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June 2009
Fedora Commons 3.0 Versus DSpace 1.5 : Selecting an Enterprise-Grade Repository System for FAO of the United Nations - Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository
by parmentierf
An extensive evaluation of the Fedora Commons 3.0 and DSpace 1.5 digital document repository systems has been conducted. The evaluation aimed at selecting an open source software package that best satisfies the FAO Open Archive and FAO organizational requirements and the requirements for the storage, dissemination and preservation of documents and bibliographic metadata. Both repository systems were evaluated against thirty-two criteria chosen from nine core categories of requirements: community, security, functionality, integration, modularity, metadata, statistics and reports, preservation, and outputs. These criteria were selected with the merger of the FAODOC and FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR) into the FAO Open Archive in mind.
April 2009
March 2009
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February 2009
Evaluation of automated subject classification
by karlcow
It was shown that for best results all the elements have to be included in the classification process. The exact way of combining the significance indicators turned out not to be overly important: using the F1 measure, the best combination of significance indicators yielded no more than 3 % higher performance results than the baseline.
January 2009
December 2008
WebAIM: Projects - Screen Reader Survey
by julie
& 2 others
By completing this survey you will help inform development choices for those creating accessible web content. All screen reader users (even those that use screen readers only for evaluation and testing) are invited to participate.
pure-lang - Google Code
by Emaux
Pure is a modern-style functional programming language based on term rewriting. It offers equational definitions with pattern matching, full symbolic rewriting capabilities, dynamic typing, eager and lazy evaluation, lexical closures, built-in list and matrix support and an easy-to-use C interface. The interpreter uses LLVM as a backend to JIT-compile Pure programs to fast native code.
Pure is closely related to the author's Q language and is slated to eventually become its successor, since it offers many new and powerful features and programs run much faster than their Q equivalents.
November 2008
david nunan - presentations
by tadeufilippini
I have given over two hundred and fifty presentations at national and international conferences. These include plenary addresses at conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil. Here are the selected papers from my recent presentations. You can view the PowerPoint presentations by clicking on the titles.
Energizing your classes: A learner-centered approach
Brazil, July 2005
Developments in Curriculum Evaluation, Renewal and Design - PowerPoint slides
ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students Association) Directors of Studies Conference, 13 May, 2005
What makes a good language learner? - PowerPoint slides
TESOL Conference, Long Beach, California, USA, 31 March - 3 April, 2004
Nine steps to learner autonomy - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, Shantou University, China, 13 March, 2004
ELT Curriculum, IT and learner autonomy - PowerPoint slides
Featured presentation, KOTESOL Conference, 18-19 October, 2003
Analyze it! - An introduction to systemic-functional linguistics - PowerPoint slides
Invited speech, Sophia University, Japan, 10 October, 2003
Strategies for successful listening and reading development
TESOL Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 24- 29 March, 2003
Adding value to the ELT curriculum through IT - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, The 9th TESOL Arabia Conference 2003, Al Bustan Rotana, Dubai, UAE, 12 - 14 March, 2003
Learning styles and strategies in the ESL classroom - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, Illinois TESOL 29th Annual State Convention, Chicago, 28 February - 1 March, 2003
What is task-based language teaching? - PowerPoint slides
Teaching writing - PowerPoint slides
Teaching reading - PowerPoint slides
Teaching listening in a second language - PowerPoint slides
Featured speech, The 4th Pan-Asian conference, Taiwan, November 2002
English as a global language: counting the cost - PowerPoint slides
Spotlight presentation, TESOL, Salt Lake City, April 2002
Performance-based approaches to the design of ESL Instruction
Plenary presentation, Spain TESOL, Madrid, March 2002
Man on Wire
by sbrothier
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, an brought to jail before he was finally released.
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by helmeloh
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by camel
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
October 2008
IEBlog : Ending Expressions
by marco
Expressions evaluation has a high runtime cost; web performance experts recommend avoiding them to improve front-end performance
September 2008
ECLORE : Evaluation et comparaison de logiciels de gestion de références bibliographiques
by parmentierf
Chercheurs, Documentalistes, Étudiants ont à gérer de plus en plus de documents. Face à une offre dense de logiciels de gestion de références bibliographiques et afin d’aider les utilisateurs dans leurs choix, le service veille de l’INIST-CNRS a lancé en juin 2008 un projet de benchmarking sur ces outils : ECLORE.
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2008: Papers: Marlow, J., et al., The Multimatch Project: Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage On The Web
by sbrothier
The EU-funded MultiMatch project aims to overcome language barriers and media and distribution problems currently affecting access to on-line cultural heritage material. Partners are developing a vertical search engine able to harvest heterogeneous information from distributed sources and present it in a synthesized manner. To design such a system, user requirements were initially gathered and then translated into specific design features to ensure that the search engine developed was consistent with user needs. This paper presents these user requirements, the initial design of the MultiMatch system, and technical discussion of the system architecture and components used to turn these design implications into a working interactive prototype. Following this, we discuss user evaluation and present results from an initial user study. These are being used, in addition to other input, to drive the functionality and design of the final system.
IBM Rational Jazz software Evaluation Kit
by BlueVoodoo
Jazz is a new technology from IBM Rational designed for collaborative software delivery. This Software Evaluation Kit includes everything you need to get started with Jazz products.
June 2008
An Empirical Evaluation of Deep Architectures on Problems with Many Factors of Variation [PDF]
by ogrisel
(via)
Recently, several learning algorithms relying on models with deep architectures have
been proposed. Though they have demonstrated impressive performance, to date, they
have only been evaluated on relatively simple problems such as digit recognition in a controlled environment, for which many machine
learning algorithms already report reasonable results. Here, we present a series of experiments which indicate that these models show
promise in solving harder learning problems that exhibit many factors of variation. These
models are compared with well-established algorithms such as Support Vector Machines
and single hidden-layer feed-forward neural networks.
May 2008
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
by marcjo
& 1 other
(via)
Liste d'outils d'évaluation de l'accessibilité de sites web
April 2008
March 2008
Evaluation des cours pour les étudiants sur Citycampus.fr
by resoneo
Lancé en octobre 2007, CityCampus.fr est un site Web d’information et de services de proximité destiné à faciliter la vie des étudiants. Il leur permet d’échanger et de communiquer sur des sujets qui les touchent, les impliquent et pour lesquels ils se sentent concernés (la vie étudiante, les loisirs mais aussi des sujets d’actualité et de fond). Les étudiants ont la possibilité d’alimenter le contenu du site et de commenter ce qu’il s’y dit. Espace de rencontre, il permet à chacun de partager, d’échanger sur sa vie universitaire et de s’intégrer ainsi dans des villes parfois complètement inconnues de l’étudiant.
CityCampus.fr propose de nombreux services répondant parfaitement aux attentes des étudiants. C’est ainsi qu’a été élaboré « J’évalue mes cours ». Les étudiants ont toujours parlé entre eux de leur cours et de la perception qu’ils en ont. Avec « J’évalue mes cours » ils peuvent bâtir une appréciation plus représentative.
Fini les étudiants passifs ! Dorénavant, grâce à « j’évalue mes cours », ils peuvent donner leur avis sur l’enseignement qu’ils reçoivent.
Un service idéal pour tous les étudiants qui souhaitent cerner davantage les cursus vers lesquels se tourner, en fonction de leurs attentes et de leur profil. Un service également très utile pour les professeurs qui ont ainsi un réel retour de leur enseignement et peuvent alors progresser en s’adaptant aux besoins de leurs élèves.
Utilisé depuis plusieurs années en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis et en Angleterre, ce service est un véritable succès utilisé et apprécié tant par les étudiants que par les professeurs !
La valeur prédictive de l'entretien - Recrutement & Evaluation
by Teulliac
& 1 other
Une annonce retient votre attention, vous postulez. Si vous réussissez les premières phases de sélection (CV, contact téléphonique), vous vous verrez proposer un entretien. L’entretien est la condition sine qua non au recrutement. Pour objectiver l’évaluation, les recruteurs peuvent recourir aux tests, prises de références et plusieurs entretiens sont souvent effectués : RH, opérationnels… Mais quelle valeur prédictive a l’entretien ?
