Sailing to the Happy Isles

(Sailing to) Byzantium: the Kantian Sublime

(sailing to) byzantium: the kantian sublime

aestheticians and moralphilosophers alike are inclined to the view that there is no particular!j beneficial effect on moral life ofa developed aesthetic sensibility. the usual supporting witness is the pitiless nazi ss officer with a refined tastefor mozart and torture. but though his testimony can hard!j be gainsaid, there is an unnoticed and unwarranted narro1ving of the scope ofaesthetic sen...

Happy Street: a point to reach the happy city Case study (Bu-Ali Sina and Pasteur axis of Hamadan city)

The happy city is one of the topics that has been considered by many urban experts in recent decades. The issue of happiness in urban space is becoming one of the urban spaceschr('39') expectations. From Montgomerychr('39')s perspective, happiness is not a vague concept but a defined and measurable equation directly influenced by the manchr('39')s environment. The issue of a happy city in our c...

Reinforcement Sailing

This thesis examines applying reinforcement learning to sailing. We give two conceptually different models of a simple sailing boat. Standard tabular reinforcement learning is shown to be ineffective in controlling these naturally continuous models. We examine a method [Smith, 2001b] which adaptively quantises both the state and action spaces and show that it has similar performance to the tabu...

The Blood of the Isles

specialised area of transfusion medicine in neonatology. Edge's chapter on cerebral oedema in diabetic ketoacidosis highlights the difficulties in initially recognising the onset of this life threatening condition. However, she clearly stresses early warning signs such as headache and emphasises the importance of meticulous nursing care in these vulnerable young people. She recommends the usefu...