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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Luttmer, Erzo - Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Clocks and Time in Edo Japan
Frumer, Yulia

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Glancing at mechanical clocks designed in Edo period Japan, however, we witness how modern-day intuitions betray our attempts to understand devices created in a culture…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Formato:	Princeton University Senior Theses
Enlaces:	In the United States, healthcare-associated infections are a huge source of medical and economic burden. Annually, there are 1.7 million cases of healthcare-associated infection in U.S. hospitals, which cause an estimated 98,987 deaths. Direct medical cost is also massive, estimated…
Fecha:	2013-07-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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HORROR VACUI: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AIR AROUND 1900
Christian, Margareta Ingrid

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The dissertation examines aesthetic, scientific and occult evocations of fluids such as air at the turn of the 20th century. Eighteenth century experimental philosophy postulated so-called "imponderable fluids" understood as instances of a subtle matter that fills empty space. The…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation chronicles the emergence of economic calculation as an analytical, argumentative, and moral tool in British politics in the half-century after the 1688 Revolution. During Britain's "financial revolution," novel questions about the nation's "Trade & Revenue" were contested in…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Large Scale Visual Recognition
Deng, Jia

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Visual recognition remains one of the grand goals of artificial intelligence research. One major challenge is endowing machines with human ability to recognize tens of thousands of categories. Moving beyond previous work that is mostly focused on hundreds of categories,…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Abenaki Sociality and the Work of Family History
Roy, Christopher Alan

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation is about family history and the constitution of the social among the Abenaki, an aboriginal people often associated with the Odanak reserve in southern Quebec. It is an ethnography of belonging among a people whose status as aboriginal…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Are Prices Higher For the Poor in New York City?
Richburg Hayes, Lashawn

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Despite earlier evidence to the contrary, recent inquiries appear to reach a consensus that the poor pay more for food. However, these studies utilize samples drawn on the basis of prior knowledge of unfair pricing strategies, proximity of volunteer surveyors,…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Models for Individual Decision-Making with Social Feedback
Nedic, Andrea

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	To investigate the influence of input from fellow group members in a constrained decision-making context, we develop four 2-armed bandit tasks in which subjects freely select one of two options (A or B) and are informed of the resulting reward…
Fecha:	2011-11-18
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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In Sickness and Wealth:Three Essays on Health Human Capital and HIV in sub-Sahran Africa
Gummerson, Elizabeth Anne

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation concerns itself with the effects of education and wealth on health in Africa. The first two chapters focus on the impact of adult education levels on the HIV epidemic in four sub-Saharan countries. The last chapter turns to…
Fecha:	2011-11-18
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Dynamical Imaging Using Spatial Nonlinearity
Barsi, Christopher

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The limitations common to linear imaging techniques were formalized succinctly by Ernst Abbe in 1873. In his theory, each Fourier component of a signal propagates independently from the source to the detector, and the corresponding feature can be detected only…
Fecha:	2011-11-18
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Deterministic Compressed Sensing
Jafarpour, Sina

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The central goal of compressed sensing is to capture attributes of a signal using very few measurements. The initial publications by Donoho and by Candes and Tao have been followed by applications to image compression, data streaming, medical signal processing,…
Fecha:	2011-11-18
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton