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The Impact of Fiscal Illusion on Housing Values: An Australian Test of the Debt Illusion Hypothesis [PDF]
, 1995 The debt illusion hypothesis holds that taxpayers may underestimate the present discounted value of future tax liabilities under debt finance. The empirical question arises as to whether debt illusion at the local government level can affect housing ...
Worthington, Andrew C. +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe +4 more
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Duplicates of minors sold as “Love Dolls”: disturbance in sexual representation
Hybrid, 2019 In January 2016, a “grandmother” starts a petition to ban the sale of child sex dolls, portrayed as “sickening aids for pedophiles.” The media then started discussing the legitimacy of laws similar to George Orwell’s thought crime.
Agnès Giard
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Is the Ebbinghaus illusion a size contrast illusion?
Acta Psychologica, 2015 The Ebbinghaus illusion, in which a central target surrounded by larger context figures looks smaller than when surrounded by smaller context figures, is usually classified as a size contrast illusion. Thus "size contrast" is the dominant account of this effect.
Dejan, Todorović, Ljubica, Jovanović
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European Conference on Artificial Life, 2017 One of the main goals of robot designers or computer scientists working on artificial intelligence is to give the illusion of life in their creations.
Laurent Pujo-Menjouet +1 more
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Dynamic tilt illusion induced by continuous contextual orientation alternations [PDF]
, 2017 In the classic tilt illusion, the perceived orientation of a center patch is shifted away from its oriented context. Additionally, a stronger illusion effect is yielded when the center patch is simultaneously rather than asynchronously presented with a ...
Xiangyong Yuan +5 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ancient Olympia was one of the most important sanctuaries and the venue for the Olympic Games in Greek and Roman times. Its remains are located in the Olympia Terrace (Peloponnese, Greece) at the present‐day confluence of the rivers Alpheios and Kladeos at the base of Mount Kronos.
Sarah Bäumler +10 more
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Hybrid, 2015 This interview raises the issue of the realities of illusion, based on the interpretation of the vicariance concept developed by Alain Berthoz in the book entitled La Vicariance. Le cerveau créateur de mondes, published in 2013 (Odile Jacob). A series of
Alain Berthoz, Marie-Hélène Tramus
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Need a hand?: how appearance affects the virtual hand illusion
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2016 How does the appearance of a virtual hand affect own-body perception? Previous studies have compared either two or three hand models at a time, with their appearances limited to realistic hands and abstract or simple objects.
Lorraine Lin, S. Jörg
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, 2017 First paragraph: Two identical side by side images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, photographed from below, appear to rise at different angles (Kingdom, Yoonessi, & Gheorghiu, 2007a,b; see Fig. II.21- 1).
Frederick A. A. Kingdom +5 more
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