The ACRL Annual Reoprt, 1952-53

The Medical Annual, 1952

Proposed Budget for Social Security and Related Programs, 1952–53

ing to this estimate the railroad retirement system might have a relatively small amount to transfer to the old-age and survivors insurance system, but the amount is far more than offset by the employer and employee contributions with respect to the short-service employees that the railroad retirement system, in effect, collects and retains. No benefits other than the residual death payment, wh...

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...

The Corneal Grafting Act, 1952.

AFrER World War II the impetus of interest in keratoplasty quickened again, and with the advent of new technique and new methods an adequate reservoir of donor grafts became imperative. In the United Kingdom the expansion of this branch of ophthalmic surgery had been sadly hampered by the impact of two wars, the lack of instruments, and the absence of trained personnel. Even when these difficul...

Norman Haire (1892-1952)

Norman Haire was a physician who advocated for eugenics [4], which is the betterment of human population by promoting positive traits, and birth control [5] rights in the twentieth century in both Australia and the UK. In the UK, Haire joined the Malthusian League, a contraception [6] advocacy organization [7], and helped the League open the first physiciansupervised birth control [5] clinic, c...