The problem has been studied in the theory of optimal control, though most studies there are concerned with existence of optimal solutions and their characterization, and not with the learning or approximation aspects.

Hook's physical appearance in the film is heavily influenced by Disney's portrayal, though with greater embellishments of gold and silk on his clothes, and curled ends to his moustache ( like a Hook ), but he is far more threatening and closer to the characterization in Barrie's novel as gentleman pirate.

Copley was about fourteen and his stepfather had recently died, when he made the earliest of his portraits now preserved, a likeness of his half-brother Charles Pelham, good in color and characterization though it has in its background accessories which are somewhat out of drawing.

# Long before modern treatment of " persons of color ", this author treats sympathetically the pleasures and pains of an interracial family in his descriptions of life with his black stepfather and negrito half-brother, though their characterization is based on stereotypes.

The visual came about shortly after songstress Lainie Kazan posed for Playboy ... and the characterization between Scott ' Mr. Miracle ' Free and Barda was based largely — though with tongue-in-cheek — on the interplay between Jack and his wife Roz.

Even though their gameplay involved little more than scrolling through text, they became hits largely due to the quality of their writing and characterization.

It was first identified in a British family by Dr. Cecil A. Alport in 1927, though William Howship Dickinson is considered by some to have made contributions to the characterization.

Hogg has referred to them as the " small bill of rights ", though the Supreme Court in Greater Montreal Protestant School Board v. Quebec ( 1989 ) disliked that characterization in that rights in the Constitution Act, 1867 should not be interpreted as liberally as rights in the Charter.

A 1939 description of South Shore stating that it was “ predominately middle class — upper middle class, to be sure, but not social register ,” offers an apt though antiquated characterization of this South Side community.

Mark Evanier, Kirby's assistant during the Fourth World comics, has stated, " Jack based some of his characters ( not all ) on people in his life or in the news ... the characterization between Scott ' Mister Miracle ' Free and Barda was based largely — though with tongue in cheek — on the interplay betwixt Jack and his wife Roz.

Its characterization within the game's setting has similarly met praise and been described as one of the more vivid aspects of the series, though at the same time the same characterization has drawn fire from several Christian groups in various books.

As part of the settlement of a New Jersey case, eHarmony launched a partner website called Compatible Partners providing same-sex match-making " for serious couples " Theodore B. Olson, an attorney for eHarmony, said that even though the company believed the complaint was " an unfair characterization of our business ," it chose to settle because of the unpredictable nature of litigation.

In terms of content and characterization, the strip bears some similarities to a 1970s and 1980s comic strip called Poppers, which was drawn by Jerry Mills, though both strips differ artistically.

Despite some misconceptions, Meisner work also addresses characterization, though in an indirect way.

In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

He got no relief from drink because, though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening, he'd leave it on the table untouched.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.

Note that though the ideal gas itself contains no additional energy, the compressed gas does exert an increased pressure.

There appeared to be no difference in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity in group O serum, though in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. ) only one type of agglutinin was found in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

There is little evidence that existing public or private training programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs, even though they must pay tuition, receive no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a job.

It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

Alf sed he heard that you and Hardy was a runing together all the time and he though he wod gust quit having any thing mor to doo with you for he thought it was no more yuse.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

He put the shells on the table, as though he could no longer bear to hold them.

This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

so that the rest of the house stayed open, though there was a question as to whether it was hotter or cooler that way.

It was as though, in that instant, he had felt the flatness of collage as too constricting and had suddenly tried to escape all the way back -- or forward -- to literal three-dimensionality.

Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.

In this way, red wine warms of itself quite rapidly -- and though it is true that it may not attain its potential of taste and fragrance until after the middle of the meal ( or the course ), in the meantime it will have run the gamut of many beguiling and interesting stages.

That's not precisely the way Larkin urges them to look at it, though.

He bellowed orders and watched the alert response of some of his men and watched, too, the way a dozen or more turned their heads questioningly toward the shackled figure as though for further instruction.

She would weep in private, he was sure, for she loved him in her frigid way, though in public she would be dry-eyed.

Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

Tarrou lives according to an ethical code that demands that he act in a way that benefits the whole community, even though, in this case, he risks his life by doing so.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

But Philia insists that, even though she is in love with Hero, she must honor her contract with the Captain, for " that is the way of a courtesan.

Beethoven wrote this piece in triple time, but it is punctuated in a way that, when coupled with the speed of the metre, makes it sound as though it is in quadruple time.

Some Protestant churches including the Lutheran and Methodist churches have bishops serving similar functions as well, though not always understood to be within apostolic succession in the same way.

Other countries though do not have the reporting requirement that the U. S. does concerning proceeds from barter transactions, but taxation is handled the same way as a cash transaction.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

Food is similar to hydrocarbon fuel and carbohydrate fuels, and when it is oxidized, its caloric content is similar ( though not assessed in the same way as a hydrocarbon fuel — see food energy ).

Elyachar argues though, that these programs not only were a failure, but that they shifted cultural opinions of value ( personal and cultural ) in a way that favored Western ways of thinking and being

Later on, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this French revolutionary principle – though not of course its specific way to identify the “ general will ” – percolated into first Socialist and then Fascist political thinking.