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Google Flu Trends Still Appears Sick: An Evaluation of the 2013-2014 Flu Season
(Social Science Electronic Publishing, 2014)In response to its poor performance during the 2012-2013 flu season, Google Flu Trends (GFT) engineers announced a redesign of the GFT algorithm. Two changes were made: (1) dampening anomalous media spikes and (2) using ... -
Governance and Marginality: Politics of Belonging, Citizenship, and Claim-Making in the Muslim Neighborhoods of Mumbai
(2013-03-14)This dissertation analyzes how governance and community-based politics of claims in marginalized Muslim neighborhoods of Mumbai are continually reconfigured in relation to one another. By tracing this relationship, I ... -
The governance and performance of universities: evidence from Europe and the US
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)We test the hypothesis that universities are more productive when they are both more autonomous and face more competition. Using survey data, we construct indices of university autonomy and competition for both Europe and ... -
Governing Islam: Law and Religion in Colonial India
(2013-08-09)This dissertation charts how the legal regulation of Islam in colonial India fostered a conception of religion that focused on dividing it from secular economy and politics. Colonial law segregated religious law from other ... -
Governing Life and the Economy: Exploring the Role of Trust in the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2021-07-14)When comparing both GDP loss and mortality across countries, it appears that countries that have managed to save more lives during the Covid-19 pandemic have also managed to save their economies better. What accounts for ... -
Governing the Economy: Markets, Experts, and Citizens
(2013-10-08)The 2008 financial crisis provoked a debate over how we as a democratic society ought to govern the modern market economy. Our prevailing response to this problem of economic governance has been to appeal either to free ... -
Government Debt
(Elsevier, 1999)This paper surveys the literature on the macroeconomic effects of government debt. It begins by discussing the data on debt and deficits, including the historical time series, measurement issues, and projections of future ... -
Government Ownership of Banks
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)In this paper, we investigate a neglected aspect of financial systems of many countries around the world: government ownership of banks. We assemble data which establish four findings. First, government ownership of banks ... -
Government Policy Toward Illegal Drugs: An Economist's Perspective
(Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2011)This paper explains how economists think about government policy toward illegal drugs. The economics perspective suggests that rational discussion of drug policy must address two distinct questions. The first is whether ... -
Government Purchases and Real Interest Rates
(University of Chicago Press, 1987)This paper examines the dynamic impact of government purchases in a simple general equilibrium model with both durable and non-durable consumer goods as well as productive capital. The model generates perhaps surprising ... -
Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth
(University of Chicago Press, 1990)One strand of endogenous-growth models assumes constant returns to a broad concept of capital. I extend these models to include tax- financed government services that affect production or utility. Growth and saving rates ... -
The GPR 55 agonist, L-α-lysophosphatidylinositol, mediates ovarian carcinoma cell-induced angiogenesis
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)Background and Purpose Highly vascularized ovarian carcinoma secretes the putative endocannabinoid and GPR55 agonist, L-α-lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI), into the circulation. We aimed to assess the involvement of this ... -
GPU Acceleration for Real-time, Whole-body, Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
(2022-05-12)Whole-body, nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) refers to the control strategy where a robot’s state and input trajectories are continually optimized over a finite time horizon while taking into account the robot’s ... -
GPUmotif: An Ultra-Fast and Energy-Efficient Motif Analysis Program Using Graphics Processing Units
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Computational detection of TF binding patterns has become an indispensable tool in functional genomics research. With the rapid advance of new sequencing technologies, large amounts of protein-DNA interaction data have ... -
GRACE Gravity Data Constrain Ancient Ice Geometries and Continental Dynamics over Laurentia
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007)The free-air gravity trend over Canada, derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( GRACE) satellite mission, robustly isolates the gravity signal associated with glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) from the ... -
Grade Inflation as a Tragedy of the Commons
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GRADE: Gibbs Reaction and Diffusion Equations
(Narosa, 1998)Recently there have been increasing interests in using nonlinear PDEs for applications in computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we propose a general statistical framework for designing a new class of PDEs. ... -
Graded gene expression changes determine phenotype severity in mouse models of CRX-associated retinopathies
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Mutations in the cone-rod-homeobox protein CRX are typically associated with dominant blinding retinopathies with variable age of onset and severity. Five well-characterized mouse models carrying different Crx ... -
Gradient Descent for Optimization Problems With Sparse Solutions
(2016-05-18)Sparse modeling is central to many machine learning and signal processing algorithms, because finding a parsimonious model often implicitly removes noise and reveals structure in data. They appear in applications such as ... -
Grading Qualitatively with Tablet PCs in CS 50
(2009)CS 50 is Harvard College’s introduction to Computer Science for majors and non-majors alike. Each week, our 330 students submit programming assignments comprising hundreds of lines of code that must then be graded. Although ...