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Strike a pose: Tracking people by finding stylized poses
- In CVPR
, 2005
"... We develop an algorithm for finding and kinematically tracking multiple people in long sequences. Our basic assumption is that people tend to take on certain canonical poses, even when performing unusual activities like throwing a baseball or figure skating. We build a person detector that quite acc ..."
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We develop an algorithm for finding and kinematically tracking multiple people in long sequences. Our basic assumption is that people tend to take on certain canonical poses, even when performing unusual activities like throwing a baseball or figure skating. We build a person detector that quite
Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different?
, 2004
"... We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about ‘‘happiness’’. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after controlling for individual incom ..."
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income, a large set of personal characteristics, and year and country (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies. The effect, however, is more precisely defined statistically in Europe than in the US. In addition, we find striking differences across groups. In Europe, the poor and those on the left
Order Flow and Exchange Rate Dynamics
, 1999
"... Macroeconomic models of nominal exchange rates perform poorly. In sample, R 2 statistics as high as 10 percent are rare. Out of sample, these models are typically out-forecast by a naïve random walk. This paper presents a model of a new kind. Instead of relying exclusively on macroeconomic determina ..."
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determinants, the model includes a determinant from the field of microstructure-order flow. Order flow is the proximate determinant of price in all microstructure models. This is a radically different approach to exchange rate determination. It is also strikingly successful in accounting for realized rates
Statistical properties of community structure in large social and information networks
"... A large body of work has been devoted to identifying community structure in networks. A community is often though of as a set of nodes that has more connections between its members than to the remainder of the network. In this paper, we characterize as a function of size the statistical and structur ..."
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domains. Our results suggest a significantly more refined picture of community structure in large real-world networks than has been appreciated previously. Our most striking finding is that in nearly every network dataset we examined, we observe tight but almost trivial communities at very small scales
Teacher sorting and the plight of urban schools: A descriptive analysis. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
, 2002
"... This paper uses rich new data on New York State teachers to: determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers exists across schools, identif, schools that have the least-qualified teachers, assess whether the distribution has changed over time, and determine how the distribution of ..."
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of teachers is impacted by attrition and transfer, as well as by the job matches between teachers and schools at the start of careers. Our results show striking differences in the qualifications of teachers across schools. Urban schools, in particular, have lesser-qualified teachers; and New York City stands
Machines and mindlessness: Social responses to computers
- Journal of Social Issues
, 2000
"... Following Langer (1992), this article reviews a series of experimental studies that demonstrate that individuals mindlessly apply social rules and expectations to computers. The first set of studies illustrates how individuals overuse human social categories, applying gender stereotypes to computers ..."
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as providing better content than a generalist television set. A final series of studies demonstrates the depth of social responses with respect to computer “personality. ” Alternative explanations for these findings, such as anthropomorphism and intentional social responses, cannot explain the results. We
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 plays an essential role
- in the function of CD25 � CD4
, 2000
"... It is now clear that functionally specialized regulatory T (Treg) cells exist as part of the normal immune repertoire, preventing the development of pathogenic responses to both self- and intestinal antigens. Here, we report that the Treg cells that control intestinal inflammation express the same p ..."
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cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4), as well as secretion of the immune-suppressive cytokine transforming growth factor �. Strikingly, constitutive expression of CTLA-4 among CD4 � cells was restricted primarily to Treg cells, suggesting that CTLA-4 expression by these cells is involved
Starfish on Strike
"... Abstract. This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs “a = −1 ” twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2 × Z/4, Z/8, or Z/6 and having a known non-torsion point; demonstrates that, compared ..."
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to the curves used in previous ECM implementations, some of the new curves are more effective at finding small primes despite being faster; and precomputes particularly effective curves for several specific sizes of primes.
Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions
- Trends Neurosci
, 2004
"... Patterns of neural firing linked to eye movement decisions show that behavioral decisions are predicted by the differential firing rates of cells coding selected and nonselected stimulus alternatives. These results can be interpreted using models developed in mathematical psychology to model behavi ..."
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that emerges from these findings is strikingly consistent with statistical decision models that have been
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