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Evaluation of programs and public policies

, 2009
A necessidade de conhecer do ser humano está diretamente vinculada ao seu desejo de compreender, explicar, julgar e alterar o real. A natural curiosidade humana direciona o pensamento a um julgamento de valor. É certo que qualquer forma de avaliação envolve necessariamente um julgamento, vale dizer, trata-se precipuamente de atribuir um valor, uma ...
Fagundes, Helenara, de Moura, Alessandra Ballinhas   +1 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

DRIVE‐SAFE: Data‐Driven Robustness and Informed Validation for Evolving Specifications via Formal Evaluation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
DRIVE‐SAFE evaluates learning‐based, black‐box autonomous driving policies against evolving temporal safety requirements using Signal Temporal Logic robustness metrics. It aggregates distributional robustness measures with domain‐informed weights to guide iterative retraining.
Kristy Sakano, Jianyu An, Dinesh Manocha, Huan Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essays on evaluation of public policies

, 2016
ABSTRACT: The study of public policies evaluation enables us to acquire knowledge on how to manage organizations, public policy analysis and solving its problems. This thesis has aimed to fill the gap of analyzing some health, welfare and education issues.
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic analysis of 15-valent and 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines among older adults in Ontario, Canada

Expert Review of Vaccines
Background Health Canada approved two new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), 15-valent (PCV15) and 20-valent (PCV20), and we assessed their cost-effectiveness for older Ontarians.Research design and methods We conducted a cost-utility analysis using ...
Gebremedhin B. Gebretekle, Ryan O’Reilly, Stephen Mac, Shaza Fadel, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Beate Sander   +5 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

East African Community Youth Policy 2013 [PDF]

, 2013
In all parts of the world, young people, living in countries at different stages of development and in different socio-economic situations, aspire to live full lives in their societies.

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ML Workflows for Screening Degradation‐Relevant Properties of Forever Chemicals

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The environmental persistence of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) necessitates efficient remediation strategies. This study presents physics‐informed machine learning workflows that accurately predict critical degradation properties, including bond dissociation energies and polarizability.
Pranoy Ray, Andrew R. Castillo, Manoj Kolel‐Veetil, Surya R. Kalidindi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu, Tianshuo Wei, Yan Ge, Bo Peng, Yue Li, Maolin Wang, Peng Wen, Chao Yang, Ye Wei   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source