We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet’s language is more similar to a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the measure to study the market forces that determine political content in the news. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if newspapers independently maximized the...

PURPOSE This work is a preliminary study of a stationary cardiac SPECT system. The goal of this research is to propose a stationary cardiac SPECT system using segmented slant-hole collimators and to perform computer simulations to test the feasibility. Compared to the rotational SPECT, a stationary system has a benefit of acquiring temporally consistent projections. The most challenging issue i...

A slant immersion is an isometric immersion from a Riemannian manifold into an almost Hermitian manifold with constant Wirtinger angle (1~ . In this article we study and characterize slant surfaces in the complex 2-plane ~2 via the Gauss map. We also prove that every surface without complex tangent points in a 4-dimensional almost Hermitian manifold M is slant with respect to a suitably chosen ...

Koffka's (1935, pp. 224-235) explanation of shape-constancy is based on the assumption of an invariant linkage between slant and shape. Koffka's hypothesis has been formulated in the following way by Beck and Gibson (1955): "A retinal projection of a given form determines a unique relation of apparent shape to apparent slant" (p. 126). The invariance hypothesis requires that perceived shape var...

0018-9251/03/$17.00 @ 2003 IEEE Two-way antenna radiation pattern at frequency w + wc, Slow-time Doppler two-way antenna radiation pattern Pulse bandwidth Speed of light Covariance of w(k,,t) at time t Cross-range aperture length Energy of RJt) Energy of p( t ) Point target refectivity Fourier transform operator Inverse Fourier transform operator Fourier transform of electric field in antenna a...

The results of several experiments demonstrate that the estimated magnitude of perceived slant of large stereoscopic surfaces increases with the duration of the presentation. In these experiments, subjects were free to make eye movements. A possible explanation for the increase is that the visual system needs to scan the stimulus with eye movements (which take time) before it can make a reliabl...

Rotating a surface about a horizontal axis alters the retinal horizontal-shear disparities. Opposed torsional eye movements (cyclovergence) also change horizontal shear. If there were no compensation for the horizontal disparities created by cyclovergence, slant estimates would be erroneous. We asked whether compensation for cyclovergence occurs, and, if it does, whether it occurs by use of an ...

There have been many experiments reported in the literature that have employed discrimination procedures to estimate the variance of observers' slant judgments from texture and binocular disparity, both individually and in combination. The research described in the present article identifies two serious methodological flaws in these studies. Although discrimination thresholds can be influenced ...

A slant weighted Toeplitz operator Aφ is an operator on L(β) defined as Aφ = WMφ where Mφ is the weighted multiplication operator and W is an operator on L(β) given by We2n = βn β2n en, {en}n∈Z being the orthonormal basis. In this paper, we generalise Aφ to the k-th order slant weighted Toeplitz operator Uφ and study its properties. Keywords—Slant weighted Toeplitz operator, weighted multiplica...