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    • Designing Verbal Autopsy Studies 

      King, Gary; Lu, Ying; Shibuya, Kenji (BioMed Central, 2010)
      Background: Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high quality medical death registration. Verbal autopsies — survey interviews ...

    • Desired and feared — What do we do now and over the next 50 years? 

      Meng, Xiao-Li (Informa UK Limited, 2009)
      An intense debate about Harvard University’s General Education Curriculum demonstrates that statistics, as a discipline, is now both desired and feared. With this new status comes a set of enormous challenges. We no longer ...

    • Desired Machines: Cinema and the World in Its Own Image 

      Canales, Jimena (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
      In 1895 when the Lumière brothers unveiled their cinematographic camera, many scientists were elated. Scientists hoped that the machine would fulfill a desire that had driven research for nearly half a century: that of ...

    • Destabilizing the American Racial Order 

      Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla; Burch, Traci (MIT Press, 2011)
      Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; ...

    • Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis 

      Sharkey, Patrick; Sampson, Robert J. (Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2010)
      Two landmark policy interventions to improve the lives of youth through neighborhood mobility—the Gautreaux program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiments in five cities—have produced conflicting results ...

    • Destruction of Neel Order in the Cuprates by Electron-Doping 

      Kaul, Ribhu K.; Metlitski, Max A.; Sachdev, Subir; Xu, Cenke (American Physical Society, 2008)
      Motivated by the evidence\(^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}\) in Pr\(_{2-x}\)Ce\(_x\)CuO\(_{4-y}\) and Nd\(_{2-x}\)Ce\(_x\)CuO\(_{4-y}\) of a magnetic quantum critical point at which Neel order is destroyed, we study the evolution with ...

    • DESYNC: Self-Organizing Desynchronization and TDMA on Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Degesys, Julius; Rose, Ian; Patel, Ankit; Nagpal, Radhika (2006)
      Desynchronization is a novel primitive for sensor networks: it implies that nodes perfectly interleave periodic events to occur in a round-robin schedule. This primitive can be used to evenly distribute sampling burden in ...

    • Detectability of Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Analogues at High Redshifts 

      Patej, Anna; Loeb, Abraham (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      The dwarf galaxies of the Local Group are believed to be similar to the most abundant galaxies during the epoch of reionization (z>6). As a result of their proximity, there is a wealth of information that can be obtained ...

    • Detecting and understanding combinatorial mutation patterns responsible for HIV drug resistance 

      Zhang, J.; Hou, T.; Wang, W.; Liu, Jun (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
      We propose a systematic approach for a better understanding of how HIV viruses employ various combinations of mutations to resist drug treatments, which is critical to developing new drugs and optimizing the use of existing ...

    • Detecting biomarkers in habitable-zone earths transiting white dwarfs 

      Loeb, Abraham; Maoz, Dan (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The characterization of the atmospheres of habitable-zone Earth-mass exoplanets that transit across main-sequence stars, let alone the detection of biomarkers in their atmospheres, will be challenging even with future ...

    • Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness 

      Brady, Timothy F.; Konkle, Talia; Oliva, Aude; Alvarez, George Angelo (Landes Bioscience, 2009)
      A large body of literature has shown that observers often fail to notice significant changes in visual scenes, even when these changes happen right in front of their eyes. For instance, people often fail to notice if their ...

    • Detecting Changing Polarization Structures in Sagittarius A* With High Frequency Vlbi 

      Fish, Vincent L.; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Broderick, Avery E.; Loeb, Abraham; Rogers, Alan E. E. (American Astronomical Society, 2009)
      Sagittarius A* is the source of near infrared, X-ray, radio, and (sub) millimeter emission associated with the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. In the submillimeter regime, Sgr A* exhibits time-variable ...

    • Detecting dark matter annihilation with CMB polarization: Signatures and experimental prospects 

      Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Finkbeiner, Douglas (American Physical Society (APS), 2005)
      Dark matter (DM) annihilation during hydrogen recombination (z ~ 1000) will alter the recombination history of the Universe, and affect the observed CMB temperature and polarization fluctuations. Unlike other astrophysical ...

    • Detecting Ecological Patterns Along Environmental Gradients: Alpine Treeline Ecotones 

      Buckley, Hannah; Case, Bradley; Vallejos, Ronny; Camarero, J. Julio; Gutiérrez, Emilia; Liang, Eryuan; Wang, Yafeng; Ellison, Aaron M. (Informa UK Limited, 2016)

    • Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks 

      Coviello, Lorenzo; Sohn, Yunkyu; Kramer, Adam D. I.; Marlow, Cameron; Franceschetti, Massimo; Christakis, Nicholas; Fowler, James H. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)
      Happiness and other emotions spread between people in direct contact, but it is unclear whether massive online social networks also contribute to this spread. Here, we elaborate a novel method for measuring the contagion ...

    • Detecting Flaring Structures in Sagittarius A* With High-frequency Vlbi 

      Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Fish, Vincent L.; Broderick, Avery E.; Loeb, Abraham; Rogers, Alan E. E. (American Astronomical Society, 2009)
      The super-massive black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*, exhibits variability from radio to X-ray wavelengths on timescales that correspond to < 10 Schwarzschild radii. We survey the potential of millimeter wavelength ...

    • Detecting floating black holes as they traverse the gas disc of the Milky Way 

      Wang, Xiawei; Loeb, Abraham (Oxford University Press, 2014)
      A population of intermediate-mass black holes (BHs) is predicted to be freely floating in the Milky Way (MW) halo, due to gravitational wave recoil, ejection from triple BH systems, or tidal stripping in the dwarf galaxies ...

    • Detecting Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Community: An Ascertainment Strategy and Comparison with a Hospital Sample 

      Korfine, Lauren; Hooley, Jill (Guilford Press, 2009)
      Most empirical research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) draws its participant pool from clinical samples. Individuals with BPD recruited from clinical settings, however, may represent a unique subset of those with ...

    • Detecting Industrial Pollution in the Atmospheres of Earth-like Exoplanets 

      Lin, Henry W.; Abad, Gonzalo Gonzalez; Loeb, Abraham (American Astronomical Society, 2014)
      Detecting biosignatures, such as molecular oxygen in combination with a reducing gas, in the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets has been a major focus in the search for alien life. We point out that in addition to these ...

    • Detecting Majorana modes in one-dimensional wires by charge sensing 

      Ben-Shach, Gilad; Haim, Arbel; Appelbaum, Ian; Oreg, Yuval; Yacoby, Amir; Halperin, Bertrand I. (American Physical Society (APS), 2015)
      The electron number parity of the ground state of a semiconductor nanowire proximity coupled to a bulk superconductor can alternate between the quantized values ±1 if parameters such as the wire length L, the chemical ...