The critic : or, A tragedy rehearsed : a dramatic piece in two acts : acting version of the Yale University Dramatic Association /

Cover title : The Yale University Dramatic Association acting version of The critic.

Vita Davidis Chytraei, Theologi Summi, Historici eximii, Philosophi insignis, Viri optimi & integerrimi, Memoriae posteritatis, Orationibus Et Carminibus Amicorum, iustisq[ue] Encomiis consecrata.

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Chaucer's 'Boece' Englisht from Boethius's "De consolatione philosophiæ."

Tr. of:De consolations philos- ophiae.

Labor's challenge to the social order; democracy its own critic and educator,

Mode of access: Internet.

Tou en agiois patros ?mon Ioustinou philosophou kai martyros ta eupiskomena panta : S.P.N. Justini philosophi et martyris Opera quae exstant omnia : necnon tatiani adversus graecos oratio Athenagorae... legatio pro christianis, S. Theophili Antiocheni tres ad Autolycum libri, Hermiae philosophi Irrisio gentilium philosophorum /

Mode of access: Internet.

British critic, and quarterly theological review.

Superseded by The English review.

The critic : a weekly review of literature, fine arts, and the drama.

Editor: 1828- William Leggett.

Animadversiones ad L. Annaei Senecae philosophi scripta.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Jena.

De Senecae philosophi studiis litterarum.

Thesis (doctoral)--Regimonti.

L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera omnia qvae svpersvnt

recognovit et illustravit Fridericus Ernestus Ruhkopf, director gymnasii Bielefeldensis

Fully probabilistic control design in an adaptive critic framework

Optimal stochastic controller pushes the closed-loop behavior as close as possible to the desired one. The fully probabilistic design (FPD) uses probabilistic description of the desired closed loop and minimizes Kullback-Leibler divergence of the closed-loop description to the desired one. Practical exploitation of the fully probabilistic design control theory continues to be hindered by the computational complexities involved in numerically solving the associated stochastic dynamic programming problem. In particular very hard multivariate integration and an approximate interpolation of the involved multivariate functions. This paper proposes a new fully probabilistic contro algorithm that uses the adaptive critic methods to circumvent the need for explicitly evaluating the optimal value function, thereby dramatically reducing computational requirements. This is a main contribution of this short paper.

Probabilistic DHP adaptive critic for nonlinear stochastic control systems

Following the recently developed algorithms for fully probabilistic control design for general dynamic stochastic systems (Herzallah & Káarnáy, 2011; Kárný, 1996), this paper presents the solution to the probabilistic dual heuristic programming (DHP) adaptive critic method (Herzallah & Káarnáy, 2011) and randomized control algorithm for stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems. The purpose of the randomized control input design is to make the joint probability density function of the closed loop system as close as possible to a predetermined ideal joint probability density function. This paper completes the previous work (Herzallah & Kárnáy, 2011; Kárný, 1996) by formulating and solving the fully probabilistic control design problem on the more general case of nonlinear stochastic discrete time systems. A simulated example is used to demonstrate the use of the algorithm and encouraging results have been obtained.

Stochastic control strategies and adaptive critic methods

Adaptive critic methods have common roots as generalizations of dynamic programming for neural reinforcement learning approaches. Since they approximate the dynamic programming solutions, they are potentially suitable for learning in noisy, nonlinear and nonstationary environments. In this study, a novel probabilistic dual heuristic programming (DHP) based adaptive critic controller is proposed. Distinct to current approaches, the proposed probabilistic (DHP) adaptive critic method takes uncertainties of forward model and inverse controller into consideration. Therefore, it is suitable for deterministic and stochastic control problems characterized by functional uncertainty. Theoretical development of the proposed method is validated by analytically evaluating the correct value of the cost function which satisfies the Bellman equation in a linear quadratic control problem. The target value of the critic network is then calculated and shown to be equal to the analytically derived correct value.

The Impact of the Restaurant Critic

Restaurant critiques have an effect on the sales volume of restaurants following the publication of the critique in the target markets’ media. The author discusses data from restaurant operations in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area which have had their operations publicly critiqued, and also addresses the credibility of critics.