The importance of using reward-based methods to train dogs is widely known, yet some people still use aversive methods. By definition, both reward-based and aversive methods work to change behavior, ...

Abstract: Computational resources, which presents a significant challenge in resourceconstrained environments, particularly in developing countries. Consequently, the development of decoding ...

To the extent that you’re familiar with magnetostriction, you probably know that it’s what makes big transformers hum, or that it’s what tips you off if you happen to walk out of a store without ...

Small talk has its uses, especially in the business world. It can help us suss each other out, establish a basic level of trust, or just fill the time while we’re waiting in line. But let’s be honest, ...

1 Department of Coastal Management, Geosystem Research Corp., Gunpo, Republic of Korea 2 School of Civil Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Detecting and responding ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...

Abstract: Electromagnetic propagation through linear dispersive media can be analyzed using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method by employing the recursive convolution (RC) approach to ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, ...

Through a comprehensive evaluation of model complexity and number of parameters, it was determined that the overall performance of the proposed model is the best when eight group convolutions are used ...