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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Control Function"”.
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Cardiorespiratory Influences on Executive Control Function
Cardiorespiratory fitness influences on executive control function were assessed for 72 young adults (23 males). Behavioral and neuroelectric indices of action monitoring were obtained while participants completed both a modified flanker task and a modified Sternberg task under task instruction …
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The impact of relationship selling on the sales force control function.
Sales management control and sales force performance has received substantial attention by researchers in the past decades. Researchers have been investigating the construct of sales control, its antecedents and its consequences on both the individual sales person and on sales force performance. …
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INTERNAL AUDIT AND CONTROL FUNCTION AND PROCUREMENT FRAUD IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM AN EMERGING ECONOMY
… the effectiveness of internal audit and control function in reducing procurement fraud in higher education institutions in an emerging economy of Ghana. Ghana is one of the African countries, which is most affected by the cankers of fraud and corruption. Earlier studies revealed that …
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The Relationship Between Psychosocial Functioning and Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control Function in Women With Provoked Vestibulodynia and Pain Free Controls
… systems, such as Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control (DNIC). DNIC is triggered by the simultaneous application of two painful stimuli, with pain at one body site inhibiting pain at another body site. Because DNIC consists of a feedback loop that involves the spinal cord and the brain, it is …
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Kultūros paveldo kontrolė 1990 – 2006 metais /
Cultural Heritage Control in 1990 – 2006 An object of the scientific study “Cultural Heritage Control 1990 – 2006” lies in a control of cultural heritage which is an essential of three functions for the preservation of the cultural heritage. The point of the work is to examine and analyze the …
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A symbol's role in learning low-level control functions.
… can be exploited in the learning of low level control functions. It proposes a novel hybrid architecture with a tight coupling between a variant of symbolic planning and reinforcement learning. This architecture combines the strengths of the function approximation of subsymbolic learning with …
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Achieving High Performance on Extremely Large Parallel Machines: Performance Prediction and Load Balancing
… which incorporates an explicit memory cost control function to make it easy to adapt to extremely large machines with small memory footprint. This hierarchical load balancing scheme builds load data from instrumenting an application automatically at run-time on both computation and …
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A variational approach to local optimality in control theory
A new approach to control theory is investigated in this thesis. The approach is based on a locally specified state space model of the control dynamics; together with a goal function, which defines a generalized distance from each state position to the desired equilibrium point or trajectory. A …
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Count-Regression-Based Empirical Causal Analysis from a Potential Outcomes Perspective: Accounting for Boundedness, Discreteness, Dispersion and Unobservable Confounding
… extant FO-2SRI estimators based on conventional control function methods and the linear instrumental variables (LIV) estimator. A series of simulation studies are performed to investigate the accuracy of the proposed estimators and compare the results with the extant estimators. In the simulation …
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Investigating multiphoton phenomena using nonlinear dynamics
… (linear or nonlinear) stabilities by adding control functions (which act on the system as external perturbations) to the relevant Hamiltonians. These phase-space structures may be periodic orbits, invariant tori or their stable and unstable manifolds. One-electron systems and diatomic …
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Stable and fair congestion control mechanisms for cooperative vehicle safety in vehicular networks
… the scalability problem, several congestion control methods have been proposed and are currently under field study. These mechanisms adapt transmission rate and power, based on network measures such as: Channel Busy Ratio (CBR), packet reception rate and vehicles tracking error. Channel Busy …
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The evolution of 'Boxes' to quantized inductive learning: a study in inductive learning
… learning method is analyzed for use in on-line control. The controller has the benefit of being designed without a system model and is able to adapt itself to varying system parameters. Numerical experiments were performed with the Quantized Inductive Learning (QIL) algorithm, an extension of …
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Three case studies on the impact of inequality on agricultural efficiency, productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart practices
… strategies: a dynamic panel data model, and a control function approach; finding a negative effect of land inequality (measured by the Gini and Theil coefficients) on total factor productivity. And finally, in the third chapter, we exploit a larger sample of over four-thousand farmers from the …
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Analysing the effect of financial technology on financial behaviour in Namibia: A gender perspective
… the determinants of fintech adoption and a control function approach to assess the effect of fintech adoption on saving and borrowing behaviours. The findings indicate no significant gender disparities in fintech adoption in Namibia. Furthermore, results reveal that fintech adoption has a …
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Neural architectures for database query processing, syntax analysis, knowledge representation, and inference
… of numeric tasks in pattern classification, control, function approximation, and system identification, the integration of ANN and symbolic computing is only beginning to be explored. This dissertation explores to integrate ANN and some essential symbolic computations for content-based …
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Addressing endogeneity in residential location models
… Carlo experiments. The results showed that the control-function method (Petrin and Train, 2004) is the most promising one to address endogeneity in this framework because it is the best to handle individual level endogeneity and it is tractable with available estimation software.
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Gait variability in persons with multiple sclerosis
… during walking, has been associated with motor control function, stability and falls in other populations but has not been thoroughly documented in people with MS. In this thesis, gait variability is documented in different samples of people with MS using a variety of metrics. The first …
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Essays on medical care using Semiparametric and structural econometrics
… Our computational algorithm combines a control function approach with the Chernozhukov and Hong (2002) CQR algorithm. Through Monte-Carlo simulation, we show that CQIV performs well relative to Tobit IV in terms of median bias and interquartile range.
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Onboard trajectory generation for the unpowered landing of autonomous Reusable Launch Vehicles
… generation guidance system using an integrated control function. To assess feasibility, the onboard trajectory generator is benchmarked against traditional X-34 guidance for a drop test scenario. The results match in basic form, with differences showcasing the autonomous algorithms' preference …
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Dirbtinio intelekto technologijos panaudojimo galimybės vykdymo procese: iššūkiai ir perspektyvos /
… of courts in the performance of statutory functions: the issuance of enforcement documents, the control function, and the protection of the rights of individuals, as well as the possibilities of using artificial intelligence in the activities of bailiffs, and the use of already developed …
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