Abstract: Errorless learning is an instructional approach designed to eliminate and/or reduce the number of errors students produce in traditional trial-and-error approaches (Mueller, Palkovic, & Maynard, 2007). Various response prompting strategies are employed to produce errorless learning. Simultaneous prompting is an errorless learning strategy that has a growing body of literature to suppo...

This report covers the work done in support of the DARPA Information Technology Office program in computer networking. Contributors to this effort include Prof. David L. Mills, graduate student Harish Nair and undergraduate research student John Conner. MS student Tamal Basu has graduated and taken a position at Acorn Networks. Phd student Qiong Li has graduated and taken a position with Philli...

BACKGROUND Although both nurse empowerment and competence are fundamental concepts of describing newly graduated nurses' professional development and job satisfaction, only few studies exist on the relationship between these concepts. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine how newly graduated nurses assess their empowerment and to clarify professional competence compared to other...

Activity recognition in intelligent environments could play a key role for supporting people in their activities of daily life. Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) models have been used successfully, for example, to assist people with dementia when carrying out small multi-step tasks such as hand washing. POMDP models are a powerful, yet flexible framework for modeling assistan...

CONTEXT Implementation of graduated driver licensing programs is associated with reductions in crash rates of young drivers, but graduated driver licensing programs vary in their components. The impact of programs with different components is unknown. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to determine which graduated driver licensing programs are associated with the greatest reductions in fa...