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    • A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning 

      Hunsberger, Luke; Grosz, Barbara (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000)
      When rational, utility-maximizing agents encounter an opportunity to collaborate on a group activity they must determine whether to commit to that activity. We refer to this problem as the initial-commitment decision problem ...

    • A combinatorial cell-laden gel microarray for inducing osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells 

      Dolatshahi-Pirouz, Alireza; Nikkhah, Mehdi; Gaharwar, Akhilesh K.; Hashmi, Basma; Guermani, Enrico; Aliabadi, Hamed; Camci-Unal, Gulden; Ferrante, Thomas; Foss, Morten; Ingber, Donald E.; Khademhosseini, Ali (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
      Development of three dimensional (3D) microenvironments that direct stem cell differentiation into functional cell types remains a major challenge in the field of regenerative medicine. Here, we describe a new platform to ...

    • Combinatorial computational method gives new picomolar ligands for a known enzyme 

      Grzybowski, Bartosz A.; Ishchenko, Alexey V.; Kim, Chu-Young; Topalov, George; Chapman, Robert; Christianson, David W.; Whitesides, George M.; Shakhnovich, Eugene I. (National Academy of Sciences, 2002)
      Combinatorial small molecule growth algorithm was used to design inhibitors for human carbonic anhydrase II. Two enantiomeric candidate molecules were predicted to bind with high potency (with R isomer binding stronger ...

    • Combinatorial DNA Rearrangement Facilitates the Origin of New Genes in Ciliates 

      Chen, Xiao; Jung, Seolkyoung; Beh, Leslie Y.; Eddy, Sean R.; Landweber, Laura F. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Programmed genome rearrangements in the unicellular eukaryote Oxytricha trifallax produce a transcriptionally active somatic nucleus from a copy of its germline nucleus during development. This process eliminates noncoding ...

    • Combined Analysis of νμ Disappearance and νμ→νe Appearance in MINOS Using Accelerator and Atmospheric Neutrinos 

      Adamson, P.; Anghel, I.; Aurisano, A.; Barr, G.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bock, G. J.; Bogert, D.; Cao, S. V.; Castromonte, C. M.; Cherdack, D.; Childress, S.; Coelho, J. A. B.; Corwin, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; de Jong, J. K.; Devan, A. V.; Devenish, N. E.; Diwan, M. V.; Escobar, C. O.; Evans, J. J.; Falk, E.; Feldman, Gary J.; Frohne, M. V.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Gouffon, P.; Graf, N.; Gran, R.; Grzelak, K.; Habig, A.; Hahn, S. R.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Irwin, G. M.; Isvan, Z.; James, C.; Jensen, D.; Kafka, T.; Kasahara, S. M. S.; Koizumi, G.; Kordosky, M.; Kreymer, A.; Lang, K.; Ling, J.; Litchfield, P. J.; Lucas, P.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Mayer, N.; McGivern, C.; Medeiros, M. M.; Mehdiyev, R.; Meier, J. R.; Messier, M. D.; Michael, D. G.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Moed Sher, S.; Moore, C. D.; Mualem, L.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Newman, H. B.; Nichol, R. J.; Nowak, J. A.; O’Connor, J.; Orchanian, M.; Pahlka, R. B.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Perch, A.; Phan-Budd, S.; Plunkett, R. K.; Poonthottathil, N.; Qiu, X.; Radovic, A.; Rebel, B.; Rosenfeld, C.; Rubin, H. A.; Sanchez, M. C.; Schneps, J.; Schreckenberger, A.; Schreiner, P.; Sharma, R.; Sousa, A.; Tagg, N.; Talaga, R. L.; Thomas, J.; Thomson, M. A.; Tian, X.; Timmons, A.; Tognini, S. C.; Toner, Ruth; Torretta, D.; Tzanakos, G.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Viren, B.; Weber, A.; Webb, R. C.; White, C.; Whitehead, L.; Whitehead, L. H.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Zwaska, R. (American Physical Society (APS), 2014)
      We report on a new analysis of neutrino oscillations in MINOS using the complete set of accelerator and atmospheric data. The analysis combines the νμ disappearance and νe appearance data using the three-flavor formalism. ...

    • A Combined Finite Element-Multiple Criteria Optimization Approach for Materials Selection of Gas Turbine Components 

      Shanian, A.; Milani, Abbas S.; Vermaak, Natasha; Bertoldi, Katia; Scarinci, Tom; Gerendas, Miklos (ASME International, 2012)
      The design of critical components for aerospace applications involves a number of conflicting functional requirements: reducing fuel consumption, cost, and weight, while enhancing performance, operability and robustness. ...

    • Combined Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy and Micro-Raman Spectroscopy of Proterozoic Acritarchs: A New Approach to Palaeobiology 

      Marshall, Craig P.; Javaux, Emmanuelle J.; Knoll, Andrew; Walter, Malcolm R. (Elsevier, 2005)
      Micro-scale analytical techniques permit correlation of chemistry with morphology of individual Proterozoic acritarchs (organic-walled microfossils), and thus provide new approaches for elucidating their biological affinities. ...

    • Combined obliquity and precession pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial cycles 

      Huybers, Peter John (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
      Milankovitch1 proposed that Earth resides in an interglacial state when its spin axis both tilts to a high obliquity and precesses to align the Northern Hemisphere summer with Earth’s nearest approach to the Sun. This ...

    • Combining Bottom-Up Self-Assembly with Top-Down Microfabrication to Create Hierarchical Inverse Opals with High Structural Order 

      Schaffner, Manuel; England, Grant Tyler; Kolle, Mathias; Aizenberg, Joanna; Vogel, Nicolas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Colloidal particles can assemble into ordered crystals, creating periodically structured materials at the nanoscale without relying on expensive equipment. The combination of small size and high order leads to strong ...

    • Combining Control-Flow Integrity and Static Analysis for Efficient and Validated Data Sandboxing 

      Zeng, Bin; Tan, Gang; Morrisett, John Gregory (Association for Computing Machinery, 2011)
      In many software attacks, inducing an illegal control-flow transfer in the target system is one common step. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) protects a software system by enforcing a pre-determined control-flow graph. In ...

    • Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis 

      Polly, P. David; Stayton, C. Tristan; Dumont, Elizabeth R.; Pierce, Stephanie; Rayfield, Emily J.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D. (Informa UK Limited, 2016-03-10)
      Geometric morphometrics (GM) and finite element analysis (FEA) are increasingly common techniques for the study of form and function. We show how principles of quantitative evolution in continuous phenotypic traits can ...

    • A combining mechanism for parallel computers 

      Valiant, Leslie G. (1992)
      In a multiprocessor computer communication among the components may be based either on a simple router, which delivers messages point-to-point like a mail service, or on a more elaborate combining network that, in return ...

    • Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics: finding the genes underlying ecologically important traits 

      Stinchcombe, J R; Hoekstra, Hopi E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2008)
      A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to identify genes underlying ecologically important traits and describe the fitness consequences of naturally occurring variation at these loci. To address this goal, several ...

    • Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance 

      Santillana, Mauricio; Nguyen, André T.; Dredze, Mark; Paul, Michael J.; Nsoesie, Elaine O.; Brownstein, John S. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      We present a machine learning-based methodology capable of providing real-time (“nowcast”) and forecast estimates of influenza activity in the US by leveraging data from multiple data sources including: Google searches, ...

    • Combining Step Gradients and Linear Gradients in Density 

      Kumar, Ashok Ashwin; Walz, Jenna A.; Gonidec, Mathieu; Mace, Charles R.; Whitesides, George McClelland (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2015)
      Combining aqueous multiphase systems (AMPS) and magnetic levitation (MagLev) provides a method to produce hybrid gradients in apparent density. AMPS—solutions of different polymers, salts, or surfactants that spontaneously ...

    • Come Back Aesthetics 

      Sommer, Doris (2015-09-11)

    • The comet-like composition of a protoplanetary disk as revealed by complex cyanides 

      Oberg, Karin; Guzmán, Viviana V.; Furuya, Kenji; Qi, Chunhua; Aikawa, Yuri; Andrews, Sean M.; Loomis, Ryan; Wilner, David J. (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
      Observations of comets and asteroids show that the Solar Nebula that spawned our planetary system was rich in water and organic molecules. Bombardment brought these organics to the young Earth's surface, seeding its early ...

    • Coming to Grips With the Past: Effect of Repeated Simulation on the Perceived Plausibility of Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts 

      De Brigard, Felipe; Szpunar, Karl; Schacter, Daniel L. (SAGE Publications, 2013)
      When people revisit previous experiences, they often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking: mental simulations of alternative ways in which personal past events could have occurred. The present study employed a novel ...

    • Comma restoration using constituency information 

      Shieber, Stuart; Tao, Xiaopeng (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003)
      Automatic restoration of punctuation from unpunctuated text has application in improving the fluency and applicability of speech recognition systems. We explore the possibility that syntactic information can be used to ...

    • Comment on "Sensitivity of Seafloor Bathymetry to Climate-Driven Fluctuations in Mid-Ocean Ridge Magma Supply" 

      Huybers, Peter; Langmuir, Charles H.; Katz, Richard; Ferguson, D.; Proistosescu, Cristian; Carbotte, S. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016)
      Recent studies have proposed that the bathymetric fabric of the seafloor formed at mid-ocean ridges records rapid (23,000 to 100,000 years) fluctuations in ridge magma supply caused by sealevel changes that modulate melt ...