ACRL Joint Committee Activities

the Joint Scientific Committee

40 SPARC scientists from the Brewer-Dobson Circulation workshop (see summary this issue) held in Grindelwald, Switzerland, June 2012, visited the Sphinx observatory on the Jungfraujoch (3571m) in the Swiss Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Sphinx is a highaltitude, international research station and hosts scientists from more than 20 different research institutions every year, investigati...

End of the Joint National Committee heritage?

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...

American joint committee on cancer staging of uveal melanoma

In January 2010, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) updated its staging criteria for uveal melanoma. Here, we discuss the staging classifications and evaluate an interesting case to demonstrate. The development of a uniform means of staging cancer, such as defined by the AJCC, is critical for information sharing among the research community.

Report of the Joint Committee for Stroke Facilities

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