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Abstract: The marginal maximum entropy criterion has been used to guide recursive partitioning of a continuous sample space. Although the criterion has been successfully applied in pattern discovery ...

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With consumption tapering of late, Finance Bill 2025 came out with some long-awaited tweaks to the personal income-tax structure aimed at reducing the tax burden of the common man. One, the ...

Neural machine translation (NMT) heavily relies on parallel bilingual data for training. Since large-scale, high-quality parallel corpora are usually costly to collect, it is appealing to exploit ...

The world of microeconomics and business decision-making hinges upon a key concept: marginal cost. In the simplest terms, marginal cost represents the expense incurred to produce an additional unit of ...

The law of diminishing returns is a concept of economics that every entrepreneur should understand. Also known as the law of diminishing marginal returns, this law helps entrepreneurs and economists ...

As we begin a new semester, we are always looking for examples that illustrate economic principles. Fortunately, the world is filled with them, often in our own backyard. Two come to mind. Our ...