The RangL project encourages the wider uptake of reinforcement learning by supporting a cloud-native platform that hosts industrially focused sequential decision problems. In this opinion piece, members team make case for potential competition platforms to facilitate collaboration between academia and industry, drive progress in real-world applications learning, over coming years.

This study used the reinforcing spirals model to investigate the mutual influence between individuals’ media use and their global warming perceptions. Data from the science module of the 2006 General Social Survey were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results offered support for the reinforcing spirals model’s predictions. Media use mediated the effects of age, race, and education o...

Italian negation displays a well-known contrast between preverbal and post-verbal n-words: while the preverbal adverb non does not co-occur with preverbal n-words with single negation reading (SN), it is obligatory with post-verbal ones. The two negations co-occur in (1c) with a double negation reading (DN), where non is (preferably) stressed. (1)a. Nessuno viene / *Nessuno non viene (Nobody is...

This study was undertaken to investigate pharmacological variables that influence the reinforcing efficacy of psychostimulants. Rhesus monkeys (n = 9) responded under a within-session, exponentially increasing, progressive ratio schedule of cocaine reinforcement. Doses of cocaine, methylphenidate (MP), cocaine analogs [(+/-)-2beta-propanoyl-3beta-(2-naphthyl)-tropane (WF-23), HD-23; (+/-)-2beta...

Analytical strengths of reinforced concrete beams and columns based on reinforcing steel stress-strain curves with and without a sharp yield plateau and the nonlinear stress-strain behavior of concrete are compared with strengths calculated in accordance with the ACI Building Code to determine the feasibility of using the 0.2% offset method to define the yield strength of reinforcing steel. Com...