OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore positive and negative preferences towards problem-based learning in relation to personality traits and socio-cultural context. METHODS The study was an anonymous and voluntary cross-sectional survey of medical students (N=449) in hybrid problem-based curricula in Nepal, Norway and North Dakota. Data was collected on gender, age, year of study, co...

Customizing database queries through the use of user preferences is a research topic that has been raising a lot of interest within the database community in recent years. Such preferences are used for sorting and selecting the best tuples, those which most fulfill the user wishes. A topic of interest within this context is the elicitation of preferences, consisting of methods to enable the use...

We present a new model based on Gaussian processes (GPs) for learning pairwise preferences expressed by multiple users. Inference is simplified by using a preference kernel for GPs which allows us to combine supervised GP learning of user preferences with unsupervised dimensionality reduction for multi-user systems. The model not only exploits collaborative information from the shared structure...

An important application of interactive machine learning is extending or amplifying the cognitive and physical capabilities of a human. To accomplish this, machines need to learn about their human users’ intentions and adapt to their preferences. In most current research, a user has conveyed preferences to a machine using explicit corrective or instructive feedback; explicit feedback imposes a ...

Every individual has their own natural or habitual pattern of gathering and processing information in learning situations. The different environment between school university studies will pose a significant impact on the style students. objectives this study are to analyse most preferred among first-year diploma students Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Perlis Branch compare male female using F...