Background: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is widely accepted as an effective means of assessing clinical competence and nursing skills. There is, however, little existing knowledge on how first-year students perceived stress during their first OSCE. Objectives: To determine the perception stress; to identify factors causing incidence stress. Method: A descriptive, survey ...

First-order methods (FOMs) have been widely used for solving large-scale problems. A majority of existing works focus on problems without constraint or with simple constraints. Several recent studied FOMs complicated functional In this paper, we design a novel augmented Lagrangian (AL)–based FOM nonconvex objective and convex functions. The new method follows the framework proximal point (PP) m...

Abstract Despite the machine learning (ML) methods have been largely used recently, predicted materials properties usually cannot exceed range of original training data. We deployed a boundless objective-free exploration approach to combine traditional ML and density functional theory (DFT) in searching extreme material properties. This combination not only improves efficiency for screening lar...