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Controlling a random population [PDF]
AbstractBertrand et al. introduced a model of parameterised systems, where each agent is represented by a finite state system, and studied the following control problem: for any number of agents, does there exist a controller able to bring all agents to a target state?
Colcombet, Thomas +2 more
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Scarecrows and Scapegoats: The Futility and Power of Cleaning a Landscape
This paper investigates why the culling of corvids in Northern Cyprus continues despite it being recognised by those that do it as ineffective. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research were conducted with a range of ...
Khalil Avi Betz-Heinemann +1 more
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Background Emerging research suggests that survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers are at risk for morbidity and mortality associated with air pollutants. However, caregiver perceptions of the effects of air pollution are unknown.
Austin R. Waters +4 more
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Background As survivorship care plan (SCP) use among childhood cancer survivors and their families has not been extensively researched, we report on their experiences with receiving an SCP after the completion of therapy.
Samantha T. Pannier +9 more
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We introduce a new setting where a population of agents, each modelled by a finite-state system, are controlled uniformly: the controller applies the same action to every agent. The framework is largely inspired by the control of a biological system, namely a population of yeasts, where the controller may only change the environment common to all cells.
Nathalie Bertrand 0001 +3 more
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We introduce a new setting where a population of agents, each modelled by a finite-state system, are controlled uniformly: the controller applies the same action to every agent. The framework is largely inspired by the control of a biological system, namely a population of yeasts, where the controller may only change the environment common to all cells.
Bertrand, Nathalie +4 more
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On the control of an exploited population of fish [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to show how some tools of control theory can be helpful to regulate the exploitation of a population of fish.
Iggidr, Abderrahman +2 more
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Attitudes towards urban stray cats and managing their population in India: a pilot study
Life in contemporary cities is often dangerous for stray cats, with strikingly low survival rates. In several countries, trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs have been employed to control urban stray cat populations.
Anamika Changrani-Rastogi +1 more
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Santé publique, biopouvoir, gestion sanitaire des populations [PDF]
Since Antiquity, starting with Plato’s proposition for an ideal state, a series of philosophers, political thinkers and policymakers have fostered a model of the State in which the government is able to control both the will and the bodies of the ...
Jean-Jacques Wunenburger
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This study has two main objectives. The first is to explain the achievement of the value of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY).
Muhammad Arif Fahrudin Alfana +3 more
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