We present work on project MLExAI, funded by the National Science Foundation with a goal of unifying the artificial intelligence (AI) course around the theme of machine learning. Our work involves the development, implementation, and testing of an adaptable framework for the presentation of core AI topics that emphasizes the relationship between AI and computer science. A suite of adaptable han...

This research aims to analyse the evolution of "online epistemic communities" (OECs), focussing on the collective processes of article elaboration in Wikipedia. It responds to the important yet still open challenge in Cognitive Ergonomics of constructing methods for analysing/ensuring the quality of collective products, in relation to both their intrinsic characteristics (e.g. completeness, rea...

In contrast to most previous studies conducted on artificial data with archetypal emotions, this paper addresses some of the challenges faced when studying real-life non-basic emotions. A 10-hour dialog corpus recorded in a French Medical emergency call center has been studied. In this paper, our aim is twofold, to study emotion mixtures in natural data and to achieve high level of performances...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common, disabling, and burdensome psychiatric condition. It is characterized by turbulent fluctuations of negative emotions and moods, unstable and conflictual interpersonal relationships, an incoherent and often contradictory sense of self, and impulsive, potentially lethal self-injurious behaviors. The neurobehavioral facets of BPD have not been exte...

THEME DAY I Assessing Core Competencies in Clinical Communication Julie Schirmer, LCSW, Steven Barnett, MD, M. Kim Marvel, PhD, Deborah Seymour, PsyD, Larry Mauksch, MEd What are the best practices for assessing competency in medical communication? In July 2002, residency review committees will expect residency programs to document assessment efforts of general competencies as outlined by the A...

a bstr act Prominent positions in the contemporary theoretical field of the humanities tend to conceptualize late modern communities in general as aes­ thetic communities of taste. In regard to political communities, this means reducing the political to an implication of the aesthetic discourse. This article argues for addressing the aesthetic and the political as distinct discourses that are, ...

Based on the standards of Core Literacy for Chinese Students to develop and Guidelines Comprehensive Practical Activity Curriculum in Primary Secondary Schools, "Thematic Activity" curriculum a primary school Chengde City was developed studied with core literacy as main line activity "small agronomist" theme activity.

Three key themes reverberate throughout this volume. An equity and excellence theme emphasizes that the creation of high-quality learning opportunities is a core value shared by all the authors of this volume. An elephants theme (as in the poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by John Godfrey Saxe)1 reminds us that our educational system includes a multiplicity of subsystems that may or may not...

The notion of brief dynamic psychotherapy (BDP) may seem at first sight to be a contradiction in terms. 'Dynamic' is a Freudian psychoanalytic term implying conflictual psychological forces an opposition between the conscious and unconscious mind, and the use of defence mechanisms to arrive at a compromise between them. The rigidity of the obsessional person whose self-expression is traded for ...

Two studies explored the relationship between political ideology and endorsement of a range of moral principles. Political liberals and conservatives did not differ on intrapersonal or interpersonal moralities, which require self-regulation. However differences emerged on collective moralities, which involve social regulation. Contrary to Moral Foundations Theory, both liberals and conservative...