INTRODUCTION This paper argues that particular experiences in the workplace are more important than others and can lead to transformational learning. This may enable practitioners to cross 'vocational thresholds' to new ways of being. AIM A notion of 'vocational thresholds' is developed, aiming to help build an understanding of the most powerful learning experiences of general practitioners (GP...

I extended recruitment research by sampling from the applicant population to investigate factors related to a firm’s attractiveness as an employer on college campuses. Specifically, I surveyed potential applicants at nine different universities and university personnel (faculty and placement staff) at eight of those universities to investigate relationships of recruitment activities, organizati...

This paper proposes a framework for the development of models for the assessment of research activities and their impacts. It distinguishes three dimensions: theory, methodology and data, each of which is further characterized by three main building blocks: education, research and innovation (theory); efficiency, effectiveness and impact (methodology); and availability, interoperability and “un...

We show that if two fuzzy relations, representing data tables with graded attributes, are ordinally equivalent then their concept lattices with respect to the Gödel operations on chains are (almost) isomorphic and that the assumption of Gödel operations is essential. We argue that measurement-theoretic results like this one are important for pragmatic reasons in relational data modeling and out...

This is a Haskell implementation of Decisive Plausible Logic.1 Decisive Plausible Logic is a new variant of Plausible Logic that handles the looping that complicated previous implementations explicitly, and is defined in terms of a proof function with a three-valued result like the previous implementations, though these essential attributes were not reflected in the formal definition of the logic.

ion—Extracting Out the Essential Characteristics of a Thing Object-oriented programming starts with object-oriented design. And object-oriented design starts with abstraction. What's an "object"? Using our new-found skill of "abstraction", consider the similarities between realworld objects, say, a car and a software object. The attributes they share are shown in Table 11-2.

The problem of recognizing whether a subset of attributes is a pseudo-intent is shown to be coNP-hard, which together with the previous results means that this problem is coNP-complete. Recognizing an essential intent is shown to be NP-complete and recognizing the lectically largest pseudo-intent is shown to be coNP-hard.

Existing concept learning systems can fail when the negative examples heavily outnumber the positive examples. The paper discusses one essential trouble brought about by imbalanced training sets and presents a learning algorithm addressing this issue. The experiments (with synthetic and real-world data) focus on 2-class problems with examples described with binary and continuous attributes.

Meat and meat products are closely associated with the daily eating habits of people around the world. Quality monitoring of meat and meat products is essential to ensure public health. In recent years, the meat industry has employed state-of-the art, high-speed processing technology, and meat processors need rapid, non-destructive, easy-touse technology to monitor the safety and quality of mea...

OBJECTIVE To compare awareness about concept of social wellness in male and female first year medical students. METHODS It was a cross sectional, questionnaire based study conducted from February till December 2010. Responses on aspects of social wellness were rated never, sometimes, mostly and always from lowest to highest (1-4); evaluated as frequency, proportion and percentages by PASW (Pr...