J. Andrew Bagnell March 15, 2015 J. A. Bagnell is an associate professor at the Robotics Institute and Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Imitation learning is the study of algorithms that attempt to improve performance by mimicking a teacher’s decisions and behaviors. Such techniques promise to enable effective “programming by demonstration” to automate tasks, such as d...

Multiple scattering is an important and interesting topic, of relevance in a wide variety of physical contexts. In this short paper, we attempt to review some of the theory and applications with the aim of encouraging further investigations. For simplicity, we consider the scattering of two-dimensional time-harmonic acoustic waves by hard parallel cylinders. Methods described include separation...

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

INTRODUCTION Male involvement (MI) is vital for the uptake of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) interventions. Partner notification (PN) is among the strategies identified for MI in PMTCT services. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the efficacy of an invitation card to the male partners as a strategy for MI in ...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

In a narrow sense, this essay is meant to encourage business historians consider (and reconsider) the variety of public and private reports, which can provide insights into operation firms industries. U.S. bank examiner reports tell us about how nineteenth century banks operated within Republican political economy; European Union shine light on differences similarities between operating in vari...

This research aims to quantify the impact of reminder invitations on uptake and cancer detection in Ireland. Examination of BreastCheck's clinical database (2000-2010) to determine number of women screened following first invitation and after reminder; comparison by age group and screening phase with outcomes of recall rate, cancer detection and true positive rates. Of 819,182 first invitations...

family is one of the most important grounds of crime and crime victimization development. the experts, welfare workers, lawyers and sociologists argue that the factor or factors should be identified that provide the kind of conditions under which the individuals abuse, tolerate or accept the crime in order to secure the society, reduce the social harms and finally propose the procedures to refo...

sense of place is the most important features of space for designers in relation between human and environment, although key theories of the mid-twentieth century have shown that some social and psychological factors are more effective than physical characteristics but in this research, the focus is on the physical features of space. many researchers have been analyzed physical features and its...