Background :Nursing education can maintain its dynamic quality when it moves toward innovation and modern methods of teaching and learning. Therefore, teachers are required to employ up to date methods in their teaching plans. This study evaluated the effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on nursing students’ learning, retention, and satisfaction.   Methods : Sixty nursing student...

In general game playing, agents play previously unknown games by analysing game rules which are provided in runtime. Since taking advantage of experience from past games can efficiently enhance their intelligence, it is necessary for agents to detect equivalence between games. This paper defines game equivalence formally and concentrates on a specific scale, space-consistent game equivalence (S...

This paper examines the performance of a number of AI agents on the games included in the General Video Game Playing Competition. Through analyzing these results, the paper seeks to provide insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the current generation of video game playing algorithms. The paper also provides an analysis of the given games in terms of inherent features which define the dif...

We describe a preliminary investigation into learning a Chess player’s style from game records. The method is based on attempting to learn features of a player’s individual evaluation function using the method of temporal differences, with the aid of a conventional Chess engine architecture. Some encouraging results were obtained in learning the styles of two recent Chess world champions, and w...

Human chess players exhibit a large variation in the amount of time they allocate for each move. Yet, the problem of devising resource allocation strategies for game playing did not receive enough attention. In this paper we present a framework for studying resource allocation strategies. We de ne allocation strategy and identify three major types of strategies: static, semi-dynamic, and dynami...

It has been stated that people need to improve their knowledge of finances and make better choices with their money. Many programs have been created to teach basic finances. These programs target people of all ages from adults all the way down to kindergarten students. The vast majority of opinions on teaching finances state that education begins with children – the younger the better. The goal...