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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Partial Knowledge"”.
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Optimization methods for parameter identifications in settings with only partial knowledge
… two projects focused on incorporating prior knowledge into machine learning models. In the first project, a universal feature selection method for linear mixed-effect models is developed. Namely, Sparse Relaxed Regularized Regression (SR3) is extended to the case of Linear Mixed-Effect (LME) …
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A New Story for the Anthropocene: Partial Knowledge and the New Weird in Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation
… change becoming a massive unknown. Our current knowledge and knowledge systems seem insufficient in providing concrete explanations, answers, and forms of action. This can lead to a focus on the negatives, not just mass species extinctions, the destruction of natural spaces, and natural …
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A two-parameter partial credit model
The assessment of partial knowledge has a long-term history in psychometrics literature. Many solutions based on classical test theory have been suggested and proposed. Thereafter, due to their failure in satisfying rigorous theory background and precise estimation, new methodologies based on …
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Power constructs and propositional systems
… including a paraconsistent three-valued logic of partial knowledge.
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On Privacy in Group Testing
… row weight d-disjunct matrices. We consider partial knowledge that an eavesdropper needs to know from the group testing matrix to obtain personal medical data. We also evaluate the leakage risk of the information under certain assumptions of the eavesdropper's abilities. The thesis concludes …
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KLM-Style Defeasible Reasoning for Datalog
… tasks, however, an agent typically only has partial knowledge of its domain, and at most a statistical understanding of relationships between properties. In this context, classical inference is considered overly restrictive, and many systems for non-monotonic reasoning have been proposed in …
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RISK AND UNCERTAINTY (UTILITY, DECISION)
… facing Allais' problem. Also, DM can exploit partial knowledge of state probabilities without choosing arbitrary point estimates for all uncertain odds. That helps to resolve problems that combine elements of both risk and uncertainty, like Ellsberg's.</p><p>The new method allows DM to do …
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Children's mental representation of referential relations : representational partitioning and "theory of mind"
… handling of intensional contexts - due to the partial nature of representations - and “intentional” referential problems - due to representations being outdated or hypothetical. In experiments 1-3 I demonstrated this dissociation explicitly, and showed that it extended to non-linguistic …
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Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Partial Dynamics Knowledge
… the literature without taking into account any partial knowledge about the system dynamics that could potentially accelerate the learning process. In this thesis, we study the sample complexity of online Q-learning methods when some prior knowledge about the dynamics is available or can be …
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An evaluation methodology to ensure the success of decision support tools
… (1) evaluation techniques which can work with partial knowledge about the effect of a decision support tool on management processes, (2) a systematic way to prescribe evaluation techniques for different assessment situations, (3) evaluation techniques which provide a way to transition from one …
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What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes the use that poetic language has for communicating the subjective knowledge from experience of being as it unfolds for us. The major movements of the thesis focus on …
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Applied Nonlinear Control of Unmanned Vehicles with Uncertain Dynamics
… control input amplitude and rate saturation, or partial state measurements availability. More specifically, an adaptive control framework, allowing to enforce amplitude and rate saturation of the command, is developed. The motion control component of this framework, which works in conjunction …
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Advancing Efficiency and Safety in Autonomous Sequential Decision Making
… dynamic environments. Additionally, the inherent partial knowledge due to sensory and model limitations complicates agents' functionality in complex scenarios. This thesis aims to enhance sample efficiency and safety by improving adaptability in evolving environments, addressing inaccuracies under …
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Turning Ligands on Their Side: Computational Investigation into the Binding of N2O and N2 in Transition Metal Complexes
… n<sup>2</sup>-NN binding mode. Given the partial knowledge of N<sub>2</sub>'s coordination to metal centers, these binding mode comparisons can be used to improve understanding of N<sub>2</sub>'s activation.</p>
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Informed Planning and Safe Distributed Replanning under Physical Constraints
… in a realtime fashion (replanning), with partial knowledge of their surroundings (partial observability) and despite the presence or in collaboration with other moving agents (distributed planning). This thesis describes techniques that address challenges related to real-time motion …
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"""Reverse pictures"": twentieth-century American portraiture and the subversion of the medico-photographic body"
… American artists to challenge empirical knowledge about the body through the reappropriation, manipulation, and parody of corporeal stereotypes. It contains a series of case studies which explore the work of Marsden Hartley, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Platt Lynes, and Diane Arbus. …
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Explanations for Autonomous Agents
… for humans. For autonomous agents, privacy and partial observability can introduce a notion of subjective unfairness in decentralised systems. We show that this effect can also be mitigated with the use of effective explanations. In like manner, we look at Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents and …
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Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary Knowledge (CDA-V): Vocabulary Depth Assessment and Zone of Proximal Development
… combination, the CDA-V measures both depth and partial depth of vocabulary knowledge. The impact of the CDA-V’s Graduated Prompts was examined with 32 native English speakers. I focused on four aspects of the CDAV. The impact of mediation on the CDA-V’s duration, the usefulness of the CDAV’s …
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Decision-making under statistical uncertainty
… likelihood ratio test (GLRT) that exploits partial knowledge about the alternate distribution to improve finite-sample performance over the Hoeffding test. Although the Hoeffding test is universally optimal in an asymptotic sense, we show that it suffers from high bias and variance which …
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IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS INVOLVED IN DOUBLE STRANDED RNA-INDUCED CELL DEATH THROUGH GENOME-WIDE CRISPR SCREENS
… by canonical dsRNA receptors. In view of the partial knowledge in this field and the strong impact that clarification of dsRNA-dependent cell death mechanisms could have in development of new therapeutical strategies, we performed a Genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …
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