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Computing Hierarchical Finite State Controllers with Classical Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
[EN] Finite State Controllers (FSCs) are an effective way to compactly represent sequential plans. By imposing appropriate conditions on transitions, FSCs can also represent generalized plans (plans that solve a range of planning problems from a given ...
Jiménez, Sergio   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

Backset-stationary and during car driving [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to measure and analyze backset, defined as the horizontal distance between the back of the occupant's head and a point located on the ventral/top aspect of the sewn rim of the head restraint, with the car stationary ...
Stenlund, Hans,   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Does Adopting Sustainable Development Goals Drive Corporate Change? The Case of the Goal on Gender Equality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether firms' adoption of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality leads to measurable improvements in gender diversity within corporate leadership. Using a sample of large European firms from 2016 to 2023, we apply a difference‐in‐differences methodology to compare gender diversity outcomes between ...
Josep Garcia‐Blandon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescriptive Positivism: Discourse on Sustainable Development Goal Interactions and Perspectives for a Post‐2030 World

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised.
Gin Dupont   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generalized planning as heuristic search: A new planning search-space that leverages pointers over objects [PDF]

open access: yes
[EN] Planning as heuristic search is one of the most successful approaches to classical planning but unfortunately, it does not trivially extend to Generalized Planning (GP); GP aims to compute algorithmic solutions that are valid for a set of classical ...
Jiménez, Sergio   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and China

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is a general‐purpose technology with wide‐ranging implications for sustainable development; yet, little is known about how its innovation trajectories have aligned with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ern Chern Khor, Moon Choi
wiley   +1 more source

The role of harms and burdens in clinical practice guidelines: Lessons learned from the American Psychological Association's guideline development

open access: yesClinical Psychology: Science and Practice, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Growing evidence supports the efficacy of various psychosocial interventions yet provides very little information about the potential harms and burdens of treatment. Lacking such information makes it difficult to make truly informed decisions about treatment options.
Raquel W. Halfond   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generation of surface plasmons by electron beam excitation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We report on the first demonstration of excitation of propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) by injection of a beam of free electrons on an unstructured metal interface, providing a highly localized and intense source of plasmon waves.
Jonsson, Fredrik   +3 more
core  

What Management Control Practices Do Electric Utilities Rely on When It Comes to Fostering the Social Pillar of Sustainability? A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and the United States

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric utilities are expected to implement measures to improve their performance in all three dimensions of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic. While several studies have investigated the environmental dimension, measures related to the social pillar have hardly been researched to date.
Shekerta Aliu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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