Birth Control and its Opponents

Biodiversity Conservation and Its Opponents

• Although there is a worldwide surge of interest in conservation, many justifications rest on shaky or ephemeral grounds. • Arguments for conservation of biodiversity often include strong ethical or aesthetic components which are superficially attractive but depend on potentially changeable social circumstances. • Economic justifications based on undiscovered potential are susceptible to chang...

Mineland seepage and its control

First Primary Tooth Eruption and its Relationship with Birth Weight

Background and purpose: In this study we aimed to identify the association between birth weight and first primary tooth eruption. Materials and methods: This retrospective cohort study was done in infants attending for 12 and 18 months vaccination in Qaemshahr health centers. Multi-stage cluster sampling was performed. Information, including birth weight, height, and head circumference were ex...

Modeling non-stationary opponents

This paper studies repeated interactions between an agent and an unknown opponent that changes its strategy over time. We propose a framework for learning switching nonstationary strategies. The approach uses decision trees to learn the most up to date opponent’s strategy. Then, the agent’s strategy is computed by transforming the tree into a Markov Decision Process (MDP), whose solution dictat...

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