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SOVEREIGN: An Autonomous Neural System for Incrementally Learning Planned Action Sequences to Navigate Towards a Rewarded Goal [PDF]

, 2007
How do reactive and planned behaviors interact in real time? How are sequences of such behaviors released at appropriate times during autonomous navigation to realize valued goals? Controllers for both animals and mobile robots, or animats, need reactive
Gnadt, William, Grossberg, Stephen
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Global food security in the context of COVID-19: A scenario-based exploratory analysis

Progress in Disaster Science, 2020
This study highlights the major players in the global food balance, potential implications of COVID-19 on global food supply, and SDG-2 (zero hunger). It found that developing countries, fifteen from Africa followed by ten from Latin America, six from ...
Parmeshwar Udmale, Indrajit Pal, Sylvia Szabo, Malay Pramanik, Andy Large   +4 more
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Photothermal effects in ultra-precisely stabilized tunable microcavities

, 2016
We study the mechanical stability of a tunable high-finesse microcavity under ambient conditions and investigate light-induced effects that can both suppress and excite mechanical fluctuations.
Brachmann, Johannes F. S., Hunger, David, Hänsch, Theodor W., Kaupp, Hanno   +3 more
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Evaluation of water Loss in judo training and its relationship with subjective hunger and appetite scores [PDF]

, 2010
Judo, as well as other types of sports involving weight categories, is a modality in which athletes have high risk of hypohydration due to involuntary /voluntary dehydration.
Barros, Jaqueline de, Dattilo, Murilo, Fernandes, Ana Paula Oliveira, Garcia, Luciana da Silva, Oliveira, Juliana Valéria Serra, Peron, Alessandra Nunes, Stulbach, Tamara Eugenia   +6 more
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Caring for children with SAM: Intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya

Global Public Health
This paper draws from qualitative research undertaken with the mothers and primary caregivers of children aged under 5 years old and in recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), as well as other community members, across three study sites in Kenya ...
Tim Brown, Kavita Datta, Catherine Achieng, Jacqueline Kabongo, Joseph M. Zulu, Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Andrew Prendergast   +6 more
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Applying 1D convolutional neural networks to advance food security in support of SDG 2

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
PurposeThe goal of this study is to predict how well five countries the US, Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt, and Sweden will do in terms of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), particularly the hunger index scores, between 2025 and 2030.MethodsHistorical ...
Ghada Alturif, Alaa A. El-Bary, Alaa A. El-Bary, Alaa A. El-Bary, Radwa Ahmed Osman, Radwa Ahmed Osman   +5 more
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POLICY FRAMEWORKS FOR GROWTH, AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA: YOKING SMART FARMING SOLUTIONS FOR SDG 2 (ZERO HUNGER) IN IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LAGOS STATE

International Studies Journal
Nigeria’s quest for attaining Zero Hungeris in  line with the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) in 2030. This effortshas been hampered by low agricultural output, poor harvest losses, and erratic climatic conditions.
APAT KIDENTANIMU, PhD, DAKUSUK MARKUS JIMWAN, PhD, AYIM OLUCHI ESTHER, PhD, YOHANNA PETER MARI, PhD   +3 more
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Determinants of food security status among young farmers with and without disabilities

Advancements in Agricultural Development
Food is a basic need; thus, food security status is key to well-being of young farmers. This study examined factors that influence food security status of young farmers with and without disabilities in Uganda.
David Agole, Mark A. Brennan, Connie D. Baggett, John C. Ewing, Amanda Crump, Cosmas Wacal   +5 more
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Early Land Redistribution and the Food Security of South African Households: Micro-econometric evidence from national data [PDF]

, 2008
The South African land redistribution program, which was launched in 1994, has been widely criticised for its slow pace as well as its seemingly limited contribution to poverty reduction, but to the best of my knowledge, no econometric evidence of the ...
Valente, C.
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Hybrid Mechanical Systems

, 2014
We discuss hybrid systems in which a mechanical oscillator is coupled to another (microscopic) quantum system, such as trapped atoms or ions, solid-state spin qubits, or superconducting devices.
A Bhattacherjee, AA Geraci, AD Armour, AD Cronin, AJ Shields, B Vogell, C Degen, C Deutsch, C Gardiner, C Genes, C Genes, C Joshi, CK Law, CL Degen, D Hunger, D Hunger, D Leibfried, D Meiser, D Mozyrsky, D Rugar, D Vion, D Wineland, D Wineland, E Buks, EK Irish, F Jelezko, F Xue, F Xue, G Balasubramanian, G Chiara De, H Carmichael, H Ian, H Mamin, I Bloch, I Martin, I Wilson-Rae, J Clarke, J Maze, JA Schreier, JM Raimond, K Hammerer, K Hammerer, K Jähne, K Zhang, L Tian, M Grinolds, M Korppi, M Paternostro, M Poggio, M Poggio, M Wallquist, M Wallquist, MA Kasevich, MD LaHaye, MP Blencowe, O Arcizet, P Magusin, P Rabl, P Rabl, P Rabl, P Treutlein, R Budakian, R Hanson, R Wynands, RG Knobel, S Camerer, S Chu, S Etaki, S Kolkowitz, S Singh, S Singh, S Steinke, S Zippilli, SA McGee, SD Bennett, WK Hensinger, X Zhou, YD Wang, YJ Wang, Yu Makhlin   +79 more
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