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Grounded Language Learning: Where Robotics and NLP Meet
Grounded language acquisition is concerned with learning the meaning of language as it applies to the physical world. As robots become more capable and ubiquitous, there is an increasing need for non-specialists to interact ... -
Learning to Understand Non-Categorical Physical Language for Human Robot Interactions
Learning the meaning of language with respect to the physical world in which a robot operates is a necessary step for shared autonomy systems in which natural language is part of a user-specific, customizable interface. ... -
A Manifold Alignment Approach to Grounded Language Learning
As robots become advanced and affordable enough to have in our daily lives, the next question is: How do we make using these machines as intuitive as possible? Language offers an approachable and relatively accessible ... -
Planning with Abstract Learned Models While Learning Transferable Subtasks
(AAAI, 2020-03-04)We introduce an algorithm for model-based hierarchical reinforcement learning to acquire self-contained transition and reward models suitable for probabilistic planning at multiple levels of abstraction. We call this ... -
Bacterial community analysis of marine recirculating aquaculture system bioreactors for complete nitrogen removal established from a commercial inoculum
(Elsevier, 2019-03-30)An experimental recirculating aquaculture system was constructed under ambient seawater conditions to compare microbial community diversity of nitrifying and denitrifying biofilters that were derived from a commercial ... -
Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement [STC1] of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space
To monitor global environments from space, satellites must be calibrated accurately and consistently across time, missions and instruments. This requires the use of a stable, common reference that is continuously accessible ... -
Thinking from Different Perspectives: Academic Publishing Strategies and Management in the Field of Educational Technology
Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D) journal is a publication of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and currently published by Springer Nature. The journal emerged in 1989 ... -
The Response of the Amazon Ecosystem to the Photosynthetically Active Radiation Fields: Integrating Impacts of Biomass Burning Aerosol and Clouds in the NASA GEOS ESM
(EGU Publications, 2021-03-24)The Amazon experiences fires every year, and the resulting biomass burning aerosols, together with cloud particles, influence the penetration of sunlight through the atmosphere, increasing the ratio of diffuse to direct ... -
Share to Seek: The Effects of Disease Complexity on Health Information–Seeking Behavior
(JMIR, 2021-03-24)Background: Web-based question and answer (Q&A) sites have emerged as an alternative source for serving individuals’ health information needs. Although a number of studies have analyzed user-generated content in web-based ... -
Assessing the biogeographical and socio-ecological representativeness of the ILTER site network
The challenges posed by climate and land use change are increasingly complex, with rising and accelerating impacts on the global environmental system. Novel environmental and ecosystem research needs to properly interpret ... -
Measuring deadtime and double-counts in a non-paralyzable scintillating neutron detector using arrival time statistics
(Elsevier, 2021-03-26)A 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) based cold neutron detector with wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers and SiPM photodetector was developed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research for the CANDoR instrument (Chromatic Analysis Neutron Diffractometer ... -
The RS CVn–type Star GT Mus Shows Most Energetic X-Ray Flares Throughout the 2010sRyo Sasaki
(IOP, 2021-03-23)We report that the RS CVn–type star GT Mus (HR 4492, HD 101379+HD 101380) was the most active star in the X-ray sky in the last decade in terms of the scale of recurrent energetic flares. We detected 11 flares from GT Mus ... -
Gnrh2 maintains reproduction in fasting zebrafish through dynamic neuronal projection changes and regulation of gonadotropin synthesis, oogenesis, and reproductive behaviors
(Springer Nature, 2021-03-23)Restricted food intake, either from lack of food sources or endogenous fasting, during reproductive periods is a widespread phenomenon across the animal kingdom. Considering previous studies show the canonical upstream ... -
Effects of Infectious Diseases on Population Dynamics of Marine Organisms in Chesapeake Bay
(Springer Nature, 2021-03-24)Diseases are important drivers of population and ecosystem dynamics. This review synthesizes the effects of infectious diseases on the population dynamics of nine species of marine organisms in the Chesapeake Bay. Diseases ... -
THE BALTIC VERBAL ROOTS* lV̄̆g-,* lV̄̆ź
The present paper attempts to shed additional light on a number of etymologies proposed for various Baltic (and related Slavic) verbal bases of the shape *lV̄̆g-, *lV̄̆ź-. These include *leg-, *leź-, *lēg-, *lēź-, together ... -
Quantum and classical ergotropy from relative entropies
The quantum ergotropy quantifies the maximal amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum state without changing its entropy. We prove that the ergotropy can be expressed as the difference of quantum and classical ... -
Analysis of Near-Cloud Changes in Atmospheric Aerosols Using Satellite Observations and Global Model Simulations
(MDPI, 2021-03-17)This paper examines cloud-related variations of atmospheric aerosols that occur in partly cloudy regions containing low-altitude clouds. The goal is to better understand aerosol behaviors and to help better represent the ... -
Application of a new X-ray reflection model to V1223 Sagittarii
(Oxford Academic, 2021-03-19)In intermediate polars (IPs), the intrinsic thermal emissions from white dwarfs (WDs) have typically been studied. Few reports have analyzed X-ray reflections from WDs. We recently developed an elaborate IP-reflection ... -
Two-atom interferometer
(American Physiological Society (APS), 2021-03-18)This Letter presents a nonclassical mechanism of two-atom interferometry. The two-atom interferometer introduces two different yet indistinguishable alternatives for randomly paired atoms to create a joint atom-detection ... -
Assessment of the Appropriateness of Antimicrobial Use in US Hospitals
(JAMA Network, 2021-03-18)Importance Hospital antimicrobial consumption data are widely available; however, large-scale assessments of the quality of antimicrobial use in US hospitals are limited. Objective To evaluate the appropriateness of ...