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Disparities in Defining Disparities: Statistical Conceptual Frameworks

Duan, Naihua; Meng, Xiao-Li; Lin, Julia Y.; Chen, Chih-nan; Alegria, Margarita (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Motivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for ...

Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: social (dis)order revisited

Sampson, Robert J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Disparity in Selmer Ranks of Quadratic Twists of Elliptic Curves

Klagsbrun, Zev; Mazur, Barry Charles; Rubin, Karl (Princeton University, Department of Mathematics, 2013)

We study the parity of 2-Selmer ranks in the family of quadratic twists of an arbitrary elliptic curve E over an arbitrary number field K. We prove that the fraction of twists (of a given elliptic curve over a fixed number ...

Dispersal of fungal spores on a cooperatively generated wind

Roper, M.; Seminara, A.; Bandi, M. M.; Cobb, A.; Dillard, H. R.; Pringle, Anne E. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)

Because of their microscopic size, the forcibly ejected spores of ascomycete fungi are quickly brought to rest by drag. Nonetheless some apothecial species, including the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, disperse with ...

Dispersion coefficients for alkali-metal dimers

Marinescu, M.; Sadeghpour, H. R.; Dalgarno, A. (American Physical Society, 1994)

Display

Gaskell, Ivan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011)

The display of religious objects takes many forms. While sculpture on the exterior of religious buildings is visible for the long term, relics, cult images, and masquerades are shown only occasionally. One way of emphasizing ...

Display Pre-Filtering for Multi-View Video Compression

Zwicker, Matthias; Yea, Sehoon; Vetro, Anthony; Forlines, Clifton; Matusik, Wojciech; Pfister, Hanspeter (Association for Computing Machinery, 2007)

Multi-view 3D displays are preferable to other stereoscopic display technologies because they provide autostereoscopic viewing from any viewpoint without special glasses. However, they require a large number of pixels to ...

Display-aware image editing

Jeong, Won-Ki; Johnson, Micah K.; Yu, Insu; Kautz, Jan; Pfister, Hanspeter; Paris, Sylvain (IEEE, 2011)

We describe a set of image editing and viewing tools that explicitly take into account the resolution of the display on which the image is viewed. Our approach is twofold. First, we design editing tools that process only ...

Displaying the heterogeneity of the SN 2002CX-like subclass of type IA supernovae with observations of the pan-starrs-1 discovered sn 2009ku

Narayan, G.; Foley, R. J.; Berger, Edo; Botticella, M. T.; Chornock, R; Huber, M. E.; Rest, A.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S.; Valenti, S.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H. A.; Gates, G.; Grav, T.; Kaiser, N.; Kirshner, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Riess, A. G.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Sweeney, W. E.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C.; Wood-Vasey, W. M. (IOP Publishing, 2011)

SN 2009ku, discovered by Pan-STARRS-1, is a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), and a member of the distinct SN 2002cx-like class of SNe Ia. Its light curves are similar to the prototypical SN 2002cx, but are slightly broader and ...

Disrupting the Brain to Validate Hypotheses on the Neurobiology of Language

Papeo, Liuba; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Caramazza, Alfonso (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2013)

Comprehension of words is an important part of the language faculty, involving the joint activity of frontal and temporo-parietal brain regions. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) enables the controlled perturbation ...

Disruption of DNA methylation-dependent long gene repression in Rett syndrome

Gabel, Harrison W.; Kinde, Benyam Z.; Stroud, Hume; Gilbert, Caitlin S.; Harmin, David A.; Kastan, Nathaniel R.; Hemberg, Martin; Ebert, Daniel H.; Greenberg, Michael E. (2015)

Disruption of the MECP2 gene leads to Rett syndrome (RTT), a severe neurological disorder with features of autism1. MECP2 encodes a methyl-DNA-binding protein2 that has been proposed to function as a transcriptional ...

Disruption of the petal identity gene APETALA3-3 is highly correlated with loss of petals within the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae)

Zhang, R.; Guo, C.; Zhang, W.; Wang, P.; Li, L.; Duan, X.; Du, Q.; Zhao, L.; Shan, H.; Hodges, S. A.; Kramer, Elena M.; Ren, Y.; Kong, H. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013)

Absence of petals, or being apetalous, is usually one of the most important features that characterizes a group of flowering plants at high taxonomic ranks (i.e., family and above). The apetalous condition, however, appears ...

Dissecting Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Susceptibility

Siedlinski, Mateusz; Tingley, Dustin; Lipman, Peter J.; Cho, Michael H.; Litonjua, Augusto A.; Sparrow, David; Bakke, Per; Gulsvik, Amund; Lomas, David A.; Anderson, Wayne; Kong, Xiangyang; Rennard, Stephen I.; Beaty, Terri H.; Hokanson, John E.; Crapo, James D.; Lange, Christoph; Silverman, Edwin K. (Springer Nature, 2013-01-09)

Cigarette smoking is the major environmental risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Genome-wide association studies have provided compelling associations for three loci with COPD. In this study, we ...

Dissecting the Cell Entry Pathway of Dengue Virus by Single-Particle Tracking in Living Cells

van der Schaar, Hilde M.; van der Ende-Metselaar, Heidi; Wilschut, Jan; Smit, Jolanda M.; Rust, Michael Joseph; Chen, Chen; Zhuang, Xiaowei (Public Library of Science, 2008)

Dengue virus (DENV) is an enveloped RNA virus that causes the most common arthropod-borne infection worldwide. The mechanism by which DENV infects the host cell remains unclear. In this work, we used live-cell imaging and ...

Dissecting the Fission Yeast Regulatory Network Reveals Phase-Specific Control Elements of Its Cell Cycle

Bushel, Pierre R; Heard, Nicholas A; Gutman, Roee; Liu, Liwen; Peddada, Shyamal D; Pyne, Saumyadipta (BioMed Central, 2009)

Background: Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are among the original model organisms in the study of the cell-division cycle. Unlike budding yeast, no large-scale regulatory ...

Dissecting the Molecular Structure of the Orion B Cloud: Insight From Principal Component Analysis

Gratier, Pierre; Bron, Emeric; Gerin, Maryvonne; Pety, Jérôme; Guzman, Viviana; Orkisz, Jan; Bardeau, Sébastien; Goicoechea, Javier; Le Petit, Franck; Liszt, Harvey; Oberg, Karin; Peretto, Nicolas; Roueff, Evelyne; Sievers, Albrech; Tremblin, Pascal (EDP Sciences, 2017-03)

Context: The combination of wideband receivers and spectrometers currently available in (sub-)millimeter observatories deliver wide-field hyperspectral imaging of the interstellar medium. Tens of spectral lines can be ...