Deploying CAT still causes high upfront effort for setting up a valid, calibrated item pool.
While a variety of platforms is available for designing and deploying CAT the challenge of providing the flexibility in test and item design required for domain-specific assessment formats in education has hardly been addressed so far.
All this manpower and technology will be similarly deployed in a cat-and-mouse game to chase out the massive amounts of "dissident" content and material commemorating the government's bloody repression of the Tiananmen protests sure to hit the Web as the country nears June 4.
In order to counter the apparent upturn in Labour's campaign, Crosby had deployed his signature "dead cat" manoeuvre.
Where Hitchcock's menace was deployed in a spirit of cat-and-mouse playfulness and laced with flirtatious sex, Mr. Shyamalan's is infused with a grim sense of spiritual crisis, and the passion in his films is clinging and domestic.
High-tech cat traps invented by the ecologist John Read are being deployed, which spray a poison on to a cat's fur, and rely on the fact they are fastidious self-groomers.
That's fine; there are indeed times when having a vehicle that is as extraordinarily sure-footed as a cat with all 20 claws deployed is most reassuring.
When deployed, we assume that the distribution of cats and humans is the same, so anything that works provably on the training set will work well in practice.
Food would be supplied on a contract basis by cat-food companies eager to show the world of animal- and bird-lovers that they are doing their best to tackle the migratory-bird issue, while assuring their shareholders that they are improving their bottom line: with the Robo-Coyote deployed in full force, one need not feel guilty about "owning" a cat.
"He wanted to take the Cat and deploy him to teach kids science literacy," Ms. Klimo said in a telephone interview.
