Concurrent Learning of Control Policy and Unknown Safety Specifications in Reinforcement Learning by Lunet Yifru, Ali Baheri

“…Reinforcement learning (RL) has revolutionized decision-making across a wide range of domains over the past few decades. Yet, deploying RL policies in real-world scenarios presents the crucial challenge of ensuring safety. …”
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Detecting travel modes from smartphone-based travel surveys with continuous hidden Markov models by Guangnian Xiao, Qin Cheng, Chunqin Zhang

“…In the last decades, studies on travel mode detection from location data have been increasing exponentially. …”
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Mudança no uso e cobertura da terra na bacia hidrográfica do rio Araguaia e seus reflexos nos recursos hídricos, o trecho médio do rio Araguaia em Goiás by Maximiliano Bayer, Pâmela Camila Assis, Tainá Medeiros Suizu, Matheus Cardoso Gomes

“…Covering an area greater than 300,000 km2, the basin extends over wide areas of Cerrado Biome that have characteristics socio-environmental characteristics (climates, lithology, soil, relief, forms of use and occupation) very different. In the last four decades, large extensions of the basin have been object of an intense transformation process associated with the advance of the agricultural frontier and changes in the form of occupation, whose consequences on the natural resources of the basin, especially water resources, are beginning to be a reason of concern for the society. …”
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L’exposition des populations des atolls de Rangiroa et de Tikehau (Polynésie française) au risque de submersion marine by Alexandre K. Magnan, Marien Ranché, Virginie K.E. Duvat, Adrien Prenveille, Fanny Rubia

“…Exploring the root causes of such a situation, the paper emphasises the contributions of both the population growth that occurred over the past three decades and the constraining land tenure system to the increase in houses and public buildings density in flood-prone areas. …”
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EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC: OPTIMIZATION RESULTS AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES by Ekaterina E. Toropushina

“…The article aims to examine changes in human resources and infrastructure within the education system of the Russian Arctic over the past two decades and to propose directions for its further development. …”

Psychiatric morbidity among women in Norwegian prisons, 2010–2019: a register-based study by Vegard G Svendsen, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Torbjørn Skardhamar, Anne Bukten

“…The proportion of women entering prison with a recent history of mental health problems has increased rapidly over the last decade. Women’s prison institutions need to adjust health and social services, and awareness about substance use and other psychiatric disorders in order to meet the increasing proportion of women facing these challenges.…”
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Bridging the communication gap in agrometeorological services: Enhancing the uptake and effectiveness for users in developing countries by Vieri Tarchiani, Sebastian Grey

“…Over the past decades, advancements in agrometeorological monitoring and forecasting have been driven by technology, infrastructure, and capacity building. …”
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Measuring the Spatial-Physical Indexes of RahAhan and Reazashhar Neighborhoods in Mashhad Based on New Urbanism Approach by Mohammad Ajza Shokouhi, Shirin Sabaghi Abkooh, Forough Kazaei Nejad

“…A new urbanism theory has emerged in recent decades in response to numerous urban problems of the twentieth century, with the goal of creating vibrant, compact, diverse and desirable cities in terms of work, walking, life, and transportation options. …”
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Feasibility of Proton Range Estimation with Prompt Gamma Imaging in Proton Therapy of Lung Cancer: Monte Carlo Study by Elham Rohollahpour, Hadi Taleshi Ahangari

“…Despite significant and diverse approaches explored over the past two decades, challenges still persist for more effective utilization. …”
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The locative syntax of Experiencers. The case study of phraseological units as psych-predicates by Anna Dąbrowska

“…The special behaviour of Experiencers, related to the so-called ‘psych effects’, is the reason why psychological predicates have been a subject of debate in theoretical syntax for several decades. The aim of this study is to check whether English verbal phraseological units, which denote a psychological condition of an Experiencer and occur with locative Prepositional Phrases (PPs), may serve as evidence for Landau’s (2010, p. 6) hypothesis of ‘Experiencers as mental locations’. …”
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Comprehensive Test and Evaluation Analysis of Permeable Concrete (PC) Clogging by Using Steel Slag by Cao Yang, Ismail Shah, Wang Jing, Nauman Khan, Li Jing

“…In recent decade, researchers have more attention to water resource protection and forward the concept of sponge city construction. …”
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“POLONIZATION AND “SOVIETIZATION” OF WESTERN BYELORUSSIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ASSIMILATION AND INTEGRATION POLICIES by N. A. Markelov

“…Specific character of the process was emphasized by lasting for many decades Byelorussian nation shaping, which ran under several different regimes: Russian Empire, II Polish Republic and Soviet state. …”
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Noi cercetări arheologice la cetatea Saschiz I. Incinta exterioară by Marcu Istrate, D., Dobrotă, S., Rezi, B., Gál, S.

“…Saschiz, once one of the most important Saxon settlements of eastern Transylvania, located 23 km away from Sighisoara, was included decades ago in the UNESCO world heritage list. On a rocky hill north‑west of the village rises its refuge fortress, whose beginnings have been archaeologically ascribed to the early 15th century based on the research undertaken in 1999–2000, the first investigation of this kind undertaken on site. …”

Examining adherence to oral anticancer medications through a human factors engineering framework: Protocol for a scoping review. by Irene D Lin, Matthew B Shotts, Ahmad Al-Hader, Kellie Jones Weddle, Richard J Holden, Emily L Mueller, Monica R Macik, Mirian Ramirez, Ephrem Abebe

“…<h4>Background</h4>The number of oral anticancer medications has increased over the past few decades, opening new possibilities in cancer care and improving convenience for patients and caregivers. …”
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Decoding the general role of tRNA queuosine modification in eukaryotes by Jorge Díaz-Rullo, Luis González-Moreno, Araceli Del Arco, José Eduardo González-Pastor

“…One of these modifications is queuosine (Q), which affects NAU codons translation rate. For decades, multiple studies have reported a wide variety of species-specific Q-related phenotypes in different eukaryotes, hindering the identification of a general underlying mechanism behind that phenotypic diversity. …”
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The Role of Public Governance Practices for Business R&D Activity in the EU by Dejan Ravšelj, Sabina Hodžić

“…Therefore, it is not surprising that good governance has often been used to explain good economic performance as well as the well-being of a society over the last decade. However, the business sector often represents a channel through which public governance affects economic performance, which has largely been neglected in the existing literature. …”
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Patients with dengue clinical-epidemiological behavior. Comparative study of two case series by Carlos A. García Gómez, Samuel Sánchez Sánchez, Dagmara Pantoja Fonseca, Osvaldo Rodríguez Morales, Ana Laura Navarro Baldellot, Carlos García Mantecón

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: The disease caused by the dengue virus constitutes a serious health problem for tropical countries. The last decade has seen the re-emergence of this entity in Cuba, with evident changes in its clinical behavior.…”
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Hydroclimatic Variability, Characterization, and Long Term Spacio-Temporal Trend Analysis of the Ghba River Subbasin, Ethiopia by Mehari Gebreyohannes Hiben, Admasu Gebeyehu Awoke, Abraha Adugna Ashenafi

“…Understanding hydroclimatic variability and trend for the past four decades in the Upper Tekeze River basin is significant for future sustainable water resource management as it indicates regime shifts in hydrology. …”
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Identifying the Challenges Facing the Telecommuting Plan and Providing Solutions for Its Effective Implementation - A Case Study of the Ministry Of Industry, Mines and Trade by Hamed Nozari, Mohammad Ebrahim Sadeghi, Seyed Saeed Monajemzade

“…Purpose: Although more than four decades have passed since the issue of telecommuting became a new method for organizing work and workforce, not many scientific and academic studies have been done in this field in our country. …”
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Tracking metal pollution from illegal gold mining: a health risk assessment in Edfu, Egypt by Kholoud M. AbdelMaksoud, Wael M. Al-Metwaly, Heba M. R. Hathout

“…Abstract Over the past decade, there has been an increase in small-scale gold mining in the arid southern region of Egypt. …”
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