Background: The most important responsibilities of an education system are to create self-directed learning opportunities and develop the required skills for taking the responsibility for change. The present study aimed at determining the impact of a learning contract on self-directed learning and satisfaction of nursing students.    Methods: A total of 59 nursing students participat...

In this paper, we present a community answers ranking system which is based on Grice Maxims. In particular, we describe a ranking system which is based on answer relevancy scores, assigned by three main components: Named entity recognition, similarity score, and sentiment analysis.

To realize the vision of the Semantic Web, effective techniques of Information Retrieval need to be developed. Ranking the results of a search is one of the main challenges of an Information Retrieval system. In this paper we present a technique for ranking the results of a Semantic Web query. The ranking is based on various factors including the Semantic Web resource importance. We have modifi...

Ranking is an important task in the field of information retrieval. Ranking may be used in different modules in natural language processing such as search engines. In this paper, we introduce a competitive ranking system which combines three different modules. The system participated in SemEval 2016 question ranking task for the Arabic language. The task is a ranking task that targets reorderin...

Gene expression profiling by microarray technique has been effectively utilized for classification and diagnostic guessing of cancer nodules. Several machine learning and data mining techniques are presently applied for identifying cancer using gene expression data. Though, these techniques have not been proposed to deal with the particular needs of gene microarray examination. Initially, micro...

We reconsider the model of quantum mechanics violation in theK0–K̄0 system, due to Ellis, Hagelin, Nanopoulos, and Srednicki, in which CP and CPT -violating signatures arise from the evolution of pure states into mixed states. We present a formalism for computing time-dependent asymmetries in this model and show that present data constrains its parameters significantly. In the future, this model...