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Effects of China's Rural Insurance Scheme on Objective Measures of Health
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background In 2003, the Chinese government established the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) with the goal of improving health for the country’s 800 million mostly uninsured rural residents. Using new data on objective ... -
Effects of Contact-Line Pinning on the Adsorption of Nonspherical Colloids at Liquid Interfaces
The effects of contact-line pinning are well known in macroscopic systems but are only just beginning to be explored at the microscale in colloidal suspensions. We use digital holography to capture the fast three-dimensional ... -
Effects of contrastive accents on children’s discourse comprehension
(Springer Nature, 2016)What role do contrastive accents play in children’s discourse comprehension? By 6 years of age, children use contrastive accents during online comprehension to predict upcoming referents (Ito et al., 2014; Sekerina & ... -
Effects of Cortisol and Cocaine on Plasma Prolactin and Growth Hormone Levels in Cocaine-Dependent Volunteers
(Elsevier, 2005)In rodents, corticosterone (cortisol in humans) facilitates cocaine self-administration purportedly via enhancement of dopaminergic activity in the brain. This study sought to assess central dopaminergic effects of cortisol ... -
Effects of Disks on Gravitational Lensing by Spiral Galaxies
(American Astronomical Society, 1998)Gravitational lensing of a quasar by a spiral galaxy should often be accompanied by damped Ly alpha absorption and dust extinction due to the intervening gaseous disk. In nearly edge-on configurations, the surface mass ... -
Effects of Emotion on Memory Specificity in Young and Older Adults
(Gerontological Society of America, 2002)To examine how emotional content affects the amount of visual detail remembered, we had young and older adults study neutral, negative, and positive objects. At retrieval, they distinguished same (identical) from similar ... -
Effects of emotionally valenced working memory taxation on negative memories
(Elsevier BV, 2014)Background and objectives: Memories enter a labile state during recollection. Thus, memory changes that occur during recollection can affect future instances of its activation. Having subjects perform a secondary task that ... -
The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
(MIT Press, 2009)How does firm entry affect innovation incentives in incumbent firms? Microdata suggest that there is heterogeneity across industries. Specifically, incumbent productivity growth and patenting is positively correlated with ... -
Effects of explicit atmospheric convection at high CO2
(National Academy of Sciences, 2014)The effect of clouds on climate remains the largest uncertainty in climate change predictions, due to the inability of global climate models (GCMs) to resolve essential small-scale cloud and convection processes. We compare ... -
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
(American Economic Association, 2016)The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We analyze MTO's impacts on children's long-term ... -
Effects of Flight Speed upon Muscle Activity in Hummingbirds
(The Company of Biologists, 2010)Hummingbirds have the smallest body size and highest wingbeat frequencies of all flying vertebrates, so they represent one endpoint for evaluating the effects of body size on sustained muscle function and flight performance. ... -
The Effects of Food Processing on Masticatory Performance and Its Implications for Hominid Cranio-dental Evolution
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007)A steady decrease in relative dental and facial size occurred during the evolution of the genus Homo. It is often hypothesized that this reduction was made possible by, or was an adaptation for chewing food that was cooked ... -
Effects of Forming Gas Anneal on Ultrathin InGaAs Nanowire Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors
(American Institute of Physics, 2013)InGaAs gate-all-around metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with 6 nm nanowire thickness have been experimentally demonstrated at sub-80 nm channel length. The effects of forming gas anneal (FGA) ... -
Effects of future climate change on regional air pollution episodes in the United States
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)We examine the impact of future climate change on regional air pollution meteorology in the United States by conducting a transient climate change (1950–2052) simulation in a general circulation model (GCM) of the Goddard ... -
Effects of geometric and material nonlinearities on tunable band gaps and low-frequency directionality of phononic crystals
(American Physical Society (APS), 2013)We investigate the effects of geometric and material nonlinearities introduced by deformation on the linear dynamic response of two-dimensional phononic crystals. Our analysis not only shows that deformation can be ... -
Effects of gravitational-wave recoil on the dynamics and growth of supermassive black holes
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Simulations of binary black hole mergers indicate that asymmetrical gravitational wave (GW) emission can cause black holes to recoil at speeds up to thousands of km s(-1). These GW recoil events can dramatically affect the ... -
Effects of Human Cerebellar Thalamus Disruption on Adaptive Control of Reaching
(Oxford University Press, 2005)Lesion or degeneration of the cerebellum can profoundly impair adaptive control of reaching in humans. Computational models have proposed that internal models that help control movements form in the cerebellum and influence ... -
The Effects of Interest Rates on Mortgage Prepayments
(Blackwell Publishing, 1986)<p>Three main types of mortgages are fixed interest contracts which automatically fall due on the sale of a dwelling, fixed rate loans which are assumable by a buyer, and floating rate instruments. When interest rates rise, ... -
Effects of Intermediate Mass Black Holes on Nuclear Star Clusters
(American Astronomical Society, 2014)Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are dense stellar clusters observed in galactic nuclei, typically hosting a centralmassive black hole. Here we study the possible formation and evolution of NSCs through the inspiral of multiple ... -
The Effects of International Monetary Fund Loans on Health Outcomes
(Public Library of Science, 2008)A "Perspective article" that discusses an article by David Stuckler and colleagues showing that, in Eastern European and former Soviet countries, participation in International Monetary Fund economic programs have been ...