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Self-Knowledge Distillation via Progressive Associative Learning

  • Haoran Zhao,
  • Yanxian Bi,
  • Shuwen Tian,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Peiying Zhang,
  • Zhaopeng Deng and
  • Kai Liu

As a specific form of knowledge distillation (KD), self-knowledge distillation enables a student network to progressively distill its own knowledge without relying on a pretrained, complex teacher network; however, recent studies of self-KD have disc...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,751 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2021

Knowledge-enhanced recommendation (KER) aims to integrate the knowledge graph (KG) into collaborative filtering (CF) for alleviating the sparsity and cold start problems. The state-of-the-art graph neural network (GNN)–based methods mainly focus on e...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,100 Views
17 Pages

9 August 2024

Taking the perspective of innovative knowledge management, this study aimed to investigate the stimulation mechanism of continuous innovative knowledge contribution (CIKC). Through a quantitative study conducted in an open innovation community, we mo...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,416 Views
11 Pages

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between self-care knowledge, psychological well-being, and disease self-management in patients with hypertensive nephropathy, and to assess the effect of psychological well-being as a mediato...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,041 Views
9 Pages

10 October 2022

Globally, almost 9.3% of the population aged 20–80 years have been diagnosed with diabetes making diabetes management a global health problem beyond specific regions or races. This study aimed to determine the effect of diabetes knowledge, self...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,491 Views
24 Pages

Knowledge-Aware Graph Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation

  • Shanshan Li,
  • Yutong Jia,
  • You Wu,
  • Ning Wei,
  • Liyan Zhang and
  • Jingfeng Guo

2 December 2023

Collaborative filtering (CF) based on graph neural networks (GNN) can capture higher-order relationships between nodes, which in turn improves recommendation performance. Although effective, GNN-based methods still face the challenges of sparsity and...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,564 Views
20 Pages

Hierarchical Self-Supervised Learning for Knowledge-Aware Recommendation

  • Cong Zhou,
  • Sihang Zhou,
  • Jian Huang and
  • Dong Wang

15 October 2024

Knowledge-aware recommendation systems have shown superior performance by connecting user item interaction graph (UIG) with knowledge graph (KG) and enriching semantic connections collected by the corresponding networks. Among the existing methods, s...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,037 Views
12 Pages

Self-Efficacy Mediates Acculturation and Respite Care Knowledge of Immigrant Caregivers

  • Shu-Fen Kuo,
  • I-Hui Chen,
  • Tsai-Wei Huang,
  • Nae-Fang Miao,
  • Kath Peters and
  • Min-Huey Chung

Past studies have shown that acculturation and self-efficacy can affect respite care knowledge, which are notable issues among immigrant caregivers due to the rapid increasing aging family members. The aim of this study was to investigate relationshi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,004 Views
19 Pages

20 September 2023

The role of spirituality in organizations has received increasing attention over recent years. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to take up this shift and develop the foundations for an alternative approach to knowledge management: Spiritual Kn...

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  • Open Access
79 Citations
14,187 Views
24 Pages

The non-development of the concept of patient knowledge empowerment for disease self-management and the non-development of the theory of patient knowledge empowerment in patients with chronic diseases, cause methodological inconsistency of patient em...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,888 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness of Simulation with a Standardized Patient on Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Retention, and Self-Efficacy Among Moroccan Nursing Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study

  • Hicham Blaak,
  • Abdelmajid Lkoul,
  • Hayat Iziki,
  • Abderrahman Arechkik,
  • Karim Sbai Idrissi,
  • Samia El Hilali,
  • Rachid Razine,
  • Lahcen Belyamani,
  • Ahmed Kharabch and
  • Majdouline Obtel

4 February 2025

Background: Simulation is a crucial component in the training of healthcare professionals, offering a safe environment for practical learning without posing risks to patients. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the effect of simulation with a standardi...

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  • Open Access
101 Citations
13,112 Views
15 Pages

Public Knowledge, Beliefs and Behavior on Antibiotic Use and Self-Medication in Lithuania

  • Eglė Pavydė,
  • Vincentas Veikutis,
  • Asta Mačiulienė,
  • Vytautas Mačiulis,
  • Kęstutis Petrikonis and
  • Edgaras Stankevičius

Irrational antibiotic use has led society to antibiotic resistance—a serious health problem worldwide. This study aimed to assess public knowledge, beliefs, and behavior concerning antibiotic use and self-medication in Lithuania. The cross-sectional...

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  • Open Access
1,276 Views
38 Pages

25 July 2025

This article addresses the epistemic and political problem of self-referentiality in theology within the context of post-secular societies as a demand for public relevance of faculties of theology within the 21st-century university. It focuses on the...

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  • Open Access
3,374 Views
17 Pages

Improving Audio Classification Method by Combining Self-Supervision with Knowledge Distillation

  • Xuchao Gong,
  • Hongjie Duan,
  • Yaozhong Yang,
  • Lizhuang Tan,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Athanasios V. Vasilakos

The current audio single-mode self-supervised classification mainly adopts a strategy based on audio spectrum reconstruction. Overall, its self-supervised approach is relatively single and cannot fully mine key semantic information in the time and fr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,425 Views
21 Pages

Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Commitment: Psychological Capital as a Mediator and Self-Actualization as Moderator

  • Cynthia Sheeba Cathrin Rajakumar,
  • Syed Aktharsha Usman,
  • Mary Pearly Sumathi Soosai Micheal and
  • Satyanarayana Parayitam

2 August 2024

This study aims to investigate the effect of knowledge sharing on organizational commitment. A conceptual model shows hypothesized relationships between knowledge sharing, psychological capital, and organizational commitment. Further, the roles of se...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,257 Views
19 Pages

Compact Cloud Detection with Bidirectional Self-Attention Knowledge Distillation

  • Yajie Chai,
  • Kun Fu,
  • Xian Sun,
  • Wenhui Diao,
  • Zhiyuan Yan,
  • Yingchao Feng and
  • Lei Wang

26 August 2020

The deep convolutional neural network has made significant progress in cloud detection. However, the compromise between having a compact model and high accuracy has always been a challenging task in cloud detection for large-scale remote sensing imag...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,282 Views
19 Pages

Building Capacity for Sustainability Education: An Analysis of Vocational Teachers’ Knowledge, Readiness, and Self-Efficacy

  • Wudi Yang,
  • Caleb Chidozie Chinedu,
  • Wulin Chen,
  • Atif Saleem,
  • Moses Oladele Ogunniran,
  • Diego Ramiro Ñacato Estrella and
  • Bayardo Vaca Barahona

24 April 2024

In contributing towards the discourse on developing teachers’ capabilities for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), this study examines the relationships between sustainability knowledge, readiness, and self-efficacy for teaching sustai...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,237 Views
18 Pages

Social recommendations typically utilize social relationships and past behaviors to predict users’ preferences. In real-world scenarios, the connections between users and items often extend beyond simple pairwise relationships. Leveraging hyper...

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  • Open Access
496 Views
10 Pages

Association Between Parents’ Self-Perceived Oral Health Knowledge and the Presence of Dental Caries in Their Children

  • Andrea Coello Hidalgo,
  • Ana Alvear Miquilena,
  • Esteven Tipan Venegas,
  • Yeslith Sandoval Sánchez,
  • Diego Quiguango Farias,
  • Maria Rodriguez Tates and
  • Byron Velasquez Ron

5 November 2025

Introduction: Oral health in children is essential for their overall well-being, influencing nutrition, language development, and self-esteem. Dental caries represent one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in childhood. Objective: The objective o...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,008 Views
10 Pages

Analysis of Portuguese Physiotherapists’ Self-Knowledge on Temporomandibular Disorders

  • Paula Moleirinho-Alves,
  • Pedro Cebola,
  • Xavier Melo,
  • Sérgio Simões and
  • Catarina Godinho

Background: Physiotherapy is one of the most referenced and effective conservative strategies for treating patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). This study aimed to characterize and analyze the self-knowledge of TMD of Portuguese physiothe...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,606 Views
24 Pages

2 September 2021

Suppressing knowledge hiding is a prerequisite for achieving positive knowledge interactions among people. Most previous studies concentrate on knowledge hiding in organizations, but the quantitative examination of knowledge hiding antecedents in the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,327 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2024

We present a new method of self-supervised learning and knowledge distillation based on multi-views and multi-representations (MV–MR). MV–MR is based on the maximization of dependence between learnable embeddings from augmented and non-au...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,643 Views
12 Pages

Knowledge of Self-Isolation Rules in the UK for Those Who Have Symptoms of COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Study

  • Louise E. Smith,
  • Robert West,
  • Henry W. W. Potts,
  • Richard Amlȏt,
  • Nicola T. Fear,
  • G. James Rubin and
  • Susan Michie

Objectives: To investigate knowledge of self-isolation rules and factors associated with knowledge. Methods: Repeated cross-sectional online surveys (n ≈ 2000 UK adults) between 9 November 2020 and 16 February 2022 (78,573 responses from 51,881...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,150 Views
12 Pages

17 July 2024

This study examined whether an individual’s self-efficacy has a moderating role in the relationship between the different types of recycling/reuse knowledge they may have and their recycling/reuse intention, and the positive relationship betwee...

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  • Open Access
2,438 Views
21 Pages

Teacher Educator Knowledge, Skills, and Self-Efficacy: Systemic Impacts on Initial Teacher Education Programming

  • Brenda Aromu Wawire,
  • Fanny Nkunika,
  • Jennie Robinette,
  • Mark Manyau,
  • Jai Bum Koo and
  • Adrienne Elissa Barnes-Story

Initial teacher education programs are the primary means through which student teachers gain teaching apprenticeship, amass core teaching knowledge, and build skills that prepare them to become effective teachers who are ready to combat the realities...

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  • Open Access
1,858 Views
21 Pages

25 August 2025

General large language models (LLMs) often suffer from semantic misinterpretation, information redundancy, and hallucinated content when applied to educational question-answering tasks. These issues hinder their effectiveness in supporting students&r...

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  • Open Access
3,034 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2024

Background: The recent substantial increase in the incidence of stroke cases has resulted in high medical expenses. Stroke necessitates ongoing care, emphasizing the importance of consistent self-management. The occurrence of stroke impacts healthcar...

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  • Open Access
1,704 Views
14 Pages

Staff’s Knowledge and Self-Confidence in Difficult Communication: Evaluation of a Short Experiential-Based Training Program

  • Silvia Gonella,
  • Ludovica Brofferio,
  • Luigi Stella,
  • Daniele Sciarrotta,
  • Paola Di Giulio and
  • Valerio Dimonte

8 February 2025

Background: Most of the communication training programs developed over the past two decades were monodisciplinary, relied on traditional teaching methods, and targeted the hospital context. Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of...

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  • Open Access
1,734 Views
23 Pages

BASK: Backdoor Attack for Self-Supervised Encoders with Knowledge Distillation Survivability

  • Yihong Zhang,
  • Guojia Li,
  • Yihui Zhang,
  • Yan Cao,
  • Mingyue Cao and
  • Chengyao Xue

Backdoor attacks in self-supervised learning pose an increasing threat. Recent studies have shown that knowledge distillation can mitigate these attacks by altering feature representations. In response, we propose BASK, a novel backdoor attack that r...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,017 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2025

Background: Patients undergoing hemodialysis for chronic kidney failure experience various complications and physical and emotional difficulties, leading to decreased quality of life. Self-care behaviors are essential for preventing complications and...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,331 Views
25 Pages

27 September 2022

The main challenges of remote sensing image scene classification are extracting discriminative features and making full use of the training data. The current mainstream deep learning methods usually only use the hard labels of the samples, ignoring t...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,243 Views
11 Pages

31 December 2022

Early in development, children rely heavily on caregivers for assistance with the regulation of negative emotion. As such, it is important to understand parent characteristics that influence caregiver ability to attenuate infant negative affect and m...

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  • Open Access
3,784 Views
17 Pages

Background: Self-medication is the use of medicinal products to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms without the prescription or supervision of a healthcare professional. There is a lack of data about self-medication knowledge, attitudes, and p...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,746 Views
32 Pages

11 October 2021

Understanding and knowledge of scientific reasoning skills is a key ability of pre-service teachers. In a written survey (open response format), biology and chemistry pre-service teachers (n = 51) from two German universities claimed central decision...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,459 Views
12 Pages

Antibiotic self-medication, which refers to acquisition and using antibiotics to treat infections based on personal experience and/or without a doctor’s advice or prescription, is a significant public health issue jeopardizing patient health ou...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,975 Views
20 Pages

10 September 2022

Using deep learning to classify hyperspectral image(HSI) with only a few labeled samples available is a challenge. Recently, the knowledge distillation method based on soft label generation has been used to solve classification problems with a limite...

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  • Open Access
2,504 Views
23 Pages

16 September 2025

One of the primary challenges of any educational system is providing effective professional development (PD) for teachers, which will integrate knowledge that can be translated into practice. Moreover, the goal of PD is for teachers to implement new...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,526 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2025

Grounded in the person–environment fit theory and an identity-based perspective, this study investigated the relationship between perceived overqualification and knowledge hiding, focusing on the mediating role of future work self-salience and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,815 Views
12 Pages

Mobile Health, Disease Knowledge, and Self-Care Behavior in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study

  • Yi-Chun Tsai,
  • Pei-Ni Hsiao,
  • Mei-Chuan Kuo,
  • Shu-Li Wang,
  • Tzu-Hui Chen,
  • Lan-Fang Kung,
  • Shih-Ming Hsiao,
  • Ming-Yen Lin,
  • Shang-Jyh Hwang and
  • Hung-Chun Chen
  • + 1 author

27 August 2021

Mobile health (mHealth) management is an emerging strategy of care for patients with chronic diseases. However, the effect of mHealth management on clinical outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been well-studied. The aim of...

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  • Open Access
241 Views
14 Pages

Knowledge and Self-Efficacy as Key Determinants of Transition Readiness in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Insights from Adolescents, Parents, and Clinicians

  • Ailsa Marshall,
  • Nghi H. Bui,
  • Ann Nillsen,
  • Lena Lim,
  • Gillian Burke,
  • Amelia Christie,
  • Sandeep Kaur,
  • Karina Pearce,
  • Jack Ho and
  • Sharon Youde
  • + 8 authors

Aim: Assess transition readiness of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) from adolescent, parental, and clinician perspectives. Methods: Cross-sectional study (n = 36, 20 Male/16 Female, 16–18 years, June 2023–June 2024, metropolitan pa...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,431 Views
16 Pages

Objectives: To provide safe and effective local anesthesia, dentists must have knowledge of neuroanatomy, anesthesia agents, techniques, equipment, and proper use of local anesthetics. This study aims to explore the knowledge, practices, and confiden...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,292 Views
14 Pages

Drivers of Vegetable Consumption in Urban Nigeria: Food Choice Motives, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy

  • Ireen Raaijmakers,
  • Harriette Snoek,
  • Busie Maziya-Dixon and
  • Thom Achterbosch

14 December 2018

Objective: This study aimed to provide insights into vegetable consumption behavior of urban Nigerian consumers across different Socio-Economic Classes (SEC), their main food choice motives, and the associations of these motives and other drivers wit...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,116 Views
24 Pages

15 December 2022

Interdisciplinary science teaching in (lower) secondary education can lead to out-of-field teaching in countries with a discipline-specific teacher education. For example, the discipline-specific teacher education in Germany does not fit the current...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,718 Views
13 Pages

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common fundus disease that leads to irreversible blindness, which plagues the working-age population. Automatic medical imaging diagnosis provides a non-invasive method to assist ophthalmologists in timely screening of...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,298 Views
11 Pages

Breastfeeding knowledge, intention, and self-efficacy affect breastfeeding rates during the postpartum period. Insufficient knowledge, lack of intention, and poor breastfeeding self-efficacy reduce the likelihood of breastfeeding postpartum. The purp...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,018 Views
16 Pages

Knowledge acquisition practices are important to enterprises, particularly since market competition is intensifying. In recent years, organizations have begun to pay more attention to knowledge sharing practices. Many organizations are looking for me...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,048 Views
18 Pages

Exploring the Relationship Between Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Infection Control Practices Among Saudi Arabian Nurses: A Multi-Center Study

  • Amal Alsulami,
  • Lailani Sacgaca,
  • Petelyne Pangket,
  • Eddieson Pasay-an,
  • Fatmah Ahmed Al Amoudi,
  • Maha Sanat Alreshidi,
  • Nojoud Alrashedi,
  • Romeo Mostoles,
  • Joyce Buta and
  • Benito Areola
  • + 2 authors

24 January 2025

Introduction: Healthcare-associated infections are a significant risk to patients and the healthcare system. Differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices among nurses have limited standardized precautions. Improving self-efficacy can enhance co...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,560 Views
15 Pages

Childhood obesity rates have been increasing over the years and is considered one of the most serious public health problems of the century. Low socioeconomic status has been associated with a higher body mass index. However, the pathways underlying...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,741 Views
13 Pages

6 February 2025

Background/Objectives: The nutritional knowledge and behavior of athletes are considerably influenced by the dietary recommendations of their coaches, which, in turn, affect their health and performance. In the context of social cognitive theory, thi...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,046 Views
12 Pages

Developing an Instrument to Measure Self-Efficacy, Challenges and Knowledge in Oral Care among Geriatric Home Care Nurses—A Pilot Study

  • Taru Aro,
  • Marja-Liisa Laitala,
  • Hannu Vähänikkilä,
  • Helvi Kyngäs,
  • Antti Tiisanoja and
  • Anna-Maija Syrjälä

The role of geriatric nurses is essential in preventing oral health problems of older people with impaired daily functioning. Nurses have reported low self-efficacy with regard to oral health care practices and wish to receive more information on the...

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