Results 1 - 10 of 13,550

Do Better Schools Matter? Parental Valuation of Elementary Education

by Sandra E. Black - QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS , 1999
"... The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and student outcomes, I turn to another method and use house prices to infer the value parents place on school quality. I lo ..."
Abstract - Cited by 500 (3 self) - Add to MetaCart
The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and student outcomes, I turn to another method and use house prices to infer the value parents place on school quality. I

Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

by Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian, Francesco Trebbi - FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN , 2004
"... We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions “trumps” everything else. Once institutions ..."
Abstract - Cited by 817 (28 self) - Add to MetaCart
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions “trumps” everything else. Once institutions

Randomized Algorithms

by Rajeev Motwani , 1995
"... Randomized algorithms, once viewed as a tool in computational number theory, have by now found widespread application. Growth has been fueled by the two major benefits of randomization: simplicity and speed. For many applications a randomized algorithm is the fastest algorithm available, or the simp ..."
Abstract - Cited by 2196 (36 self) - Add to MetaCart
, or the simplest, or both. A randomized algorithm is an algorithm that uses random numbers to influence the choices it makes in the course of its computation. Thus its behavior (typically quantified as running time or quality of output) varies from

Bundle Adjustment -- A Modern Synthesis

by Bill Triggs, Philip McLauchlan, Richard Hartley, Andrew Fitzgibbon - VISION ALGORITHMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE, LNCS , 2000
"... This paper is a survey of the theory and methods of photogrammetric bundle adjustment, aimed at potential implementors in the computer vision community. Bundle adjustment is the problem of refining a visual reconstruction to produce jointly optimal structure and viewing parameter estimates. Topics c ..."
Abstract - Cited by 562 (13 self) - Add to MetaCart
covered include: the choice of cost function and robustness; numerical optimization including sparse Newton methods, linearly convergent approximations, updating and recursive methods; gauge (datum) invariance; and quality control. The theory is developed for general robust cost functions rather than

Clustering by passing messages between data points

by Brendan J. Frey, Delbert Dueck - Science , 2007
"... Clustering data by identifying a subset of representative examples is important for processing sensory signals and detecting patterns in data. Such “exemplars ” can be found by randomly choosing an initial subset of data points and then iteratively refining it, but this works well only if that initi ..."
Abstract - Cited by 696 (8 self) - Add to MetaCart
if that initial choice is close to a good solution. We devised a method called “affinity propagation,” which takes as input measures of similarity between pairs of data points. Real-valued messages are exchanged between data points until a high-quality set of exemplars and corresponding clusters gradually emerges

Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: new procedures and recommendations

by Patrick E. Shrout, Niall Bolger - PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS , 2002
"... Mediation is said to occur when a causal effect of some variable X on an outcome Y is explained by some intervening variable M. The authors recommend that with small to moderate samples, bootstrap methods (B. Efron & R. Tibshirani, 1993) be used to assess mediation. Bootstrap tests are powerful ..."
Abstract - Cited by 696 (4 self) - Add to MetaCart
effects on child behavior through its intervening effect on quality of parenting (Conger et al., 1990). Mediation analysis is also used in organizational

QoS-aware middleware for web services composition

by Liangzhao Zeng, Boualem Benatallah, Anne H. H. Ngu, Marlon Dumas, Jayant Kalagnanam, Henry Chang - IEEE TRANS. SOFTWARE ENG , 2004
"... The paradigmatic shift from a Web of manual interactions to a Web of programmatic interactions driven by Web services is creating unprecedented opportunities for the formation of online Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations. In particular, the creation of value-added services by composition of ..."
Abstract - Cited by 486 (6 self) - Add to MetaCart
of existing ones is gaining a significant momentum. Since many available Web services provide overlapping or identical functionality, albeit with different Quality of Service (QoS), a choice needs to be made to determine which services are to participate in a given composite service. This paper presents a

A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

by Gavin Holland, Nitin H. Vaidya, Paramvir Bahl , 2001
"... Wireless local area networks (W-LANs) have become increasingly popular due to the recent availability of affordable devices that are capable of communicating at high data rates. These high rates are possible, in part, through new modulation schemes that are optimized for the channel conditions bring ..."
Abstract - Cited by 484 (5 self) - Add to MetaCart
bringing about a dramatic increase in bandwidth efficiency. Since the choice of which modulation scheme to use depends on the current state of the transmission channel, newer wireless devices often support multiple modulation schemes, and hence multiple data rates, with mechanisms to switch between them

Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.

by Nancy L Collins , Stephen J Read - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, , 1990
"... Three studies were conducted to examine the correlates of adult attachment. In Study 1, an 18-item scale to measure adult attachment style dimensions was developed based on Kazan and Shaver's (1987) categorical measure. Factor analyses revealed three dimensions underlying this measure: the e ..."
Abstract - Cited by 405 (12 self) - Add to MetaCart
the attachment of one's partner and caregiving style of one's parents; and relationship quality, including communication, trust, and satisfaction. Evidence was obtained for partner matching and for similarity between one's partner and one's parents, particularly for one's opposite

A comparative study of energy minimization methods for Markov random fields

by Richard Szeliski, Ramin Zabih, Daniel Scharstein, Olga Veksler, Aseem Agarwala, Carsten Rother, et al. - IN ECCV , 2006
"... One of the most exciting advances in early vision has been the development of efficient energy minimization algorithms. Many early vision tasks require labeling each pixel with some quantity such as depth or texture. While many such problems can be elegantly expressed in the language of Markov Ran ..."
Abstract - Cited by 415 (36 self) - Add to MetaCart
. Unfortunately, most papers define their own energy function, which is minimized with a specific algorithm of their choice. As a result, the tradeoffs among different energy minimization algorithms are not well understood. In this paper we describe a set of energy minimization benchmarks, which we use to compare
Results 1 - 10 of 13,550