The challenge for institutions of higher learning today is to provide the human capital that this industry desperately needs. Past studies have shown most graduates local do not necessary work skills and competencies in market there seems be mismatch preparation job market. This study aims explore elements competency a facility engineer should field air conditioning conditioning. was done compr...

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary matrix completion, where at each time a random user requests a recommendation and the algorithm chooses an entry to reveal in the user’s row. The goal is to...

R ecommendation algorithms are best known for their use on e-commerce Web sites,1 where they use input about a customer’s interests to generate a list of recommended items. Many applications use only the items that customers purchase and explicitly rate to represent their interests, but they can also use other attributes, including items viewed, demographic data, subject interests, and favorite...

Online music services have tens of millions of tracks. The content itself is broad and covers various musical genres as well as non-musical audio content such as radio plays and podcasts. The sheer scale and diversity of content makes it difficult for a user to find relevant tracks. Relevant recommendations are therefore crucial for a good user experience. Here we present a method to compute tr...

Are you working to improve electrical safety? Some time ago, I provided an article titled “Electrical Safety Leadership From the ‘12th Man’” [A1] . The included analogy from football where only 11 men are allowed on field at one time. team was short of pl...

Objective The growing popularity of Automatic Item Generation (AIG) can be attributed to the increasing demand for the production of large pools of operational test items. AIG is an algorithmic way of generating assessment tasks which combines cognitive theories, psychometric practices and computer technologies. The outcome of this algorithmic transcriptions of assessment task is 1986). The ite...

the aim of this study was to assess the determinants of legal competences of sports managers from the viewpoints of academic experts and sports executives. the population consisted of 331 subjects including all sports executives of cities of tehran province, tehran city, tehran municipality regions, universities in tehran city, regions of education in tehran and sport management professors of t...

Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes to psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option multiple-choice (MC) tests in terms of psychometric characteristics, and (b) to investigate the relationships between three MC tests and five personality traits. To that end, 150 st...

OBJECTIVES To have health care professionals in nursing homes identify organizational-level and individual-level modifiable barriers to medication error reporting. DESIGN Nominal group technique sessions to identify potential barriers, followed by development and administration of a 20-item cross-sectional mailed survey. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Representatives of 4 professions (physicians,...