ACRL actions, January 1985

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Isolation of influenza virus in Thailand in December 1985 and January 1986.

1) Chiba Prefectural Serum Institute, Chiba 2) Division of Virus and Rickettsia, National Institute of Health, Tokyo 3) National Institute of Health, Bangkok 4) Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 5) Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 6) Department of Family Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 7) Department of Microb...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

Marasmus - 1985

Dr Wilfred J. Pearson writing for the first volume of this Journal in 1925 defined marasmus (Greek: marasmos, wasting) as 'a chronic state of malnutrition of a severe grade' but pointed out that 'we must retain the conception ofcases varying in severity from those who simply show an insufficient gain or stationary weight with few systemic changes, to the most extreme form which is merely the en...

Measurement of respiratory morbidity in general practice in the United Kingdom during the acid transport event of January 1985.

The Weekly Returns System of the Royal College of General Practitioners was used to assess the effect on respiratory illness of the acid transport event that occurred during January 1985. The pollution event, as assessed by SO2 and smoke levels measured at pollution monitoring stations within and without the affected area showed only modest rises in SO2 levels, which were less than levels that ...