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Implicit Theories Relate to Youth Psychopathology, But How? A Longitudinal Test of Two Predictive Models
(Springer Nature, 2015)Research shows relations between entity theories—i.e., beliefs that traits and abilities are unchangeable—and youth psychopathology. A common interpretation has been that entity theories lead to psychopathology, but another ... -
The Importance of Cantilever Dynamics in the Interpretation of Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy
(American Institute of Physics, 2012)A realistic interpretation of the measured contact potential difference (CPD) in Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) is crucial in order to extract meaningful information about the sample. Central to this interpretation ... -
The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical ... -
The Importance of History for Economic Development
(Annual Reviews, 2009)This article provides a survey of a growing body of empirical evidence that points toward the important long-term effects that historic events can have on economic development. The most recent studies, using microlevel ... -
The Importance of Network Topology in Local Contribution Games
(Springer Verlag, 2007)We consider a model of content contribution in peer-to-peer networks with linear quadratic payoffs and very general interaction patterns. We find that Nash equilibria of this game always exist; moreover, they are computable ... -
The Importance of Sub-Utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009)We present an experiment aimed at understanding how to optimally use acoustic and prosodic information to predict a speaker's level of certainty. With a corpus of utterances where we can isolate a single word or phrase ... -
The Importance of Water to Oceanic Mantle Melting Regimes
(Nature Publishing Group, 2003)The formation of basaltic crust at mid-ocean ridges and ocean islands provides a window into the compositional and thermal state of the Earth's upper mantle. But the interpretation of geochemical and crustal-thickness data ... -
The Importance of Wide-Field Foreground Removal for 21 Cm Cosmology: A Demonstration With Early MWA Epoch of Reionization Observations
(American Astronomical Society, 2016)In this paper we present observations, simulations, and analysis demonstrating the direct connection between the location of foreground emission on the sky and its location in cosmological power spectra from interferometric ... -
Importation and Transmission of Parasitic and Other Infectious Diseases Associated with International Adoptees and Refugees Immigrating into the United States of America
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)Each year, hundreds of millions of people travel across international borders or even oceans, and up to 230 million may remain for long periods. Among these, 3–5 million settle permanently in their new homes, with about 1 ... -
The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal
(University of Chicago Press, 1970)The purpose of this paper is to present an impossibility result that seems to have some disturbing consequences for principles of social choice. A common objection to the method of majority decision is that it is illiberal. ... -
The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal: Reply
(University of Chicago Press, 1971)In reply to the critiques of Professor Hillinger and Lapham on Amartya Sen's original article. -
Impossible Antecedents and Their Consequences: Some Thirteenth-Century Arabic Discussions
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)The principle that a necessarily false proposition implies any proposition, and that a necessarily true proposition is implied by any proposition, was apparently first propounded in twelfth century Latin logic, and came ... -
Impracticality of Egg Donor Recruitment in the Absence of Compensation
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Unfertilized oocytes of many mammalian species can reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state. Human oocytes might therefore be useful for producing patient-derived pluripotent stem cells. Because they would carry the ... -
Imprint of Accretion Disk-Induced Migration on Gravitational Waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
(American Physical Society, 2011)We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar-mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known ... -
Imprint of evolution on protein structures
(National Academy of Sciences, 2004)We attempt to understand the evolutionary origin of protein folds by simulating their divergent evolution with a three-dimensional lattice model. Starting from an initial seed lattice structure, evolution of model proteins ... -
Imprint of inflation on galaxy shape correlations
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Imprint of Inhomogeneous Hydrogen Reionization on the Temperature Distribution of the Intergalactic Medium
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Imprint of Inhomogeneous Reionization on the Power Spectrum of Galaxy Surveys at High Redshifts
(American Astronomical Society, 2006)We consider the effects of inhomogeneous reionization on the distribution of galaxies at high redshifts. Modulation of the formation process of the ionizing sources by large-scale density modes makes reionization inhomogeneous ... -
Imprint of Intergalactic Shocks on the Radio Sky
(American Astronomical Society, 2004)Strong intergalactic shocks are a natural consequence of structure formation in the universe. These shocks are expected to deposit large fractions of their thermal energy in relativistic electrons (xi(e)similar or equal ... -
Imprinted green beards: a little less than kin and more than kind
(The Royal Society, 2013)RNA is complementary to the DNA sequence from which it is transcribed. Therefore, interactions between DNA and RNA provide a simple mechanism of genetic self-detection within nuclei. Imprinted RNAs could enable alleles of ...