Which books and review articles describe well the current state of deep reinforcement learning for the optimal control of physical processes?

I am going to treat in a lecture the application of deep reinforcement learning for the optimal control of physical processes. Therefore, I am looking for the best references. Besides the classics...

16 February 2021 1,006 6 View

Who are the leading Indigenous academics who have researched and published on STEM teaching and learning?

I'm interested to read what leading Indigenous academics have to say about the intersection between traditional or Indigenous knowledges/epistemologies, values/axiologies and ways of...

14 December 2020 10,026 10 View

How long does it take to embed outcomes of research in changed practice?

I'm thinking here about developmental and participatory research designed to affect social changes. I realise that an obvious answer to the question is 'it all depends'. I have in mind research...

30 November 2019 7,608 6 View

How can I proof the following equality?

01 December 2015 1,383 2 View

Does someone know how to prevent a "Lemming effect" in cultured cells?

17 November 2015 3,785 4 View

How can I calculate the best position of an actuator on a string to damp natural frequencies?

Let's say you have string (e.g. guitar), which is fixed on both ends; and you want to place a discrete number of actuators to damp natural frequencies of it. How can I find the best position to...

18 February 2014 5,231 2 View

Has anyone (unpublished) observations on territorial behaviour or courtship of Cyrano spp. (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae) from the Philippines?

01 January 1970 5,770 3 View

How to plot Van Westerndorp Price Sensitivity Meter in Excel?

I have raw data in excel for the Van Westerndorp model and want to plot it in Excel. How can I do this? I am not a Macro expert or anything... Can someone help me? Cheers!

01 January 1970 1,611 7 View

Is it necessary to run a confirmatory factor analysis after a principal component analysis (SPSS)?

I conducted a survey to test several DV. I assumed that several questions in the survey (e.g. liking of product, repeated purchase) load on one factor/DV (e.g. willingness to buy). To test whether...

01 January 1970 1,906 4 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

How can I verify my centrifugal fan design for electric motor cooling?

I have radial blade centrifugal fan design which will be mounted on exhaust side of electric traction motor. The fan will be mounted on same motor shaft inside the housing. How can I verify that...

23 February 2021 2,390 3 View

Thermal reduction of graphene oxide.?

I am trying to reduce graphene oxide by thermally but I have no proper information regarding this. Can any one help me regarding the details about temperature and time for the reduction of...

23 February 2021 4,155 4 View

What is the system of units used in the thermal conductivity by Spitzer and Harm?

23 February 2021 9,253 1 View