Are learning skills associated with academic emotions elicited by master’s thesis work?

Masters Thesis: COOPERATIVE NETWORKS:

The thesis aims at extending the capabilities of devices and enabling cooperation, i.e., data connection sharing, among users who may or may not necessarily be related to or know each other. To achieve this objective as well as to validate the results of our theoretical analysis, we developed a smart-phone application for data connection sharing. By means of data connection sharing, users may i...

Medical students’ academic emotions: the role of perceived learning environment

Introduction: Research shows that there is a relationship betweenstudents’ perceptions of classroom and learning environment andtheir cognitive, affective, emotional and behavioral outcomes, so,in this study the relationship between medical students’ perceptionof learning environment and academic emotions was examined.Methods: The research method used was descriptive-correlative.The statistical...

Masters Thesis: Shaping Methods to Accelerate Reinforcement Learning:

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an attractive solution for deriving an optimal control policy by on-line exploration of the control task. In reinforcement learning there is no need to specify how the task is to be achieved. In fact, RL is a way of programming the agents by specifying a reward function. At every time step, the controller (agent) receives the process (environment) state, takes an ...

Emotions as States Elicited by Instrumental Reinforcers

An approach to emotion is described in which emotions are defined as states elicited by instrumental reinforcers, that is, by stimuli that are the goals for action. This leads to a theory of the evolutionary adaptive value of emotions, which is that different genes specify different goals in their own self-interest, and any actions can then be learned and performed by instrumental learning to o...

Masters Thesis: Kinodynamic Steering using Supervised Learning in RRT