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More than a face: Interactions between visual and non-visual social knowledge
Verosky, Sara

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Although we represent other people in terms of both what they look like and how they behave, these two aspects of person knowledge have rarely been studied together. While vision scientists have focused on the processing of faces and bodies,…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Textualizing Dreams in a Late Ming Encyclopedia
Vance, Brigid Elisabeth

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	My dissertation centers on the meaning of dreams as interpreted by literati in the late Ming (1368-1644), viewed through the lens of the 1636 encyclopedia Forest of Dreams. This thirty-four-juan tome is the largest extant Chinese dream encyclopedia and includes…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Energy Storage Applications of the Knowledge Gradient for Calibrating Continuous Parameters, Approximate Policy Iteration using Bellman Error Minimization with Instrumental Variables, and Covariance Matrix Estimation using an Errors-in-Variables Factor Model
Scott, Warren Robert

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	We describe an adaptation of the knowledge gradient, originally developed for discrete ranking and selection problems, to the problem of calibrating continuous parameters for the purpose of tuning a simulator. The knowledge gradient for continuous parameters uses a continuous approximation…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Why Sex Mattered: Science and Visions of Transformation in Modern China
Chiang, Howard Hsueh Hao

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Amidst the disintegration of the Qing Empire (1644-1911), men and women in China began to understand their differences in terms of modern scientific knowledge. Why Sex Mattered provides an explanation for the relatively recent emergence of a psycho-biological notion of…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Quantitative Physical Modeling of Physics Cognition
Hassani, Steven Hamed

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Current theories of physics cognition require specification of complex mechanisms for explaining knowledge acquisition. I demonstrate that a quantitative model of physics perception can be constructed by assuming that physics problem perception provides an optimal summary of a set of…
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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The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
Kilincoglu, Deniz Taner

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Drawing on a broad array of primary sources ranging from textbooks and manuals of economics…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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The neural basis of compositionality: functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of conceptual combination
Baron, Sean George

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The use of concepts underlies the most basic cognitive processes. Consequently, psychologists have long been interested in understanding the behavioral and neural correlates of conceptual knowledge and its manipulation. This has led to a rich set of research results that…
Fecha:	2012-08-01
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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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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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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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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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

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IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CLINTON DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ANCHOR FARM PROGRAM
Gastfriend, Daniel

Formato:	Princeton University Senior Theses
Enlaces:	International organizations and governments throughout the developing world have long provided agricultural extension services to farmers with the hopes of raising agricultural productivity and reducing rural poverty. These programs train farmers in modern agronomic techniques through instruction and demonstration, sometimes…
Fecha:	2013-07-10
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton