Visibility and Resorption: Are These Features Important?

Wolbachia: why these bacteria are important to genome research.

Person Re-identification: What Features Are Important?

State-of-the-art person re-identification methods seek robust person matching through combining various feature types. Often, these features are implicitly assigned with a single vector of global weights, which are assumed to be universally good for all individuals, independent to their different appearances. In this study, we show that certain features play more important role than others unde...

These are your rights.

over centuries, the labour move­ ment fought to establish basic rights for workers, combatting the vested interests of avaricious capital­ ists and the cynicism of the state, which consigned to the workhouse those unable to find employment in the mines and fac­ tories. through collective action in the form of trades unions, then later through the political parties that were established in their...

What are the Most Important Features to Individualize: Extending Knowledge Tracing to Individualize What is Important

One traditional way of modeling student knowledge is Corbett and Anderson Knowledge Tracing [2]. Knowledge Tracing model learns a set of four parameters per skill known in the field as 1) Prior (allowing for the modeling of the average chanced that students know a given skills before starting with the system), 2) Learn (different skills could have different learning rates), 3) Guess (some skill...

Needs Assessment Competencies: Are They Important for Extension Educators?

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. The study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the North Central Region of the United States responded to a qu...