CS 461: Artificial Intelligence Introduction Introd ction to Intelligent S stems Systems (agents) Outline Agents and environments Rationality PEAS Performance measure‚ Actuators‚ Sensors Environment‚ Environment types Agent types 2 Agents agent noun: a person or thing that acts … ( (root of Latin agere‚ to do) g ‚ ) 3 Agents act = A t AgentFn(percept) tF ( t) sensors agent fn actuators 4 Agents (Some definitions) • Agent: anything that can be viewed as p g y g perceiving its
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Germany vs. United States Germany vs. United States A Comparison of Healthcare Systems Deborah Glen Grand Canyon University Healthcare Systems and Transcultural Healthcare January 8‚ 2011 Comparing Healthcare Systems between Germany and the United States The chart included here compares healthcare systems between Germany and the United States. Though many miles apart geographically‚ there are many similarities between the two nations. Many people and institutions‚ both
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The cardiovascular system‚ also known as the circulatory system‚ is composed of the heart‚ blood vessels‚ and blood. The term cardiovascular refers to the heart (cardio-) and blood vessels (vascular). The term circulatory refers to the circulation of the blood. The heart is a muscular pump and its regular contractions send blood into tough‚ elastic tubes called arteries‚ which branch into smaller vessels and convey oxygen-rich blood through the body. The arteries eventually divide into tiny capillaries
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Twentieth Century Penitentiary System Deidria Davis Axia College of University of Phoenix Instructor: According to the timeline given by Eastern State Historical website virtually all prisons designed in the nineteenth century‚ worldwide‚ were based on one of two systems: New York State ’s Auburn System‚ and the Pennsylvania System these models influence today’s penitentiary system to this day. During the next hundred years following Eastern State ’s construction‚ more than 300
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Comparative Analysis of the Health Care System in France vs the United States Introduction Everyone would agree that a good health system‚ above all‚ must contribute to good health. It is certainly not considered acceptable to protect or improve the average health of the population‚ if at the same time inequality worsens or remains high because the gain accrues disproportionately to those already enjoying better health. The responsibility of a health care system is also to reduce inequalities to race
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What trade-offs are involved in shifting from a traditional operations system to a lean system for: a. A manufacturing firm? A lean system is basically quality vs. quantity. Producing quality in the lean system eliminates waste. For instance‚ a lean system can reduce inventory‚ waiting time‚ excessive transportation‚ as well as defects in products and services. “The key considerations are the time and cost requirements for successful conversion‚ which can be substantial” (Stevenson‚ 2010‚ p.
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importance of Alliance System relative to other factors which brought about the outbreak of WW1. The relative importance of alliance system is smaller than other factors .Other factors that lead to the outbreak of WW1 such as extreme nationalism‚ new imperialism‚ militarism and pre-war crisis are relatively more important than it. To compare with extreme nationalism‚ alliance systems got less influential than it regard its definition in meaning. Alliance system is a system that empowering the
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history of state and federal prisons; making a comparison and contrasting about of the different security levels that exist in state prisons and federal prisons. Also it will mention some of the reasons for growth in the state prison system. State and Federal Prison Systems Prison is a term describing the facilities used to incarcerate convicted individuals and penitentiary describes the type of building. The debate to inaugurate penitentiaries instead of prisons began in the eighteenth century
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The Congregate system is a prison system in which the inmates were in isolation during the night but then worked with the other inmates during the day. “The Auburn prison system‚ often referred to as the “congregate system‚” was first implemented in 1819 at the New York State Prison in Auburn” (Auburn System‚ n.d.). By 1860‚ every state but Pennsylvania adopted the congregate model. Cruel and unusual punishment is when the punishment is improper due to the severe pain‚ suffering and humiliation
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The history of U.S. prisons from the late 1700s to the late 1800s was marked by a shift from a penitentiary system primarily concerned with rehabilitation to one concerned more with warehousing prisoners. The failure of reform minded wardens to justify rehabilitation caused state legislatures to set economic profitability as the new goal for prisons. This resulted in a worsening of prison conditions during this period. Early colonial criminal law was a curious mix of religion
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