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Flask: Staged Functional Programming for Sensor Networks
(Association for Computer Machinery, 2008)Severely resource-constrained devices present a confounding challenge to the functional programmer: we are used to having powerful abstraction facilities at our fingertips, but how can we make use of these tools on a device ... -
Flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 as a potential player in diabetes-associated atherosclerosis
(Nature Pub. Group, 2015)Despite the well-documented association between insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease, the key targets of insulin relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease are not known. Here, using non-biased profiling ... -
Flavor Anarchy in a Randall-Sundrum Model with 5D Minimal Flavor Violation and a Low Kaluza-Klein Scale
(American Physical Society, 2008)A variant of a warped extra dimension model is presented. It is based on 5D minimal flavor violation, in which the only sources of flavor breaking are two 5D anarchic Yukawa matrices. These matrices also control the bulk ... -
Flaw sensitivity of highly stretchable materials
(Elsevier BV, 2017)Elastomers and gels can often deform multiple times their original length. The stretchability is insensitive to small cuts in the samples, but reduces markedly when the cuts are large. We show that this transition occurs ... -
Flexibility in Incumbent Organizations
(2022-05-16)For decades, scholars have theorized structural and cognitive mechanisms of inertia that induce rigidity and stasis in organizations. These scholars have explored organizational capacities to reorient strategies and ... -
Flexible bacterial immunity as a strategy for widespread protection against protein threats
(2023-03-14)How bacteria interact with their neighbors can have a large impact on community structure through cooperative measures like biofilm formation or antagonistic ones like pathogen invasion. These communications are often ... -
Flexible Cognitive Resources: Competitive Content Maps for Attention and Memory
(Elsevier BV, 2013-03)The brain has finite processing resources so that, as tasks become harder, performance degrades. Where do the limits on these resources come from? We focus on a variety of capacity-limited buffers related to attention, ... -
Flexible Genome Recoding Strategies for Exploring Codon Space in the Escherichia Coli Genome
(2017-01-25)The degeneracy of the genetic code allows nucleic acids to encode amino acid identity as well as non-coding information for gene regulation and genome maintenance. This dual-nature allows for maximal information density ... -
A Flexible High-Performance Lattice Boltzmann GPU Code for the Simulations of Fluid Flows in Complex Geometries
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)We describe the porting of the Lattice Boltzmann component of MUPHY, a multi-physics/scale simulation software, to multiple graphics processing units using the Compute Unified Device Architecture. The novelty of this work ... -
Flexible Indeterminate Factor-Based Asset Allocation
(Institutional Investor Journals, 2016)Asset allocation represents a fundamental strategic decision for every institutional investor. Though many asset allocation approaches have been recommended and implemented in various forms, each has its own strengths and ... -
Flexible mechanical metamaterials: solitary waves and phase transitions
(2021-09-13)Over the last two decades, metamaterials — materials whose properties are defined by their structure rather than their composition — have been a magnet for scientists, generating significant interest in the research ... -
Flexible visual information representation in human parietal cortex
(2014-10-21)In many everyday activities, we must visually process multiple objects embedded in complex real world scenes. Our visual system can flexibly extract behaviorally relevant visual information from such scenes, even though ... -
Flexoelectricity in Nematic and Smectic-A Liquid Crystals
(American Institute of Physics, 1976)Flexoelectric effects are observed in both the nematic and smectic‐A phases of p‐butoxybenzal‐p‐(\(\beta\)‐methylbutyl) aniline (BBMBA) and p‐cyano‐benzylidine‐p‐octyloxyaniline (CBOOA). This is the first reported observation ... -
Flight Control of a Millimeter-Scale Flapping-Wing Robot
(2014-10-21)Flying insects display remarkable maneuverability. Unlike typical airplanes, these insects are able to execute an evasive action, rapidly change their flight speed and direction, or leisurely land on flowers buffeted by ... -
Flight to the Informal: A History of the Informalization of the Zimbabwean Economy 1965-2009
(2023-06-01)This dissertation explores the entangled web of informal economic relations from UDI to 2009. State informality has a long history beginning with the imposition of sanctions under the Smith regime. This thesis examines the ... -
Flooded Dark Matter and S level rise
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2016)Most dark matter models set the dark matter relic density by some interaction with Standard Model particles. Such models generally assume the existence of Standard Model particles early on, with the dark matter relic density ... -
Floral Evolution: Dramatic Size Change was Recent and Rapid in the World's Largest Flowers
(Elsevier, 2008)Recent studies clarifying the closest relatives of the world's largest flowers, Rafflesiaceae, whose floral diameters range from ∼11 to ∼100 cm, indicated that they evolved from tiny-flowered ancestors in a burst of floral ... -
Floral Meristem Termination in Aquilegia
(2021-09-09)The persistent activity of stem cells in meristems is the foundation of continuous growth in plants. During the reproductive phase, vegetative meristems that produce leaves will be converted into floral meristems (FMs) to ... -
Floral Symmetry Genes and the Origin and Maintenance of Zygomorphy in a Plant-pollinator Mutualism
(National Academy of Sciences, 2010)The evolution of floral zygomorphy is an important innovation in flowering plants and is thought to arise principally from specialization on various insect pollinators. Floral morphology of neotropical Malpighiaceae is ... -
Flow Batteries: Alkaline Benzoquinone Aqueous Flow Battery for Large-Scale Storage of Electrical Energy
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)We introduce an aqueous flow battery based on low-cost, non-flammable, non-corrosive and Earth-abundant elements. During charging, electrons are stored in a concentrated water solution of 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone ...