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Desired Machines: Cinema and the World in Its Own Image
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In 1895 when the Lumière brothers unveiled their cinematographic camera, many scientists were elated. Scientists hoped that the machine would fulfill a desire that had driven research for nearly half a century: that of ... -
Desiring Athletes: The Meaning of Athletic Imagery on Red-Figure Athenian Symposium Pottery
(2023-09-05)This dissertation explores the iconography of athletes on Athenian red-figure pottery of the late sixth and fifth centuries BCE, a period in which athletic imagery pervaded the homes, marketplaces, and sanctuaries of ancient ... -
The Destabilizing Effects of ETFs and Options on Underlying Stock Returns
(2015-06-26)This paper explores the role that ETFs and options have on the underlying stock return. Using a dataset of 400 stocks over a five year period, I examine the effect that ETF rebalancing and option hedging have on stock ... -
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
(MIT Press, 2011)Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; ... -
Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis
(Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2010)Two landmark policy interventions to improve the lives of youth through neighborhood mobility—the Gautreaux program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiments in five cities—have produced conflicting results ... -
Destruction of Neel Order in the Cuprates by Electron-Doping
(American Physical Society, 2008)Motivated by the evidence\(^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}\) in Pr\(_{2-x}\)Ce\(_x\)CuO\(_{4-y}\) and Nd\(_{2-x}\)Ce\(_x\)CuO\(_{4-y}\) of a magnetic quantum critical point at which Neel order is destroyed, we study the evolution with ... -
DESYNC: Self-Organizing Desynchronization and TDMA on Wireless Sensor Networks
(2006)Desynchronization is a novel primitive for sensor networks: it implies that nodes perfectly interleave periodic events to occur in a round-robin schedule. This primitive can be used to evenly distribute sampling burden in ... -
Detectability of Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Analogues at High Redshifts
(IOP Publishing, 2015)The dwarf galaxies of the Local Group are believed to be similar to the most abundant galaxies during the epoch of reionization (z>6). As a result of their proximity, there is a wealth of information that can be obtained ... -
Detecting -1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting in Bacterial Genomes: A Probabilistic Approach
(2022-06-03)Programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF or frameshift) is a phenomenon that allows the same RNA sequence to code for two different peptides. In short, the presence of a 7 nucleotide (base) "slippery" motif in the mRNA ... -
Detecting and understanding combinatorial mutation patterns responsible for HIV drug resistance
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)We propose a systematic approach for a better understanding of how HIV viruses employ various combinations of mutations to resist drug treatments, which is critical to developing new drugs and optimizing the use of existing ... -
Detecting biomarkers in habitable-zone earths transiting white dwarfs
(Oxford University Press, 2013)The characterization of the atmospheres of habitable-zone Earth-mass exoplanets that transit across main-sequence stars, let alone the detection of biomarkers in their atmospheres, will be challenging even with future ... -
Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness
(Landes Bioscience, 2009)A large body of literature has shown that observers often fail to notice significant changes in visual scenes, even when these changes happen right in front of their eyes. For instance, people often fail to notice if their ... -
Detecting Changing Polarization Structures in Sagittarius A* With High Frequency Vlbi
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)Sagittarius A* is the source of near infrared, X-ray, radio, and (sub) millimeter emission associated with the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. In the submillimeter regime, Sgr A* exhibits time-variable ... -
Detecting dark matter annihilation with CMB polarization: Signatures and experimental prospects
(American Physical Society (APS), 2005)Dark matter (DM) annihilation during hydrogen recombination (z ~ 1000) will alter the recombination history of the Universe, and affect the observed CMB temperature and polarization fluctuations. Unlike other astrophysical ... -
Detecting Ecological Patterns Along Environmental Gradients: Alpine Treeline Ecotones
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Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)Happiness and other emotions spread between people in direct contact, but it is unclear whether massive online social networks also contribute to this spread. Here, we elaborate a novel method for measuring the contagion ... -
Detecting Flaring Structures in Sagittarius A* With High-frequency Vlbi
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)The super-massive black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*, exhibits variability from radio to X-ray wavelengths on timescales that correspond to < 10 Schwarzschild radii. We survey the potential of millimeter wavelength ... -
Detecting floating black holes as they traverse the gas disc of the Milky Way
(Oxford University Press, 2014)A population of intermediate-mass black holes (BHs) is predicted to be freely floating in the Milky Way (MW) halo, due to gravitational wave recoil, ejection from triple BH systems, or tidal stripping in the dwarf galaxies ... -
Detecting Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Community: An Ascertainment Strategy and Comparison with a Hospital Sample
(Guilford Press, 2009)Most empirical research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) draws its participant pool from clinical samples. Individuals with BPD recruited from clinical settings, however, may represent a unique subset of those with ... -
Detecting Industrial Pollution in the Atmospheres of Earth-like Exoplanets
(American Astronomical Society, 2014)Detecting biosignatures, such as molecular oxygen in combination with a reducing gas, in the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets has been a major focus in the search for alien life. We point out that in addition to these ...