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Brown University Providence , Rhode Island 02912
This paper describes MEDUSA, an experimental algorithm synthesizer. MEDUSA is characterized by its top-down approach, its use of cost-constraints, and its restricted number of synthesis methods. Given this model, we discuss heuristics used to keep this process from being unbounded search through the solution space. The results indicate that the performance criteria can be used effectively to he...
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This article analyzes infanticide based on the Coroners' Records for Providence County, Rhode Island, from the 1870s to 1938 to determine doctors' and coroners' attitudes toward mothers who killed. The nineteenth century witnessed a medical discourse on the possibility of postpartum insanity as a cause of infanticide. While some women claimed temporary insanity, and some doctors and coroners le...
متن کاملprepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting , Providence , Rhode Island ,
We conduct two studies to test three hypotheses: (1) Competition increases a firm’s customer satisfaction; (2) Rivals’ customer satisfaction increases a firm’s customer satisfaction; (3) Rivals’ customer satisfaction reduces a firm’s sales. First, we use store-level customer satisfaction data from a supermarket chain. Next, we consider a range of industries, using brand-level customer satisfact...
متن کاملHealth care access, utilization, and needs in a predominantly Latino immigrant community in Providence, Rhode Island.
MOre than 46 MIllIOn peOple In the us lack health insurance, as do 140,000 Rhode Islanders (16% of the state’s population under age 65). Most of the state’s uninsured are low income working adults, and thirtyeight percent are low-income childless adults who are not currently eligible for Medicaid. The number of uninsured individuals has been rising in the region, due to decreases in employer-ba...
متن کاملTo appear in Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Constraints and Agents Providence , Rhode Island
To an increasing extent, large-scale information processing is a distributed phenomenon. As the trend in computing moves further towards distributed networks of powerful workstations and information servers, we see the growing importance of solutions to dynamic distributed scheduling problems. In these domains, resource providers are distributed both geographically and bureaucratically, so that...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Iowa Review
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0021-065X,2330-0361
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065x.1850