Java and other system programming languages are not ideal for software agent development on the Internet. We have found it very challenging to produce reliable yet lightweight agent systems. Even basic agents often require colossal amounts of highly complex code. We are addressing this issue by new agent scripting language and an associated execution environment. Taken together, these two devel...

Social interaction and development of friendships between children with and without a disability are often proposed as potential outcomes of inclusive education. Physical activity specialists assert that exercise and sport environments may be conducive to social and friendship outcomes. This study investigated friendship in inclusive physical education from the perspective of students with (n =...

Introduction To estimate the economic burden of tuberculosis treatment in Sistan, region with highest number cases Iran. Methods All patients smear-positive pulmonary who had contracted 2018 and successfully completed their were interviewed. Results Ninety a mean age 57 ± 18 years Most them women (58%), housewives (57%) resided rural areas (84%). The cost for was estimated as 6800 USD per patie...

Nesbitt LM, Cliff WH. How the story unfolds: exploring ways faculty develop open-ended and closed-ended case designs. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 279–285, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.90158.2008.— Open-ended or closed-ended case study design schemes offer different educational advantages. Anatomy and physiology faculty members who participated in a conference workshop were given an identical case about blo...

This thesis studies methods to solve Visual Question-Answering (VQA) tasks with a Deep Learning framework. As a preliminary step, we explore Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to tackle Question-Answering (text based). We then modify the previous model to accept an image as an input in addition to the question. For this purpose, we explore the VGG-1...

This paper is concerned with the empirical relationship between biodiversity conservation values and income. We use random effects panel models to examine the effects of income, and thenGDP per capita, on willingness to pay for habitat and biodiversity conservation. In a meta-analysis, 145 Willingness To Pay estimates for biodiversity conservation where existence value plays a major role were c...

In response to a growing need for students to appreciate ethical issues in medical research and publication, a brief team-based learning (TBL) course was presented to graduate students in the medical school of Hallym University in October and November 2007. To gather information as a basis for improving the course, questionnaires were distributed to 19 students and the feedback was evaluated. T...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this investigation was to identify safety and efficiency-related design features for inclusion in operating room (OR) construction documents. BACKGROUND Organizations are confronted with an array of challenges when planning an OR, including inefficiencies in operations, adverse events, and a variety of innovations to choose from. Currently, techniques that can be used...

An educational curriculum using adult learning principles in an active learning format was developed for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist clinical educators (CRNACEs) to help improve the quality of the clinical learning experiences for student nurse anesthetists (SNAs). This exploratory study sought to determine the extent to which an 8-hour educational course modified the behavioral perc...


 The study substantiates the effectiveness of using distance learning technologies in preparing postgraduate students technical specialties for candidate minimum examinations foreign language during transition to Moscow universities due epidemiological situation 2020-2021. present reveals both positive and negative aspects provides an understanding key vector development methodological ba...