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Learning to Augment Synthetic Images for Sim2Real Policy Transfer [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, 2019
Vision and learning have made significant progress that could improve robotics policies for complex tasks and environments. Learning deep neural networks for image understanding, however, requires large amounts of domain-specific visual data.
Alexander Pashevich   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Migratory Pathways of Labourers and Legislation: From Érin to Aotearoa

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
This article addresses the process and consequences of colonisation by studying the migration of both legislative frameworks and one person who helped give those structures material effect in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Richard Shaw
doaj   +1 more source

Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the circulation of policy and knowledge has become more dense and complex.
D. Stone   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Technocracy

open access: yesEncyclopedia
Technocracy refers to any political–social–economic system that is governed and managed using purportedly objective scientific and technical principles, and in which ultimate power and authority rests with technical and scientific experts.
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Return Migration: a Pattern of Policy Transfer or a Domestic Approach?

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2021
Migration phenomenon is a complex, cross-country, emerging issues and more often the decisionmakers are challenged in terms of public policies. Therefore, in their attempt to find better or the best solutions to public policies problems, including ...
Tatiana Camelia Dogaru (Cruceanu)
doaj  

South-South Cooperation through the Lenses of Bureaucrats: Peripheral Policy Transfers

open access: yesContexto Internacional, 2022
As Brazil makes it to international headlines with its new official stance against human rights and environmental protection, one can hardly imagine that the country was, at one point, engaged in human rights cooperation in the Global South.
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy

open access: yesHistories
A key question in the literature of technology in society is the degree to which technology is a product of society and vice versa. A related question is how the differing cross-causal lines between the two change both technological and social forms ...
Cameron Elliott Gordon
doaj   +1 more source

Key Dynamics of Internationalization of Public Policy in the Context of Policy Transfer

open access: yesJurnal Politik, 2017
The article aims at examining how policy could be transferred as a complex and dynamic process in terms of internationalization and globalization. In addition, it will explore significant channels for the international movement of ideas, policies, and ...
Alexander Hamonangan Nainggolan
doaj   +1 more source

Policy Transfer with Strategy Optimization

open access: yesCoRR, 2018
Computer simulation provides an automatic and safe way for training robotic control policies to achieve complex tasks such as locomotion. However, a policy trained in simulation usually does not transfer directly to the real hardware due to the differences between the two environments.
Wenhao Yu 0003, C. Karen Liu, Greg Turk
openaire   +3 more sources

Making and Unmaking “Disasters”: The Case of the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake

open access: yesHistories
On 10 March 1933, an earthquake of roughly 6.4 on the Richter scale (retrospectively estimated) hit the City of Long Beach, California, and the counties surrounding it. Seismically, the quake was of moderate magnitude. However, to this day it remains one
Cameron Elliott Gordon
doaj   +1 more source

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