This paper proposes to use a knowledge acquisition (KA) approach based on Nested Ripple Down Rules (NRDR) to assist in mechanical design focusing on dimensional tolerancing. A knowledge approach to incrementally model expert design processes is implemented. The knowledge is acquired in the context of its use, which substantially supports the KA process. The knowledge is captured which human des...

The task of rationalization aims to extract pieces input text as rationales justify neural network predictions on classification tasks. By definition, represent key used for prediction and thus should have similar feature distribution compared the original text. However, previous methods mainly focused maximizing mutual information between labels while neglecting relationship To address this is...

The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) is a statutory, summative teacher assessment against nationally prescribed criteria. It completed for all children in state education England summer of the reception year, when September‐born are nearly 6 and summer‐born turning 5. This research uses quantitative descriptive regression analyses de‐identified National Pupil Database records spanni...

As technology increases and performance requirements continually tighten, the cost and required precision of assemblies increase as well. There exists a strong need for increased attention to tolerance design to enable high-precision assemblies to be manufactured at lower cost. For automotive and aircraft industries, the tolerancing process has become an important issue in product and process d...

We surveyed nucleotide sequence variation at glucose dehydrogenase (Gld), in a region of low recombination on chromosome 3R, from a population sample of Drosophila simulans. The levels of nucleotide variation were surprisingly high. There was no departure from the expectation of a neutral model for the level of polymorphism, indicating no evidence of a selective sweep in this region. There was ...