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CIRCSIM-Tutor is a dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system that conducts dialogues with medical students about blood pressure regulation. To obtain models for computergenerated dialogues, we analyzed dialogues involving expert human tutors. In this paper we describe some of the interesting and complex patterns we isolated from the human tutorial dialogues in cases where the student gave erro...

The remote-PHY (R-PHY) modular cable network for data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) service conducts the physical layer processing for the transmissions over the broadcast cable in a remote node. In contrast, the cloud radio access network (CRAN) for long-term evolution (LTE) cellular wireless services conducts all baseband physical layer processing in a central baseband u...

background & aim: nurse job-related burnout is a global issue; however, it remains unclear how coping strategies over a maintained period of time may influence nursing burnout. the aim of this study was to evaluation the factors associated with burnout of nurses working at a state hospital. methods & materials : this cross-sectional study was carried out with 446 nurses working at state hospita...

background: burnout, a phenomenon that is of interest for both individuals and organizations, is characterized by decreasing energy, power and resources in the presence of excessive demands. nurses are more prone to develop burnout due to both the emotional nature of their jobs as well as patients' demand. the present study was aimed to assess burnout among nurses working in the iranian ho...

The classification of NFRs brings about the benefits that NFRs with respect to the same type in the system can be considered and implemented aggregately by developers, and as a result be verified by quality assurers assigned for the type. This paper conducts an empirical study on using text mining techniques to classify NFRs automatically. Three kinds of

One of the advantages of conduct parameter games is that they enable estimation of market power without total cost data. In line with this, we develop a conduct parameter based model to estimate the firm specific “implied cost effi ciency”and conduct without using total cost data. We use our methodology to estimate the conducts and marginal cost effi ciencies of U.S. airlines.