We optimize the diagnostic data from a fullresponse fault dictionary of a given test set. Compaction is done without loss of diagnostic resolution of a test set. We give an integer linear program (ILP) formulation using fault diagnostic table. The complexity of the ILP is made manageable by two innovations. First, we define a generalized independence relation between pairs of faults to reduce t...

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a promising technology for knowledge extraction applications. ILP has produced intelligible solutions for a wide variety of domains where it has been applied. The ILP lack of efficiency is, however, a major impediment for its scalability to applications requiring large amounts of data. In this paper we propose a set of techniques that improve ILP systems eff...

OBJECTIVE To compare environmental perception as measured by the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure of students with high and low academic performance. METHODS This cross-sectional analytical study was carried out at the Gujranwala Medical College, Gujranwala, Pakistan, and comprised medical students. Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure questionnaire with 50 items was used ...

El Inventory of Learning Processes (ILP) evalúa procesos de aprendizaje en el ámbito educativo. Se propone adaptar lingüística, conceptual y métricamente ILP al educativo local. emplearon muestras estudiantes nivel medio universitario. tradujo la consigna los ítems del inglés español se analizó su contenido mediante juicio experto, conservando 20 62 originales. Posteriormente un análisis factor...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP) with radioiodine in hot thyroid nodules. DESIGN Thirty consecutive outpatients with subclinical or mild hyperthyroidism and a scintigraphically solitary hot nodule with extraglandular suppression were randomized to either one ILP session or one radioiodine ((131)I) dose. METHODS ILP was performed under continuous...

The concept of Matthew effects in reading development refers to a longitudinally widening gap between high achievers and low achievers. Various statistical approaches have been proposed to examine this idea. However, little attention has been paid to psychometric issues of scaling. Specifically, interval-level data are required to compare performance differences across performance ranges, but o...

This article addresses the causes of underachievement in scholastic education. Whereas many studies have been able to show that motivational deficits provide an explanation for underachievement, little research has yet explored the possible influences of deficits in fine motor skills. The aim of our empirical study was, therefore, to investigate the influence of fine motor skills and how they m...

Students entering a new field must learn to speak the specialized language of that field. Previous research using automated measures of word overlap has found that students who modify their language to align more closely to a tutor’s language show larger overall learning gains. We present an alternative approach that assesses syntactic as well as lexical alignment in a corpus of human-computer ...