Correcting criminals and making them back to the society is the ultimate goal of all criminal systems in the world. No country is willing to keep its citizens away from the society due to a crime they commit. One of the main concerns in criminal policy is resocialization of criminals who, after having been punished, have regretted their act and so-called repented and want to return to society b...

this systematic review was conducted to develop a conceptual framework that addresses various factors associated with return to work among cancer survivors. databases medline, embase, proquest, pubmed and sciencedirect were systematically searched using medical subject headings [mesh] for studies published in english from 1990 to 2013. studies that described adult cancer patients’ self-reported...

The purpose of this paper is study the effect of monetary policy on asset prices. We study the properties of a monetary model in which a real asset is valued for its rate of return and for its liquidity. We show that money is essential if and only if real assets are scarce, in the precise sense that their supply is not sufficient to satisfy the demand for liquidity. Our model generates a clear ...

We consider a production-inventory system with capacity constraint and item returns correlated to demand. The system is modelled by an M/M/1 make-to-stock queue with lost sales. A satisfied demand incurs an item return with a certain probability, after an exponentially distributed return lead-time. We distinguish two cases: When the number of items to be returned is observable and when it is no...

In reinforcement learning, the aim of the agent is to find a policy that maximizes its expected return. Policy gradient methods try to accomplish this goal by directly approximating the policy using a parametric function approximator; the expected return of the current policy is estimated and its parameters are updated by steepest ascent in the direction of the gradient of the expected return w...

with the rise of nicholas sarkozy to power, in an evident spin, france’s foreign policy became american in essence. from the very first year of his presidency sarkozy adopted a parallel policy to the u.s. atlanticism is considered an important and inevitable leverage in sarkozy’s foreign policy and his government marked a high point in foreign policy after de goulle. this new approach is comple...

Because Government policy does much to determine the return available to nursing home investment, the profitability of the nursing home industry has been a subject of controversy since Government agencies began paying a large portion of the Nation's nursing home bill. Controversy appears at several levels. First is the rather narrow concern, often conceived in accounting terms, of the appropria...

Most Western universities are currently introducing online learning facilities, primarily via use of WWW functionalities. When asked why, the most common answer is that they cannot not do it, as everybody else is doing it. Although specifics of their particular situations influence their decision making, a common reason seems to be not to loose (distance learning) students as those students’ ex...

This work tackles in-situ robotics: the goal is to learn a policy while the robot operates in the real-world, with neither ground truth nor rewards. The proposed approach is based on preference-based policy learning: Iteratively, the robot demonstrates a few policies, is informed of the expert’s preferences about the demonstrated policies, constructs a utility function compatible with all exper...