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Learning Operators with NEAT for Boolean Composition in Reinforcement Learning

Callum Rhys Tilbury, Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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February 27, 2025

Opportunities of Reinforcement Learning in South Africa’s Just Transition

Callum Rhys Tilbury, Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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February 27, 2025

Thermodynamics and DC conductivity of 2D anisotropic fluids from axion holography

A. Ballon-Bayona, J.P. Shock and D. Zoakos

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February 27, 2025

PEPT-EC, a location algorithm based on anomaly detection for positron emission particle tracking (PEPT)

Rayhaan Perin, Stephen Peterson, Jonathan Shock, Katie Cole

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December 5, 2024

Increasing the location rate of positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) measurements for froth flotation

Rayhaan Perin, Stephen Peterson, Jonathan Shock, Pablo Brito-Parada, Diego Mesa, Katie Cole

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December 5, 2024

Putting Data at the Centre of Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Claude Formanek, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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September 19, 2024

Dispelling the Mirage of Progress in Offline MARL through Standardised Baselines and Evaluation

Claude Formanek, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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July 2, 2024

Coordination Failure in Cooperative Offline MARL

Callum Rhys Tilbury, Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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June 27, 2024

Planning to Learn: A Novel Algorithm for Active Learning during Model-Based Planning

Rowan Hodson, Bruce Bassett, Charel van Hoof, Benjamin Rosman, Mark Solms, Jonathan P. Shock, Ryan Smith

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August 17, 2023

On the Ability of Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) to Track Turbulent Flow Paths with Monte Carlo Simulations in GATE

Rayhaan Perin, Katie Cole , Michael R. van Heerden, Andy Buffler, Yi-Yu Lin, Jiahao Zhang, Pablo R. Brito-Parada, Jonathan Shock, and Stephen W. Peterson

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May 31, 2023

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Selective Reincarnation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Claude Formanek,Callum Rhys Tilbury Jonathan Shock, Kale-ab Tessera, Arnu Pretorius

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April 4, 2023

A Sequence Modelling Approach to Question Answering in Text-Based Games

Gregory Furman, Edan Toledo, Jonathan Shock, and Jan Buys

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February 2, 2023

Off-the-Grid MARL: a Framework for Dataset Generation with Baselines for Cooperative Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningDesigning Catalysts via evolutionary-based optimization techniques

Claude Formanek, Asad Jeewa, Jonathan Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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February 2, 2023

Policy-based Reinforcement Learning for Generalisation in Interactive Text-based Environments

E. Toledo, J. Shock, J. Buys

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January 1, 2023

Designing Catalysts via evolutionary-based optimization techniques

Parastoo Agharezaei, Tanay Sahu, Jonathan Shock, Paul G. O'Brien, Kulbir Kaur Ghuman

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October 13, 2022

Understanding the widespread use of veteranary Ivermectin for Chagas disease, underlying factors and implications for the COVID-19 pandemic: A convergent mixed methods study

B Michel, M Navarro, M Pritsch, J Du Plessis, J Shock, E Schwienhorst-Stich, J Zirkel, H Schrader, C Irala, G Rubilar, C Gunesch, C Kasang, T Zolle, I Gágyor, Sandra Parisi

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August 9, 2022

Magnetising the N=4 SYM Plasma

A. Ballon-Bayona, J.P. Shock and D. Zoakos

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March 2, 2022

Brain Structural Saliency Over The Ages

D Taylor, J.P Shock, D Moodley, J Ipser, M Treder

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March 1, 2022

Strongly coupled heavy and light quark thermal motion from AdS/CFT

A.K.Mes, R.W.Moerman, J.P.Shock, W.A.Horowitz

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December 12, 2021

Causal Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Review and Open Problems

St John Grimbly, Jonathan Shock, Arnu Pretorius

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December 1, 2021

Remarks on Fermions in a Dipole Magnetic Field

J. Murugan, J. Shock, R. Slayen

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October 12, 2021

Topic-specific literacy in the School-University undegraduate mathematics transition

K. Roux, J.P. Shock, B. Osano

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July 19, 2021

MAVA: A research framework for distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning

Arnu Pretorius, Kale-ab Tessera, Andries P. Smit, Claude Formanek, St John Grimbly, Kevin Eloff, Siphelele Danisa, Lawrence Francis, Jonathan Shock, Herman Kamper, Willie Brink, Herman Engelbrecht, Alexandre Laterre1, Karim Beguir

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July 3, 2021

Astrophysical Quantum Matter: Spinless charged particles on a magnetic dipole sphere

J. Murugan, J. Shock, R. Slayen

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March 5, 2021

Correlation constraints for regression models: controlling bias in brain age prediction

M. Treder, J. Shock, D. Stein, S Du Plessis, S. Seedat, K. Tsvetanov

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February 18, 2021

The relationship between mindset and academic achievement at university: A quantitative study of South African students

Mashudu Mokhithi, Anita L. Campbell, Jonathan P. Shock

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December 22, 2020

”We have already heard that the treatment doesn’t do anything, so why should we take it?”: A mixed method perspective on Chagas disease knowledge, attitudes, prevention, and treatment behaviour in the Bolivian Chaco

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, S. Parisi et al

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October 29, 2020

Magnetic catalysis and the chiral condensate in holographic QCD

A Ballon-Bayona, J. Shock, D. Zoakos

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October 28, 2020

A game-theoretic analysis of networked system control for common-pool resource management using multi-agent reinforcement learning

Arnu Pretorius, Scott Cameron, Elan van Biljon, Tom Makkink, Shahil Mawjee, Jeremy du Plessis, Jonathan Shock, Alexandre Laterre, Karim Beguir

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October 15, 2020

Structural neuroimaging biomarkers for obsessive-compulsive disorder in the ENIGMA-OCD consortium: medication matters

Transl Psychiatry 10, 342 (2020), W. Bruin et al.

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October 8, 2020

Notes on the Squashed Sphere Lowest Landau Level

J. Murugan, J. Shock, R. Slayen

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September 17, 2019

Chaos and Scrambling in Quantum Small Worlds

J. Hartmann, J. Murugan, J. Shock

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January 14, 2019

Consciousness Indexing and Outcome Prediction with Resting-State EEG in Severe Disorders of Consciousness

S. Stefan, B. Schorr, A. Lopez-Rolon, IT. Kolassa, J. Shock, M. Rosenfelder, S Heck, A.Bender

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April 7, 2018

A Universal Order parameter for Inverse Magnetic Catalysis

A. Ballon-Bayona, M. Ihl, J. Shock, D. Zoakos

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October 9, 2017

P 132 Automated outcome prediction and assessment with quantitative EEG in severe disorders of consciousness

S. Stefan, B. Schorr, A. Lopez-Rolon, I. Kolassa, J. Shock, A. Bender

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October 1, 2017

Severe Disorders of Consciousness after Acquired Brain Injury: A Single-Centre Long-Term Follow-up Study

Lopez-Rolon A, Vogler J, Howell K, Shock J, Czermak S, Heck S, Straube A, Bender A.

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April 1, 2017

A cross-sectional, descriptive study of Chagas disease among citizens of Bolivian origin living in Munich, Germany

BMJ Open M. Navarro et al

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January 17, 2017

Quantum discord in de Sitter space

S. Kanno, J. Shock, J. Soda

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August 9, 2016

The Information Metric on the moduli space of instantons with global symmetries

Phys.Lett. E. Malek, J. Muguran, J. Shock

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July 30, 2015

Probability Density Functions from the Fisher Information Metric

T. Clingman, J. Murugan, J. Shock

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April 13, 2015

Entanglement negativity in the multiverse

Sugumi Kanno, Jonathan P. Shock, Jiro Soda

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December 9, 2014

Particle-vortex and Maxwell duality in AdS4x CP3/ABJM correspondence

JHEP, J.Murugan, H. Nastase, N. Rughoonauth, J. Shock

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October 8, 2014

Efficient Quantification and Characterization of Bacterial Outer Membrane derived Nano-particles with Flow Cytometric Analysis

International Journal of Molecular Medicine 2014.07.012, Wieser et al.

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July 27, 2014

Entanglement entropy of α-vacua in de Sitter space

JHEP, S. Kanno, J. Murugan, J. Shock, J. Soda.

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July 16, 2014

Chiral Dynamics from AdS Space

N. Evans and J. P. Shock

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March 21, 2014

Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte detection in different patient material

Malaria Journal - Kast et al

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December 4, 2013

Magnetic field induced lattice ground states from holography

Y.Y. Bu, J. Erdmenger, J. Shock, M. Strydom

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March 28, 2013

Evaluation of dried blood spots on filter paper for Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte detection with real-time QT-NASBA

M. Pritsch, A. Wieser, V. Soederstroem, D. Poluda, T. Eshetu, M. Hoelscher, S. Schubert, J. Shock, T. Loescher, N. Berens-Riha

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May 20, 2012

Holographic Superfluidity from a Magnetic Field

Y.Y. Bu, J. Erdmenger, J. Shock, M. Strydom

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February 20, 2012

On Stability and Transport of Cold Holographic Matter

M.Ammon, J.Erdmenger, S.Lin, S.Muller, A.O'Bannon, J.P.Shock

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August 8, 2011

Chiral phase transitions and quantum critical points of the D3/D7(D5) system with mutually perpendicular E and B fields at finite temperature and density

N.Evans, K.Y.Kim, J.P.Shock

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July 25, 2011

The open string membrane paradigm with external electromagnetic fields

K.Y.Kim, J.P.Shock, J.Tarrio

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March 23, 2011

Sum rules, plasma frequencies and hall phenomenology in holographic plasmas

J.Mas, J.P.Shock, J.Tarrio

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October 27, 2010

Strings on bubbling geometries

H.Lin, A.Morisse, J.P.Shock

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March 22, 2010

Holographic hadrons in a confining finite density medium

Y.Seo, J.P.Shock, S.J.Sin, D.Zoakos

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December 20, 2009

A note on the velocity of holographic long lived mesons

J.P.Shock, J. Tarrio

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December 15, 2009

Holographic operator mixing and quasinormal modes on the brane

M.Kaminski, K.Landsteiner, J.Mas, J.P.Shock, J.Tarrio

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November 18, 2009

Universal holographic chiral dynamics in an external magnetic field

V.Filev, C.V.Johnson, J.P.Shock

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March 30, 2009

The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Non-perturbative QCD

Jose D. Edelstein, Jonathan P. Shock, Dimitrios Zoakos

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January 16, 2009

On the Einstein relation in holographic systems at finite baryon density

J.Mas, J.P.Shock,J.Tarrio

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December 23, 2008

Holographic flavor in N=4 gauge theories in 3d from wrapped branes

A.V.Ramallo, J.P.Shock, D.Zoakos

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December 10, 2008

A note on conductivity and charge diffusion in holographic flavour systems

JHEP 0901:025,2009. J.Mas, J.P.Shock, J.Tarrio

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November 11, 2008

Holographic Spectral functions at finite baryon density

JHEP 0809:009,2008. J.Mas, J.P.Shock, J.Tarrio, D.Zoakos

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May 16, 2008

AdS/CFT with flavour in electric and magnetic Kalb-Ramond fields

JHEP 0712:091,2007. J.Erdmenger, R.Meyer and J.P.Shock

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December 27, 2007

Holographic confinement/deconfinement phase transitions of AdS/QCD in curved spaces

JHEP 08 (2007) 095. R.G.Cai and J.P.Shock

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August 31, 2007

A Note on chiral symmetry breaking from intersecting branes

Phys.Rev. D76 (2007) 046003. Y.H.Gao, J.P.Shock, W.S.Xu and D.F.Zeng

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August 6, 2007

An Exotic Approach to Hadron Physics

YKIS06 proceedings. M.Bando, Y.Fukase, J.P.Shock, A.Sugamoto and S.Terunuma

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February 20, 2007

AdS/QCD phenomenological models from a back-reacted geometry

JHEP 03 (2007) 064. J.P.Shock, F.Wu, Y-L.Wu and Z-F.Xie

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February 20, 2007

Embedding Flipped SU(5) into SO(10)

JHEP 10 (2006) 035. C-S.Huang, T.Li, C.Liu, J.P.Shock, F.Wu and Y-L.Wu

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February 20, 2006

Three Flavour QCD from the holographic principle

JHEP 08 (2006) 023. J.P.Shock and F.Wu

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February 20, 2006

Canonical Coordinates and Meson Spectra for Scalar Deformed N=4 SYM from the AdS/CFT Correspondence

JHEP 10 (2006) 043. J.P.Shock

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February 20, 2006

Towards a Perfect QCD Gravity Dual

Phys.Lett. B622 (2005) 165-171. N.Evans J.P.Shock and T.Waterson

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February 20, 2005

D7 Brane Embeddings and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Nick Evans, Jonathan P. Shock

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March 29, 2004

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