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Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate
(Annals of Mathematics, Princeton U, 2010)Consider a system of N bosons in three dimensions interacting via a repulsive short range pair potential N²V (N(xi − xj)), where x = (x1,..., xN) denotes the positions of the particles. Let HN denote the Hamiltonian of the ... -
Derivations without the Activity Condition
(Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The EPP cannot be reduced to the Inverse Case Filter (contra Boskovic 2002) and remains for the moment axiomatic in phrase-marker construction. Feature-splitting, Agree, and the EPP allow for a range of derivational options ... -
Derivative synthesis of the transcriptional inhibitor α-amanitin and the translational inhibitor cycloheximide
(2021-08-19)The following work focuses on my efforts towards the synthesis of the transcriptional inhibitor a-amanitin and the translational inhibitor cycloheximide as a means to exploit the potential of these natural products as ... -
Derived categories and birational geometry of Gushel-Mukai varieties
(2016-05-17)We study the derived categories of coherent sheaves on Gushel-Mukai varieties. In the derived category of such a variety, we isolate a special semiorthogonal component, which is a K3 or Enriques category according to whether ... -
Deriving a Light Use Efficiency Model from Eddy Covariance Flux Data for Predicting Daily Gross Primary Production Across Biomes
(Elsevier, 2007)The quantitative simulation of gross primary production (GPP) at various spatial and temporal scales has been a major challenge in quantifying the global carbon cycle. We developed a light use efficiency (LUE) daily GPP ... -
Deriving Epistemic Conclusions from Agent Architecture
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2009)One of our most resilient intuitions is that causality is a precondition for information flow: where there are no causal connections, we expect there to be no flow of information. In this paper, we study this idea as it ... -
Deriving Finite Sphere Packings
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2011)Sphere packing problems have a rich history in both mathematics and physics; yet, relatively few analytical analyses of sphere packings exist, and answers to seemingly simple questions are unknown. Here, we present an ... -
Deriving Indistinguishability from Unpredictability: Tools and Applications in Pseudorandomness
(2020-09-10)Proving that a distribution P is “close to uniform” is an integral part of many problems in pseudorandomness, and is often defined either in terms of indistinguishability—no algorithm (possibly required to be efficient) ... -
Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)During the Scientific Revolution one important gauge of the duality of reformed natural philosophical knowledge was its ability to produce a more effective medical practice. Indeed, it was sometimes thought that philosophers ... -
Descent of the Deities: The Water-Land Retreat and the Transformation of the Visual Culture of Song-Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhism
(2013-09-24)This dissertation identifies a paradox at the heart of the visual culture of Song-dynasty (960-1279) Buddhism. On the one hand, as the celestial pantheon expanded, it was conceptualized in ever more bureaucratic ways, ... -
Description and phylogeny of Namalycastis jaya sp. n. (Polychaeta, Nereididae, Namanereidinae) from the southwest coast of India
(Pensoft Publishers, 2012)Namalycastis jaya sp. n. (Polychaeta: Nereididae: Namanereidinae)is described from the southern coast of Kerala in southwest India. One important characteristic feature of the species is the lack of notochaetae in all ... -
Design and analysis of multi-hospital kidney exchange mechanisms using random graphs
(Elsevier BV, 2015)Kidney exchanges enable transplants when a pair of a patient and an incompatible donor is matched with other similar pairs. In multi-hospital kidney exchanges pairs are pooled from multiple hospitals, and each hospital is ... -
Design and Assembly Considerations in the Engineering of Vascular Tissue
(2014-02-25)Native vascular tissue functions are highly dependent on structural organization at the super-cellular, cellular, and sub-cellular spatial scales. We hypothesized that the structure-function relationship of vascular tissues ... -
Design and Assembly of an Ultra-light Motorized Microdrive for Chronic Neural Recordings in Small Animals
(MyJoVE Corporation, 2012)The ability to chronically record from populations of neurons in freely behaving animals has proven an invaluable tool for dissecting the function of neural circuits underlying a variety of natural behaviors, including ... -
Design and Characterization of Hybrid Biological-Inorganic Systems
(2023-03-14)Hybrid biological-inorganic systems have been designed to drive fine chemical syntheses and to interrogate fundamental biology. These systems couple electronic signals to cellular activity, allowing the unique chemistries ... -
Design and control of a parallel linkage wrist for robotic microsurgery
(2015)This paper presents the design and control of a teleoperated robotic system for dexterous micromanipulation tasks at the meso-scale, specifically open microsurgery. Robotic open microsurgery is an unexplored yet potentially ... -
Design and Control of Motion Compensation Cardiac Catheters
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010)Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, catheter technologies are currently unable to ... -
Design and Evaluation of a Compiler for Embedded Stream Programs
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2008)Applications that combine live data streams with embedded, parallel, and distributed processing are becoming more commonplace. WaveScript is a domain-specific language that brings high-level, type-safe, garbage-collected ... -
The Design and Implementation of IBAL: A General-Purpose Probabilistic Language
(2005)This paper describes IBAL, a high level representation language for probabilistic AI. IBAL integrates several aspects of probability-based rational behavior, including probabilistic reasoning, Bayesian parameter estimation ... -
Design and Locomotion Studies of a Miniature Centipede-Inspired Robot
(2013-10-08)Many applications, such as search and rescue missions, hazardous environment exploration, and surveillance, call for miniature robots capable of agile locomotion in a variety of unpredictable environments. Recent advances ...