What research has been done on learning non-Markovian reward functions?

Recently, some work has been done planning and learning in Non-Markovian Decision Processes, that is, decision-making with temporally extended rewards. In these settings, a particular reward is...

06 April 2019 4,890 2 View

Is this contamination in cell culture?

In my human cell line, I've observed masses that look different from the cells. When seen with the naked eye, they appear to be white spots. When seen under a scope, they appear to be dense...

14 August 2018 8,480 4 View

Why are my THP-1 cells dying so fast?

Im working with THP-1. I culture them well, they grow well, they differenciate well. Then i infect them with 1:1 MOI and i treat them for 4 days with antibiotic. At they 4 almost all the cells...

01 February 2018 6,263 0 View

Estimating sample size: can secondary outcome data be used where primary outcome data does not exist?

I'm estimating sample size for a future study using the primary outcome (mean and SD) from a current study. The future study will use a randomized control design with two independent 'arms' (or...

17 January 2018 4,037 1 View

Can anyone spot any possible problems with this approach to diagnosing colorectal caner?

Take a sample from the suspected area, polyp, ulcer etc. Extract RNA from these cells. Convert to cDNA and do real time PCR to determine whether the oncogene VAV3 is over expressed? (VAV3 is...

25 October 2016 9,528 3 View

What is the definition of the POMDP state value function when the reward function is defined as R:S x A x S->Reals?

When the reward function is defined as R(a,s), the value function is defined as max_{a in A} (rho(a,b) + ...), where A is the set of actions, b is the current belief state and rho(a,b) is the...

05 May 2016 9,561 3 View

Why am I getting a low ICC even though agreement is objectively high?

31 January 2016 4,730 3 View

Can anyone recommend free software which is easy to use, for computing Minimum Cross-Entropy?

I'm working with discrete distributions, and i have only one constraint (over the atomic events) on the posterior distribution. In particular, i have a prior distribution P over four atomic events...

25 January 2016 6,708 2 View

How can I derive the order of a LTI system?

16 January 2016 4,836 3 View

Any tips for transfecting neurons with siRNA in primary culture?

We would like to transfect post-mitotic neurons cultured from early human fetal neocortex with siRNA. As a trial experiment,we have tried Dharmafect 1 to introduce siRNA against GADPH and found 5%...

16 March 2015 3,512 10 View

Why can't make aluminum nitride film successfully by use sputter?

We use reactive sputtering process to make aluminum nitride film, and want to make c-axis aluminum nitride film on a silicon substrate, but the crystal orientation cannot be seen with...

03 March 2021 7,975 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to check the uv-vis absorption of nanoparticle by surface plasmon resonance?

I try to check the uv-vis absorption of Indium nanoparticle. Now I am measuring in solution, can I measure it in the form of a film?

01 March 2021 930 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 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

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

Which one carries more value? A research paper in a Scopus Indexed conference proceedings or the same paper in a Journal without Scopus indexing?

I am looking for the suggestion among which one to pick from the above two categories for a research work.

27 February 2021 10,025 1 View