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The Force of Union: Affect and Ascent in the Theology of Bonaventure
(2012-08-08)The image of love as a burning flame is so widespread in the history of Christian literature as to appear inevitable. But as this dissertation explores, the association of amor with fire played a precise and wide-ranging ... -
Force Sensitive Insoles for Rowing
(2016-06-21)The Force Sensitive Insoles for Rowing measure plantar force throughout the rowing stroke. The aim of the project is to give rowers a tool to help them understand how they apply force to the boat with their feet. When ... -
Force Sensitivity of the Von Willebrand Factor A2 Domain
(2012-11-13)Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a multimeric glycoprotein that critically supports platelet aggregation in hemostasis. Disordered VWF function causes both thrombotic and bleeding disorders, and genetic defects in VWF are ... -
Force tracking with feed-forward motion estimation for beating heart surgery
(Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)The manipulation of fast moving, delicate tissues in beating heart procedures presents a considerable challenge to the surgeon. A robotic force tracking system can assist the surgeon by applying precise contact forces to ... -
Force-field functor theory: classical force-fields which reproduce equilibrium quantum distributions
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Feynman and Hibbs were the first to variationally determine an effective potential whose associated classical canonical ensemble approximates the exact quantum partition function. We examine the existence of a map between ... -
Force-free electrodynamics around extreme Kerr black holes
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)Plasma-filled magnetospheres can extract energy from a spinning black hole and provide the power source for a variety of observed astrophysical phenomena. These magnetospheres are described by the highly nonlinear equations ... -
Forced Axial Flow Between Rotating Concentric Cylinders
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1971)Forced axial flow in an annular gap of a cylindrical rotor is investigated analytically and experimentally. At small rotation rates and narrow gap widths, the axial flow is a simple Poiseuille flow over most of the rotor. ... -
Forced Migration and Neighborhood Formation: How Communities of Internally Displaced Persons Find Residential Stability in an Unstable World
(2021-07-12)How do communities find residential stability in an unstable world? This question—central to the field of urban studies—is even more urgent in relation to groups who have experienced turmoil and displacement in their ... -
Forced Rayleigh Scattering from Lipid-Water Smectic Phases
(American Physical Society, 1977)The hydrodynamic relaxation rate for water inhomogeneities in aligned lipid-water smectics is measured for the first time using an improved version of the "forced Rayleigh" technique. Variation of the relaxation rate with ... -
Forced Sales and House Prices
(American Economic Association, 2011)This paper uses data on all house transactions in Massachusetts over the last 20 years to show that houses sold after foreclosure, or close in time to the death or bankruptcy of a seller, are sold at lower prices than other ... -
Forced Tearing of Ductile and Brittle Thin Sheets
(American Physical Society, 2011)Tearing a thin sheet by forcing a rigid object through it leads to complex crack morphologies; a single oscillatory crack arises when a tool is driven laterally through a brittle sheet, while two diverging cracks and a ... -
The Forces from Coupled Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Planar Waveguides
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Forecasting and Backcasting: Predicting the Impact of Events on the Future
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)In many choices they make—-for example, choosing between a movie and a play or deciding whether to attend a sports game shortly before a birthday party—-consumers are guided by how they expect an event will make them feel. ... -
Forecasting in dynamic factor models subject to structural instability
(Oxford University Press, 2009)This chapter assesses forecasts constructed using dynamic factor models for their reliability in the face of structural breaks. Dynamic factor models have had notable empirical forecasting successes, but there has been ... -
Forecasting the Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)Background: While increases in obesity over the past 30 years have adversely affected population health, there have been concomitant improvements due to reductions in smoking. Better understanding of the joint effects of ... -
Foregrounds in Wide-field Redshifted 21 Cm Power Spectra
(American Astronomical Society, 2015)Detection of 21 cm emission of H I from the epoch of reionization, at redshifts z > 6, is limited primarily by foreground emission. We investigate the signatures of wide-field measurements and an all-sky foreground model ... -
Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors
(Blackwell Publishing, 2003)Conventional wisdom holds that conservative investors should avoid exposure to foreign currency risk. Even if they hold foreign equities, they should hedge the currency exposure of these positions and hold only domestic ... -
Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)The apparent inevitability of Tokugawa Japan’s opening to the West in 1854 has naturalized the story of how a series of overtures from the late eighteenth century onward culminated in Commodore Matthew Perry’s successful ... -
Foreign Influence and Welfare
(National Bureau of Economic Research Inc., 2009)How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal ... -
Foreign language originals and full quotations cited in Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.
(2010)Footnote numbers and bibliographical references are keyed to the book Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Spelling, punctuation and italics are original. In case of discrepancy, the ...