We show that an increase in uncertainty about the probability of being audited (ambiguity) increases tax compliance for ambiguity-averse taxpayers but reduces compliance for ambiguity lovers. Because experimental evidence reveals considerable heterogeneity with respect to ambiguity preferences, we conclude that fostering uncertainty about the probability of being audited may not be an effective...

The paper investigates the properties of ambiguity functions of 2-D analytic, quaternionic and monogenic signals. In the introduction the notions of the above signals and their Wigner distributions and ambiguity functions are recalled. The properties of the ambiguity functions are investigated using two kinds of test signals: A band-pass test signal in the form of a sum of two harmonic signals ...

The connection between the Wigner function and the generalized OTF, and between the ambiguity function and the generalized OTF is investigated for non-paraxial scalar wavefields. The treatment is based on two-dimensional (2-D) wavefields for simplicity, but can be extended to the three-dimensional case.

This paper summaries our recent work on the application of the concepts of capacity per unit cost and reliability function per unit cost to models of fading channels. The cost is taken to be the energy, or a certain fourth moment functional that is sensitive to the bursti-ness of the signals, and is related to the ambiguity function of the input signal. The channel is assumed to be a Wide-Sense...

We analyzed the effect of time and frequency domain windowing, or weighting, of the transmitted signal for least squares (LS) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimators when the channel is time-variant. We considered the estimation error for different windows and we found that the windows can be selected independently. We explained the performance of the estimators with the help of the rad...

Article history: Available online 23 November 2011

So far the least growth rate known for a divergent inherent ambiguity function was logarithmic. This paper shows that for each computable divergent total non-decreasing function f : N → N there is a context-free language L with a divergent inherent ambiguity function g below f . This proves that extremely slow growing divergent inherent ambiguity functions exist. For instance there is a context...

Microaggressions are unintentional or thoughtless behaviors that convey negative messages to members of minority groups. Due to the attributional ambiguity of microaggressions, people often differ in their judgments about how morally bad acts of microaggression are. To account for this individual variation, we explored the potential influence of heavy social media use on individuals’ moral judg...