i needed to dereference the names and descriptions of equipment referred to n the text, and to infer their causal relations and operational states when e s these are only implicitly expressed by the message writer. Knowing th tructural configuration of the equipment is useful in both tasks, and a s a structural domain model can be extracted readily from equipment manual nd their accompanying pa...

Knowledge Management (KM) has become a critical component for maintaining competitive advantages. Most existing research looks at individual industries or general concepts; few studies have investigated KM use in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This research empirically investigates factors affecting the adoption of KM. Results indicate that important factors maturing of Information ...

We have looked at the process of discovery as an aspect of reasoning about knowledge, particularly in relation to problems of knowledge acquisition or learning. In those problems we have found to be of interest, a body of knowledge to-be-acquired may be infinite. Still, it can be "learned" through discovery of a model that correctly represents the knowledge in some finite way. Realistically, ex...

Introduction Hand Therapy is a sub speciality area within the field of orthopaedics rehabilitation that encompasses hand therapists that may have a background as occupational therapist or physiotherapist. It requires advanced continuing graduate education, clinical experience and independent study. Available hand therapy programs are time-consuming, expensive and inaccessible. The authors conce...

Memory organization plays a critical role in knowledge acquisition. An agent must select a small subset of existing knowledge to serve as the basis for new learning; otherwise each problem becomes more complex than the previous. Selecting this subset remains a challenge, however. We propose that existing knowledge be organized in order for a learning agent to achieve its full potential. The SCA...

The intelligence of E-learning system has become one of regarded topic to public. Using adoptive E-learning system to supplement or replace the classroom is becoming more common in education. To develop an automated knowledge Acquisition intelligent tutoring system is the aim of this paper. Moreover the knowledge Acquisition system (KAS) can improves the education efficiency highly since this s...

Background: Previous research revealed relationships between learning strategies and knowledge acquisition. During clerkships, however, students’ focus widens beyond mere knowledge acquisition as they further develop overall competence. This shift in focus can influence learning strategy use. Aim: We explored which learning strategies were used during clerkships and their relationship to clinic...

The present study examined the acquisition of anaphora in English by Iranian EFL learners as well as Persian speaking children. To do so, the study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, 40 intermediate female and male EFL learners were selected from Puyan Institute in Takestan, Iran. Then, an off-line based Grammatical Judgment Task was administered. In the second phase, 40 female ...

This study was conducted with the purpose of examining Persian speakers’ article acquisition and use with reference to Ionin, Ko and Wexler’s (2004) model, which is based on the prediction of Fluctuation Hypothesis (FH) that EFL learners of [-article] languages, like Persian, make erroneous article use in [+definite, -specific] and [-definite, +specific] contexts. From among the students of an ...