ACRL seeks volunteers for committees

HIV screening in 'healthy' volunteers and Ethics Committees.

In a recent article in the Journal, Thomson et al. [1] pointed out the interest of screening healthy volunteers to prevent subjects with HIV infection from entering clinical trials, and to protect research personnel in the manipulation of blood samples often taken in these studies. His paper is an excellent example of how researchers have to deal, nowadays, with ancillary aspects of the design ...

Lonely Arginine Seeks Friendly Environment

The recent perspectives on membrane protein insertion, protein–bilayer interactions, and amino acid side hydrophobicity (J. Gen. Physiol., 129:351–377) provide an excellent opportunity to return to the fundamental issue of the solvation of amino acids and their thermodynamic stability in different environments (Andersen, 2007). Though seemingly “solved” long ago, in recent years this issue has ...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Task force seeks solutions for "senior squalor".

ACS Seeks Nominations for IT Journal Editor

The Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology is an international quality, peer reviewed journal covering innovative research and practice in Information Technology. It has been published since 1967 and is one of the world's oldest continuously published computer journals. The Journal contains articles that are of interest both to practicing information technology professionals...