Prakash ES, Narayan KA, Sethuraman KR. Student perceptions regarding the usefulness of explicit discussion of the “structure of the observed learning outcome” taxonomy. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 145– 149, 2010; doi:10.1152/advan.00026.2010.—One method of grading responses of the descriptive type is by using Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. The basis of this study was the expe...

BACKGROUND Interventions for preventing falls in older people often involve several components, multidisciplinary teams, and implementation in a variety of settings. We have developed a classification system (taxonomy) to describe interventions used to prevent falls in older people, with the aim of improving the design and reporting of clinical trials of fall-prevention interventions, and synth...

This chapter introduces OntoExtractor, a tool for the semi-automatic generation of the taxonomy from a set of documents or data sources. The tool generates the taxonomy in a bottom-up fashion. Starting from structural analysis of the documents, it produces a set of clusters, which can be refined by a further grouping created by content analysis. Metadata describing the content of each cluster i...

The single-period problem (SPP), also known as the newsboy or news-vendor problem, is to ®nd the order quantity which maximizes the expected pro®t in a single period probabilistic demand framework. Interest in the SPP remains unabated and many extensions to it have been proposed in the last decade. These extensions include dealing with di€erent objectives and utility functions, di€erent supplie...

This article reports on the development and initial validation of the Amotivation Toward Exercise Scale (ATES), which reflects a taxonomy of older adults' reasons to refrain from exercise. Drawing on work by Pelletier, Dion, Tuson, and Green-Demers (1999) and Legault, Green-Demers, and Pelletier (2006), these dimensions were the outcome beliefs, capacity beliefs, effort beliefs, and value amoti...

A comprehensive taxonomy categorizing passive behaviors in people with dementia was developed and revised through the use of expert raters. The taxonomy was first derived from the synthesis of 15 empirical studies that addressed this phenomenon, then was rated by an expert panel of six nurse-scientists with expertise in dementia and neuroscience research. This article describes the application ...

A key research focus for conversational case-based reasoning (CCBR) is incremental query elaboration, which is the process of maximizing the extraction of relevant problem state information throughout the querying process. Several companies and researchers have addressed this problem (e.g., by dynamically applying domain-specific plans (Carrick et al., 1999)). Recently, Gupta (2001) demonstrate...

The result of Indonesian legislative election 2004 is analyzed with certain comparative with the previous one (1999). This analysis is constructed by using the graph theoretical analysis by finding the Euclidean distances among political parties. The distances are then treated in ultrametric spaces by using the minimum spanning tree algorithm. By having the Indonesian hierarchical taxonomy mode...