We consider the problem of learning for planning, where knowledge acquired while planning is reused to plan faster in new problem instances. For robotic tasks, among others, plan execution can be captured as a sequence of visual images. For such domains, we propose to use deep neural networks in learning for planning, based on learning a reactive policy that imitates execution traces produced b...

the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the internal and external factors, affecting the sina trauma and surgery research center, affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences and propose some of related strategies to senior managers. we used a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology. our study population consisted of personnel (18 individuals)...

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

In this paper we present a model of collaborative evaluation that has been used to engage teachers in data-based decision making for improving teaching and learning in mathematics and science. We examine three external challenges that threaten the process of continuous school improvement; namely, making sense of data, policy changes, and curriculum changes. In addition, we describe how the coll...

Depressive pathology, which includes both heightened negative affect (e.g., anxiety) and reduced positive affect (e.g., anhedonia), is known to be associated with sub-optimal decision-making, particularly in uncertain environments. Here, we use a computational approach to quantify and disambiguate how individual differences in these affective measures specifically relate to different aspects of...

This article critically reviews the approach to evidence based policy-making (EBPM) advanced in the Labour government's modernisation agenda. The article contends that EBPM must be understood as a project focused on enhancing the techniques ofmanaging strategic policy-making as opposed to improving the capacities of the social sciences to influence the 'practices of democracy' as envisaged by L...

because of the complex and variable environment of media organization, its need a road map to help them to manage this environment and respond effectively to sudden changes in front of that. policy making in media organization can play an important role in this regard. in this study has been studied the policy-making process in the islamic republic of iran broadcasting (irib) and damages of thi...

Abstract:This study aims at measuring the relationship between students‟ attitude toward govern-ment‟s virtual social network policy making with social security feeling, in another word, to which extent social security feeling emphasizing on social networks is determined via users‟ attitude toward government‟s media policy making? Analytical-descriptive method including survey is used in ...