the main purpose of this paper is to establish a relation between universality of certain p-compactifications of a semitopological semigroup and their corresponding enveloping semigroups. in particular, we show that if we take p to be the property that the enveloping semigroup of a compactification of a semitopological semigroup s is left simple, a group, or the trivial singleton semigroup, the...

the purpose of the present paper is to survey and analyse the concept and significance of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood in imam ali’s teachings, especially his nahj al balagha. islam admits the freedom of thought, free expression of opinions, and exercise of independent judgment in religious matters. it also acknowledges tolerance among religions, religious communities, nations ...

The leastmean p-power (LMP) is one of themost popular adaptive filtering algorithms. With a proper p value, the LMP can outperform the traditional least mean square (p = 2), especially under the impulsive noise environments. In sparse channel estimation, the unknown channel may have a sparse impulsive (or frequency) response. In this paper, our goal is to develop new LMP algorithms that can ada...

High-dimensional observations and complex realworld dynamics present major challenges in reinforcement learning for both function approximation and exploration. We address both of these challenges with two complementary techniques: First, we develop a gradient-boosting style, nonparametric function approximator for learning on Q-function residuals. And second, we propose an exploration strategy...

Introduction A key component of any reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm is the underlying representation used by the agent for learning (e.g. the parameterization of its function approximator). Transfer learning tasks typically look at speeding up a target task after learning in a source task. This paper considers a different, but related, question: is it possible, and desirable, for agents t...

We discuss the temporal-difference learning algorithm, as applied to approximating the cost-to-go function of an infinite-horizon discounted Markov chain. The algorithm we analyze updates parameters of a linear function approximator online during a single endless trajectory of an irreducible aperiodic Markov chain with a finite or infinite state space. We present a proof of convergence (with pr...

this article discusses what ethicists have called “unacceptable trade-offs” in health policy choices related to universal health coverage (uhc). since the fiscal space is constrained, trade-offs need to be made. but some trade-offs are unacceptable on the path to universal coverage. unacceptable choices include, among other examples from low-income countries, to expand coverage for services wit...

The paper investigates the application of a bio-inspired control paradigm encompassing nonlinear function approximation and adaptive learning to design manoeuvring controller for remotely operated vehicle. is adopted overcome limitations introduced by unknown dynamics as well environmental disturbances. proposed compared against traditional with respect tracking performance effort. Simulation r...

we extend the notion of semigroup compactification to the class of transformation semigroups, and determine the compactifications which are universal with respect to some topological properties.

The main purpose of this paper is to establish a relation between universality of certain P-compactifications of a semitopological semigroup and their corresponding enveloping semigroups. In particular, we show that if we take P to be the property that the enveloping semigroup of a compactification of a semitopological semigroup s is left simple, a group, or the trivial singleton semigroup, t...