Interest in end-of-year accountability exams has increased dramatically since the passing of the NCLB law in 2001. With this increased interest comes a desire to use student data collected throughout the year to estimate student proficiency and predict how well they will perform on end-of-year exams. In this paper we use student performance on the Assistment System, an on-line mathematics tutor...

background: water fl uoride level is unknown in many regions of iran. besides, only few noncontrolled studies world-wide have assessed the effect of water fl uoride on dental fl uorosis and caries. we aimed to measure the fl uoride level of 76 water supplies in 54 cities and evaluate the effect of fl uoride on dental caries and fl uorosis in a large multi-project study. materials and methods: i...

This study analyzes the extent to which dictation performance and linguistic features (linguistic difficulty of sentences during dictation) can predict general proficiency in English as a second language (ESL) learners. To this end, constructed multiple linear non-linear regression models that ESL (in independent variables were scores sentences) verified correlation between predicted observed p...

Dam breach width significantly influences peak breach outflow, inundation levels, and flood arrival time, but uncertainties inherent in the prediction of its value for embankment dams make its accurate estimation a challenging task in dam risk assessments. The key focus of this paper is to provide a fuzzy logic (FL) model for estimating the average breach width of embankment dams as an alternat...

Data protection across organizations is limiting the application of centralized learning (CL) techniques. Federated (FL) enables multiple participants to build a model without sharing data. Nevertheless, there very few research works on FL in intelligent manufacturing. This paper presents results an empirical study failure prediction production line based FL. (1) designs Support Vector Machine ...

The present study investigated the relationship between personality traits and multiple intelligences, and learners’ reading proficiency. To this end, 384 graduate EFL students participated in the present study. Two questionnaires, namely the NEO personality inventory-revised, and McKenzie’s (1999) MI inventory as well as a sample TOFEL reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. ...