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    "Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"

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    Both spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.

    Container Stowage Planning - k-shift instances - Roberti-Parenno

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    This dataset includes all the instances for the k-shift container stowage planning problem from the papers: Parreño-Torres, C., Çalık, H., Alvarez-Valdes, R., & Ruiz, R. (2021). Solving the generalized multi-port container stowage planning problem by a matheuristic algorithm. Computers and Operations Research, 133, 105383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105383 Roberti, R., & Pacino, D. (2018). A decomposition method for finding optimal container stowage plans. Transportation Science, 52(6), 1444–1462. https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2017.0795 </p

    Improving Rigid 3-D Calibration for Robotic Surgery

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    Autonomy is the next frontier of research in robotic surgery and its aim is to improve the quality of surgical procedures in the next future. One fundamental requirement for autonomy is advanced perception capability through vision sensors. In this article, we propose a novel calibration technique for a surgical scenario with a da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) robot. Camera and robotic arms calibration are necessary to precise position and emulate expert surgeon. The novel calibration technique is tailored for RGB-D cameras. Different tests performed on relevant use cases prove that we significantly improve precision and accuracy with respect to state of the art solutions for similar devices on a surgical-size setups. Moreover, our calibration method can be easily extended to standard surgical endoscope used in real surgical scenario
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