Acknowledgements: We thank our previous research assistants and postdoctoral fellows for test preparation, behavioral testing, and imaging data collection, and the participating children and their families for their cooperation in taking part in our experiments. The human brain has the remarkable capacity to alter in response to environmental demands. Training-induced structural brain changes h...

Crime solving is a domain where solution discovery is often serendipitous. Unstructured mechanisms, like Reddit, for crime solving through crowds have failed so far. Mechanisms, collaborations, workflows, and micro-tasks necessary for successful crime solving might also vary across different crimes. Cognitively, while experts might have deeper domain knowledge, they might also fall prey to bias...

BACKGROUND Learning in a clinical environment is an inseparable part of a training program in medical education. To evaluate the quality of training in a clinical environment, a comprehensive questionnaire which is adjusted for local purposes is essential. This study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of Activities Coaching Context (ACC)-questionnaire from the perspective o...

This paper presents a method for one-shot learning of dexterous grasps, and grasp generation for novel objects. A model of each grasp type is learned from a single kinesthetic demonstration, and several types are taught. These models are used to select and generate grasps for unfamiliar objects. Both the learning and generation stages use an incomplete point cloud from a depth camera – no prior...

Accurate species identification is fundamental when recording ecological data. However, the ability to correctly identify organisms visually is rarely questioned. We investigated how experts and non-experts compared in the identification of bumblebees, a group of insects of considerable conservation concern. Experts and non-experts were asked whether two concurrent bumblebee images depicted the...

background and purpose: considering that health care training centers’ teachers are one of the main elements of human-force training for rural health care system in the country, it is essential to improve knowledge and skills. the purpose of this study was to explain educational needs of teachers in our country in behvarz training centers. methods: this is a qualitative and a needs assessment s...

This paper is a report of a study of the effects of a leader-training program, focusing on how public health nurse (PHN) leaders manage staff. In Japan, a system of training after graduation or training after acquisition of the PHN license has not been established. At present, PHN leaders are unable to devote as much time as they previously could to in-service education, and this has made it di...

This chapter describes how an institution of higher education, Bowling Green State University (BGSU), partnered with the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI), a quasi-governmental agency, to meet the training needs of the local, state, national, and international community by providing an online autism spectrum disorders (ASD) certificate program. This curriculum incorporates and bu...

The Exchange Heuristic (EH) has demonstrated superior results compared with other RCS methods in solving Resource Constrained Scheduling (RCS) problems. Selecting the most promising target constitutes the success of EH. The current version of EH highly depends on experts' intuition in selecting a target. Expert systems and Fuzzy rulabsse as well as Neural Network (NN) have been considered as al...

This paper presents a method for one-shot learning of dexterous grasps, and grasp generation for novel objects. A model of each grasp type is learned from a single kinesthetic demonstration, and several types are taught. These models are used to select and generate grasps for unfamiliar objects. Both the learning and generation stages use an incomplete point cloud from a depth camera – no prior...