Managing psychopathic offenders: a problem that will not go away.

Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away

It is well-known that certain learning methods (e.g., the per-ceptron learning algorithm) cannot acquire complete, parity mappings. But it is often overlooked that state-of-the-art learning methods such as C4.5 and backpropagation cannot generalise from incomplete parity mappings. The failure of such methods to generalise on parity mappings may be sometimes dismissed on the grounds that it isìm...

Response inhibition in the parametric Go/No-Go task in psychopathic offenders.

Previous research on response inhibition in psychopaths has failed to find consistent evidence for aberrant inhibitory ability, despite strong expectations to the contrary. However, previous examinations have utilised inhibition paradigms that suffer from critical shortcomings, such as a lack of ecological validity and overly simplistic response criteria. To assess inhibition under conditions c...

Complaints that just refuse to go away.

that is not a yesterday’s problem

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Journal Impact Factor: it will go away soon.

Like many other investigators who participate on editorial boards of various journals, I have witnessed the emergence of the so-called ‘‘Journal Impact Factor’’ over the last 10 years. The Impact Factor (IF) is a number derived by dividing the number of citations a journal receives over a period of time by the number of papers published. It is an average indicator of how frequently papers publi...