This work concerns the use of default knowledge in concept learning from positive and negative examples. Two connectives are added to a description logics, C-CLASSIC, previously defined for concept learning. The new connectives (δ and ) allow to express the idea that some properties of a given concept definition are default properties, and that some properties that should belong to the concept ...

In this paper we summarize our experiments in the ImageCLEF 2015 Scalable Concept Image Annotation challenge. The RUCTencent team participated in all subtasks: concept detection and localization, and image sentence generation. For concept detection, we experiments with automated approaches to gather high-quality training examples from the Web, in particular, visual disambiguation by Hierarchica...

background: one of the factors that can improve self-concept and performance of staff is professional maturity. professional maturity can also solve the problems of self-concept. the purpose of this paper was to identify the relationship between the dimensions of self-concept and professional maturity.   materials and methods: this relative applicable study was performed on all the personnel (n...

A b s t r a c t --The symbolic approach to machine learning has developed algorithms for learning F i r s t O r d e r L o g i c c o n c e p t d e f i n i t i o n s . Nevertheless, most of them are limited because of their impossibility to cope with numeric features, typical of real-world data. In this paper, a method to face this problem is proposed. In particular, an extended version of the sy...

conclusions attempts should be made to enhance students’ nurse self-concept during their education. counseling, improving public respect for nurses, and implementing measures to enhance students’ professional self-concept are essential for improving their performance. results the mean and standard deviation of nurse self-concept and clinical performance scores were 5.46 ± 1.11 and 2.94 ± 1.45, ...

Background Concept maps are considered not only as a powerful method of meaningful learning, but also as an instrument for evaluating the efficiency of learning. Different inquiries suggest that concept maps by promoting critical thinking and clinical reasoning may play a significant role in increasing adherence to infection prevention methods and therefore reduce healthcare-associated infectio...

concept analysis of transition from nursing student to clinical nurse: rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis     rafieef [1] , sajadihezaveh m [2] *     received: 21 feb, 2012 accepted: 27apr, 2012     abstract   background &aims; : the transition from nursing student to clinical nursing is a major challenge.the aim of this study was to clarify concept of transition in new graduate nursin...

the present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). the concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of islamic philosop...