background: basic science studies evaluation is important feature for an effective implementation of diabetes research and funding policy. this study aimed to provide an evaluation of diabetes basic research output up to 2015 in iran. methods: data were retrieved from scientific search engine including pubmed, web of science, scopus as well as iranian science databases including sid, iranmedex,...

Exam has been used enormously as an assessment tool to measure students’ academic performance in most of the higher institutions in KSA. A good quality of a set of constructed items/questions on mid and final exam would be able to measure both students’ academic performance and their cognitive skills. We adopt Rasch Model to evaluate the reliability and quality of the first mid exam questions f...

Many programs learn from data represented as feature vectors. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this representation for learning and the assumptions that underlie it in the context of learning. Include, but do not limit yourself to, some discussion of uncertainty, semantics, and relational learning. Focus your discussion more on the representation of the data than on the learning algorith...

Purpose: This document is a compilation of notes generated to prepare for the Basic Qualifying Exam. I have documented some of my solutions so that I may not forget and repeat the frustrations of failing this cursed exam again. Best of luck to anyone using these notes to prepare. Also see Brent Woodhouse's study guide. I do not guarantee accuracy of all the presented solutions. This document is...