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Bet-hedging, seasons and the evolution of behavioral diversity in Drosophila
(2015)Organisms use various strategies to cope with fluctuating environmental conditions. In diversified bet-hedging, a single genotype exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity with the expectation that some individuals will survive ... -
Betatrophin: A Hormone that Controls Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Replenishing insulin-producing pancreatic β cell mass will benefit both type I and type II diabetics. In adults, pancreatic β cells are generated primarily by self-duplication. We report on a mouse model of insulin resistance ... -
Better than PageRank: Hitting Time as a Reputation Mechanism
(2014-08-08)In online multi-agent systems, reputation systems are needed to distinguish between trustworthy agents and potentially malicious or unreliable agents. A good reputation system should be accurate, resistant to strategic ... -
Betting on the Real Line
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)We study the problem of designing prediction markets for random variables with continuous or countably infinite outcomes on the real line. Our interval betting languages allow traders to bet on any interval of their choice. ... -
Between Animal and Machine: Ecologizing Modernisms in Wartime China, 1931-1945
(2022-06-06)How do we envision connections with human and nonhuman others in a time of destruction and division? This dissertation tackles the question in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and its prelude by ... -
Between China and Tibet: A Documentary History of Khotan in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Century
(2016-09-16)Since the late 19th century, expeditions in Khotan sponsored by various countries have yielded several collections of Khotanese manuscripts. Among them, the British Collection, the Russian Collection, and the Hedin stand ... -
Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690
(2014-06-06)Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690 is the first sustained examination of the diagrams and illustrations that constituted the seventeenth century's new physics. When René Descartes ... -
Between God and Man: The Herò of Irish Tradition
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Between history and nation: Paul Robert Magocsi and the rewriting of Ukrainian history
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)"Getting history wrong is an essential factor in the formation of a nation,” wrote Ernest Renan, basing this observation on his analysis of the nation-building experience in nineteenth-century Europe (qtd. in Eric Hobsbawm, ... -
Between Kings and Caliphs: Religion and Authority in Sharq al-Andalus (1145-1244 CE)
(2013-03-08)This dissertation focuses on how the Marrakech-based Almohads and their independent Muslim rivals in eastern al-Andalus contested spiritual and temporal power. The rulers of Sharq al-Andalus opposed Almohad claims to a ... -
Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911
(2014-02-25)In the late eighteenth century, a Qing-centered, pluralistic legal order emerged in the Tibetan regions of the Qing empire. In the Gansu borderlands known to Tibetans as "Amdo," the Qing state established subprefectures ... -
Between Surprise and Social Science
(European University Institute, 2009)Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ... -
Between syntax and discourse
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)This article examines the knowledge of topic and subject particles in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean. We assume that topic marking is mediated at the syntaxinformation structure interface, while ... -
Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy
(2014-10-21)Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary ... -
Between the Pen and the Fields: Books on Farming, Changing Land Regimes, and Urban Agriculture in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean Ca. 1500-1700
(2016-09-23)This dissertation goes “between the pen and the fields” in that it explores the relationship between the Ottoman discourse on farming as reflected in manuscripts, and the material and economic realities of farming shown ... -
Beyond Aura: Art as Object of Historical Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
(2022-05-12)This dissertation turns to the originary moment of historicism to investigate what it meant for British culture to treat artworks (from architecture to literary texts) as expressions of historical knowledge in the nineteenth ... -
Beyond blind faith: overcoming the obstacles to interdisciplinary evaluation
(Beech Tree Publishing, 2006)This paper examines how panelists serving on interdisciplinary funding panels produce evaluations they perceive as fair, drawing on 81 interviews with panelists serving on multidisciplinary fellowship competitions. We ... -
Beyond Brainstorms: Predicting Epilepsy Surgery Outcome with Functional Connectivity Centrality
(2022-05-25)For patients with medically refractory epilepsy (MRE) who do not respond to anti-seizure medicine, invasive intracranial EEG (icEEG) and resective surgery are used to respectively identify and remove epileptogenic zones ... -
Beyond bulk entrainment and detrainment rates: A new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection
(American Geophysical Union, 2012)A new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection is proposed, where the vertical evolution of the cloud mass flux distribution as a function of given parcel properties is viewed as a mapping process. Matrices ...