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Actor-critic algorithms
… policies. In this thesis, we propose and study actor-critic algorithms which combine the above two approaches with simulation to find the best policy among a parameterized class of policies. Actor-critic algorithms have two learning units: an actor and a critic. An actor is a decision maker with …
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Actor machine architecture.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1974
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Walter Hampden: Actor-Manager
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000908.pdf: 6264395 bytes, checksum: c48099d40440dc8c42db24edab8069f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Steel Magnolias: An Actor Directs
… an endeavor to accurately document and define my actor coaching process as a director through Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. The following chapters contain a record of the development of my actor coaching process in this production, including character & actor analysis, a rehearsal log that …
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Morris Carnovsky: Actor and Teacher
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:40:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7514082.PDF: 5957289 bytes, checksum: 54ff053f67281d7db1437f019b63cd0b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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James E. Murdoch: American Actor
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500807.pdf: 8391898 bytes, checksum: e9bac510d0e6609f21a5bca51bbcd754 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Systematic testing for actor programs
… for shared-memory models of programming. The actor model of programming offers a promising alternative for developing concurrent systems based on message passing. In actor-based systems, shared-memory access is not allowed, and the key source of non-determinism is the order in which messages …
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Actor programming with static guarantees
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Shakespeare's verse and the training actor
… storytelling. Contemporary directors and actors in both film and theatre are focussing more on making the text sound 'natural', rather than formally structured, in order to improve the accessibility of the text for a modern audience that is more familiar with interpreting a visual world …
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Problems for the high school actor
<p>”Problems for the HIgh School Actor” has been prepared so that the teacher and the student have been given a certain degree of flexibility in its use. The order of presentation of the various problems, the amount of time spent on any one time, and the focusing on the major amount of emphasis may …
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Dynamics and valence of actor engagement
In the increasingly networked service networks, actors continually interact and engage with one another to craft their value propositions, co-create their service experience, and contribute to the formation of system institutions. This thesis is comprised of three papers which study different …
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Actor training and emotions: Finding a balance
Actor training is a challenging and personally confronting course of study during which students can undergo intense emotional upheaval. Australian conservatoires and vocational drama schools teach acting students to access and expand their emotional range as part of their professional skill …
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Presentness: Developing Presence Through Psychophysical Actor-Training
… performance studies as well as in the field of actor-training. Presentness, an aspect of presence, is the experience of the emerging here and now as shaped by the performer’s psychophysical engagement with his or her surrounding. It is, thus, a tangible aspect of presence that can be enhanced …
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Voice and body incorporated into actor training
… aspects of training involved in the education of actors; Beginning with a comparison of techniques and principals applied in the styles of vocal specialists: Edith Skinner, Cicely Barry, and Kristin Linklater. I then explore various forms of "body use" technique's used in an acting student's …
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Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance
… that clash with the personal values of the actor, it creates dissonance between what the actor (as person) believes, represents or feels, and that which the character (as fictional construct) is interpreted to represent. This dissonance may negatively impact on the believability of the actor …
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Fritz Leiber--Actor and Producer of Shakespeare
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6506555.pdf: 9671568 bytes, checksum: 405f243e7f2b61b0d4a680a056d15af3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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Actor-Directors: The Working Lives of Prison Governors
Prison Governors are both actors and directors within the Prison Service. They fulfil key roles at the boundaries of individual prisons and the wider contexts: organisational, social and political, within which prisons function. In this thesis I study aspects of the working lives of nine Governing …
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An Actor-Based Framework for Real-Time Coordination
… and regular computational objects (modeled as actors) is defined. RTsynchronizers are implemented as C++ objects which are used by system schedulers in deciding the appropriate messages to be invoked at message destination computational objects. The implementation demonstrates the feasibility …
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Whole-system testing and analysis of actor programs
… solutions to the problem in the context of the Actor model, a popular concurrent programming model based on asynchronous message passing. Actors facilitate building scalable systems by making unintended race conditions and deadlocks less likely. Many large systems such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and …
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