Causal graphs are widely used in planning to capture the internal structure of planning instances. In the past, causal graphs have been exploited to generate hierarchical plans, to compute heuristics, and to identify classes of planning instances that are easy to solve. It is generally believed that planning is easier when the causal graph is acyclic. In this paper we show that this is not true...

sonnel in 6 Connecticut communities were trained in an asthma-management program entitled “Easy Breathing,” which was based on NAEPP guidelines. Quality parameters encompassed enrollment census, relevant use of anti-inflammatory medications, and provision of a written action plan. Utilization of medical services was confirmed for Medicaid-covered children and compared by using relative rates an...

Class participation for students is such a common expectation of nurse educators that it is easy to overlook the need to tailor class participation activities to individual student needs. An understanding of the various temperaments of individuals, especially preferences related to extroversion and introversion, can help nurse educators to plan class participation experiences that foster skills...

The paper describes ongoing work on the evaluation of methods for extracting collocation candidates from large text corpora. Our research is based on a German treebank corpus used as gold standard. Results are available for adjective+noun pairs, which proved to be a comparatively easy extraction task. We plan to extend the evaluation to other types of collocations (e.g., PP+verb pairs).

Introductory programming courses have been continuously reported as having a high rate of failure or withdrawal. This research aims to develop a new approach for teaching novice programming, which is both easy to introduce and effective in improving novice learning. Our approach combines three key ideas: using a visual programming language; using strategies, specifically using the concepts of ―...