BACKGROUND Students commencing their medical training arrive with different educational backgrounds and a diverse range of learning experiences. Consequently, students would have developed preferred approaches to acquiring and processing information or learning style preferences. Understanding first-year students' learning style preferences is important to success in learning. However, little i...

Almost everyone has turned to the internet to vet a product before purchase. Some online retailers – like amazon.com – even provide you with recommendations for products you might like. In this age of online retailers and multiple anonymous raters, it is a worthwhile goal to use the pool of collective knowledge and opinions to guide product recommendations. The objective of recommender systems ...

Students’ acceptance and use of ICT-based learning needs to be understood in terms of their preferences for alternatives such as face-to-face (FtF) or print-based learning. This paper reports on an investigation of students’ preferences for hybrid study modes. Cluster analysis was used to identify segments of students that had distinctive preferences for combinations of FtF, print and web-based...

The finding that the preferences of middle-income Americans are ignored when they diverge from the preferences of the rich is one of the most widely accepted and influential conclusions in political science research today. I offer a cautionary note regarding this conclusion. I demonstrate that even on those issues for which the preferences of the wealthy and those in the middle diverge, policy ...

Empirical studies of the connection between citizen preferences and legislator actions have largely focused on the preferences of a district’s average or median voter. While many theories suggest that preference heterogeneity should also affect this connection, few empirical analyses have rigorously tested claims about the distribution of individual voter preferences. In this paper, we use a un...

We present a simple and natural non-pricing mechanism for allocating divisible goods among strategic agents having lexicographic preferences. Our mechanism has favorable properties of strategy-proofness (incentive compatibility). In addition (and even when extended to the case of Leontief bundles) it enjoys Pareto efficiency, envy-freeness, and time efficiency. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F...

One of the most challenging goals of recommender systems is to infer the preferences of users through the observation of their actions. Those preferences are essential to obtain a satisfactory accuracy in the recommendations. Preference learning is especially difficult when attributes of different kinds (numeric or linguistic) intervene in the problem, and even more when they take multiple poss...

Sustainability of international virtual learning communities often appears to be problematic. There are many factors influencing it. The paper deals with the influence of cultural preferences on user interface designing process, which in turn may affect information accessibility and data interaction process – the elements of extended TAM model [1]. We consider Polish users’ preferences and need...

Often we need to work in scenarios where events happen over time and preferences are associated with event distances and durations. Soft temporal constraints allow one to describe in a natural way problems arising in such scenarios. In general, solving soft temporal problems requires exponential time in the worst case, but there are interesting subclasses of problems which are polynomially solv...

This study aims at finding the high and low achievers’ learning style preferences teachers’ understanding about students’ in English MAN 1 Banda Aceh. The survey of this used a combination quantitative qualitative methods. A questionnaire was to explore preferences, while an interview get specific information opinions on English. Willing (1988) category that consists communicative, concrete, au...