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The effect of fast and slow motor unit activation on whole-muscle mechanical performance: the size principle may not pose a mechanical paradox
(The Royal Society, 2014)The output of skeletal muscle can be varied by selectively recruiting different motor units. However, our knowledge of muscle function is largely derived from muscle in which all motor units are activated. This discrepancy ... -
The Effect of Federal Tax Deductibility on State and Local Taxes and Spending
(University of Chicago Press, 1987)This paper examines the effect of federal deductibility of state and local taxes on the fiscal behavior of state and local governments. The primary finding is that deductibil ity affects the way that state and local ... -
The effect of fin ray flexural rigidity on the propulsive forces generated by a biorobotic fish pectoral fin
(The Company of Biologists, 2010)A biorobotic pectoral fin was developed and used to study how the flexural rigidities of fin rays within a highly deformable fish fin affect the fin’s propulsive forces. The design of the biorobotic fin was based on a ... -
The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence
(MIT Press, 2005)We introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multicountry Schumpeterian growth model. The theory predicts that any country with more than some critical level of financial development will converge to the growth rate of ... -
The Effect of FIR Emission from SDSS Galaxies on the SFD Galactic Extinction Map
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007)We compare the most successful and widely used map of Galactic dust extinction, provided by Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998; hereafter SFD), to the galaxy number counts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ... -
The effect of first high school science teacher's gender and gender matching on students' science identity in college
(Wiley, 2019-11-12)To encourage the formation of science identity among girls, many scholars and practitioners have suggested to assign samegender science teachers to students so that the teachers can serve as gender role models. However, ... -
The Effect of Growth-Mimicking Continuous Strain on the Early Stages of Skeletal Development in Micromass Culture
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Embryonic skeletogenesis involves proliferation, condensation and subsequent chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal precursor cells, and the strains and stresses inherent to these processes have been hypothesized to ... -
Effect of High-Temperature Aging on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanocrystalline Tetragonal Yttria-stabilized Zirconia
(Elsevier, 2012)The thermal conductivity of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier coatings increases with high-temperature aging. This common observation has been attributed to the densification of the coatings as porosity ... -
Effect of hydrogen-switchable mirrors on the Casimir force
(National Academy of Sciences, 2004)We present systematic measurements of the Casimir force between a gold-coated plate and a sphere coated with a hydrogen-switchable mirror. Hydrogen-switchable mirrors are shiny metals that can become transparent upon ... -
Effect of interactions and disorder on the relaxation of two-level systems in amorphous solids
(American Physical Society, 2017)At low temperatures the dynamical degrees of freedom in amorphous solids are tunneling two-level systems (TLSs). Concentrating on these degrees of freedom, and taking into account disorder and TLS-TLS interactions, we ... -
The Effect of Intracavity Field Variation on the Emission Properties of Quantum Cascade Lasers
(2016-09-14)A common and powerful simplification in laser physics is to ignore the spatial dependence of the intracavity field intensity, and instead replace it with its average value. This approach can elucidate many aspects of laser ... -
Effect of intravenous anesthetic propofol on synaptic vesicle exocytosis at the frog neuromuscular junction
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)Aim: To investigate the presynaptic effects of propofol, a short-acting intravenous anesthetic, in the frog neuromuscular junction. Methods: Frog cutaneous pectoris nerve muscle preparations were prepared. A fluorescent ... -
The Effect of Line-of-Sight Temperature Variation and Noise on Dust Continuum Observations
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)We investigate the effect of line-of-sight temperature variations and noise on two commonly used methods to determine dust properties from dust-continuum observations of dense cores. One method employs a direct fit to a ... -
Effect of Magnesium Ions on Oriented Growth of Calcite on Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayer
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2003)The combined effect of templating and solution additives on calcite crystallization was studied. Self-assembled monolayers of mercaptoundecanoic acid supported on silver, as templates, induced the uniform, oriented nucleation ... -
Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the 1986 Tax Reform Act
(University of Chicago Press, 1995)This paper uses a Treasury Department panel of more than 4,000 taxpayers to estimate the sensitivity of taxable income to changes in tax rates based on a comparison of the tax returns of the same individual taxpayers before ... -
The Effect of Milankovitch Variations in Insolation on Equatorial Seasonality
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Although the sun crosses the equator 2 times per year at the equinoxes, at times in the past the equatorial insolation has had only one maximum and one minimum throughout the seasonal cycle because of Milankovitch orbital ... -
The Effect of Mindfulness on Heart Rate Control
(Springer Verlag, 2009)An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that mindful attention to change regarding heart rate (HR) would result in greater control over HR. Experimental groups monitored the changing or stable nature of HR, ... -
Effect of Molecular Structure of Quinones and Carbon Electrode Surfaces on the Interfacial Electron Transfer Process
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2020-01-28)Quinones can undergo thermodynamically reversible proton-coupled electron transfer reactions and are being applied as electroactive compounds in aqueous organic batteries. However, the electrochemical reversibility of these ... -
The Effect of Noise on the Dust Temperature-Spectral Index Correlation
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)We investigate how uncertainties in flux measurements affect the results from modified blackbody spectral energy distribution (SED) fits. We show that an inverse correlation between the dust temperature T and spectral index ...