What is a good distribution network tariff?—Developing indicators for performance assessment

What is Modularity Good For?

We compare three types of dual-route associative architectures for learning the English past tense problem. Identical computational resources are used in (1) a pre-specified modular architecture, with a rule mechanism and an exception mechanism; (2) an architecture with two mechanisms that demonstrate emergent specialization of function for regular and exception verbs; and (3) a redundant syste...

What a doctor is good for.

Over the years I have served as both a preceptor and colleague for more than a dozen physician assistants and nurse practitioners. All the while I wondered: are they as good as they seem, and are doctors as indispensable as we’d like to believe? When my daughter became a physician assistant I was forced to respond. I share a small practice with six family physicians. Each of us works closely wi...

What Inductive Bias Gives Good Neural Network Training Performance?

There has been an increased interest in the use of prior knowledge for training neural networks. Prior knowledge in the form of Horn clauses has been the predominant paradigm for knowledge-based neural networks. Given a set of training examples and an initial domain theory, a neural network is constructed that fits the training examples by preprogramming some of the weights. The initialized neu...

What is a good decision?

What Is a Good Midwife ?

Objective. To review the literature around what is considered to be a good midwife and in particular what women value in a midwife, in order to identify the gaps in the evidence for future research. Design. This paper reviews the research in the area of interest over the past 30 years. The literature search focused on the concept of good midwife using synonyms and antonyms. The inclusion criter...