ACRL GRANTS PROGRAM

Children’s Bureau Discretionary Grants Program -- Final Report

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2000 Research Grants--FANRR-20

This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to encourage new and innovative studies of food security, hunger, and publicand private-sector efforts to alleviate these problems among lowincome residents of the United States through food and nutrition assistance. The report ...

Extramurally Speaking NIEHS/NTP-Supported Unique Grants Program

A 437 The NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT), in collaboration with the National Toxicology Program (NTP), initiated a unique grants program in 1997 that funds investigatorinitiated research to provide data to aid in defining the mechanism of action of agents under study by the NTP. This program uses the NIH R03 Small Grant mechanism to encourage investigatorinitiated hyp...

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...

Getting grants

Attracting financial support is a critical element of success in science, but we have entered a time of cost constraint with little hope of relief coming soon. For principal investigators, developing a broad base of research support is a valuable strategy for attaining financial stability for the laboratory. New investigators working on problems related to virulence and just beginning to build ...