Background The inability to attract medical graduates to specialize in psychiatry has always been a serious challenge to psychiatry training programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. Methods A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 122 fourth year medical students of Jimma University. The attitude of medical s...

This paper considers the task of learning a binary labeling of the vertices of a graph, given only a small set of positive examples and knowledge of the desired amount of positives. A learning machine is described maximizing the precision of the prediction, a combinatorial optimization problem which can be rephrased as a S-T mincut problem. For validation, we consider the movie recommendation d...

Most current learning algorithms require both positive and negative data. This is also the case for many of the recent ensemble learning techniques. Applications of Boosting, for example, rely on both positive and negative data to produce a hypothesis with high predictive accuracy. In this technical report, a learning methodology is presented that does not rely on negative examples. A learning ...

Results: Students included in study were of 16-29 years age group (mean age 18.6±3.2 years), 225 (37.5%) had adequate knowledge about emergency contraceptive pills, statistically significant difference in knowledge is seen among students who got knowledge from literary sources and health personnel (p<0.05). Majority of the science stream students (50%) were having adequate knowledge followed by...

background & aim: cesarean section (cs) rates have been increasing steadily, worldwide. the knowledge and attitude of health professionals towards natural childbirth and cs are important factors in selecting a mode of delivery. the purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of midwifery and nursing students towards different modes of delivery. methods:in this descriptive,...

An attitude recognizer of a speaker which uses prosodic features of speech is proposed and it is successfully applied to the dialogue system aiming at agreement formation. We use not only linguistic information but also some sorts of additional information supporting linguistic information in our human communication. In agreement formation dialogues, we are often required to express our attitud...

This study aims to determine the attitudes of individuals towards computer programming in terms of various variables. The study group consists of the students of Kastamonu University Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Teaching (CEIT), Department of Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Programming. Data were collected via Attitude towards Computer Program...