60 research outputs found
Strategies for Evolving Diverse and Effective Behaviours in Pursuit Domains
Evolutionary algorithms have a tendency to overuse and exploit particular behaviours in their search for optimality, even across separate runs. The resulting set of monotonous solutions caused by this tendency is a problem in many applications. This research explores different strategies designed to encourage an interesting set of diverse behaviours while still maintaining an appreciable level of efficacy. Embodied agents are situated within an open plane and play against each other in various pursuit game scenarios. The pursuit games consist of a single predator agent and twenty prey agents, with the goal always requiring the predator to catch as many prey as possible before the time limit is reached. The predator's controller is evolved through genetic programming while the preys' controllers are hand-crafted. The fitness of a solution is first calculated in a traditional manner. Inspired by Lehman and Stanley's novelty search strategy, the fitness is then combined with the diversity of the solution to produce the final fitness score. The original fitness score is determined by the number of captured prey, and the diversity score is determined through the combination of four behaviour measurements. Among many promising results, a particular diversity-based evaluation strategy and weighting combination was found to provide solutions that exhibit an excellent balance between diversity and efficacy. The results were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, showing the emergence of diverse and effective behaviours
Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World:Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals <em>and</em> Ecosystems?
Consumo e gĂȘnero: uma revisĂŁo da produção historiogrĂĄfica recente sobre a AmĂ©rica Latina no sĂ©culo XX
A partir de una revisiĂłn de la producciĂłn historiogrĂĄfica reciente que estudia el siglo XX, este artĂculo muestra la relevancia del gĂ©nero para la construcciĂłn de una historia del consumo en AmĂ©rica Latina. Con este objetivo, se enfoca el anĂĄlisis en tres lĂneas de investigaciĂłn que, desde una aproximaciĂłn interseccional, aportan nuevas miradas y preguntas: la primera destaca la dimensiĂłn polĂtica del consumo, centrĂĄndose en la relaciĂłn entre gĂ©nero y clase; la segunda aborda consumo y trabajo domĂ©stico, señalando el vĂnculo entre gĂ©nero y naciĂłn; y la tercera analiza cultura material y corporalidades, destacando la articulaciĂłn entre gĂ©nero y edad.Starting from a recent historiographical productionâs revision studying the 20th Century, this article depicts the relevance of gender for the history of consumption-building in Latin America. Bearing that in mind, the analysis is geared to three researching lines, contributing with new perspectives and questions, as from an inter sectorial approach: the first one highlights the political dimension of consumption based upon the interaction between gender and class; the second addresses consumption and domestic work, displaying a link between gender and nation, and the third one analyses material culture and corporality emphasizing upon the articulation between gender and age.A partir de uma revisĂŁo da produção historiogrĂĄfica recente que estuda o sĂ©culo XX, este artigo mostra a relevĂąncia do gĂȘnero para a construção de uma histĂłria do consumo na AmĂ©rica Latina. Com esse objetivo, a anĂĄlise estĂĄ focada em trĂȘs linhas de pesquisa que, sob uma aproximação interseccional, contribuem com novos olhares e perguntas: a primeira destaca a dimensĂŁo polĂtica do consumo e foca-se na relação gĂȘnero e classe; a segunda aborda consumo e trabalho domĂ©stico, e sinaliza o vĂnculo entre gĂȘnero e nação; a terceira analisa cultura material e corporalidade, e destaca a articulação entre gĂȘnero e idade.Fil: PĂ©rez, InĂ©s. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Sociologia; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios HistĂłricos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Mar del Plata; Argentin
Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in âs = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fbâ1 of protonâproton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at âs = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements
Role of working memory in children's understanding spoken narrative: A preliminary investigation
Towards a Fully Integrated Accelerator on a Chip: Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA) From the Source to Relativistic Electrons
Dielectric laser acceleration of electrons has recently been demonstrated with significantly higher accelerating gradients than other structure-based linear accelerators. Towards the development of an integrated 1 MeV electron accelerator based on dielectric laser accelerator technologies, development in several relevant technologies is needed. In this work, recent developments on electron sources, bunching, accelerating, focussing, deflecting and laser coupling structures are reported. With an eye to the near future, components required for a 1 MeV kinetic energy tabletop accelerator producing sub-femtosecond electron bunches are outlined
Design of a tapered slot waveguide dielectric laser accelerator for sub-relativistic electrons
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