Premature babies often need to be treated for respiratory or digestive diseases in neonatal intensive care units. Incidentally, frequent radiological examinations such as chest or abdomen are being performed during their medical follow-up. Furthermore, those patients who have clinical complications may require a complementary period of hospitalisation lasting, in few cases, several months later...

The first version of the UIMA-based modular automatic question answering (QA) system was developed for NTCIR11 QA Lab task[5]. The system answers multiple-choice English questions for the Japanese university entrance examinations on the subject of world history. We made improvements in the current system by adding components focused towards Source Expansion and better Semantic Understanding of ...

a class for troublesome adolescent boys was conducted for six weeks by the Psychological Laboratory and Clinic. Dr. Arthur Holmes, who organized the class under the direction of Professor Lightner Witmer, reported upon the summer's work in an article in The Psychological Clinic, for November 15, 1910.1 With regard to the make-up of the class Dr. Holmes said: "It was found in examinations made a...

Japanese university entrance exams have two stages: The National Center Test (multiple choice-type questions) and second-stage examinations (complex questions including terms and essays). We participated in all phases of NTCIR-11 QA Lab-1 and NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2 task’s Japanese subtask and our system answered all of the questions. At QA Lab-2 task, we focused on term and essay questions in the se...

To what extent do high school students’ course grades align with their scores on standardized college admission tests? People sometimes make the argument that are “inflated”, but many districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for evaluation. In order to answer question, this paper proposes econometric models panel data, which less well-known in educational particular, fixed-effects a...

BACKGROUND Entrance examination (admission test) is the most important and widely accepted method of student selection for admission into medical schools in Nepal. For many schools it is the only criterion of student selection. OBJECTIVES To examine relationships of scores obtained in schooling (grade 10 and 12), medical entrance and MBBS professional examinations in a cohort to identify pred...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness items 2014/15 university entrance examination English language based on parameters facility value and discrimination index. has used a descriptive research design concerned with quantitative methods which reveal statistical result exam. data were collected from database National Educational Assessment Examination Agency (NEAEA). co...

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