construction industry is the second most contributor of gross domestic product and the high rates of accidents /fatalities have tarnished the image of construction industry in india. the importance of safety at site cannot be underscored and it needs the combined attention of all stakeholders to address the issue of safety in construction industry in india. although the construction industry pl...

the genome of iranian wheat stripe virus (iwsv), a tentative member of the genus tenuivirus, is comprised of three ambisense and one negative sense rna segments. the coat and non-structural proteins encoded by the vcrna3 and vrna4 genes, respectively, were efficiently translated in vitro. translated proteins of vcrna3 and vrna4 transcripts were approximately 35000 and 22000 in mr, respectively,...

ions of the global environment are brought down to the macro level to guide macro-level implementation. Shadow This is a representation of the global wires overlaying a macro that is used to guide macro physical design and for macro extraction. Timing assertions This is information on the global timing at macro interfaces-arrival times with phase tags on inputs, required arrival times with phas...

POMDP planning faces two major computational challenges: large state spaces and long planning horizons. The recently introduced Monte Carlo Value Iteration (MCVI) can tackle POMDPs with very large discrete state spaces or continuous state spaces, but its performance degrades when faced with long planning horizons. This paper presents Macro-MCVI, which extends MCVI by exploiting macro-actions fo...

Orthodox macro theories reflect a choice-theoretic orientation wherein aggregate variables act directly on one another. Hence, macro phenomena are reduced to the same order of simplicity as micro phenomena. In contrast, this paper explores how macro theory might be pursued when it is recognized that macro phenomena are of a higher order of complexity than micro phenomena. Rather than reducing m...