This text was created as handout to complement a workshop called Evaluation of Web Resources. It has been downloaded or requested by educators after the workshop so since 2001 it has been distributed as stand-alone publication ...

Let's start with a basic premise about evaluation--we benefit by knowing how our programs work and what we could do to make them better. From this perspective, evaluation is merely a tool for learning more about programs. ...

Unlike many issues in family life education, the effectiveness of caregiving interventions has received considerable attention. Although many of the early studies simply looked at satisfaction with the services, and rarely ...

This study seeks to understand the organization and context of the historic University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio’s (EMS) tape collection and to assist in the long-term preservation of those materials. For this ...

The challenge of detecting a change in the distribution of data is a sequential decision problem that is relevant to many engineering solutions, including quality control and machine and process monitoring. This dissertation ...

Participatory sensing services based on mobile phones constitute an important growing area of mobile computing. Most services start small and hence are initially sparsely deployed. Unless a mobile service adds value while ...

This report presents the results from a pair of case studies conducted as part of the Exploring the benefits for users of Linked Open Data for digitized special collections project. Each case study was produced from a ...

Digital humanities scholarship has long acknowledged the abundant theoretical advantages of text encoding; more questionable is whether the advantages can, in practice and in general, outweigh the costs of the usually ...

Little is known about signaling pathways, besides those of neurotrophic factors, that are operational in adult spiral ganglion neurons. In patients with sensorineural hearing loss, such pathways could eventually be targeted ...