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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"learning results"”.
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Improving algorithmic performance using stochastic learning rates: In-expectation and almost-surely stochastic approximation, and online learning, results and applications
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Aprenentatge col·laboratiu amb suport de l'ordinador. Influència de la demanda en el procés i els resultats d'aprenentatge
… study of computer-supported collaborative learning during the searching and elaboration of information in secondary education. Based on a sociocognitive point of view about teaching and learning, the question behind this study is the following: How specific tasks affect the learning process …
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Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Aircraft Control and Aerial Maneuvering in Simulated Environments
This thesis explores reinforcement learning for autonomous airplane navigation in a Unity-based simulation. Using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), the agent learns to fly, avoid obstacles, and reach targets through continuous control. A combination of environment design and reward shaping was …
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Magnet Schools: Implications for Curriculum Development
… greater gains in some areas, including test results, as compared to their nonmagnet counterparts, supporting the idea that student, teacher, and parent choice of a learning environment has a direct impact on learning results.
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Manifold Learning From Time Series
We apply our manifold learning algorithm to synthetic data and real world applications. The experiment on synthetic data clearly demonstrates that by taking temporal dependency among global coordinates into consideration our proposed algorithm achieves superior learning results than other manifold …
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Deep learning for discovering new product opportunities
… identification in credit cards, we conclude Deep Learning results in significantly better performance than the state of the art. Our approach is scalable to Big Data and can derive superior predictive power from the inexpensive unstructured data exhaust of internet commerce.
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Communication organizational orientations in an instructional setting
… and attitudes toward college, student affective learning, and student cognitive learning. Results indicate upward mobility had significant positive correlations with the dependent variables except cognitive learning while ambivalent and indifferent orientations had significant negative …
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Learning optimal discourse strategies in a spoken dialogue system
… thesis investigates the issues involved with learning optimal discourse strategies on the basis of experience gained through conversations between human users and natural language agents. A spoken dialogue agent, ELVIS, is implemented as a testbed for learning optimal discourse strategies. …
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The impact of multiliteracies and multimodality on ESL learners: Using Neuroimaging Technologies
… literacy pedagogy addressing multimodal learning and cultural and linguistic diversity. This study used functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate the association of multiliteracies learning on adult English Second Language (ESL) students’ performance through multimodal …
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Linear approach vs. non-linear approach in computer-based instruction: An empirical study of network branching in hypertext application
… effects of learner control in a new hypertext learning environment. Sixty subjects were randomly and evenly assigned to one of three treatment groups. Group 1 took the linear MicroSoft Word tutorial. Groups 2 and 3 took a hypertext MicroSoft Word tutorial. The difference between Groups 2 and 3 …
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Solar Sailing Adaptive Control Using Integral Concurrent Learning for Solar Flux Estimation
… control law along with integral concurrent learning is suggested to accomplish and prove global exponential tracking of the estimated parameters and states of interest, without satisfying the common persistence of excitation condition, which in most nonlinear systems cannot be guaranteed a …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
… about cognitive bias and its effect on science learning. Results indicated that both cognitive bias and views on evolution are persistent, as student responses did not significantly change after watching the video. Included in this research are implications for teachers and administrators, as …
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A Study of the Impact of Site-Based Mathematics Professional Development on Student Mathematics Achievement
… development on their teaching and student learning.. Results indicated an increase in test populations, though not statistically significant the results of this study show a substantive impact on student learning.</p>
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Who, When, How (Not) to Imitate? The Role of Imitation in Collective Intelligence, and Its Implications on the Design of Socio-Technical Systems
… different institutions. Researchers posit social learning as a mechanism for overcoming individual limitations, quickly adapting to environments, passing knowledge across generations, and enabling rapid cumulative cultural evolution. This thesis demonstrates how multi-agent learning (MAL) can …
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Technology Adoption and Integration: A Descriptive Study of a Higher Education Institution in a Developing Nation
… integration of the technologies in teaching and learning. This study ventured to investigate prevailing levels of utilization of the computer technology and the Internet in teaching and learning at the university and uncover factors that facilitate or hinder use and integration of the …
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Comparison and Contrast of Undergraduate and Graduate IDT Course Syllabi across Countries
… in the area of curricula, to facilitate learning and understanding among nations. This study examined undergraduate and graduate course syllabi from around the world to compare and contrast their components and subcomponents related to instructional design and technology. The aim was to …
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A colorful examination of self-discovery and emotional awareness
… color. At its core, this research looks into the learning results of pushing artistic boundaries and going into new areas of self-expression. Over the course of thirty days, I conducted a personal ethnographic research, documenting my emotions three times per day, translating them into a color …
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Examination of neocortical plasticity during forebrain-dependent trace-associative learning tasks
Classic studies utilizing general learning and memory tasks, such as environmental enrichment and acrobatic training paradigms, have robustly demonstrated increased neocortical dendritic spine density following various types of general learning. Though these studies have been instrumental in …
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