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Showing 1 to 20 of 4273 for “"Evolutionary"”.
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Evolutionary deep learning
… of this thesis is to investigate whether evolutionary concepts can improve the performance, speed and convenience of algorithms in various active areas of machine learning research. Deep neural networks are exhibiting an explosion in the number of parameters that need to be trained, as …
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Evolutionary neural networks
To create neural networks that work, one needs to specify a structure and the interconnection weights between each pair of connected computing elements. The structure of a network can be selected by the designer depending on the application, although the selection of interconnection weights is a …
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Resolving Gnetum Evolutionary History
<em>Gnetum</em> are non-flowering seed plants of the tropics, indigenous to South America, Africa, and Asia. This group of about 40 species is fascinating to botanists because it shares distinctive morphological characteristics with flowering plants, such as broad leaves, woody stems, and …
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Evolutionary Structure and Search
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.
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The evolutionary psychology of information management: gossip, secrecy, and shame in evolutionary perspective
This thesis presents an evolutionary psychological approach to the study of human information management behavior, including gossip, secrecy, and the emotional processes guiding the communication and concealment of personal information. An evolutionary psychological perspective proposes that human …
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AN ANALYSIS OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND A CRITIQUE OF THEORIES OF EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY.
AN ANALYSIS OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND A CRITIQUE OF THEORIES OF EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY.
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The Epistemic Limits of Evolutionary Debunking: An Evaluation of Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism
<p>Evolutionary debunking arguments contend that the evolutionary origins of moral belief undermine the epistemic standing of moral realism. Sharon Street's Darwinian Dilemma and Richard Joyce's genealogical undercutting argument represent the two most influential formulations of this challenge. …
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Evolutionary Models Of Market Behavior
This thesis consists of three evolutionary models examining market behavior.;Profit maximization is the usual prerequisite for achievement of competition. However, for a long time it has been thought that this principle of profit maximization can be replaced by natural selection. In an evolutionary …
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Evolutionary algorithms for scheduling operations
… are becoming increasingly popular, specifically Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). However, there are three key limitations of previous studies researching application of EAs for the solution of the scheduling problems. First of all, there is no justification for the selection of a particular genetic …
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Heart Regeneration: An Evolutionary Tale
Lower vertebrates like urodele amphibians and teleost fish retain a robust cardiac regenerative capacity throughout their life, a phenomenon that is mediated through the proliferation of pre-existing cardiomyocytes. The adult mammalian heart lacks any meaningful endogenous regenerative response …
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Creativity : psychological and evolutionary perspectives
The most commonly cited explanation for the evolutionary emergence of creative ability is sexual selection. This suggests that the ability to produce creative products arose to advertise the qualities of the artist and thereby attract sexual partners. Thus the higher the quality of the product the …
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Evolutionary Computation and Experimental Design
… to produce good solutions quickly. Many evolutionary computation and experimental design methods are considered before genetic algorithms and evolutionary operation are combined to produce novel optimisation algorithms. A novel piece of software is created to run two and three factor …
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Essays in Evolutionary Game Theory
This thesis contains three essays in evolutionary game theory. In the first chapter, we study the impact of switching costs on the long run outcome in 2X2 coordination games played in the circular city model of local interactions. We find that for low levels of switching costs, the risk dominant …
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Evolutionary models in structured populations
Evolutionary dynamics have been traditionally studied in infinitely large homogeneous populations where each individual is equally likely to interact with every other individual. However, real populations are finite and characterised by complex interactions among individuals. In this work, the …
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Evolutionary analysis of animal microRNAs
… are known to be highly conserved, across long evolutionary distances, many found in co-transcribed clusters across the genome. While these phenomena have been previously reported, a large-scale analysis of evolutionary patterns was still lacking. Furthermore, the rate at which new relevant data …
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Mathematical models in evolutionary dynamics
We consider two mathematical models in evolutionary dynamics. The first model is an extension of an evolutionary game theory model proposed by Martin Nowak. We consider both a mean field deterministic approach and a weak noise stochastic approach, but the focus is on latter which is an uncommon …
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Evolutionary design of controlled structures
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997.
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Critical phenomena in evolutionary dynamics
This thesis consists of five essays on evolutionary dynamics. In Chapters 1 and 2, we study the evolution of trust from the perspective of game theory. In the trust game, two players have a chance to win a sum of money. The "investor" begins with one monetary unit. She gives a fraction of that unit …
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
… debate that surrounds the new field called "Evolutionary Psychology." Evolutionary psychology has emerged as the most popular successor theory to human sociobiology. Its proponents search for evolved psychological mechanisms and emphasize universal features of the human mind. My thesis is …
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