We trace the tragicomic courtship between programming by demonstration and machine learning, two fields that seem made for each other but have never quite got together. A long-term historical perspective illuminates the twin roles of interaction and sequence learning in programming by demonstration, and reveals the parallel growth of machine learning as a research area in its own right. A view ...

The introduction of long-chain branched structures into biodegradable polyesters can effectively improve the melt strength and blow-molding properties polyesters. In this study, pentaerythritol (PER) was used as a branching agent to synthesize poly(butylene dodecanedioate) (PBD), resulting polymers were characterized by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Proton Spectra (1H NMR) Fourier Transform Infrar...

Programming-by-Demonstration (PbD) is a central research topic in robotics since it is an important part of human-robot interaction. A key scientific challenge in PbD is to make robots capable of imitating a human. PbD means to instruct a robot how to perform a novel task by observing a human demonstrator performing it. Current research has demonstrated that PbD is a promising approach for effe...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to map the pathophysiology of resting state functional connectivity accompanying structural and functional abnormalities in children with bipolar disorder. METHODS Children with bipolar disorder and demographically matched healthy controls underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. A model-free independent component analysis was ...

Relative to healthy controls, lithium free bipolar patients exhibit significant gray matter abnormalities. Lithium, the long-time reference standard medication treatment for bipolar disorder, has been proposed to be neuro-protective against these abnormalities. However, its effects on cortical thickness and hippocampal subfield (HSF) volumes remain unstudied and unclear, respectively, in bipola...

The use of patterns in software engineering is an important and widespread concept. However, teaching patterns to students is challenging because it requires practical knowledge. To evaluate the usefulness of patterns, students need to remember, and understand them as well as apply and analyze them. Pattern-based development (PBD) is a model-based development approach that focuses on the reuse ...

Methods Twenty-seven SSc patients (9 men, 30-79 years, 18 limited cutaneous SSc, 3 diffuse cutaneous SSc, and 6 early SSc) and 20 healthy subjects (13 men, 18-46 years) underwent CMR. The PBV was calculated as the product of cardiac output determined by velocity encoded CMR, and the pulmonary transit time determined as the time for a 2 ml intravenously administered contrast bolus to pass from t...

Poly(dimethylsiloxane-ethylene oxide) (PDMS-PEO) and poly(butadiene-b-ethylene oxide) (PBd-PEO) are two block copolymers which separately form vesicles with disparate membrane permeabilities and fluidities. Thus, hybrid vesicles formed from both PDMS-PEO and PBd-PEO may ultimately allow for systematic, application-specific tuning of vesicle membrane fluidity and permeability. However, given the...

The abolition of the Primary School Assessment Test (UPSR) conducted by MOE has provoked various reactions among educators, parents and students. This string UPSR abolition, indirectly brings classroom assessment is a priority in year 6 aim this research was to identify readiness sixth Malay Language teachers towards implementation Classroom (PBD). findings showed that are knowledgeable ready i...