Course recommender systems play an increasingly pivotal role in the educational landscape, driving personalization and informed decision-making for students. However, these face significant challenges, including managing a large dynamic decision space addressing cold start problem new This article endeavors to provide comprehensive review background fully understand recent research on course th...

Statistical challenges arise from modern biomedical studies that produce time course genomic data with ultrahigh dimensions. In a renal cancer study that motivated this paper, the pharmacokinetic measures of a tumor suppressor (CCI-779) and expression levels of 12,625 genes were measured for each of 33 patients at 8 and 16 weeks after the start of treatments, with the goal of identifying predic...

this research was done with the aim of investigating attitudes of agricultural students toward outcomes of internship (training) courses. methodologically, the research was carried out through a survey method. the population of the study consisted of all agricultural students of the agricultural and natural resources collages, university of tehran who took their training (internship) course dur...

Each semester, students go through the process of selecting appropriate courses. It is difficult to find information about each course and ultimately make decisions. The objective of this paper is to design a course recommender model which takes student characteristics into account to recommend appropriate courses. The model uses clustering to identify students with similar interests and skills...

Health behaviors and educational tracks of an individual are here presumed to have a strengthening influence on each other during the developmental process, through which individuals gradually reach their adult health and social position. This longitudinal study of a Finnish nationally representative sample of 12 year olds born in 1970 (N = 1009) examined the associations of health behaviors at...

This study tracks the rise, evolution and post-evolution of the genetic information system through emergence of life. The major stages traversed include prebiotic synthesis, functional RNA selection by metabolite, RNA World, peptidated RNA world, co-evolution of genetic code and amino acid biosynthesis, last universal common ancestor, Darwinian evolution and synthetic life.

Valerie Lee and Douglas Ready explore the influences of the high school curriculum on student learning and the equitable distribution of that learning by race and socioeconomic status. They begin by tracing the historical development of the U.S. comprehensive high school and then examine the curricular reforms of the past three decades. During the first half of the twentieth century, the author...

As a precursor to the selection of a stimulus for gaze and attention, a midbrain network categorizes stimuli into "strongest" and "others." The categorization tracks flexibly, in real time, the absolute strength of the strongest stimulus. In this study, we take a first-principles approach to computations that are essential for such categorization. We demonstrate that classical feedforward later...