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A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow model that includes...

SUN database: Large-scale scene recognition from abbey to zoo

Scene categorization is a fundamental problem in computer vision. However, scene understanding research has been constrained by the limited scope of currently-used databases whi...

The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology

Sociological theory originates in the asking of general questions about man and society. The answers lose their meaning if they are elaborated without reference to the questions...

SUN attribute database: Discovering, annotating, and recognizing scene attributes

In this paper we present the first large-scale scene attribute database. First, we perform crowd-sourced human studies to find a taxonomy of 102 discriminative attributes. Next,...

Personality Correlates of Self-Esteem

The Long Way From α-Error Control to Validity Proper

Several influential publications have sensitized the community of behavioral scientists to the dangers of inflated effects and false-positive errors leading to the unwarranted p...

Context and Hierarchy in a Probabilistic Image Model

It is widely conjectured that the excellent ROC performance of biological vision systems is due in large part to the exploitation of context at each of many levels in a part/who...

Self-Rated Health and Physical Disability in Elderly Survivors of a Major Medical Event

This article describes change and stability in self-rated health after a major medical event. Using a prospective design, it examines the ability of premorbid and post-illness h...

<i>The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics</i>

Hydrodynamic response of inhomogeneous metallic systems