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Learning Social Preferences in Games
(Assocation for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence, 2004)This paper presents a machine-learning approach to modeling human behavior in one-shot games. It provides a framework for representing and reasoning about the social factors that affect people’s play. The model predicts ... -
Learning Structural Element Patch Models with Hierarchical Palettes
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012)Image patches can be factorized into 'shapelets' that describe segmentation patterns called structural elements (stels), and palettes that describe how to paint the shapelets. We introduce local palettes for patches, global ... -
Learning the Futility of the Thought Suppression Enterprise in Normal Experience and in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)The belief that we can control our thoughts is not inevitably adaptive, particularly when it fuels mental control activities that have ironic unintended consequences. The conviction that the mind can and should be controlled ... -
Learning the Parameters of Determinantal Point Process Kernels
(Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2014)Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are well-suited for modeling repulsion and have proven useful in applications where diversity is desired. While DPPs have many appealing properties, learning the parameters of a DPP is ... -
Learning the Prior in Minimal Peer Prediction
(School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2013)Many crowdsourcing applications rely on the truthful elicitation of information from workers; e.g., voting on the quality of an image label, or whether a website is inappropriate for an advertiser. Peer prediction provides ... -
Learning to Incentivize: Eliciting Effort via Output Agreement
(International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2016)In crowdsourcing when there is a lack of verification for contributed answers, output agreement mechanisms are often used to incentivize participants to provide truthful answers when the correct answer is hold by the ... -
Learning to Play Bayesian Games
(Elsevier, 2004)This paper discusses the implications of learning theory for the analysis of games with a move by Nature. One goal is to illuminate the issues that arise when modeling situations where players are learning about the ... -
Learning to Tell Neoproterozoic Time
(Elsevier, 2000)In 1989, the International Commission on Stratigraphy established a Working Group on the Terminal Proterozoic Period. Nine years of intensive, multidisciplinary research by scientists from some two dozen countries have ... -
Least independent variables method for simulation of tropospheric ozone
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1989)We describe a method for simulating photochemical production of O in a continental‐scale tropospheric model with only six independent chemical variables representing tracers transported in the model. The tracers are two ... -
Lectures on Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Class Notse of a Sixteenth-Century Paris Schoolboy
(1989)The history of education, of its changing goals and methods, materials and social contexts, offers a fascinating study at the cross-section of intellectual, social and institutional history. In setting the context for and ... -
Lectures on the Kerr/CFT Correspondence
(Elsevier, 2011)We give a short introduction, beginning with the Kerr geometry itself, to the basic results, motivation, open problems and future directions of the Kerr/CFT correspondence. -
LED Arrays as Cost Effective and Efficient Light Sources for Widefield Microscopy
(Public Library of Science, 2008)New developments in fluorophores as well as in detection methods have fueled the rapid growth of optical imaging in the life sciences. Commercial widefield microscopes generally use arc lamps, excitation/emission filters ... -
The Left and “Life” in El Salvador
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)Throughout the past decade, governments across Latin America have experienced an unprecedented swing to the left. In this essay, I ask: Does the rise of the Left promote women's equality? Or in contrast, could women's ... -
Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This paper investigates the cost of processing syntactic vs. extra-syntactic dependencies. The results support the hypothesis that syntactic dependencies require less processing effort than discourse-derived dependencies ... -
Left occipitotemporal cortex contributes to the discrimination of tool-associated hand actions: fMRI and TMS evidence
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated the left lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) in both tool and hand perception but the functional role of this region is not fully known. Here, by using a task manipulation, ... -
Left-right dewlap asymmetry and phylogeography of Anolis lineatus on Aruba and Curaçao
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Anolis lizards exhibit a remarkable degree of diversity in the shape, colour, pattern and size of their dewlaps. Asymmetry, where one side of the dewlap differs in pattern or colour from the other, has only been reported ... -
Leg muscles that mediate stability: mechanics and control of two distal extensor muscles during obstacle negotiation in the guinea fowl
(The Royal Society, 2011)Here, we used an obstacle treadmill experiment to investigate the neuromuscular control of locomotion in uneven terrain. We measured in vivo function of two distal muscles of the guinea fowl, lateral gastrocnemius (LG) and ... -
Leg-tracking and automated behavioural classification in Drosophila
(Nature Pub. Group, 2013)Much remains unknown about how the nervous system of an animal generates behaviour, and even less is known about the evolution of behaviour. How does evolution alter existing behaviours or invent novel ones? Progress in ... -
Legacy Impacts of All-Time Anthropogenic Emissions on the Global Mercury Cycle
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Elevated mercury (Hg) in marine and terrestrial ecosystems is a global health concern because of the formation of toxic methylmercury. Humans have emitted Hg to the atmosphere for millennia, and this Hg has deposited and ... -
Legal Determinants of External Finance
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1997)Using a sample of 49 countries, we show that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcement, have smaller and narrower capital markets. These ...