Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
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An empirical analysis using new instrumental variable methods of distributional effects of corruption on public expenditures in developing countries. [PDF]
SN Bus Econ, 2023 Sombie A.
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Economic and Demographic Effects of Public Pension Expenditures: The Case of Türkiye
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler DergisiThis study aims to provide important findings on Turkey's social security system by analysing the economic and demographic factors affecting public pension expenditures.
Serkan Şengül
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Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
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Endogenous Fertility in a Growth Model with Public and Private Health Expenditures [PDF]
We build an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility choices as well as public and private expenditures on health. We find that the complementary effect of public health services on private health expenditures can provide an additional ...
Intan Zanariah Zakaria +1 more
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The Effect of Health Expenditure on Human Development Index (HDI) in Iran, 2001–2014
Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2019 Background and Objectives: The category of health is closely related to growth, comprehensive development, including economic development and human development. Health expenditure are important factors affecting economic growth.
Mohsen Pakdaman +4 more
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Affecting the Sustainability of Public Finances by the Social Measures Adopted in Romania between 2006 and 2017 [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2017 Sustainability has become one of the most used terms in public finance assessment. This article treats the issue of sustainability of public finance in terms of social measures adopted in Romania during 2006-2017.
Trandafir Adina
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The relationship between public expenditures and economic growth in the scope of economic classification: The case of Turkiye [PDF]
PanoeconomicusThe relationship between public expenditures and economic growth is a constantly debated topic among researchers. There are five main models used to test Wagner’s Law.
Balkı Ali, Göksu Serkan
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and hygiene rules make conventional suction and scripted motions unreliable. We present ChicGrasp, an end‐to‐end hardware‐software co‐designed imitation learning framework, to offer a ...
Amirreza Davar +8 more
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Bulgaria Public Expenditure Issues and Directions for Reform
, 2003 The study is the first-ever Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) on Bulgaria by the World Bank. It outlines public expenditure issues, and policy directions to improve the efficiency, and ...
World Bank
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