... as an official Department of the Army position, policy or decision ... Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease with accelerated neuron death, was ...
DTIC Science & Technology
This issue of Policy Insights draws on findings from WICHE's report Accelerated Learning Options: Moving the Needle on Access and Success, to lay out some of the important policy issues that decision makers might consider when adopting new state policy related to ...
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Two major policy decisions dramatically impacted requirements to accommodate women into combat aircraft. On 28 April 1993, the Secretary of Defense directed the services to open assignments in combat aircraft to women. This decision greatly expanded the n...
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
... Title : The Need for Speed: Accelerating Decision ... that an operational leader's decision making cycle will ... when the leaders make the commitment to ...
The fundamental principles of the superconducting super collider are presented. Arguments for the construction of this apparatus and policy issues surrounding its construction are discussed. Charts of the fundamental atomic particles and forces and the history of particle accelerators are provided. An activity for discussing this controversial issue is ...
Convergence of the relative value function (total value function less total value of a base state) and the optimal policy in length of the horizon for value iteration (markov decision programming) have been recently shown to be geometric with factor alpha...
... Title : Markov Decision Processes with Policy Constraints. ... Abstract : This work is concerned with Markov Decision Processes with policy constraints. ...
As an educational intervention, acceleration is decidedly effective for high-ability students. The research support for acceleration that has accumulated over many decades is robust and consistent and allows us to confidently state that carefully planned acceleration decisions are successful. Both grade-based and ...
Geothermal energy technology and the investment practices of resource developers and electric utilities in using geothermal resources for the production of electric power are covered. An analytical framework, a decision model, is developed from basic principles of multiobjective decision analysis and probabilistic choice theory for evaluating geothermal ...
Energy Citations Database
BackgroundAdoption of new and underutilized vaccines by national immunization programs is an essential step towards reducing child mortality. Policy decisions to adopt new vaccines in high mortality countries often lag behind decisions in high-income countries. Using the case of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine, this paper ...
PubMed Central
... to characterize US foreign policy decisions as �criminal ... A recent determination by the ICC's Chief Prosecutor ... on the legality of the decision to invade ...
... This policy analysis attempts to identify ... DECISION MAKING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS ... RECORDS, ARMY, POLICIES, CLOSURES ...
... Accession Number : AD0753863. Title : Analysis for Public Policy Decisions,. Corporate Author : RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF. ...
... agencies for Research Development Test and ... Support US Materials Policy Decisions. ... INFORMATION SYSTEMS, *DECISION MAKING, *POLICIES ...
Hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) is a general framework which studies how to exploit the structure of actions and tasks to accelerate policy learning in large domains. Prior work in hierarchical RL, such as the MAXQ method, has been limited to the discrete-time discounted reward semiMarkov decision process (SMDP) model. This ...
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of unknown peo- ple ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Mechan- ical Turk). Crowd-sourcing has better results than today's state of the art, a fixed control program? We describe a planner, TURKONTROL- ties than popular fixed policies. Introduction In today's rapidly accelerating economy an efficient
This paper describes the results of Recommendation 14 of the Integrated Nuclear Materials Management Plan (INMMP) which was the product of a management initiative at the highest levels of the Department of Energy responding to a congressional directive to accelerate the work of achieving integration and cutting long-term costs associated with the management of nuclear ...
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... in policy specifying, using difference measurement theory. ... of nine multiattribute decision modeling and ... other personnel utilization decisions in the ...
... making a national policy decision, while the Pentagon ... decisions are being made at the highest level ... that will permit either no decision or indecision ...
Recent land use legislation pays particular attention to the coastal zone where age-old conflicts have recently accelerated. Flexibility is required in policy because visible conflicts are tied into complex physical and social systems that may require changing patterns of land use over time. Public policy is altering property rights ...
This program examines the current acceleration of the decision-making cycle in the conduct of foreign policy due to the instantaneous reporting of events, called "The CNN Effect." The sometimes paradoxical consequences of global media coverage are noted, along with the examination of the medium of television itself, and its ...
... Relief in Ozal Policy; 5) ENVIRONMENTAL ... for Erosion, Forest Damage. ... CONGRESS, INDUSTRIES, POLICIES, ENVIRONMENTS, DECISION ...
... City on a Hill?-US Policy Decisions and the ... Bush Administration: the invasion itself, the decision to de ... In order to address the problems facing the ...
... uses is to examine US foreign policy decision making on the cognitive or individual ... the value of AI as both a decision making enhancer and an ...
... 5) Setting the Agenda for Policy Research; (6) Management of PRI; (7) Analysis versus Advocacy. Descriptors : *POLICIES, *DECISION MAKING ...
... purchases. As a rule, the spillovers of fiscal policy are negative. The policy decisions are taken sequentially or simultaneously. ...
... no perfect policy tool exists to ... Descriptors : *POLICIES, *MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ... DECISION MAKING, *ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ...
... new approach to energy policy analysis. ... COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, *POLICIES, *PROBLEM SOLVING ... AND COST ANALYSIS OPERATIONS ...
... role in the analysis of public policy issues ... a theory of judgmental analysis intended to ... Descriptors : *POLICIES, *DECISION MAKING, *JUDGEMENT ...
... the result of a policy decision under the ... threat of prosecution from the ICC could possibly ... often characterize US policies and decisions as criminal ...
... for non-market impacts in policy decisions especially ... IMPACT PREDICTION, *WATER RESOURCES, POLICIES, DECISION MAKING ...
... Title : The Morningside Initiative: Collaborative Development of a Knowledge Repository to Accelerate Adoption of Clinical Decision Support. ...
? Conservation scientists are concerned about the apparent lack of impact their research is having on policy. By better aligning research with policy needs, conservation science might become more relevant to policy and increase its real-world salience in the conservation of biological diversity. Consequently, some conservation ...
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... incident to DSARC milestone decisions affects the ... affected by the DSARC management review process. ... the actual SecDef decision or inability to ...
... to ten new policies that matched the organization's goals with the project management, process management, engineering management, and the ...
This research was designed to identify the impact of state driver's license renewal requirements on the driving mobility (i.e., the reduction or cessation of driving) of older (70 years or older) drivers in the United States. Nationally representative data from four waves (1993-2000) of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old study were linked to state policies on ...
We consider panacea formation in the framework of adaptive learning and decision for social�ecological systems (SESs). Institutions for managing such systems must address multiple timescales of ecological change, as well as features of the social community in which the ecosystem policy problem is embedded. Response of the SES to each candidate ...
To effectively resolve many current ecological policy issues, decision-makers require an array of scientific information. Sometimes scientific information is summarized for decision-makers by policy analysts or others, but often it comes directly from scientists to decision-maker...
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...CONSERVATION COMMISSION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT Relationship to Decision-Making § 10010.49 Record of decision. (a) Any decision documents prepared for proposals involving an EIS...
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010
Forensic radiochemistry refers to studies on special nuclear materials, related to nonproliferation and anti-smuggling efforts. AMS (accelerator mass spectroscopy) measurement of long-lived fission products and U and Pu isotopes has the potential to significantly aid the field of forensic radiochemistry by providing new or more sensitive signatures and improving on the speed ...
The Regulatory Analysis Model, known as RAm, is a computer based model for making financial projections for an electric utility, given a set of assumptions or projections concerning demand, capital expenditures, operating costs, and financial and regulatory policies. RAm can be used for industry or regional analysis as well as for individual electric utility projections. The ...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) created the Office of National Transportation in 2003 recognizing the need to revitalize and accelerate development of the transportation system. The Department has made a commitment to work through a collaborative planning process before developing specific ...
State-level policymakers are relying on estimates of the market potential for renewable energy resources as they set goals and develop policies to accelerate the development of these resources. Therefore, accuracy of such estimates should be understood and possibly improved to appropriately support these decisions. This document ...
The Alternative Energy Policy Project of the Wisconsin Center for Public Policy focused upon two principle objectives: (1) gathering and analyzing new and previously unavailable data on barriers and incentives to greater energy conservation and alternative energy commercialization in the state of Wisconsin; and (2) building consensus around alternative ...
... is report considers the impact of patriotic motives on decisions by youths to ... an official Department of the Army position, policy, or decision, unless so ...
... Accession Number : ADA312207. Title : The Impact of Presidential Decision Directive 25 on Intervention Policy for Complex Emergencies. ...
... Title : The Decision to Allow Military Women into Combat Positions: A Study in Policy and Politics. Descriptive Note : Master's thesis. ...
... as well as about the ethics of their ... incorporate into their national security decision making and action ... breached and difficult policy decisions have to ...
scenarios, corporate decision making for business planning, ... and in foreign policy development for international politics, in production planning and ...
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The problem of formulating and analyzing Markov decision models having decentralized information and
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
... By observing that 'an optimal policy has the property that whatever the initial state and initial decision are, the remaining decisions must constitute ...
... relationship, set the stage for Egyptian President Sadat's ... POLICY, *ISRAEL, *USSR, *DECISION MAKING, *EGYPTIANS, LEADERSHIP, ARABS ...
... Accession Number : ADA286379. Title : The Impact of the Media on National Security Policy Decision Making. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...
... Accession Number : ADA081195. Title : Soviet Policy in the Horn of Africa: The Decision to Intervene. Descriptive Note : Professional paper,. ...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Laws, Regulations, Policies, Court Decisions Laws List of legislation that applies to BLM-managed lands Text of selected...
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... Accession Number : ADA270546. Title : Housing for the Elderly: HUD Policy Decisions Delay Section 202 Construction Starts. ...
... garrisons on the Rhine and in the Palatine Forest, US force ... time period military decisions, administration decisions, foreign policy goals, domestic ...
The paper explores the potential utility (role) of forecasting for foreign policy planning and decision making. To this end, an attempt is made to delineate a formal specification for the decision making process in foreign policy bureaucracies and to use ...
