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Discussion: One-step Sparse Estimates in Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood Models: Who Cares if It Is a White cat or a Black cat?
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Disease Allele-Dependent Small-Molecule Sensitivities in Blood Cells from Monogenic Diabetes
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Even as genetic studies identify alleles that influence human disease susceptibility, it remains challenging to understand their functional significance and how they contribute to disease phenotypes. Here, we describe an ... -
Disease and Desire: Perspectives on Addiction from Ancient Greek Poetry, Philosophy, and Medicine
(2022-06-06)This dissertation investigates addiction in the ancient Greco-Roman world, a phenomenon which I show not only existed in the ancient past, but was also conceptualized in unique ways. Based on a method that balances biological ... -
Disease and Social Order in America: Perceptions and Expectations
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1986)Views of disease-and especially of epidemics-among laymen and physicians alike, changed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between extremes of reductionism and relativism. Both society and the medical profession ... -
Disease in history, history in disease: An interview with Charles Rosenberg
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Disease in History: Frames and Framers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1989)In some ways disease does not exist until we agree that it does-by perceiving, naming, and responding to it. These acts of agreement have during the past century become increasingly central to social as well as medical ... -
DiseaseConnect: a comprehensive web server for mechanism-based disease–disease connections
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The DiseaseConnect (http://disease-connect.org) is a web server for analysis and visualization of a comprehensive knowledge on mechanism-based disease connectivity. The traditional disease classification system groups ... -
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections: Evidence from U.S. Term Limits
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)We exploit variation in U.S. gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in office constant, differences in performance ... -
Disentangling Electronic and Vibronic Coherences in Two-Dimensional Echo Spectra
(American Chemical Society, 2013)The prevalence of long-lasting oscillatory signals in two-dimensional (2D) echo spectroscopy of light-harvesting complexes has led to a search for possible mechanisms. We investigate how two causes of oscillatory signals ... -
Disentangling Neutrino Oscillations
(Elsevier, 2009)The theory underlying neutrino oscillations has been described at length in the literature. The neutrino state produced by a weak decay is usually portrayed as a linear superposition of mass eigenstates with, variously, ... -
Disentangling Ribbon Worm Relationships: Multi-Locus Analysis Supports Traditional Classification of the Phylum Nemertea
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)The phylogenetic relationships of selected members of the phylum Nemertea are explored by means of six markers amplified from the genomic DNA of freshly collected specimens (the nuclear 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA genes, histones ... -
Disentangling the Coevolutionary Histories of Animal Gut Microbiomes
(2015-05-17)Animals associate with microbes in complex interactions with profound fitness consequences. These interactions play an enormous role in the evolution of both partners, and recent advances in sequencing technology have ... -
Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive Development and Linguistic Expertise: A Longitudinal Study of the Acquisition of English in Internationally-Adopted Children
(Elsevier, 2011-10-03)Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive ... -
Disentangling the Roles of Form and Motion in Fish Swimming Performance
(2017-05-11)A central theme of comparative biomechanics is linking patterns of variation in morphology with variation in locomotor performance. This presents a unique challenge in fishes, given their extraordinary morphological diversity ... -
Disequilibrium Dynamics with Inventories and Anticipatory Price-Setting
(Elsevier, 1981)This paper studies the sequence of short-run quantity-constrained equilibria of a model with a single storable output, labor and money. The durability of output gives rise to inventory fluctuations which influence the ... -
A Disintegrating Minor Planet Transiting a White Dwarf
(Springer Nature, 2015)White dwarfs are the end state of most stars, including the Sun, after they exhaust their nuclear fuel. Between 1/4 and 1/2 of white dwarfs have elements heavier than helium in their atmospheres1,2, even though these ... -
A disk of dust and molecular gas around a high-mass protostar
(Springer Nature, 2005)The processes leading to the birth of low-mass stars such as our Sun have been well studied1, but the formation of high-mass (over eight times the Sun's mass, Mcircle dot) stars remains poorly understood2. Recent studies ... -
Disk-assisted Spin-down of Young Radio Pulsars
(American Astronomical Society, 2001)We present a model for the spin-down of young radio pulsars in which the neutron star loses rotational energy not only by emitting magnetic dipole radiation but also by torquing a surrounding disk produced by supernova ... -
Disks Irradiated by Beamed Radiation from Compact Objects
(American Astronomical Society, 2000)We examine the reprocessing of X-radiation from compact objects by accretion disks when the X-ray emission from the star is highly beamed. The reprocessed flux for various degrees of beaming and inclinations of the beam ... -
The Dislike of Regular Plurals in Compounds: Phonological Familiarity or Morphological Constraint?
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007)English speakers disfavor compounds containing regular plurals compared to irregular ones. Haskell, MacDonald and Seidenberg (2003) attribute this phenomenon to the rarity of compounds containing words with the ...