Even the best textbooks for Java programming have one substantial deficiency. They use small, isolated programming examples and throw-away lab exercises that do almost nothing to convey the situated application of object-oriented language constructs. An alternative approach is to embed Java programming assignments as encapsulated modules in an extensible application framework built up across se...

The other major change has been that an opportunity is now given to every student during the last three months of his training to be attached to a general practitioner. This was started in 1954 and has been carried out every year since. In 1954, 36 students took part in the scheme; in 1955 there were 30, and in 1956, 28. Students were attached to 6 country practices and 18 town practices and th...

This report describes a generalized apprenticeship learning protocol for reinforcement-learning agents with access to a teacher. The teacher interacts with the agent by providing policy traces (transition and reward observations). We characterize sufficient conditions of the underlying models for efficient apprenticeship learning and link this criteria to two established learnability classes (K...

In this paper, we apply tools from inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to the problem of learning from (unlabeled) demonstration trajectories of behavior generated by varying “intentions” or objectives. We derive an EM approach that clusters observed trajectories by inferring the objectives for each cluster using any of several possible IRL methods, and then uses the constructed clusters to qu...

Background: Clinical training is an important part of the training courses of medicine during which students learn how to face the patients, diagnose the diseases and treat the patients. Alongside clinical apprenticeship, related theoretical courses are presented so that the most training possible is covered. In the past the theoretical courses of pediatrics ward of Birjand University of Medica...

BACKGROUND Neonatal screening and treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) prevent the development of neurocognitive impairment. The degree of dysfunction may be related to metabolic control and responsible for a hampered school career. METHODS This was a retrospective study from a single metabolic unit of a Swiss University Hospital. The time point of diagnosis and all Phenylalanin (Phe) concentra...

Chronic disease is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but the current standard of care is woefully ineffective. It is paternalistic, episodic, and perversely incentivized based on volume, resulting in poor outcomes at extraordinary cost. Technology-supported apprenticeship is a model of chronic disease management that embraces the contribution of the patient. It is c...

We consider the problem of imitation learning when the examples, provided by an expert human, are scarce. Apprenticeship Learning via Inverse Reinforcement Learning provides an efficient tool for generalizing the examples, based on the assumption that the expert’s policy maximizes a value function, which is a linear combination of state and action features. Most apprenticeship learning algorith...

In the era of rapid development Internet technology and information technology, transformation traditional industrial structure, emergence new industries, competition between talents will become more intense, society has put forward higher requirements for talents. Modern apprenticeship, as a educational concept school-enterprise co-education, bring reform to training vocational Taking M enterp...