Many different approaches to game playing have been suggested including alpha-beta search, temporal difference learning, genetic algorithms, and coevolution. Here, a powerful new algorithm for neuroevolution, Neuro-Evolution for Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), is adapted to the game playing domain. Evolution and coevolution were used to try and develop neural networks capable of defeating an alph...

New laterally OCH3-substituted optical organic Schiff base/ester series, namely 4-(4-(hexyloxyphenyl)iminomethyl)-3-methoxyphenyl 4-alkoxybenzoates, were prepared and characterized with different thermal, mesomorphic, photoactive techniques. The group constitutes five homologues that differ from each other in the number of carbons terminal alkoxy chain (n), which varies between n = 6, 8, 10, 12...

Application of cellulose microfibers as a reinforcing agent for high-performance polyurethane composites is rarely mentioned because the inherent hydrophilicity combined with adverse aspect ratio fibers cause difficulties in dispersion within and compatibility polymer matrix. Here, we propose feasible approach to graft oligoethers synthesized by ring-opening polymerization heterogeneous reactio...

The immobilization of Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) was performed by physical adsorption on both neat and organo-modified forms of sepiolite and montmorillonite. The influence of different parameters, e.g., solvent, enzyme loading, cross-linking, and type of clay support, on immobilization efficiency and catalyst hydrolytic activity has been investigated. The highest hydrolytic activities ...

L(4), or 3-[2,6-bis(diethylcarbamoyl)pyridin-4-yl]-N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)alanine methyl ester, C(24)H(38)N(4)O(6), crystallizes in neat [010] laths stabilized by abundant intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. The strongest of these form [010] chains of molecules, thus rationalizing the fastest growth direction, while the slowest direction coincides with the normal to the (110) layers, whic...

The solid state thermochemical decomposition kinetics and activation energy of neat 1,3,5,5-tetranitrohexahydropyrimidine (DNNC) and its DNNC-d6 deuterium labeled analogue were obtained by isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (IDSC) at 142, 145, and 148 ◦C. Global rate constants and kinetic deuterium isotope effect (KDIE) data from the exothermic decomposition process suggest that homol...