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Doing It Now or Later
, 1996
"... Though economists assume that intertemporal preferences are time-consistent, evidence suggests that a person 's relative preference for well-being at an earlier moment over a later moment increases as the earlier moment gets closer. We explore the behavioral and welfare implications of such tim ..."
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and preproperate #dotoo soon # activities with salient rewards. If costs are salient, sophistication mitigates procrastination, and can even lead sophisticated people to do the activity sooner than if they had no self-control problem . If rewards are salient, sophistication exacerbates preproperation
On bias, variance, 0/1-loss, and the curse-of-dimensionality
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
, 1997
"... Abstract. The classification problem is considered in which an output variable y assumes discrete values with respective probabilities that depend upon the simultaneous values of a set of input variables x ={x1,...,xn}.At issue is how error in the estimates of these probabilities affects classificat ..."
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with squared error on the probabilities themselves. Certain types of (very high) bias can be canceled by low variance to produce accurate classification. This can dramatically mitigate the effect of the bias associated with some simple estimators like “naive ” Bayes, and the bias induced by the curse
The Multi-Faces of Procrastination
, 2010
"... Often people procrastinate unpleasant tasks for immediate gratification in doing noth-ing today. Therefore many scholars have been engaged in designing incentive schemes to avoid it. We think the process is very complicated and many features need to be analyzed, as the subjective evaluations of succ ..."
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Often people procrastinate unpleasant tasks for immediate gratification in doing noth-ing today. Therefore many scholars have been engaged in designing incentive schemes to avoid it. We think the process is very complicated and many features need to be analyzed, as the subjective evaluations
The power of procrastination: detection and mitigation of execution-stalling malicious code
- In ACM CCS
, 2011
"... Malware continues to remain one of the most important security problems on the Internet today. Whenever an anti-malware solu-tion becomes popular, malware authors typically react promptly and modify their programs to evade defense mechanisms. For ex-ample, recently, malware authors have increasingly ..."
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that an automated dynamic anal-ysis system fails to extract the interesting malicious behavior. This paper presents the first approach to detect and mitigate malicious stalling code, and to ensure forward progress within the amount of time allocated for the analysis of a sample. Experimental results show that our
Rethinking Procrastination: Positive Effects of “Active ” Procrastination Behavior on Attitudes and Performance
"... ABSTRACT. Researchers and practitioners have long regarded procrastination as a self-handicapping and dysfunctional behavior. In the present study, the authors proposed that not all procrastination behaviors either are harmful or lead to negative consequences. Specifically, the authors differentiate ..."
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in terms of purposive use of time, control of time, self-efficacy belief, coping styles, and out-comes including academic performance. The present findings offer a more sophisticated understanding of procrastination behavior and indicate a need to reevaluate its implications for outcomes of individuals
Doing It Now or Later By TED O’DONOGHUE AND MATTHEW RABIN*
"... We examine self-control problems—modeled as time-inconsistent, presentbiased preferences—in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-cont ..."
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-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate—do too soon—immediate-reward activities. Sophistication mitigates procrastination, but exacerbates preproperation. Moreover, with immediate costs, a small present bias can severely harm only naive people, whereas with immediate
2009), “Nudging farmers to use fertilizer: theory and experimental evidence from Kenya”, Harvard mimeo
"... While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in politicized, inefficient distribution of fertilizer supply. We mod ..."
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model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer, and assume some are stochastically present-biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Even when relatively patient, such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too
Mitigating control-channel jamming attacks in multi-channel ad hoc networks
- PROC. OF THE SECOND ACM CONF. ON WIRELESS NETWORK SECURITY, WISEC
, 2009
"... We address the problem of control-channel jamming attacks in multi-channel ad hoc networks. Deviating from the traditional view that sees jamming attacks as a physical-layer vulnerability, we consider a sophisticated adversary who exploits knowledge of the protocol mechanics along with cryptographic ..."
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We address the problem of control-channel jamming attacks in multi-channel ad hoc networks. Deviating from the traditional view that sees jamming attacks as a physical-layer vulnerability, we consider a sophisticated adversary who exploits knowledge of the protocol mechanics along
4 There is evidence that procrastination, cognitive costs of action, and forgetfulness contribute to inertia
"... Abstract: We present evidence from randomized field experiments that 401(k) savings choices are significantly affected by one-to two-sentence anchoring, goal-setting, or savings threshold cues embedded in emails sent to employees about their 401(k) plan. Even though these cues contain little to no ..."
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susceptible to "nudges" because of lower financial sophistication, and low-income individuals are more likely to be in the lowest projected contribution category, then the threshold cue would have the strongest effect in the lowest projected contribution category. Second, individuals in the lowest
Tsunami Mitigation in Hawai’i
- Proceedings of the Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers Coastal Oceans and Rivers Institute
, 2008
"... Hawai`i has a long, though sporadic history of deadly tsunami attacks. Since the 1946 tsunami disaster the State of Hawaii has developed increasingly sophisticated and effective mitigation strategies. The evolution and operation of these strategies is described in this paper. Tsunamis will no longer ..."
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Hawai`i has a long, though sporadic history of deadly tsunami attacks. Since the 1946 tsunami disaster the State of Hawaii has developed increasingly sophisticated and effective mitigation strategies. The evolution and operation of these strategies is described in this paper. Tsunamis
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