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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- in India,” NBER Working Paper
, 2005
"... This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 stan ..."
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children, but they faded to about 0.10 standard deviation. This project was a collaborative exercise involving many people. Foremost, we are deeply indebted to the Pratham team, who made the evaluation possible and put up with endless requests for new data: Pratima
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REMEDYING EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM TWO RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS IN INDIA
, 2005
"... is a collaborative exercise involving many people. Foremost, we are deeply indebted to the Pratham team, who made the evaluation possible and put up with endless requests for new data: Pratima Bandekar, Rukmini ..."
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is a collaborative exercise involving many people. Foremost, we are deeply indebted to the Pratham team, who made the evaluation possible and put up with endless requests for new data: Pratima Bandekar, Rukmini
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The members of the Eden Altemctive Tcsk Force gave their e~pertlse, their wonderfully creative ideas, and untold hours of their time. Thank you to
"... This project would never have taken place without the commitment of Dr. Bill Thomas and Judy Thomas and their Vision of a better world for our elders. I wish to t hank Linda Weckworth at the Eden Alternative office for cheerful aSSistance to my never·ending questions and sharing resources. A huge th ..."
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thanks goes to Institute grcduate students, Carmen Adams and Leslie Bidwell for their countless hours of data entry, analysis, and reanalysis. Your perseverance Is so appreciated. I am deeply grateful to Sharla Gutlerre ~ for coordinating phone calls, speakIng engagements, seminars, and endless requests
Experimental Evidence
"... It was a long way to this point and many people helped me to overcome one of the most challenging endeavors I have undertaken so far. First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor, Massimo Warglien, who followed me during these 4 years and provided immense support for all my initiatives. Special ..."
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. Special thanks to our secretary Lisa Negrello, who patiently dealt with my endless requests and inquiries regarding bureaucratic issues. I also want to thank Veronika Grimm, Andrea Stocchetti, Francesco Zirpoli, Anna Comac-chio, Sergio Currarini, Francesco Feri and Rudolf Kerschbamer. Shifting from the EU
Sweeper: A lightweight endto-end system for defending against fast worms
- InProceedings of 2007 EuroSys Conference
"... The vulnerabilities that plague computers cause endless grief to users. Slammer compromised millions of hosts in minutes; a hit-list worm would take under a second. Recently proposed techniques respond better than manual approaches, but require expensive instrumentation, which limits deployment. Alt ..."
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The vulnerabilities that plague computers cause endless grief to users. Slammer compromised millions of hosts in minutes; a hit-list worm would take under a second. Recently proposed techniques respond better than manual approaches, but require expensive instrumentation, which limits deployment
Flexible use of cloud resources through profit maximization and price discrimination
- In Proc. of the 27th ICDE Conf
, 2011
"... Abstract—Modern frameworks, such as Hadoop, combined with abundance of computing resources from the cloud, offer a significant opportunity to address long standing challenges in distributed processing. Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds re-duce the investment cost of renting a large data center whil ..."
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to answer the question of how many resources a consumer should request from the seemingly endless pool provided by the cloud. I.
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, 2001
"... I would first and foremost like to acknowledge my parents for teaching me how to succeed through good honest hard work. I would not be writing a Master’s thesis if it were not for them and the opportunities for which they provided. To my committee, Dr. Alan Fletcher, chairperson, as well as Dr. Rich ..."
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. Richard Nelson and Dr. William Anderson for working with me through my studies from concept to finished product. Thanks for not getting frustrated with my endless emails of questions and requests. Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Wu for taking time to give me direction on the statistical analysis of my data
Status: For WG2 consideration Date: 2000-09-04
"... Numbers (Two digit numbers with circle, Dual circled numbers and Inversed circled numbers) requested by Japan (for compatibility with JIS X 0213:2000) are one of the open issues. This paper confirms Japanese position on to the number issues. Note: Regular symbols issue is in progress as separated di ..."
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WITH NATIONAL STANDARD immediately. Therefore, Japan requests to include the three types of circled characters into the BMP. 1 Japan noticed that there is an opinion which says “since number is endless, thus,
Developing and Listening to Student Voices through a
"... How can we listen to student voices in order to improve learning, teaching and the curriculum? If we, as members of staff, are to enable students to learn effectively we need to understand how they are engaging with their studies, how they are developing concepts and how they are con-necting to thei ..."
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-necting to their subjects, their fellow learners and their teachers. We need to find out how they understand and use their environments and resources for learning. Stu-dents nowadays are expected to respond to numerous institutional and national requests for information, de-signed with a ‗market research ‘ approach
Guest Editorial The American Research University and Institutional Biosafety Committees
, 1944
"... sent to the Office of Scientific Research and Development, directed by Vannevar Bush, a series of questions about the future of scientific research and development after World War II. Among the questions he asked was, “With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done ..."
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can create a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life. ” In July 1945, Vannevar Bush responded to the President’s request with a report entitled Science: The Endless Frontier. Among the very
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