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Advection‐dominated Accretion Model of the Black Hole V404 Cygni in Quiescence
(American Astronomical Society, 1997)We have analyzed archival ASCA data on the soft X-ray transient source V404 Cyg in quiescence. We find that in the energy range 0.7-8.5 keV the spectrum is a hard power law with a photon spectral index between 1.8 and 2.6 ... -
Advection‐dominated Flows around Black Holes and the X‐Ray Delay in the Outburst of GRO J1655−40
(American Astronomical Society, 1997) -
The Adventures of Jon Dos Passos
(Columbia University Press, 1961) -
Adverse selection and growth under IMF programs
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013)The dominant approach to studying the effects of IMF programs has emphasized moral hazard, but we find that adverse selection has more impressive effects. We propose a novel strategic selection model to study the growth ... -
Aeneas in Baghdad
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The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction
(Ute Hempen Verlag, 2011) -
Aerobic Capacity, Activity Levels and Daily Energy Expenditure in Male and Female Adolescents of the Kenyan Nandi Sub-Group
(Public Library of Science, 2013)The relative importance of genetic and socio-cultural influences contributing to the success of east Africans in endurance athletics remains unknown in part because the pre-training phenotype of this population remains ... -
Aerobic Fitness, Micronutrient Status, and Academic Achievement in Indian School-Aged Children
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Aerobic fitness has been shown to have several beneficial effects on child health. However, research on its relationship with academic performance has been limited, particularly in developing countries and among undernourished ... -
Affect of the unconscious: Visually suppressed angry faces modulate our decisions
(Springer Nature, 2012)Emotional and affective processing imposes itself over cognitive processes and modulates our perception of the surrounding environment. In two experiments, we addressed the issue of whether nonconscious processing of affect ... -
Affective and Neural Reactivity to Criticism in Individuals High and Low on Perceived Criticism
(Public Library of Science, 2012)People who have remitted from depression are at increased risk for relapse if they rate their relatives as being critical of them on a simple self-report measure of Perceived Criticism (PC). To explore neural mechanisms ... -
Affective Forecasting
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Affective Neutral Reactivity to Criticism in Individuals High and Low on Perceived Criticism
(Public Library of Science, 2012)People who have remitted from depression are at increased risk for relapse if they rate their relatives as being critical of them on a simple self-report measure of Perceived Criticism (PC). To explore neural mechanisms ... -
An affinity-structure database of helix-turn-helix: DNA complexes with a universal coordinate system
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Molecular interactions between proteins and DNA molecules underlie many cellular processes, including transcriptional regulation, chromosome replication, and nucleosome positioning. Computational analyses of ... -
Affordances and the Contents of Perception
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Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Asia: Changing Dynamics in Contemporary West Africa's Political Economy
(African Finance and Economic Association, 2011)The last two to three decades have witnessed significant transformation in West Africa’s relations to the Arabian Gulf and Asia. While ties to countries such as Saudi Arabia are historic, economic liberalization since the ... -
African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax
(2014)Plasmodium vivax is the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America but is absent from most of central Africa due to the near fixation of a mutation that inhibits the expression of its receptor, the Duffy ... -
African rice cultivation linked to rising methane
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024-01-04)Africa has been identified as a major driver of the current rise in atmospheric methane, and this has been attributed to emissions from wetlands and livestock. Here we show that rapidly increasing rice cultivation is another ... -
After the Crisis: Domestic Politics and the Challenge of Rebalancing
(Center for Economic Policy Research, 2009)