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Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle
The time-frequency uncertainty principle states that the product of the
temporal and frequency extents of a signal cannot be smaller than .
We study human ability to simultaneously judge the frequency and the timing of
a sound. Our subjects often exceeded the uncertainty limit, sometimes by more
than tenfold, mostly through remarkable timing acuity. Our results establish a
lower bound for the nonlinearity and complexity of the algorithms employed by
our brains in parsing transient sounds, rule out simple "linear filter" models
of early auditory processing, and highlight timing acuity as a central feature
in auditory object processing.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; Accepted at PR
The Sound Manifesto
Computing practice today depends on visual output to drive almost all user
interaction. Other senses, such as audition, may be totally neglected, or used
tangentially, or used in highly restricted specialized ways. We have excellent
audio rendering through D-A conversion, but we lack rich general facilities for
modeling and manipulating sound comparable in quality and flexibility to
graphics. We need co-ordinated research in several disciplines to improve the
use of sound as an interactive information channel.
Incremental and separate improvements in synthesis, analysis, speech
processing, audiology, acoustics, music, etc. will not alone produce the
radical progress that we seek in sonic practice. We also need to create a new
central topic of study in digital audio research. The new topic will assimilate
the contributions of different disciplines on a common foundation. The key
central concept that we lack is sound as a general-purpose information channel.
We must investigate the structure of this information channel, which is driven
by the co-operative development of auditory perception and physical sound
production. Particular audible encodings, such as speech and music, illuminate
sonic information by example, but they are no more sufficient for a
characterization than typography is sufficient for a characterization of visual
information.Comment: To appear in the conference on Critical Technologies for the Future
of Computing, part of SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science and
Technology, 30 July to 4 August 2000, San Diego, C
The Fed and the Stock Market
The Fed closely monitors the stock market and the stock market continuously forms expectations about the Fed decisions. What does this imply for the relation between the fed funds rate and the S&P500? We find that the answer depends on the conditions prevailing on the financial market. During periods of high (low) volatility in asset price inflation an unexpected 5 fall in the stock market index implies that the Fed cuts the interest rate by 19 () basis points while an unanticipated policy tightening of 50 basis points causes a 4.7 (2.3) decline in the S&P500. The Fed reaction to asset price return is however statistically different from zero only in the high volatility regime, whereas the fall in asset price return following an interest rate rise is highly significant during normal times onlyasset price volatility, nonlinear policy, threshold SVAR, system GMM.
Mergers and acquisitions transactions strategies in diffusion - type financial systems in highly volatile global capital markets with nonlinearities
The M and A transactions represent a wide range of unique business
optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are
usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M and A transactions
can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of
investments, purchase price, direction of transaction, type of transaction, and
using the modern comparable transactions analysis and the business valuation
techniques in the diffusion type financial systems in the finances. We
developed the MicroMA software program with the embedded optimized
near-real-time artificial intelligence algorithm to create the winning virtuous
M and A strategies, using the financial performance characteristics of the
involved firms, and to estimate the probability of the M and A transaction
completion success. We believe that the fluctuating dependence of M and A
transactions number over the certain time period is quasi periodic. We think
that there are many factors, which can generate the quasi periodic oscillations
of the M and A transactions number in the time domain, for example: the stock
market bubble effects. We performed the research of the nonlinearities in the M
and A transactions number quasi-periodic oscillations in Matlab, including the
ideal, linear, quadratic, and exponential dependences. We discovered that the
average of a sum of random numbers in the M and A transactions time series
represents a time series with the quasi periodic systematic oscillations, which
can be finely approximated by the polynomial numbers. We think that, in the
course of the M and A transaction implementation, the ability by the companies
to absorb the newly acquired knowledge and to create the new innovative
knowledge bases, is a key predeterminant of the M and A deal completion success
as in Switzerland.Comment: 160 pages, 9 figures, 37 table
The media and public agendas: testing for media effects in Argentina during the Kirchner administration
In this paper we examine the presence of agenda-setting effects by the print media in Argentina during 2003 and 2008. Using previously unavailable monthly data on newspapers mentions we test two hypotheses about the relationship between the different agendas. We find support for the hypothesis that there were media effects during our period of analyisis. More specifically, we find that the total number of newspaper mentions of the President positively influenced public confidence in the government. Finally, there is also evidence of a strong and stable relationship between the total number of economic news and leading economic indicators.Agenda-setting, Public opinion, Cointegration, Media effects
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