In the Ukrainian university context, assessment of writing in language programs has traditionally been performed by individual teacher, with no institutionally mandated scales or criteria to rely on. The use rating from external proficiency tests cannot meet requirement total alignment curricula taught context-specific settings. This is obvious terms frequent mismatches course objectives and te...

In this paper we present TDLeaf(λ), a variation on the TD(λ) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our chess program “KnightCap” used TDLeaf(λ) to learn its evaluation function while playing on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS, fics.onenet.net). The main success we report is that KnightCap improved from a 1650 rating ...

In this paper we present TDLeaf(λ), a variation on the TD(λ) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our chess program “KnightCap” used TDLeaf(λ) to learn its evaluation function while playing on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS, fics.onenet.net). The main success we report is that KnightCap improved from a 1650 rating ...

OBJECTIVES To develop a composite measure pain scale tool to assess acute pain in cats and derive an intervention score. METHODS To develop the prototype composite measure pain scale-feline, words describing painful cats were collected, grouped into behavioural categories and ranked. To assess prototype validity two observers independently assigned composite measure pain scale-feline and nume...

Developing rating scales for assessing interactional performance is demanding since it is a relatively complicated procedure. The present study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the CAP rating scale (Wang, 2015) for assessing interactional competence at micro-level. To this end, 160 Iranian intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on TOEFL iBT test from ...

In this paper we present TDLeaf( ), a variation on the TD( ) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our chess program “KnightCap” used TDLeaf( ) to learn its evaluation function while playing on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS, fics.onenet.net). The main success we report is that KnightCap improved from a 1650 rating ...