Key Points * Lack of transparency and competitiveness in procurement processes * Financial losses due to coal purchases above international market prices * Weak contract management and oversight * ...

It is time for the government to move away from the outdated practice of lowest bidding (L1) in public procurement and adopt the globally accepted Quality-cum-Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method. This ...

This valuable study presents a plastic recurrent spiking network model that spontaneously generates repeating neuronal sequences under unstructured inputs. The authors provide solid evidence that, ...

Abstract: A novel cost function to improve the performance of neural networks in system modelling is proposed in this paper, the exponential quadratic cost function. This cost function combines the ...

Abstract: Recently, research in machine learning has become more reliant on data-driven approaches. However, understanding the general theory behind optimal neural network architecture is, arguably, ...