For a neural network with sign-constrained weights weights three types of attractor can affect the dynamics: retrieval, spurious and uniform attractors. The uniform attractors can dominate the dynamics if there is a substancial weight-sign bias. We will show that it is possible to define...

Beliefs regarding the cause of low back pain differ between individual sufferers and health care professionals. One consequence of this is the potential acquisition of maladaptive attitudes and behaviour in relation to pain, and increases in the utilisation of primary care services (Health...

This paper addresses the question of how to adequately model empirical variation in willingness to pay (WTP) for a public good and demonstrates the importance of appropriate modelling of heterogeneity for policy and decision making on public good provision. Even if on average voters are to gain...