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    • Comparison of Methods for Species-Tree Inference in the Sawfly Genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) 

      Linnen, Catherine R.; Farrell, Brian D. (Taylor & Francis, 2008)
      Conifer-feeding sawflies in the genus Neodiprion provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the origin and maintenance of barriers to reproduction, but obtaining a phylogenetic estimate for comparative studies of ...

    • Comparison of Molecular Dynamics and Binary Collision Approximation Simulations for Atom Displacement Analysis 

      Bukonte, L.; Djurabekova, F.; Samela, J.; Nordlund, K.; Norris, S. A.; Aziz, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2013)
      Molecular dynamics (MD) and binary collision approximation (BCA) computer simulations are employed to study surface damage by single ion impacts. The predictions of BCA and MD simulations of displacement cascades in amorphous ...

    • Comparison of Morphology Evolution of Ge(001) Homoepitaxial Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition and Molecular Beam Epitaxy 

      Shin, Byungha; Leonard, John P.; McCamy, James W.; Aziz, Michael (American Institute of Physics, 2005)
      Using a dual Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)-Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) Ultra-High Vacuum chamber, we have conducted the first experiments under identical thermal, background, and surface preparation conditions to compare ...

    • Comparison of net ecosystem carbon exchange estimation in a mixed temperate forest using field eddy covariance and MODIS data 

      Wang, Yuandong; Tang, Xuguang; Yu, Lianfang; Hou, Xiyong; Munger, J. William (Springer International Publishing, 2016)
      Quantification of net ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE) between the atmosphere and vegetation is of great importance for regional and global studies of carbon balance. The eddy covariance technique can quantify carbon budgets ...

    • Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols 

      Basset, Yves; Eastwood, Rodney Gordon; Sam, Legi; Lohman, David J.; Novotny, Vojtech; Treuer, Tim; Miller, Scott E.; Weiblen, George D.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Sakchoowong, Watana; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Osorio-Arenas, Miguel A. (The Lepidoptera Research Foundation, 2011)
      Insects, like most other organisms, are more diverse in tropical than in temperate regions, but standardized comparisons of diversity among tropical regions are rare. Disentangling the effects of ecological, evolutionary, ...

    • Comparison of reionization models: radiative transfer simulations and approximate, seminumeric models 

      Zahn, Oliver; Mesinger, Andrei; McQuinn, Matthew; Trac, Hy; Cen, Renyue; Hernquist, Lars E. (Oxford University Press, 2011)
      We compare the predictions of four different algorithms for the distribution of ionized gas during the Epoch of Reionization. These algorithms are all used to run a 100 Mpc h(-1) simulation of reionization with the same ...

    • Comparison of SAM-Based Junctions with Ga2O3/EGaIn Top Electrodes to Other Large-Area Tunneling Junctions 

      Nijhuis, Christian A.; Reus, William F.; Barber, Jabulani Randall; Whitesides, George M. (American Chemical Society, 2012)
      This paper compares the J(V) characteristics obtained for self-assembled monolayer (SAM)-based tunneling junctions with top electrodes of the liquid eutectic of gallium and indium (EGaIn) fabricated using two different ...

    • Comparison of Structure and Properties of Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser-Structured Silicon 

      Crouch, C. H.; Carey, J. E.; Warrender, J. M.; Aziz, Michael J.; Mazur, Eric; Genin, F. Y. (American Institute of Physics, 2004)
      We compare the optical properties, chemical composition, and crystallinity of silicon microstructures formed in the presence of SF6 by femtosecond laser irradiation and by nanosecond laser irradiation. In spite of very ...

    • Comparison of theoretical predictions from the impact picture with the recent UA4 data 

      Bourrely, Claude; Soffer, Jacques; Wu, Tai Tsun (Elsevier, 1993)

    • A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts 

      Green, Jerry; Stokey, Nancy (University of Chicago Press, 1983)
      Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort ...

    • Comparison of Trends in US Health-Related Quality of Life Over the 2000s Using the SF-6D, HALex, EQ-5D, and EQ-5D Visual Analog Scale Versus a Broader Set of Symptoms and Impairments 

      Stewart, Susan T.; Cutler, David M.; Rosen, Allison B. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)
      BACKGROUND: A number of instruments have been developed to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL), differing in the health domains covered and their scoring. Although few such measures have been consistently included ...

    • Comparison of “warm and wet” and “cold and icy” scenarios for early Mars in a 3-D climate model 

      Wordsworth, Robin; Kerber, Laura; Pierrehumbert, Raymond T.; Forget, Francois; Head, James W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      We use a 3-D general circulation model to compare the primitive Martian hydrological cycle in “warm and wet” and “cold and icy” scenarios. In the warm and wet scenario, an anomalously high solar flux or intense greenhouse ...

    • Comparisons of annual modulations in MINOS with the event rate modulation in CoGeNT 

      Adamson, P.; Anghel, I.; Barr, G.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bock, G. J.; Bogert, D.; Cao, S. V.; Childress, S.; Coelho, J. A. B.; Corwin, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; de Jong, J. K.; Devan, A. V.; Devenish, N. E.; Diwan, M. V.; Escobar, C. O.; Evans, J. J.; Falk, E.; Feldman, Gary J.; Frohne, M. V.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Gouffon, P.; Graf, N.; Gran, R.; Grzelak, K.; Habig, A.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Hylen, J.; Irwin, G. M.; Isvan, Z.; Jaffe, D. E.; James, C.; Jensen, D.; Kafka, T.; Kasahara, S. M. S.; Koizumi, G.; Kopp, S.; Kordosky, M.; Kreymer, A.; Lang, K.; Ling, J.; Litchfield, P. J.; Lucas, P.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Mathis, M.; Mayer, N.; McGowan, A. M.; Medeiros, M. M.; Mehdiyev, R.; Meier, J. R.; Messier, M. D.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Moed Sher, S.; Moore, C. D.; Mualem, L.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Newman, H. B.; Nichol, R. J.; Nowak, J. A.; O’Connor, J.; Oliver, W. P.; Orchanian, M.; Pahlka, R. B.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Phan-Budd, S.; Plunkett, R. K.; Qiu, X.; Radovic, A.; Rebel, B.; Rosenfeld, C.; Rubin, H. A.; Sanchez, M. C.; Schneps, J.; Schreckenberger, A.; Schreiner, P.; Sharma, R.; Sousa, A.; Tagg, N.; Talaga, R. L.; Thomas, J.; Thomson, M. A.; Toner, Ruth; Torretta, D.; Tzanakos, G.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Viren, B.; Weber, A.; Webb, R. C.; White, C.; Whitehead, L.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Zwaska, R. (American Physical Society (APS), 2013)
      The CoGeNT Collaboration has recently published results from a fifteen month data set which indicate an annual modulation in the event rate similar to what is expected from weakly interacting massive particle interactions. ...

    • Comparisons of Limb Structural Properties in Free-Ranging Chimpanzees From Kibale, Gombe, Mahale and Taï Communities 

      Carlson, K.J.; Wrangham, Richard W.; Muller, M.N.; Sumner, D.R.; Morbeck, M.E.; Nishida, T.; Yamanaka, A.; Boesch, C. (Springer, 2010)
      Structural characteristics of limbs bones provide insight into how an animal dynamically loads its limbs during life. Cause-and-effect relationships between loading and the osteogenic response it elicits are complex. In ...

    • Compartmentalized calcium dynamics in a C. elegans interneuron encode head movement 

      Hendricks, Michael; Ha, Heonick; Maffey, Nicolas; Zhang, Yun (2012)
      Confining neuronal activity to specific subcellular regions is a mechanism for expanding the computational properties of neurons. While the circuit organization underlying compartmentalized activity has been studied in ...

    • The Compassion of Zarathustra: Nietzsche on Sympathy and Strength 

      Frazer, Michael (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
      Contemporary theorists critical of the current vogue for compassion might like to turn to Friedrich Nietzsche as an obvious ally in their opposition to the sentiment. Yet this essay argues that Nietzsche's critique of ...

    • Compatibility of Local and Global Langlands Correspondences 

      Taylor, Richard L.; Yoshida, Teruyoshi (American Mathematical Society, 2007)
      We prove the compatibility of local and global Langlands correspondences for \(GL_n\), which was proved up to semisimplification in M. Harris and R. Taylor, The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura Varieties, ...

    • Compensated Discount Functions - An Experiment on the Influence of Expected Income on Time Preferences 

      Ambrus, Attila; Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey; Noor, Jawwad; Sándor, László (2014)
      This paper examines the empirical question of whether subjects’ static choices among rewards received at different times are influenced by their expected income levels at those times. Moreover, we recover time preferences ...

    • Compensation and Employment Policies in the U.S. Public Sector 

      Quinby, Laura Doss (2017-04-27)
      How do compensation and employment policies distinct to the public sector affect the quality of public services in the United States? I explore labor-market reactions to de-unionization, defined-benefit pensions, and ...

    • Compensation between Model Feedbacks and Curtailment of Climate Sensitivity 

      Huybers, Peter John (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The spread in climate sensitivity obtained from 12 general circulation model runs used in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates a 95% confidence interval of \(2.1^{\circ}-5.5^{\circ}C\), ...