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Probabilistically safe policy transfer [PDF]
Although learning-based methods have great potential for robotics, one concern is that a robot that updates its parameters might cause large amounts of damage before it learns the optimal policy. We formalize the idea of safe learning in a probabilistic sense by defining an optimization problem: we desire to maximize the expected return while keeping ...
Held, David +4 more
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Transfer of Crime Control Policy; Is It Voluntary or Coercive? [PDF]
Transferring crime control policy is defined as a process in which knowledge and information about ideas, ideologies, judicial practices, and crime control policies are transported from one jurisdiction to another.
Kazem Koohi Esfahani +2 more
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Collecting and monitoring data in low-latency from numerous sensing devices is one of the key foundations in networked cyber-physical applications such as industrial process control, intelligent traffic control, and networked robots. As the delay in data
Youngseok Lee +4 more
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Protective Policy Transfer [PDF]
Being able to transfer existing skills to new situations is a key capability when training robots to operate in unpredictable real-world environments. A successful transfer algorithm should not only minimize the number of samples that the robot needs to collect in the new environment, but also prevent the robot from damaging itself or the surrounding ...
Yu, Wenhao, Liu, C. Karen, Turk, Greg
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Some southern member states have undertaken the reform of their vocational education and training (VET) systems so as to promote dual apprenticeship, such as that which is promoted in Germany. During this process, the European Union (EU) has exercised an
Luis Martínez-Izquierdo +1 more
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Background Governments must protect and apply maximum feasible resourcing to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in order to meet their international legal obligations with respect to the human rights of women and children.
Carina Stone, Julie P. Smith
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Brazilian Perspectives on Policy Transfer and South-South Cooperation
This paper introduces the dossier entitled ‘Policy Transfer and South-South Cooperation’. Very often development cooperation programmes, particularly those labelled as part of South-South cooperation (SSC), use policy transfer as one of their key ...
Osmany Porto de Oliveira +1 more
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Background This study investigated if the evidence on the success of the Pay for Performance (P4P) schemes in healthcare is changing as the schemes continue to evolve by updating a previous systematic review.
Arezou Zaresani, Anthony Scott
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Recent literature on comparative welfare states has recognised the central role international financial institutions (IFIs) play in shaping social policy.
Gabriela de Carvalho
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The UNHCR strategy to include refugee students in host state education systems is intended to promote refugees’ access to quality education. However, numbers of out-of-school refugees far exceed the global average.
Jo Kelcey, Samira Chatila
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