ACRL Membership Meeting, 1973

Membership Categorisation Analysis , Sequences and Meeting Talk

This paper examines the sequential and categorical features of team members' talk within multidisciplinary meetings. An examination of turn taking, topic management and extended sequences in team members' talk is carried out through the analysis of naturally occurring data. In addition, the observable means through whichùnderstanding' is socially accomplished as a recognisable feature of team m...

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...

Edward Hindle, 1886-1973.

Muriel Robertson, 1883-1973.

May of 1973.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.