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Cis-regulatory sequence variation and association with Mycoplasma load in natural populations of the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)Characterization of the genetic basis of fitness traits in natural populations is important for understanding how organisms adapt to the changing environment and to novel events, such as epizootics. However, candidate ... -
Cited2 Regulates Neocortical Layer II/III Generation and Somatosensory Callosal Projection Neuron Development and Connectivity
(Society for Neuroscience, 2016)The neocortex contains hundreds to thousands of distinct subtypes of precisely connected neurons, allowing it to perform remarkably complex tasks of high-level cognition. Callosal projection neurons (CPN) connect the ... -
Citizen Contention and Campus Calm: The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society
(Events Pub. Co, 2014)Contrary to conventional predictions, the growth of protest and civil society in contemporary China seems more conducive to the resilience of authoritarianism than to imminent democratization. -
Citizen Science as a New Tool in Dog Cognition Research
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Family dogs and dog owners offer a potentially powerful way to conduct citizen science to answer questions about animal behavior that are difficult to answer with more conventional approaches. Here we evaluate the quality ... -
Citizenship; Freedom; Status
(University of Chicago Press, 1991) -
CitySense: A Vision for an Urban-Scale Wireless Networking Testbed
(2007)In this paper, we present the vision for an open, urban-scale wireless networking testbed, called CitySense, with the goal of supporting the development and evaluation of novel wireless systems that span an entire city. ... -
Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420)
(2011-12-20)Leonardo Bruni's aim in the De militia (ca. 1420) was to co-opt the most glamorous of medieval ideals, the ideal of chivalry, and to reinterpret it in terms of Greco-Roman ideals of military service. In so doing he aimed ... -
Civil Rights in International Law: Compliance with Aspects of the "International Bill of Rights"
(Indiana University Press, 2009)International law has developed what many might consider a constitutional understanding of individual civil rights that individuals can claim vis-a-vis their own governments. This paper discusses the development of aspects ... -
Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. Analysts argue that they did so in response to the feminization of the workforce. This study charts ... -
Civil Society and the State: The Interplay between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation
(2009)In a cross-section of countries, state regulation of labor markets is strongly negatively correlated with the quality of labor relations. In this paper, we argue that these facts reflect different ways to regulate labor ... -
Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)This article develops a conceptual framework on civil society that shifts the dominant focus on individuals to collective action events— civic and protest alike—that bring people together in public to realize a common ... -
The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying
(Southern Historical Association/JSTOR, 2001) -
Civil Wars, from Beginning … to End?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015) -
Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting System
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008)Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-resistant, universally and voter verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and implementation of Civitas. Assurance is ... -
Claiming Human Dignity
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the ... -
The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right
(Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 2018)This paper argues for a conception of the natural rights of non-human animals grounded in Kant’s explanation of the foundation of human rights. The rights in question are rights that are in the first instance held against ... -
Clarification of Peziza fimeti with notes on P. varia collections on dung
(Mycotaxon, Ltd., 2013)The smooth-spored species inhabiting dung, mainly of the Peziza fimeti group, were studied morphologically and through ITS sequence comparison. The results established that Peziza varia is also able to fruit on dung, ... -
Clarify: Software for Interpretng and Presenting Statistical Results
(American Statistical Association, 2003) -
Class and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Center Party and the Social Democrats in Württemberg
(Cambridge University Press, 1976)Between 1890 and 1914 the Center party was, in Friedrich Naumann's words, “the measure of all things” in German politics. Throughout this period it possessed a quarter of the seats in the Reichstag, and held the balance ... -
Class III Presents in Tocharian
(Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1975)