Cartographic map revision cannot be automated completely because, for legal reasons, a human operator is ultimately responsible for all revisions. We present a human-centered map revision system in which the human operator retains complete control over the operations with the computer acting as an apprentice and, later, as an assistant. The apprentice learns simple tasks from the human operator...

Personalized knowledge-based systems have not yet become widespread, despite their potential for valuable assistance in many daily tasks. This is due, in part, to the high cost of developing and maintaining customized knowledge bases. The construction of personal assistants as learning apprentices -interactive assistants that learn continually from their users -is one approach which could drama...

Background: According to the important role of Health Care Apprentice Program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with Social Accountability of Medical Education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of Health Care Apprentice Program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of Primary Health Care at Babol University of Medial Sciences    Methods: ...

Apprentice is a tool developed for event generator tuning. It contains range of conceptual improvements and extensions over the tuning Professor. Its core functionality remains construction multivariate analytic surrogate model to computationally expensive Monte-Carlo predictions. The used numerical optimization in chi-square minimization likelihood evaluation. also introduces algorithms automa...

PROBLEM Falls from heights in residential construction are common, especially among inexperienced workers. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive needs assessment to determine gaps in the school-based apprentice carpenters' fall prevention training. A team of carpenter instructors and researchers revised the fall prevention training to fill these gaps. Apprentice evaluation and feedback guided ...