When Do Stop-Loss Rules Stop Losses?

When Stopping Rules Don’t Stop

Performing ranked retrieval on large document collections can be slow. The method of stopping rules has been proposed to make it more efficient. Stopping rules, which terminate search when the highest ranked documents have been determined to some degree of likelihood, are attractive and have proven useful in clustering, but have not worked well in retrieval experiments. This paper presents a st...

Knowing When to Stop

When Oscillators Stop Oscillating

Stop Loss Reinsurance

Stop loss is a nonproportional type of reinsurance and works similarly to excess-of-loss reinsurance. While excess-of-loss is related to single loss amounts, either per risk or per event, stop-loss covers are related to the total amount of claims X in a year – net of underlying excess-of-loss contracts and/or proportional reinsurance. The reinsurer pays the part of X that exceeds a certain amou...

When Do We Stop Calling Them Mirror Neurons?

The discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s has led to much excitement in the cognitive neurosciences. After the initial discovery more and more abilities have been attributed to these neurons. As mirror neurons are commonly viewed as vehicles of representation, we analyze the increasingly wider representational role mirror neurons play and argue for a principled distinction between mirror and...