questionnaires constructed by inexperienced people look as if the researchers ... have about the nature of either the scholarship or the sponsorship of the research and how the data will be used. In addition, you should inform respondents about the degree to which their answers ... administration. Although we stress the careful formulation of the research problems before a questionnaire is designed, we do not tell you how to select and formulate important research problems. To do...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:19

... due to using the spatial a prior information to guarantee that the first extracted source is the one of interest, that is, the eye-blink source. Therefore, there is no need to extract other sources ... executed our proposed algorithm. The aforementioned CCsforeachrunwerethencomputed between the extracted eye-blink and the EEGs before and after the artifact removal. These values have subsequently been ... method to acquire the prior informa- tion, that is, the spatial signature of the eye-blink signal, from the EEG measurements. Therefore, we do not follow the conventional heuristic approaches such...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... of the precode. The extrinsic information passed by the precode to the LT code is then T(x (l) ext ). The notations are summarized in Figure 2. When accounting for the transfer function of the ... account for finite length design constraints, one also might question whether the asymptotic analysis of the joint decoder remains valid for finite length design. Indeed, in the asymptotic regime, the concentration ... step, the precode is decoded alone, and the extrinsic information passed from the LT code is used as aprioriinformation for the precode. Since the precode is assumed to have a threshold, the joint decoding...

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... to the ground station periodically; (vii) ground component, which receives the compressed data from the spacecrafts and stores it for further process- ing. All these components—except for the ... various system parame- ters for all the nodes in the domain to achieve the Controller- recommended adaptation. The computed values of system parameters for each node are then propagated to Effectors ... monotonic analysis) is then per- formed and priorities are computed for each CORBA object in the system. After the priorities are computed, RapidSched uses RT-CORBA features to enforce these computed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... N ìN gives the size of the frames in pixels while the third parameter indicates the step number for the different levels of decomposition for the 3D- WT. For the sake of clarity, in the figures, ... [12]. They have designed and evaluated a parallel algorithm for computing the three-dimensional FFT. They have also found out that the I/O mechanisms play a central role on the performance of the ... with other users the system. 6.3. Metrics We will evaluate the performance of the three algorithms in terms of three metrics, namely, the total processing time, the speed-up factor, and the first-order...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Interview protocols for AHRQ staff focused on their role in IDSRN, the under- lying rationale for the program, their perspectives on implementing research into practice, and their views of IDSRN's ... its goals as these bear on the interpretation of the findings on IDSRN outcomes. Our interviews with AHRQ leaders at the outset of the evaluation showed that they tended to view program goals ... and concerns, and the ability to interpret what these implied for the conduct of research. Hence, successful teams needed someone within the organization to help bridge the research and operational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... redesign (Product and Process Design, Design for Use, Design for End-of-Life, or, more generally, Design for X) These tools, and the issues correlated with them (evaluation of environmental ... and a wide range of design requirements. The characteristics distinguishing this approach from other design approaches make it more suitable when the aim is to design for the environ- mental ... Strategies 234 9.3.3 Approaches and Tools for Design 236 9.3.3.1 Design for Disassembly 236 9.3.3.2 Design for Recycling 237 9.3.4 Quantitative Evaluation of the Potential for Recovery 240 9.3.5...

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