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The Spatial and Temporal Construction of Confidence in the Visual Scene
(2009-03-17)Human subjects can report many items of a cluttered field a few hundred milliseconds after stimulus presentation. This memory decays rapidly and after a second only 3 or 4 items can be stored in working memory. Here we ... -
The Value of Observing the Buyer Arrival Time in Dynamic Pricing
(2020)We consider a dynamic pricing problem where a firm sells one item to a single buyer in order to maximize expected revenues. The firm commits to a price function over an infinite horizon. The buyer arrives at some random ... -
The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking news, ... -
Toolkit for the analysis of debt problems
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)The idea of this chapter is to provide a number of tools that may allow an independent observer to assess the likelihood of default, to provide the clues for an evaluation of likely restructuring scenarios and to be able ... -
Un año de medición del índice de Demanda Laboral: situación actual y perspectivas
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)El índice de demanda laboral es elaborado por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella desde agosto de 2002. La motivación para la elaboración del índice fue la falta de un indicador mensual que reflejara la situación del ... -
Valid inequalities and complete characterizations of the 2-domination and P3-hull number polytope
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)Given a graph G = (V;E), a subset S V is 2-dominating if every vertex in S has at least two neighbors in S. The minimum cardinality of such a set is called the 2-domination number of G. Consider a process in discrete ... -
La venta directa como medio de otorgamiento de microcréditos comerciales inclusivos
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2013)Problemática planteada: Falta de recursos y organizaciones para inclusión al mercado laboral de personas en situación de marginalidad social y económica en Argentina. Existen campañas y programas filantrópicos de ... -
VesselVAE: Recursive Variational Autoencoders for 3D Blood Vessel Synthesis
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)We present a data-driven generative framework for synthesizing blood vessel 3D geometry. This is a challenging task due to the complexity of vascular systems, which are highly variating in shape, size, and structure. ... -
Vocal caricatures reveal signatures of speaker identity
(2013-12-03)What are the features that impersonators select to elicit a speaker’s identity? We built a voice database of public figures (targets) and imitations produced by professional impersonators. They produced one imitation ... -
Why have poverty and income inequality increased so much? Argentina 1991-2002
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002-09)This paper analyzes the sources of changes in poverty and income inequality among Argentine households during the 1991-2001 period. We assess the effect of changes in labor market participation, unemployment, education ... -
Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures
(Journal of Neuroscience, 2022)Sequence learning is a ubiquitous facet of human and animal cognition. Here, using a common sequence reproduction task, we investigated whether and how the ordinal and relational structures linking consecutive elements ...