Background: In order to transfer teachers’ knowledge, the presence of students is necessary in the classroom. Despite numerous studies on the causes of absence, the strategies of its reduction have not been yet investigated and this study intends to address this issue. Methods: Inthis cross-sectional study 401 students were participated who were selected with systematic random sampling. The stu...

Content Management Systems (CMS) are typically regarded as critical software platforms for the success of organizational web sites and intranets. Nevertheless, a simple CMS alone does not provide enough support for a typical organization’s requirements, such as document management and storage. On the other hand, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are typically regular web-applications ...

Effective Web content filtering is a necessity in educational and workplace environments, but current approaches are far from perfect. We discuss a model for text-based intelligent Web content filtering, in which shallow linguistic analysis plays a key role. In order to demonstrate how this model can be realized, we have developed a lexical Named Entity Recognition system, and used it to improv...

 Background: Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured type of cooperative learning that has growing application in medical education. This study compares levels of student learning and teaching satisfaction for a neurology course between conventional lecture and team-based learning. Methods: The study incorporated 70 students aged 19 to 22 years at the school of rehabilitation. One half ...

one of the challenging issues in managing the existing large digital image libraries and databases is content based image retrieval (cbir). the accuracy of image retrieval methods in cbir is subject to effective extraction of image features such as color, texture, and shape. in this paper, we propose a new image retrieval method using contourlet transform coefficients to index texture of the im...

A computer-based course addressing the topic of" applying Natural Language resources and techniques to Information Retrieval is presented. The course provides several Internet on-line resources to support a learning by doing approach in a real world context. Rationale for the design of the course is presented and a detailed description of the course structure and content is given.

This tutorial will discusses the issues related to content based retrieval in very large dataset of visual documents. Content based retrieval typically is not performed using the visual content itself, rather visual features are extracted and retrieval is performed searching by similarity on the extracted features. Similarity search is a difficult task because efficient techniques to process da...

A team-based Learning (TBL) tutor training workshop on research and publication ethics was offered to 8 faculty members and 3 staff at Hallym University in 2009. To investigate the effect of the workshop and any attitude changes, a questionnaire survey was performed after the 8-hr course. Questions in four categories-general course content, change in attitudes toward research and publication et...