Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We conclude that there...

This study examines whether and to what extend child labour affects educational attainment in adulthood. While there is a substantial body of literature investigating child labour, long-run effects remain almost entirely unexplored due to lack of panel data spanning a sufficiently long period of time. This study uses a newly available 13 year individual level panel data set from rural Tanzania ...

This paper develops and evaluates a new tensor field representation to express the geometric affordance of one object over another. We expand the well known bisector surface representation to one that is weight-driven and that retains the provenance of surface points with directional vectors. We also incorporate the notion of affordance keypoints which allow for faster decisions at a point of q...

1 SummaRy The ACGME has mandated resident involvement in quality improvement (QI) projects without further guidance as to how this should be done. Academic teaching faculty are well versed in the scientific method, but may be less familiar with QI practices. QI differs from traditional science in that there is no hypothesis, rather investigations start from data, determining a baseline and cond...

Line matching across catadioptric images using line intersections with focus on short baseline motion of the imaging system is proposed. The relationship between images of constructing lines of an intersection on unitary sphere is studied and angle consistency and antipodal consistency are introduced as two useful properties which can be employed to nd putative intersections correspondence and ...

In this paper we provide a theoretical discussion of the impact of uncertainty in quality measurement on the expected benefits of including biometric signal quality measures in classification. While an ideal signal quality measure should be a precise quantification of the actual signal properties relevant to the classification process, a real quality measurement may be uncertain. We show how do...

This paper describes our approach to the NTCIR-12 MobileClick task. First of all, we do some extra process on the baseline. Next, we try to use a totally different method from baseline which is machine learning. Finally, tune the two types into better situation and apply them to test data. Our system achieves an nDCG@3 score of 0.7415, nDCG@5 score of 0.764, nDCG@10 score of 0.8059, nDCG@20 sco...

Modern coreference resolution systems require linguistic and general knowledge typically sourced from costly, manually curated resources. Despite their intuitive appeal, results have been mixed. In this work, we instead implement fine-grained surface-level features motivated by cognitive theory. Our novel fine-grained feature specialisation approach significantly improves the performance of a s...

In this work we analyze the integrity properties of an affine-constrained estimator applied to arrays of GNSS antennas. GNSS pseudorange and carrier phase measurements from multiple antennas whose relative positions are known are cast in a linearly-constrained observation model. The linear constraints are inherent to an affine transformation that is applied to the baseline coordinates. The affi...