BACKGROUND Integrated Modular Teaching program was introduced at Foundation University Medical College in 2009. The concept of integrated modular teaching was new to the faculty and students. A need was felt by Department of Medical Education for establishing a mentoring system in order to have a better understanding of students' problem, to provide them continuous support and to make them sail...

In this paper, we present three approaches to automatic ranking of relevant verb phrases extracted from historical text. These approaches are based on conditional probability, log likelihood ratio, and bagof-words classification respectively. The aim of the ranking in our study is to present verb phrases that have a high probability of describing work at the top of the results list, but the met...

In the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), great technical progress has been made since this discipline started to mature in the late 1990s. Yet, despite the almost universal interest in music, technology that helps people find the song they have in their head is not that widely used. There seems to be a mismatch between the assumptions researchers make about the users’ music information...

The results reported in this chapter were obtained through the study of 43 work-units belonging to five business firms in a large group of Tunisian companies. Using the declarative, procedural and judgmental dimensions of organizational memory, interaction effects were detected between IT and organizational memory. Analyses of the data support the view that storage technologies interact with de...

The primary research question we address in this paper is the extent to which participation within a well-established game-based learning environment for Civics instruction called LegSim (Legislative Simulation) supports the needed development of argumentation skills. Our analysis suggests that although environments like LegSim offer great potential for providing students with valuable opportun...

Introduction Problem 1. Assisting the user in clarifying and analyzing the problem and determining information needs. Problem 2. Knowing how people use and process information. Problem Assembling a package of information that enables group the user to come closer to a solution of his problem. Includes Problems 3-5.

This paper extends decision theory under imprecise probabilistic information to dynamic settings. We explore the relationship between the given objective probabilistic information, an agent’s subjective multiple priors, and updating. Dynamic consistency implies rectangular sets of priors at the subjective level. As the objective probabilistic information need not be consistent with rectangulari...

THERAPID DEVELOPMENT OF networked information resources and services has not been matched with ongoing assessments of how well these resources and services meet user needs. This article stresses the importance of developing and implementing a range of user-based evaluation techniques as a means of assessing the usefulness of the services, and planning for future services. A number of user-based...

The objective of this study is to validate pseudo gold standards using multiple queries for biomedical document collection. Aspect query is a quasi similar query of the original query text which has the same information needs. Basic idea is that single information need can be represented in various expressions. Four aspect queries per one original query were created manually by fifteen numbers ...