This paper analyzes the suitability of reinforcement learning (RL) for both programming and adapting situated agents. We discuss two RL algorithms: Q-learning and the Bucket Brigade. We introduce a special case of the Bucket Brigade, and analyze and compare its…

The Telematics Industry faces tremendous challenges for growth. Regardless of the efforts and investment from vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, telematics has not been that profitable industry that many analyst forecasted five years ago; a 40 billion industry by 2003. This…

Protein assemblies with a high degree of repetitiveness and organization are known to induce strong immune responses. For that reason they have been postulated for the design of subunit vaccines by means of protein engineering. The enzyme lumazine synthase from…

This thesis focuses upon the traditional ecological knowledge of southeastern Hudson Bay Inuit. It provides a detailed assessment of Inuit use and knowledge of a single species, the Hudson Bay Eider (Somateria mollissima sedentaria). Data collected on Inuit classifications of…

dentification of groups that are similar in their floristic composition and structure (habitat types) is essential for conservation and forest managers to allocate high priority areas and to designate areas for reserves, refuges, and other protected areas. In this study,…

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, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…

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by Robert J. Grochowski., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988., Includes bibliographical references.

, Migraciones rurales andinas: un estudio a ambos lados de la frontera colombo-venezolana., Andean rural migrations: a study of both sides of the colombian-venezuelan frontier., Freire, Germán, Territorialidad conflictiva en la aldea de Horcáz-estado Mérida., Conflicting territoriality in the village…