This paper explores issues encountered when performing online management of large collections of macro-actions generated for use in planning. Existing approaches to managing collections of macro-actions are designed for use with offline macro-action learning, pruning candidate macro-actions on the basis of their effect on the performance of the planner on small training problems. In this paper ...

This report describes the interdisciplinary approach and solving algorithm of a DIN 9001:2000 certified tumor board in managing a giant-size type-B2 thymoma IIb in an elderly patient. The process of managing the thymoma with specialists of surgery, internal medicine, radiology, and pathology until finally extirpation and continuous follow-up is described. Respective computerized tomography scan...

Pulse-picking from a 100-mW cw mode-locked seeder, a hybrid master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) system, based on Nd:YVO4 and Nd:YAG amplifier modules, has been developed, delivering single-pulses of 8.6 ps at 455-MHz repetition-rate, bunched into ~1-μs trains of 50 mJ ("macro-pulses"). The output beam is linearly polarized and nearly diffraction limited up to the maximum macro-pulse repeti...

a Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica y Estadística Médica, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Sassari, Unidad de Investigación, Formación Médica y Desarrollo Profesional, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy b Centro Colaborador con la OMS para la Tuberculosis y Trastornos Pulmonares, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Centro de Asistencia e Investigación, Tradate, Italy c IdISPa-FISIB, Hospital Unive...

The New Keynesian theory of inflation determination is tested in this paper by means laboratory experiments. We find that the Taylor principle a necessary condition to ensure convergence target, but it not sufficient. Using behavioral model expectation formation, we show how heterogeneous expectations tend self-organize on different forecasting strategies depending monetary policy. Finally, lin...

One of the main issues with Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) is slow handovers. Mobility protocols are classified as micro or macro depending on the domain of the network. When macro mobility protocols are used in managing localized mobility requirements, they result in slow handovers and delays that result in loss of packets and make these protocols unsuitable for time sensitive applications. Mi...