Introduction: Collaborative testing is a learning strategy thatprovides students with the opportunity to learn and practicecollaboration. This study aimed to determine the effect ofcollaborative testing on test performance and retention of coursecontent in nursing students of Shiraz University of MedicalSciences, Shiraz, Iran.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried out on 84students ...

The salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (L2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. The main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific English-as-Foreign-Language (EFL) context of Iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their English lang...

Obtaining the “exact” solution to the consumption-under-uncertainty problem can be an extraordinarily difficult mathematical problem. Allen and Carroll (2001), however, show that a simple linear approximation to the optimal policy rule can yield utility trivially close to that of the exact solution. Furthermore, Allen and Carroll show that consumers can consistently find the near-optimal approx...

This paper presents a learning-based method for combining the shape and appearance feature types for 3D human pose estimation from single-view images. Our method is based on clustering the 3D pose space into several modular regions and learning the regressors for both feature types and their optimal fusion scenario in each region. This way the complementary information of the individual feature...

There are mainly two kinds of methods for document-level sentiment classification, unsupervised learning and supervised learning. When ensemble learning is introduced, existing methods only combine unsupervised learning algorithms or supervised learning algorithms. To overcome each other’s flaws, a novel sentiment classification method based on behavior-knowledge space is proposed, in which two...

this paper describes how multi-agent system technology can be used as the underpinning platform for voltage control in power systems. in this study, some facts (flexible ac transmission systems) devices are properly designed to coordinate their decisions and actions in order to provide a coordinated secondary voltage control mechanism based on multi-agent theory. each device here is modeled as ...

E –learning is a method of learning that is delivered via electronic technology. Most of the E – Learning systems do not consider the individual aspects of the students ignoring the various requirements of the learners. Personalization is widely used in various fields to provide users with more suitable and personalized service. Personalization of E – Learning system is a method of improving th...