scholarly journals Evaluator: A Multilevel Decision Approach for Web-Based Landmark Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Meijuan Yin ◽  
Wen Yang ◽  
Xiaonan Liu ◽  
Xiangyang Luo

Street-level landmarks are an important basis for street-level IP geolocation, and the web-based landmark is one of the main sources of street-level landmarks. Considering the existing street-level landmark evaluation methods having low accuracy and strict constraints, this paper analyses the causes and evaluation idea of invalid web-based candidate landmarks and proposes Evaluator, a web-based landmark evaluation approach. Evaluator adopts the idea of the decision tree to filter invalid landmarks layer by layer and comprehensively estimates the quantitative reliability of candidate landmarks with public data and services to obtain reliable landmarks. This paper proposes the domain name system (DNS) distributed query algorithm to effectively resolve all IP addresses of a domain name, which provides data support for Evaluator to filter candidate landmarks. Meanwhile, this paper also proposes a reverse verification algorithm to obtain all domain names of an IP address, which provides an important reference to calculate the reliability of a reliable landmark. In addition, gradient descent is used to assess the parameters of the reliability estimating model, which effectively improves the robustness of Evaluator. Experiments show that reliable landmarks from Evaluator reduce the geolocation error of 100 targets in Hong Kong from 7.30 km to 3.91 km, compared with the landmark verifying method (LVM), one of the latest web-based landmark evaluation methods. Moreover, Evaluator significantly improves the evaluation coverage based on the same geolocation accuracy with street-level landmark evaluation (SLE), one of the latest landmark evaluation methods.

2022 ◽  
pp. 135-168
Author(s):  
Zehra Altuntaş ◽  
Pınar Onay Durdu

In this chapter, a unified web accessibility assessment (UWAA) framework and its software has been proposed. UWAA framework was developed by considering Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.0 to evaluate accessibility of web sites by integrating more than one evaluation approach. Achecker tool as an automated evaluation approach and barrier walkthrough (BW) as an expert-based evaluation approach were integrated in the UWAA framework. The framework also provides suggestions to recover from the problems determined to the evaluators. The websites of three universities were evaluated to determine the framework's accuracy and consistency. It was revealed that the results obtained from automated and expert-based evaluation methods were consistent and complementary with each other. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that problems which cannot be determined by an automated tool but which can be detected by an expert can be identified by BW method.


2021 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Eric W. Welch

To better understand the effects of broadband use, there must first be a commitment from policymakers to support evaluation. This volume has made an argument about why policymakers should undertake this investment and has outlined needs and strategies for advancing this knowledge. It has also examined the profession of broadband evaluation itself. The complexity of broadband use demands an evaluation approach that values generalizability and applies multiple research methods. But it also requires a further development of common concepts, improved collection of and access to data, and comparison across policy areas, programs, scales, and time. To do all of this, we need not only more and better evaluation methods but also a research community around broadband evaluation that shares knowledge and effectively communicates evidence for policy. The future impact of broadband technology on effective and equitable use depends on concerted attention by both the research community and policymakers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 654-661
Author(s):  
Gopinath Palaniappan ◽  
Sangeetha S ◽  
Balaji Rajendran ◽  
Sanjay ◽  
Shubham Goyal ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. BMI.S25132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-ichi Satoh ◽  
Yoshihiro Kino ◽  
Shumpei Niida

Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia with no curative therapy currently available. Establishment of sensitive and non-invasive biomarkers that promote an early diagnosis of AD is crucial for the effective administration of disease-modifying drugs. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) mediate posttranscriptional repression of numerous target genes. Aberrant regulation of miRNA expression is implicated in AD pathogenesis, and circulating miRNAs serve as potential biomarkers for AD. However, data analysis of numerous AD-specific miRNAs derived from small RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) is most often laborious. Methods To identify circulating miRNA biomarkers for AD, we reanalyzed a publicly available small RNA-Seq dataset, composed of blood samples derived from 48 AD patients and 22 normal control (NC) subjects, by a simple web-based miRNA data analysis pipeline that combines omiRas and DIANA miRPath. Results By using omiRas, we identified 27 miRNAs expressed differentially between both groups, including upregulation in AD of miR-26b-3p, miR-28–3p, miR-30c-5p, miR-30d-5p, miR-148b-5p, miR-151a-3p, miR-186–5p, miR-425–5p, miR-550a-5p, miR-1468, miR-4781–3p, miR-5001–3p, and miR-6513–3p and downregulation in AD of let-7a-5p, let-7e-5p, let-7f-5p, let-7g-5p, miR-15a-5p, miR-17–3p, miR-29b-3p, miR-98–5p, miR-144–5p, miR-148a-3p, miR-502–3p, miR-660–5p, miR-1294, and miR-3200–3p. DIANA miRPath indicated that miRNA-regulated pathways potentially down– regulated in AD are linked with neuronal synaptic functions, while those upregulated in AD are implicated in cell survival and cellular communication. Conclusions The simple web-based miRNA data analysis pipeline helps us to effortlessly identify candidates for miRNA biomarkers and pathways of AD from the complex small RNA–Seq data.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei-xiang Xu ◽  
Xin-hui Liu ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Chen Zhou ◽  
Bing-wei Cao

Effective reuse and recycling of end-of-life (EOL) products are essential for improving resource efficiency and protecting environment. Currently, many parts of construction machinery in EOL stage can still be reused directly because they are designed with extreme high strength to meet the bad working conditions, which minimizes the impact on the environment. In this context, a quality evaluation approach for reuse parts is proposed in this paper. Ontology model is built for representing evaluation information with semantic properties and constructing the semantic relevance among the various concepts involved in parts reusing domain, thus achieving the integrating, sharing, and reusing of evaluating parts knowledge. On that basis, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is put forward to quantify the reusability degree of the parts of EOL construction machinery. Furthermore, combined with ontology, rule-based-reasoning method is utilized to get suggested strategies for reuse parts. In addition, a web-based system is developed to assist manufacturers in managing reuse parts, and a case study is analyzed to demonstrate the proposed quality evaluation approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (21) ◽  
pp. 4462-4464
Author(s):  
Jordan H Creed ◽  
Garrick Aden-Buie ◽  
Alvaro N Monteiro ◽  
Travis A Gerke

Abstract Summary Complementary advances in genomic technology and public data resources have created opportunities for researchers to conduct multifaceted examination of the genome on a large scale. To meet the need for integrative genome wide exploration, we present epiTAD. This web-based tool enables researchers to compare genomic 3D organization and annotations across multiple databases in an interactive manner to facilitate in silico discovery. Availability and implementation epiTAD can be accessed at https://apps.gerkelab.com/epiTAD/ where we have additionally made publicly available the source code and a Docker containerized version of the application.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan H. Creed ◽  
Garrick Aden-Buie ◽  
Alvaro N. Monteiro ◽  
Travis A. Gerke

AbstractThe increasing availability of public data resources coupled with advancements in genomic technology has created greater opportunities for researchers to examine the genome on a large and complex scale. To meet the need for integrative genome wide exploration, we present epiTAD. This web-based tool enables researchers to compare genomic structures and annotations across multiple databases and platforms in an interactive manner in order to facilitate in silico discovery. epiTAD can be accessed at https://apps.gerkelab.com/epiTAD/.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia C. Tintori ◽  
Patrick Golden ◽  
Bob Goldstein

AbstractAs the scientific community becomes increasingly interested in data sharing, there is a growing need for tools that facilitate the querying of public data. Mining of RNA-seq datasets, for example, has value to many biomedical researchers, yet is often effectively inaccessible to non-genomicist experts, even when the raw data are available. Here we present DrEdGE (dredge.bio.unc.edu), a free Web-based tool that facilitates data sharing between genomicists and their colleagues. The DrEdGE software guides genomicists through easily creating interactive online data visualizations, which colleagues can then explore and query according to their own conditions to discover genes, samples, or patterns of interest. We demonstrate DrEdGE’s features with three example websites we generated from publicly available datasets—human neuronal tissue, mouse embryonic tissue, and a C. elegans embryonic series. DrEdGE increases the utility of large genomics datasets by removing the technical obstacles that prevent interested parties from exploring the data independently.


Author(s):  
Khaled Hassan

Background: Acute abdominal pain is a public problem in the outpatient setting and can represent conditions ranging from benign to life-threatening. The patient history, physical examination, laboratory testing, and diagnostic imaging are the major evaluation methods for acute abdominal pain. There was not sufficient good-quality data for the management of acute abdominal pain, where it relies on the knowledge and expertise of the doctors. A web-based search utilizing the advanced characteristics of different databases like PubMed, Google Scholar, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane electronic databases was carried out. Here we aimed to review the major evaluation methods for acute abdominal pain and its management protocols. Keywords: Acute, Abdominal, Pain, Evaluation, Management, Review


Author(s):  
Peter M. Ostafichuk ◽  
Claire F. Jones

Peer evaluation is one way to address group issues in undergraduate teams while at the same time providing feedback and assessment. Two common evaluation methods (point- and rubric-based peer evaluation) are examined and compared in terms of student perception within a University of British Columbia second year mechanical engineering design course. As part of normal course requirements, 118 students in 20 teams completed two full-time multi-week design projects with six regularly-spaced peer evaluations. Student feedback was gathered through two online surveys. Students expressed a slight preference for the rubric style evaluation, citing increased fairness and helpfulness in the feedback. Regardless of evaluation approach, student perceptions of peer evaluation were statistically unrelated to external factors including GPA, gender, and Myers-Briggs personality type. The findings suggest, at least in the student mind, that the use of peer evaluation as a design project assessment tool is fair and unbiased. Additional survey data show students see peer evaluation as a useful tool in undergraduate team design projects and that they feel more comfortable with the prospect of engaging in peer evaluation in the workplace in future as a result.


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