STORIES OF LEARNING: A CASE STUDY OF NORWEGIAN PLUMBERS AND APPRENTICES IN TVET AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE AND IN A TRAINING AGENCY

Stories of Learning: A Case Study of Norwegian Plumbers and Apprentices in TVET at the Construction Site and in a Training Agency

Context: Through a dual model, based on 2 years of education in upper secondary school followed by two and a half year of apprenticeship training, Norwegian plumbing education has become an integrated part of the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).Competence and skills are described in national plumbing curriculum.However, there is

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On the sample complexity of quantum Boltzmann machine learning

Abstract Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are machine-learning models for both classical and quantum data.We give an operational definition of QBM learning in terms of the difference in expectation values between the model and target, taking into account the polynomial size of the data set.By using the relative Stamps entropy as a loss function, t

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Hypoxia and the phenomenon of immune exclusion

Abstract Over the last few years, cancer immunotherapy experienced tremendous developments and it is nowadays considered a promising strategy against many types of cancer.However, the exclusion of lymphocytes from the tumor nest is a common phenomenon that Critical CX2R-G2 Power Supply limits the efficiency of immunotherapy in solid tumors.Despite

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