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    • Can DNA ‘Witness’ Race?: Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology 

      Fullwiley, Duana (The Council on Responsible Genetics, 2008)

    • Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? 

      Rogoff, Kenneth S.; Chen, Yu-Chin; Rossi, Barbara (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
      We show that "commodity currency" exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample, and against a variety of alternative benchmarks. This result is of ...

    • Can I Trust You? Negative Affective Priming Influences Social Judgments in Schizophrenia 

      Hooker, Christine; Tully, Laura Magdalen; Verosky, Sara C.; Fisher, Melissa; Holland, Christine; Vinogradov, Sophia (American Psychological Association, 2011)
      Successful social interactions rely on the ability to make accurate judgments based on social cues as well as the ability to control the influence of internal or external affective information on those judgments. Prior ...

    • Can Mechanics Control Pattern Formation in Plants? 

      Dumais, Jacques (Elsevier, 2007)
      Development of the plant body entails many pattern forming events at scales ranging from the cellular level to the whole plant. Recent evidence suggests that mechanical forces play a role in establishing some of these ...

    • Can medial temporal lobe regions distinguish true from false? An event-related functional MRI study of veridical and illusory recognition memory 

      Cabeza, Roberto; Rao, Stephen M.; Wagner, Anthony D.; Mayer, Andrew R.; Schacter, Daniel L. (National Academy of Sciences, 2001)
      To investigate the types of memory traces recovered by the medial temporal lobe (MTL), neural activity during veridical and illusory recognition was measured with the use of functional MRI (fMRI). Twelve healthy young ...

    • Can Mixed-Metal Surfaces Provide an Additional Enhancement to SERS? 

      Olivares-Amaya, Roberto; Rappoport, Dmitrij; Munoz, Philip Alejandro; Peng, Paul; Mazur, Eric; Aspuru-Guzik, Alan (American Chemical Society, 2012)
      We explore the chemical contribution to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in mixed-metal substrates, both experimentally and by computer simulation. These substrates are composed of a chemically active, transition-metal ...

    • Can Negotiating a Uniform Carbon Price Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality? 

      Weitzman, Martin L. (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating n different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from ...

    • Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face-to-face Surveys in the Domain of Race and Social Inequality Attitudes 

      Simmons, Alicia D.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (SAGE Publications, 2015)
      The authors investigate the potential utility of Web-based surveys of non-full-probabilistically sampled respondents for social science research. Specifically, they compare demographic, attitude response, and multivariate ...

    • Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve? 

      Deming, David James; Goldin, Claudia D.; Katz, Lawrence F.; Yuchtman, Noam (American Economic Association, 2015)
      We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large ...

    • Can Paleoceanographic Tracers Constrain Meridional Circulation Rates? 

      Huybers, Peter John; Gebbie, Geoffrey A; Marchal, Olivier (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The ability of paleoceanographic tracers to constrain rates of transport is examined using an inverse method to combine idealized observations with a geostrophic model. Considered are the spatial distribution, accuracy, ...

    • Can role models boost entrepreneurial attitudes? 

      Fellnhofer, Katharina; Puumalainen, Kaisu (Inderscience Publishers, 2017)
      This multi-country study used role models to boost perceptions of entrepreneurial feasibility and desirability. The results of a structural equation model based on a sample comprising 426 individuals who were primarily ...

    • Can State Taxes Redistribute Income? 

      Feldstein, Martin; Wrobel, Marian Vaillant (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 1994)
      The evidence presented in this paper supports the basic theoretical presumption that state and local governments cannot redistribute income. Since individuals can avoid unfavorable taxes by migrating to jurisdictions that ...

    • Can Statistical Zero Knowledge be made Non-Interactive? or On the Relationship of SZK and NISZK 

      Goldreich, Oded; Sahai, Amit; Vadhan, Salil P. (Springer-Verlag, 1999)
      We extend the study of non-interactive statistical zero-knowledge proofs. Our main focus is to compare the class NISZK of problems possessing such non-interactive proofs to the class SZK of problems possessing interactive ...

    • Can Vacancies Lubricate Dislocation Motion in Aluminum? 

      Lu, Gang; Kaxiras, Efthimios (American Physical Society, 2002)
      The interaction of vacancy with dislocations in Al is studied using the semidiscrete variational Peierls-Nabarro model with ab initio determined gamma surface. For the first time, we confirm theoretically the so-called ...

    • Can We Progress from Solipsistic Science to Frugal Innovation? 

      Nocera, Daniel G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2012)
      Energy demand in the twenty-first century will be driven by the needs of three billion people in the emerging world and three billion new inhabitants to our planet. To provide them with a renewable and sustainable energy ...

    • Can We Solve the Mysteries of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study? 

      McNally, Richard (Elsevier, 2007)
      The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) researchers reported that 30.9% of all men who served in that conflict developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) even though only about 15% had been assigned ...

    • Can we test geoengineering? 

      MacMynowski, Douglas G.; Keith, David; Caldeira, Ken; Shin, Ho-Jeong (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2011)
      Solar radiation management (SRM), a form of geoengineering, might be used to offset some fraction of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change, but the risks and effectiveness of ...

    • Can Weak Lensing Surveys Confirm BICEP2? 

      Chisari, Nora Elisa; Dvorkin, Cora; Schmidt, Fabian (American Physical Society (APS), 2014)
      The detection of B-modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology ...

    • Can You Sequence Ecology? Metagenomics of Adaptive Diversification 

      Marx, Christopher J (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Few areas of science have benefited more from the expansion in sequencing capability than the study of microbial communities. Can sequence data, besides providing hypotheses of the functions the members possess, detect the ...

    • Cancer Biology: Infectious Tumour Cells 

      Dingli, David; Nowak, Martin A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2006)
      Cancer cells are generally viewed as a problem innate to their host, but evidence is mounting that they can evolve to become infectious agents and be transmitted between individuals. The current view of cancer development ...