Diagnostic rules are usually IF-THEN rules, but they should satisfy specific requirements of a diagnosis. Thus, not always the classical methods of rules determination are applicable. In the present paper it is suggested to find out the set of rules by an elimination of superfluous rules from the maximal rule set or adding rules that improve inference to the minimal set of rules. It is shown th...

introduction: for some time now the field of medical education has been criticized by many of its stakeholders. countless debates have been presented in the literature regarding the quality of medical education research, adequacy of methodological rigor, and other concerns. methods: at present, the views expressed have largely come from physicians and individuals with less familiarity with educ...

Beginning computer science students often have great difficulty with the analysis and design of solutions to programming related problems. Using the Shuttle Puzzle problem as a vehicle the process of analyzing a problem and synthesizing observations into an algorithm is presented in a detailed, step-by-step manner. Introduction When I was child and went to visit my grandparents, I would often e...

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...

This paper introduces the research on possibility of global optimization elements and ε-insensitive learning techniques integration in aim of fuzzy if-then rules extraction quality increase. The new learning algorithm of neuro-fuzzy system with parameterized consequents is introduced. It consists in integration of deterministic annealing and ε iterative quadratic programming method. The propose...

This paper proposes ajuzzy neural expert system (FNES) with the following two functions: (1) Generalization of the information derived from the training data and embodiment of knowledge in the form of the fuzzy neural network; (2) Extraction of fuzzy If-Then rules with linguistic relative importance of each proposition in an antecedent (I f -part) from a trained neural network. This paper also ...

Over the past three decades the protein folding field has undergone monumental changes. Originally a purely academic question, how a protein folds has now become vital in understanding diseases and our abilities to rationally manipulate cellular life by engineering protein folding pathways. We review and contrast past and recent developments in the protein folding field. Specifically, we discus...

In this document I describe how the standard way the socle operator is set up for a module, and a neater way is can be set up using the lattice of submodules. I indicate why this way is neater by showing how the construction can be iterated. I go through the various constructions first for the straight socle, and then for the socle relative to a given hereditary torsion theory.

Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two indepe...