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Amit Ron

- Verified email at asu.edu - Cited by 400

Ron Amit

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Regression analysis and the philosophy of social science: A critical realist view

A Ron - Journal of Critical Realism, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
INTRODUCTION he procedure of regression analysis is conventionally considered to be an
exemplar of the positivist empiricist approach to research in political science. Those who …

Modes of democratic governance

A Ron - 2012 - academic.oup.com
Modes Of Democratic Governance | The Oxford Handbook of Governance | Oxford
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Visions of democracy in 'property-owning democracy': Skelton to Rawls and beyond

A Ron - History of Political Thought, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
The idea of a 'property-owning democracy' became central to John Rawls's re-evaluation of
his theory of justice. This article traces the origins of Rawls's concept of ‘property-owning …

Meta-learning by adjusting priors based on extended PAC-Bayes theory

R Amit, R Meir - International Conference on Machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
In meta-learning an agent extracts knowledge from observed tasks, aiming to facilitate learning
of novel future tasks. Under the assumption that future tasks are ‘related’to previous tasks…

Discount factor as a regularizer in reinforcement learning

R Amit, R Meir, K Ciosek - International conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Specifying a Reinforcement Learning (RL) task involves choosing a suitable planning horizon,
which is typically modeled by a discount factor. It is known that applying RL algorithms …

Integral probability metrics pac-bayes bounds

R Amit, B Epstein, S Moran… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a PAC-Bayes-style generalization bound which enables the replacement of the
KL-divergence with a variety of Integral Probability Metrics (IPM). We provide instances of …

[HTML][HTML] Cell shape information is transduced through tension-independent mechanisms

A Ron, EU Azeloglu, RC Calizo, M Hu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The shape of a cell within tissues can represent the history of chemical and physical signals
that it encounters, but can information from cell shape regulate cellular phenotype …

Modeling and measurement of a whole-cell bioluminescent biosensor based on a single photon avalanche diode

R Daniel, R Almog, A Ron, S Belkin… - Biosensors and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Whole-cell biosensors are potential candidates for on-line and in situ environmental
monitoring. In this work we present a new design of a whole-cell bioluminescence biosensor for …

[HTML][HTML] A biomimetic gelatin-based platform elicits a pro-differentiation effect on podocytes through mechanotransduction

M Hu, EU Azeloglu, A Ron, KH Tran-Ba, RC Calizo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Using a gelatin microbial transglutaminase (gelatin-mTG) cell culture platform tuned to
exhibit stiffness spanning that of healthy and diseased glomeruli, we demonstrate that kidney …

[BOOK][B] Mapping Populism

A Ron, M Nadesan - 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Majia Nadesan and Amit Ron; individual chapters,
the contributors The right of Amit Ron and Majia Nadesan to be identified as the authors of the …