Residual Policy Learning Facilitates Efficient Model-Free Autonomous Racing
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 Motion planning for autonomous racing is a challenging task due to the safety requirement while driving aggressively. Most previous solutions utilize the prior information or depend on complex dynamics modeling.
Ruiqi Zhang +5 more
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From Local Action to Global Policy: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of National Policies to Address Musculoskeletal Health to Inform Global Policy Development [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Background Global policy to guide action on musculoskeletal (MSK) health is in a nascent phase. Lagging behind other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) there is currently little global policy to assist governments to develop national approaches to MSK ...
Carmen Huckel Schneider +8 more
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Policy Learning with Adaptively Collected Data [PDF]
Management Sciences, 2021 In a wide variety of applications, including healthcare, bidding in first price auctions, digital recommendations, and online education, it can be beneficial to learn a policy that assigns treatments to individuals based on their characteristics.
Ruohan Zhan +3 more
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Policy by Pilot? Learning From Demonstration Projects for Integrated Care; Comment on “Integration or Fragmentation of Health Care? Examining Policies and Politics in a Belgian Case Study” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Analysis of policy implementation for chronic disease in Belgium highlights the difficulties of launching experiments for integrated care in a health system with fragmented governance.
Radhika Gore
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Understanding teacher shortages: An analysis of teacher supply and demand in the United States
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019 This paper reviews the sources of and potential solutions to teacher shortages in the United States. It describes the sources of current and projected increases in teacher demand relative to enrollments, shifts in pupil-teacher ratios, and attrition.
Leib Sutcher +2 more
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The trouble with teacher turnover: How teacher attrition affects students and schools
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019 Addressing teacher turnover is critical to stemming the country's continuing teacher shortages. It is also important for school effectiveness, as the academic and financial costs of teacher turnover to student learning and district budgets are ...
Desiree Carver-Thomas +1 more
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Strategies for attracting and retaining educators: What does the evidence say?
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019 A highly competent teacher workforce is a necessary foundation for improving children’s educational outcomes, especially for those who rely most on schools for their success.
Anne Podolsky +3 more
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Learning Relational Navigation Policies [PDF]
2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 Navigation is one of the fundamental tasks for a mobile robot. The majority of path planning approaches has been designed to entirely solve the given problem from scratch given the current and goal configurations of the robot. Although these approaches yield highly efficient plans, the computed policies typically do not transfer to other, similar tasks.
Cocora, Alexandru +4 more
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Fiscal Policy and Learning [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Using the standard real business cycle model with lump-sum taxes, we analyze the impact of fiscal policy when agents form expectations using adaptive learning rather than rational expectations (RE). The output multipliers for government purchases are significantly higher under learning, and fall within empirical bounds reported in the literature (in ...
Mitra, Kaushik +2 more
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A Systematic Review of Policy Learning: Tiptoeing through a Conceptual Minefield
Policy Studies Yearbook, 2022 Policy learning is an increasingly salient concept in public policy research and practice. With growing theoretical advancements, it offers substantial value for policy analysis.
B. Zaki, Ellen Wayenberg, B. George
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