This paper presents a novel method of audio-visual fusion for person identification where both the speech and facial modalities may be corrupted, and there is a lack of prior knowledge about the corruption. Furthermore, we assume there is a limited amount of training data for each modality (e.g., a short training speech segment and a single training facial image for each person). A new represen...

Existing research on label noise often focuses on simple uniform or classconditional noise. However, in many real-world settings, label noise is often somewhat systematic rather than completely random. Thus, we first propose a novel label noise model called Localized Label Noise (LLN) that corrupts the labels in small local regions and is significantly more general than either uniform or class-...

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How is corruption organized? Studies of corrupt behavior to date shed light on both the causes and consequences of corruption. Yet we have little understanding of how corrupt activities are structured and the ways in which rents are, or are not, distributed across various actors—insights that would, in theory, prove enlightening for efforts to reduce corruption. In this paper, I analyze the org...

Corruption takes place when public officials break the law in pursuit of their private interest. But public officials can break different laws in different ways with different implications for the public good. The factors driving corruption and the effects of corruption can therefore vary widely. Understanding the causes and consequences of corruption is particularly important in developing cou...

This paper investigates the growth-corruption relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period 1984-2009 using panel generalized method of moments. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to examine the effects by employing the hierarchical polynomial regression to evaluate the relationship after controllin...

This paper describes gnatDb, which is an embedded database system that provides protection against both accidental and malicious corruption of data. GnatDb is designed to run on a wide range of appliances, some of which have very limited resources. Therefore, its design is heavily driven by the need to reduce resource consumption. GnatDb employs atomic and durable updates to protect the data ag...

There are many studies that look into the relationship between public debt and economic growth. It is hard to find, however, research addressing the role of corruption between these two variables. Noticing this vacancy in current literature, we strive to investigate the effect of corruption on the relationship between public debt and economic growth. For this purpose, the pooled ordinary least ...

The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing per capita income (indirect effect). The total effect is ambiguous a priori. Using cross section data f...