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Blast-induced phenotypic switching in cerebral vasospasm
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Vasospasm of the cerebrovasculature is a common manifestation of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) reported among combat casualties in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Cerebral vasospasm occurs more frequently, ... -
Blind Signal Classification via Sparse Coding
(2016)We propose a novel RF signal classification method based on sparse coding, an unsupervised learning method popular in computer vision. In particular, we employ a convolutional sparse coder that can extract high-level ... -
Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness
(2014-06-06)For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physician's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's ... -
Bloch oscillations of bosonic lattice polarons
(American Physical Society (APS), 2014)We consider a single-impurity atom confined to an optical lattice and immersed in a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Interaction of the impurity with the phonon modes of the BEC leads to the formation of a stable ... -
Block Modeling with Connected Fault-Network Geometries and a Linear Elastic Coupling Estimator in Spherical Coordinates
(Seismological Society of America, 2009)Geodetic observations of interseismic deformation provide constraints on the partitioning of fault slip across plate boundary zones, the spatial distribution of both elastic and inelastic strain accumulation, and the ... -
Block Models of Crustal Motion in Southern California Constrained by GPS Measurements
(American Geophysical Union, 2005)We estimate slip rates on major active faults in southern California using a block model constrained by Global Positioning System measurements of interseismic deformation. The block model includes the effects of block ... -
Block-and-break generation of microdroplets with fixed volume
(AIP Publishing, 2013)We introduce a novel type of droplet generator that produces droplets of a volume set by the geometry of the droplet generator and not by the flow rates of the liquids. The generator consists of a classic T-junction with ... -
Block-based Bayesian epistasis association mapping with application to WTCCC type 1 diabetes data
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2011)Interactions among multiple genes across the genome may contribute to the risks of many complex human diseases. Whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) data collected for many thousands of SNP markers from ... -
Blocked Algorithms for Neural Networks: Design and Implementation on GPUs
(2020-10-06)The recent emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for machine learning has been largely enabled by the widespread availability of massively parallel computing devices. In particular, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) ... -
Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago)
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the “anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means ... -
Blood and Treasure: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare
(2013-03-15)Among the most important choices made by groups fighting a civil war -- governments and rebels alike -- is how to allocate available military and pecuniary resources across the contested areas of a conflict-ridden territory. ... -
Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba. Garcia Lorca's Tragic Trilogy
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Bloody Mary: Traces of the Peplum Cruentatum in Prague—and in Strasbourg?
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Blossom: A Decentralized Approach to Overcoming Systemic Internet Fragmentation
(2005)The Internet is systemically fragmented. We consider the causes of fragmentation, including both technical concerns, such as middleboxes and routing failure, as well as political concerns, such as incomplete peering and ... -
The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(IOP Publishing, 2010)We present measurements of reddening due to dust using the colors of stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure the color of main-sequence turnoff stars by finding the "blue tip" of the stellar locus: the ... -
Blueprints for Smell: Defining the Architecture of the Necklace Olfactory System
(2016-09-14)Animals must extract salient information from complex environments in order to generate adaptive behaviors. Mice have evolved multiple olfactory subsystems that enable detection and discrimination of a vast range of chemical ... -
Blueswarm: 3D Self-organization in a Fish-inspired Robot Swarm
(2021-07-12)Animals team up to collectively address challenges they could not overcome individually. Several species self-organize into large groups to leverage vital behaviors such as foraging, construction, or predator evasion. Ants, ... -
BMP Signaling Controls Buckling Forces to Modulate Looping Morphogenesis of the Gut
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-02-13)Looping of the initially straight embryonic gut tube is an essential aspect of intestinal morphogenesis, permitting proper placement of the lengthy small intestine within the confines of the body cavity. The formation of ...