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Adaptation and Transfer of Robot Motion Policies for Close Proximity Human-Robot Interaction

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019
In the context of human-robot collaboration in close proximity, safety and comfort are the two important aspects to achieve joint tasks efficiently. For safety, the robot must be able to avoid dynamic obstacles such as a human arm with high reliability ...
Khoi Hoang Dinh   +3 more
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The Long-Term Impacts of an Integrated Care Programme on Hospital Utilisation among Older Adults in the South of England: A Synthetic Control Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2023
Introduction: Reducing hospital use is often viewed as a possible positive consequence of introducing integrated care (IC). We investigated the impact of an IC programme in North East Hampshire and Farnham (NEHF), in southern England, on hospital ...
Paul Seamer   +3 more
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A qualitative framework to learn from Failures: reducing risks and developing effective financial policies

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Islamic Finance, 2018
This article explores policy failures phenomena and makes suggestions to draw lessons from past mistakes in order to improve financial policies in the future.
Mustafa Mahmoud Hamed
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Lessons Learned From the Historical Trends on Thrombolysis Use for Acute Ischemic Stroke Among Medicare Beneficiaries in the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2022
BackgroundThe most recent time trends on intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) utilization for acute ischemic stroke was reported in 2011 using the Get with the Guidelines.
Tong Meng   +12 more
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A New Era for Educational Assessment

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote student achievement while simultaneously meeting system accountability needs.
David Conley
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Field Data Collection Methods Strongly Affect Satellite-Based Crop Yield Estimation

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Crop yield estimation from satellite data requires field observations to fit and evaluate predictive models. However, it is not clear how much field data collection methods matter for predictive performance.
Kate Tiedeman   +5 more
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Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement

open access: yesCoRR, 2018
We study the problem of learning personalized decision policies from observational data while accounting for possible unobserved confounding. Previous approaches, which assume unconfoundedness, i.e., that no unobserved confounders affect both the treatment assignment as well as outcome, can lead to policies that introduce harm rather than benefit when ...
Nathan Kallus, Angela Zhou
openaire   +3 more sources

Safe Policy Improvement Approaches and Their Limitations

open access: yes, 2022
27 pages.
Philipp Scholl 0003   +3 more
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Increasing social-ecological resilience within small-scale agriculture in conflict-affected Guatemala

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2018
Climate change scenarios suggest largely detrimental impacts on agricultural production from a deterioration of renewable natural resources. Over the last 15 years, a new field of research has focused on the interactions between climate and conflict risk,
Jon Hellin   +3 more
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Modeling the effect of a heat wave on maize production in the USA and its implications on food security in the developing world

open access: yesWeather and Climate Extremes, 2014
This study uses geo-spatial crop modeling to quantify the biophysical impact of weather extremes. More specifically, the study analyzes the weather extreme which affected maize production in the USA in 2012; it also estimates the effect of a similar ...
Uran Chung   +7 more
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