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America's hospitals: what's right and what could be better?

Ensembling neural networks: Many could be better than all

Neural network ensemble is a learning paradigm where many neural networks are jointly used to solve a problem. In this paper, the relationship between the ensemble and its component neural networks is analyzed from the context of both regression and classification, which reveals that it may be better to ensemble many instead of all of the neural networks at hand. This result is interesting beca...

Mutation Selection: Some Could be Better than All

In previous research, many mutation selection techniques have been proposed to reduce the cost of mutation analysis. After a mutant subset is selected, researchers could obtain a test suite which can detect all mutants in the mutant subset. Then they run all mutants over this test suite, and the detection ratio to all mutants is used to evaluate the effectiveness of mutation selection technique...

How the WTO Could Be Improved

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

Could Big Data be the end of theory in science?

A few years ago, Chris Anderson, former editor in chief of Wired magazine, published a provocative and thought-provoking article: “The end of theory: the data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete” (http://archive.wired.com/science/ discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory/). As the title indicates, Anderson asserted that in the era of petabyte information and supercomputing, the traditional,...