We show that an increase in uncertainty about the probability of being audited (ambiguity) increases tax compliance for ambiguity-averse taxpayers but reduces compliance for ambiguity lovers. Because experimental evidence reveals considerable heterogeneity with respect to ambiguity preferences, we conclude that fostering uncertainty about the probability of being audited may not be an effective...

We show that range convexity of beliefs, a ‘technical’ condition that appears naturally in axiomatizations of preferences in a Savage-like framework, imposes some unexpected restrictions when modelling ambiguity averse preferences. That is, when it is added to a mild condition, range convexity makes the preferences collapse to subjective expected utility as soon as they satisfy structural condi...

This paper presents the results of a sentence completion study and a self-paced reading experiment involving a relative clause attachment ambiguity. Our results provide evidence that comprehenders resolve local structural ambiguity during incremental sentence processing by combining expectations about upcoming discourse continuations with their knowledge of typical relationships between event p...

We show that range convexity of beliefs, a ‘technical’ condition that appears naturally in axiomatizations of preferences in a Savage-like framework, imposes some unexpected restrictions when modelling ambiguity averse preferences. That is, when it is added to a mild condition, range convexity makes the preferences collapse to subjective expected utility as soon as they satisfy structural condi...

Many man-made objects, in particular building facades, exhibit dominant structural relations such as symmetry and regularity. When editing these shapes, a common objective is to preserve these relations. However, often there are numerous plausible editing results that all preserve the desired structural relations of the input, creating ambiguity. We propose an interactive facade editing framewo...

By means of new tools that can extract realistic faults from the PCB layout, generate test vectors and simulate fault diagnosis, we evaluated the applicability of structural diagnosis methods for interconnect faults. The results show that, compared to the traditional be-havioural approaches, structural diagnosis can reduce ambiguity in diagnosis and more compact test sets can be employed.

an important problem in performance evaluations of irrigation systems is the difficulty of the determining share of structural and operational elements and determining improvement solutions. in most studies, the combined impact of structural and operational elements on the performance of irrigation systems is assessed. some researchers try to separate the effects of structural and operational e...

| We present results concerning three diierent types of quartic (fourth order) time-frequency distributions. First, we present new results on the recently introduced local ambiguity function, and show that it provides more reliable estimates of instantaneous chirp rate than the Wigner distribution. Second, we introduce the class of quartic, shift-covariant, time-frequency distributions, and inv...

The paper investigates the properties of ambiguity functions of 2-D analytic, quaternionic and monogenic signals. In the introduction the notions of the above signals and their Wigner distributions and ambiguity functions are recalled. The properties of the ambiguity functions are investigated using two kinds of test signals: A band-pass test signal in the form of a sum of two harmonic signals ...

The connection between the Wigner function and the generalized OTF, and between the ambiguity function and the generalized OTF is investigated for non-paraxial scalar wavefields. The treatment is based on two-dimensional (2-D) wavefields for simplicity, but can be extended to the three-dimensional case.