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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"State Action"”.
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Charter schools as state actors: are they truly public schools?
… establishing charter schools across the United States has been accomplished by authorization statutes labelling them as public schools. They are supported by public tax dollars but private entities are obtaining charters and in some cases hiring for-profit companies to operate the schools. …
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A verdade da polícia: uma análise dos testemunhos de policiais em inquéritos sobre mortes de civis decorrentes de ação policial em Salvador, em 2016
… of the death of civilians resulting from police action. 14 criminal cases, 49 testimonies and 10 resistance reports were collected and analyzed, in order to identify the discursive elements for the legal justification of lethal state action. The data were analyzed through direct observation of …
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The spread of violent civil conflict : rare state-driven, and preventable
… the spread of violent civil conflict from one state to another. The fear of such "substate conflict contagion" is frequently invoked by American policymakers as a justification for military intervention in ongoing substate conflicts -- the argument these policymakers often make is that …
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Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic"
… in... health care) then they must be created, by state action if necessary." I would argue that the "Obesity Epidemic" is just such a created Neoliberal market, and in fact does not actually exist as an "epidemic." By changing the computation of BMI (Body Mass Index) in 1998, the federal …
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Modeling Group Communication in a Complex System for Achieving Group Goals
… by utilizing surface plot diagrams of the agents state-action matrix. These diagrams show the how group communications reinforce effective actions for the agents at an early stage in the simulation.
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Scheduling algorithms for throughput maximization in time-varying networks with reconfiguration delays
… are necessary. We propose techniques based on state-action frequencies of Markov Decision Process theory to characterize the network stability region and propose throughput-optimal algorithms. The state-action frequency technique is applicable to a broad class of systems with or without …
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Ratification of the twenty-sixth amendment
… vote were brought out, as well as individual state action and past Congressional action to lower the voting age. However, the main emphasis of the paper concerned efforts to secure ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which provided that the minimum voting age in all elections be …
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Emotional Impacts on Driver Behavior: An Emo-Psychophysical Car-Following Model
… driving behaviors; (4) the finding that driving states can result in different driving actions and that the same driving action can be the result of multiple driving states; (5) the finding that the performance of car-following models can be improved by calibration to state-action clusters; (6) …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
… from the path that would ultimately take the state toward the retrenchment of slavery and even secession. This younger generation, claiming the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, demonstrated that the liberal side of the Enlightenment had a life in Virginia that went beyond the Founders' generation, …
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Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation
… from curse of dimensionality in large continuous state spaces. Gaussian Processes (GPs) exploit the spatial correlation to approximate state- action transition dynamics or value function in large state spaces. By incorporating GPs in naive Q-learning we achieve better performance in smaller number …
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DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT
… storage scheduling problem in a continuous state-action space with stochastic electric generation. To this end, two main steps are carried out in this thesis. First, the PPO algorithm is trained on a ten-state building environment without stochastic generation. A Rule-Based Controller is …
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Towards an Integrated Model for the Judicial Regulation of State Contracts in South Africa
… conceptualise and regulate contracts involving state bodies, given their distinctive features and hybrid public–private character? At the core of this question lies an understanding of the state under the 1996 Constitution – a state that is constitutionally constituted and defined, and therefore …
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The use of coreference resolution for understanding manipulation commands for the PR2 Robot
Natural language interaction can enable us to interface with robots such as the Personal Robot 2 (PR2), without the need for a special training or equipment. Programming such a robot to follow commands is challenging because natural language has a complex structure and semantics, a model for which …
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Interpolated Experience Replay for Improved Sample Efficiency of Model-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
… with their closest neighbors in normalized state-action space. NMER preserves a locally linear approximation of the transition manifold by only interpolating transitions with similar stateaction features. BIER expands upon NMER by predicting interpolated transitions queried by NMER using …
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Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Control
… offline reinforcement learning over continuous state, action, and observation spaces. We present lower bounds highlighting instances of this problem that have a high sample complexity, regardless of the learning algorithm. We also consider efficient algorithms, and derive the first tight finite …
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Luta pela terra e pela sobrevivência na terra na microrregião de Sapé-PB: O assentamento zumbi dos palmares e o protagonismo dos jovens.
… of the settlements. It is important to state action through public political, civil society organizations and social movements in order to motivate youth to participate in activities that will ensure the reproduction of the peasantry in the areas of agrarian reform.
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Curriculum learning for heterogeneous star network embedding via deep reinforcement learning
… problem as a Markov decision process, with the action as selecting a specific type of edges for learning or terminating the training process, and the state as the sequence of edge types selected so far. The reward is calculated as the performance on external tasks with node representations as …
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Hip-Hop, Medellín and Social Change
… which exists autonomously and with very little state support in the Medellín neighborhood of Aranjuez, I argue that young people are contributing to the reconstruction of the city’s social, cultural and economic fabric. I start by explaining the historical context of Medellín, describing the …
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Liberty in full : Justice Stephen Field's cooperative constitution of liberty.
… liberty both from and through government action. Justice Field saw the Constitution as pursuing this fuller liberty, with certain provisions protecting individual rights through government regulation and others by restraining such regulation. To show Field's perspective, I focus on two …
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Private Actions--Public Responsibilities: Reflections on West v. Atkins (1988)
… abandonment. The Court's determination of state action in West v. Atkins (1988) requires discussion of the administrative areas of contracts and grants administration as well as risk management. The complex responsibilities of the public administration practitioner are examined, as is his …
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