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A Common Framework for Theories of Norm Compliance
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)Humans often comply with social norms, but the reasons why are disputed. Here, we unify a variety of influential explanations in a common decision framework, and identify the precise cognitive variables that norms might ... -
Common Garden Experiments Reveal Uncommon Responses across Temperatures, Locations, and Species of Ants
(Wiley Open Access, 2012-10-12)Population changes and shifts in geographic range boundaries induced by climate change have been documented for many insect species. On the basis of such studies, ecological forecasting models predict that, in the absence ... -
Common Genetic Variants Associated With Cognitive Performance Identified Using the Proxy-Phenotype Method
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)We identify common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance using a two-stage approach, which we call the proxy-phenotype method. First, we conduct a genome-wide association study of educational attainment ... -
Common Genetic Variation at the IL1RL1 Locus Regulates IL-33/ST2 Signaling
(American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2013)The suppression of tumorigenicity 2/IL-33 (ST2/IL-33) pathway has been implicated in several immune and inflammatory diseases. ST2 is produced as 2 isoforms. The membrane-bound isoform (ST2L) induces an immune response ... -
The Common Thread: Slavery, Cotton and Atlantic Finance from the Louisiana Purchase to Reconstruction
(2014-02-25)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between cotton, slavery and finance. At its core is a consideration of the Atlantic credit networks that supported the cultivation of cotton across the antebellum South. Planters ... -
Common variants in signaling transcription-factor-binding sites drive phenotypic variability in red blood cell traits
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-23)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) reveal genomic variants associated with human traits and diseases. Most trait-associated variants are located within cell type-specific enhancers, but the molecular mechanism by which ... -
Common Violence: Vengeance and Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century Marseille
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The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will
(2013-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue for a Rousseauvian vision of an ideal society: one in which the people constitute a group agent, unified under a collective will, willing action that constitutes the common good. Most have ... -
Communicable Memory and Lazy Barriers for Bulk Synchronous Parallelism in BSPk
(1996)Communication and synchronization stand as the dual bottlenecks in the performance of parallel systems, and especially those that attempt to alleviate the programming burden by incurring overhead in these two domains. We ... -
Communication: Exciton–phonon information flow in the energy transfer process of photosynthetic complexes
(AIP Publishing, 2011)Non-Markovian and nonequilibrium phonon effects are believed to be key ingredients in the energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, especially in complexes which exhibit a regime of intermediate exciton–phonon coupling. ... -
Community Health Workers to Improve Antenatal Care and PMTCT Uptake in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Quantitative Performance Evaluation
(JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2014)Background: Home visits by community health workers (CHW) could be effective in identifying pregnant women in the community before they have presented to the health system. CHW could thus improve the uptake of antenatal ... -
Community Size and Network Closure
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Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory
(University of Chicago Press, 1989)Shaw and McKay's influential theory of community social disorganization has never been directly tested. To address this, a community-level theory that builds on Shaw and McKay's original model is formulated and tested. The ... -
Community Structure and the Spread of Infectious Disease in Primate Social Networks
(Springer Netherlands, 2011)Living in a large social group is thought to increase disease risk in wild animal populations, but comparative studies have provided mixed support for this prediction. Here, we take a social network perspective to investigate ... -
Community versus Market: A Note on Corporate Villages
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)We return to the literature on collective villages and reexamine its central arguments. In doing so, we focus on an institution for allocating land that we call the Rule. As claimed by its advocates, the Rule secures land ... -
Community-Attribute Models for Bibliographic Reference Information via Dynamic Graph Evolution
(2016-06-21)We present CAMBRIDGE, the first technique for evolutionary analysis of dynamic graphs via a community-attribute graph model. Community-attribute models have been shown to be superior to models conventionally used for ... -
Community-Based ART Programs: Sustaining Adherence and Follow-up
(Springer US, 2016)The advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 1996 brought with it an urgent need to develop models of health care delivery that could enable its effective and equitable delivery, especially to patients living in poverty. ... -
Community-level cohesion without cooperation
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2016)Recent work draws attention to community-community encounters ('coalescence') as likely an important factor shaping natural ecosystems. This work builds on MacArthur’s classic model of competitive coexistence to investigate ... -
Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)The notion of animal culture, defined as socially transmitted community-specific behaviour patterns, remains controversial, notably because the definition relies on surface behaviours without addressing underlying cognitive ... -
Comovement
(Elsevier BV, 2005)A number of studies have identifed patterns of positive correlation of returns, or comovement, among different traded securities. We distinguish three views of such comovement. The traditional "fundamentals" view explains ...