Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the use of computer-based education and training as a means of widening and improving the skills base in society at large. The widespread success of the web as an interactive distribution medium has made it a natural choice for the delivery of training materials. Although there are now a plethora of educational resources on the web, they mostly s...

There are several approaches for representing medical knowledge and reasoning, which are able to be interpreted by machines. They are the basis for applications like expert systems, clinical support systems, etc. The medical diagnostics context, on one hand, involves loosely delimited or intuitive characterization of some manifestations, on the other hand, the occurrence of manifestations and c...

A central challenge in relation extraction is the lack of supervised training data. Pattern-based relation extractors suffer from low recall, whereas distant supervision yields noisy data which hurts precision. We propose bootstrapped selftraining to capture the benefits of both systems: the precision of patterns and the generalizability of trained models. We show that training on the output of...

More than a decade after the deregulation of the banking service industries, consumers are accustomed to service providers competing on price. Bank services are intangible, ephemeral, experiential and information-based. In this context, Continuous Improvement (CI) has emerged as a key concept regarding how companies should both approach organizational effectiveness, both quality and efficiency....

OBJECTIVE To assess pulmonologists' use, training in the use, and knowledge base of the drug cyclophosphamide. DESIGN Survey through questionnaire. Testing of knowledge base before and after instructional conference. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Pulmonologists (94 attendings, 31 fellows), selected randomly at the 1996 and 1997 annual meetings of The American Thoracic Society, completed surveys ...

We examined the extent to which transfer of training is impacted by target probability and physical similarity of training and transfer stimuli. Participants performed a luggage screening task where they trained on three base rates of weapon presence as follows: 100%, 50% and 20%; at transfer, participants detected the same weapons (Study 1) or novel weapons (Studies 2 and 3) at a base rate of ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to validate the model of professional citizen education in education. Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of data collection and was conducted using a descriptive survey research method. The statistical population of the study was all line managers and education staff in Khorasan Razavi province in 2019. Ac...