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    • Inferring Predator Behavior from Attack Rates on Prey-Replicas That Differ in Conspicuousness 

      Stuart, Yoel Eli; Dappen, Nathan; Losin, Neil (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Behavioral ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long studied how predators respond to prey items novel in color and pattern. Because a predatory response is influenced by both the predator’s ability to detect the ...

    • Inferring Reflectance under Real-world Illumination 

      Romeiro, Fabiano; Zickler, Todd (2010)
      We address the problem of inferring homogeneous reflectance (BRDF) from a single image of a known shape in an unknown real-world lighting environment. With appropriate representations of lighting and reflectance, the image ...

    • Inferring Speaker Affect in Spoken Natural Language Communication 

      Pon-Barry, Heather Roberta (2013-03-15)
      The field of spoken language processing is concerned with creating computer programs that can understand human speech and produce human-like speech. Regarding the problem of understanding human speech, there is currently ...

    • Inferring the Composition of Super-Jupiter Mass Companions of Pulsars with Radio Line Spectroscopy 

      Ray, Alak; Loeb, Abraham (American Astronomical Society, 2017)
      We propose using radio line spectroscopy to detect molecular absorption lines (such as OH at 1.6-1.7 GHz) before and after the total eclipse of black widow (BW) and other short orbital period binary pulsars with low mass ...

    • Inferring the distances of fast radio bursts through associated 21-cm absorption 

      Margalit, Ben; Loeb, Abraham (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      The distances of fast radio burst (FRB) sources are currently unknown. We show that the 21-cm absorption line of hydrogen can be used to infer the redshifts of FRB sources, and determine whether they are Galactic or ...

    • Inferring the Inclination of a Black Hole Accretion Disk From Observations of Its Polarized Continuum Radiation 

      Li, Li-Xin; Narayan, Ramesh; McClintock, Jeffrey E. (IOP Publishing, 2009)
      Spin parameters of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are currently being estimated by fitting the X-ray continuum spectra of their accretion disk emission. For this method, it is necessary to know the inclination ...

    • Infinite Randomness Fixed Point of the Superconductor-Metal Quantum Phase Transition 

      Del Maestro, Adrian; Rosenow, Bernd; Müller, Markus; Sachdev, Subir (American Physical Society, 2008)
      We examine the influence of quenched disorder on the superconductor-metal transition, as described by a theory of overdamped Cooper pairs which repel each other. The self-consistent pairing eigenmodes of a quasi-one ...

    • Inflation and Asset Prices 

      Pflueger, Carolin (2013-02-12)
      Do corporate bond spreads reflect fear of debt deflation? Most corporate bonds have fixed nominal face values, so unexpectedly low inflation raises firms' real debt burdens and increases default risk. The first chapter ...

    • Inflation and Taxes in a Growing Economy with Debt and Equity Finance 

      Auerbach, Alan; Sheshinski, Eytan; Feldstein, Martin; Green, Jerry (University of Chicago Press, 1978)
      Our tax system was designed for an economy with little or no inflation. The current paper shows that inflation causes capricious changes in the effective rate of tax on capital income and therefore in the real net rate of ...

    • Inflation and the dS/CFT Correspondence 

      Strominger, Andrew (Springer Verlag, 2001)
      It is speculated that the observed universe has a dual representation as renormalization group flow between two conformal fixed points of a three-dimensional euclidean field theory. The infrared fixed point corresponds to ...

    • Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices 

      Campbell, John; Vuolteenaho, Tuomo (American Economic Association, 2004)
      We empirically decompose the S&P 500's dividend yield into (1) a rational forecast of long-run real dividend growth, (2) the subjectively expected risk premium, and (3) residual mispricing attributed to the market's ...

    • Inflation Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure 

      Abazajian, K. N.; Arnold, K.; Austermann, J.; Benson, B. A.; Bischoff, Colin A.; Bock, J.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Buder, Immanuel D.; Burke, D. L.; Calabrese, E.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Carvalho, C. S.; Chang, C. L.; Chiang, H. C.; Church, S.; Cooray, A.; Crawford, T. M.; Crill, B. P.; Dawson, K. S.; Das, S.; Devlin, M. J.; Dobbs, M.; Dodelson, S.; Doré, O.; Dunkley, J.; Feng, J. L.; Fraisse, A.; Gallicchio, J.; Giddings, S. B.; Green, D.; Halverson, N. W.; Hanany, S.; Hanson, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hincks, A.; Hlozek, R.; Holder, G.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Honscheid, K.; Horowitz, G.; Hu, W.; Hubmayr, J.; Irwin, K.; Jackson, M.; Jones, W. C.; Kallosh, R.; Kamionkowski, M.; Keating, B.; Keisler, R.; Kinney, W.; Knox, L.; Komatsu, E.; Kovac, John M; Kuo, C.-L.; Kusaka, A.; Lawrence, C.; Lee, A. T.; Leitch, E.; Linde, A.; Linder, E.; Lubin, P.; Maldacena, J.; Martinec, E.; McMahon, J.; Miller, A.; Mukhanov, V.; Newburgh, L.; Niemack, M. D.; Nguyen, H.; Nguyen, H. T.; Page, L.; Pryke, C.; Reichardt, C. L.; Ruhl, J. E.; Sehgal, N.; Seljak, U.; Senatore, L.; Sievers, J.; Silverstein, E.; Slosar, A.; Smith, K. M.; Spergel, D.; Staggs, S. T.; Stark, Antony A.; Stompor, R.; Vieregg, A. G.; Wang, G.; Watson, S.; Wollack, E. J.; Wu, W. L. K.; Yoon, K. W.; Zahn, O.; Zaldarriaga, M. (The Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, 2013)
      Fluctuations in the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe each contain clues about the nature of the earliest moments of time. The ...

    • Inflation, Real Interest Rates, and the Bond Market: A Study of UK Nominal and Index-Linked Government Bond Prices 

      Barr, David; Campbell, John (Elsevier, 1997)
      This paper estimates expected future real interest rates and inflation rates from observed prices of UK government nominal and index-linked bonds. The estimation method takes account of imperfections in the indexation of ...

    • Inflation, the Payments Period, and the Demand for Money 

      Barro, Robert J. (University of Chicago Press, 1970)

    • Inflationary Features and Shifts in Cosmological Parameters From Planck 2015 Data 

      Obied, Georges; Dvorkin, Cora; Heinrich, Chen; Wayne, Hu; Vinicius, Miranda (American Physical Society (APS), 2017-10-27)
      We explore the relationship between features in the Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data, shifts in the cosmological parameters, and features from inflation. Residuals in the temperature data from the best-fit ...

    • Inflationary Finance and the Welfare Cost of Inflation 

      Barro, Robert J. (University of Chicago Press, 1972)
      This paper applies previous theoretical and empirical results on inflation and demand for money to a study of inflationary finance and the welfare cost of inflation. The amount of revenue generated by a steady inflation ...

    • Inflationary paradigm in trouble after Planck2013 

      Ijjas, Anna; Steinhardt, Paul J.; Loeb, Abraham (Elsevier, 2013)
      Recent results from the Planck satellite combined with earlier observations from WMAP, ACT, SPT and other experiments eliminate a wide spectrum of more complex inflationary models and favor models with a single scalar ...

    • Inflationary schism 

      Ijjas, Anna; Steinhardt, Paul J.; Loeb, Abraham (Elsevier, 2014)
      Classic inflation, the theory described in textbooks, is based on the idea that, beginning from typical initial conditions and assuming a simple inflaton potential with a minimum of fine-tuning, inflation can create ...

    • The Influence of Beliefs on Children's and Adults' Cognition and Social Preferences 

      Heiphetz, Larisa Alexandra (2013-09-30)
      Beliefs--mental representations of particular propositions as true--are fundamental to social cognition. Among the most influential beliefs are ideologies, which concern the way things should be and help people understand ...

    • Influence of Bering Strait flow and North Atlantic circulation on glacial sea-level changes 

      Hu, Aixue; Meehl, Gerald A.; Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; Waelbroeck, Claire; Han, Weiqing; Loutre, Marie-France; Lambeck, Kurt; Mitrovica, Jerry; Rosenbloom, Nan (Nature Research, 2010)