Absolute vs. Relative Adjectives - Variance Within vs. Between Individuals

Online Processing of Relative vs. Absolute Adjectives: A Visual World Study

Absolute vs. Relative Direct Pen Input

We present the findings from two experiments designed to explore the effect of absolute vs. relative direct pen interaction on both small and large scale displays where the input and display spaces are co-incident. An absolute mapping where there is a one-to-tone correspondence between the pen and cursor positions was found to be superior to a relative mapping where the pen and cursor positions...

Online Learning to Rank: Absolute vs. Relative

Online learning to rank holds great promise for learning personalized search result rankings. First algorithms have been proposed, namely absolute feedback approaches, based on contextual bandits learning; and relative feedback approaches, based on gradient methods and inferred preferences between complete result rankings. Both types of approaches have shown promise, but they have not previousl...

Absolute vs. Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants

In light of recent attempts to extend the Cieliebak-Mohnke approach for constructing GromovWitten invariants to positive genera, we compare the absolute and relative Gromov-Witten invariants of compact symplectic manifolds when the symplectic hypersurface contains no relevant holomorphic curves. We show that these invariants are then the same, except in a narrow range of dimensions of the targe...

Motivating Emissions Cleanup: Absolute vs. Relative Performance Standards

While pollution reduction remains a common policy priority, no consensus exists on how best to stimulate needed action. This paper compares the effectiveness of relative and absolute performance standards in motivating emissions cleanup by stationary polluters. Using a unique panel characterizing Chilean pollution sources, I examine a natural experiment created by a change in the performance st...