introduction: basic science course plays a pivotal role in the academic achievement of the students. the scientific background and educational performance of the students are also influential in this period. the aim of the present study was to investigate the educational status of dental basic science course in the first three admissions (2009-2011) and its association with students’ educationa...

background and purpose: course-based assessment is a method to gather, analyze, disseminate, and use course data to improve student learning. we assessed the associations between medical students’ scores in basic sciences and general courses in a university in iran and compared these scores with their scores in comprehensive exam. methods: we collected the scores of medical students in their co...

Many programs learn from data represented as feature vectors. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this representation for learning and the assumptions that underlie it in the context of learning. Include, but do not limit yourself to, some discussion of uncertainty, semantics, and relational learning. Focus your discussion more on the representation of the data than on the learning algorith...

Purpose: This document is a compilation of notes generated to prepare for the Basic Qualifying Exam. I have documented some of my solutions so that I may not forget and repeat the frustrations of failing this cursed exam again. Best of luck to anyone using these notes to prepare. Also see Brent Woodhouse's study guide. I do not guarantee accuracy of all the presented solutions. This document is...