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The Languages of Natural Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth Century: Bodin's Universae Naturae Theatrum and Its French Translation
(Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994)A few months before his death in 1596, the celebrated political philosopher Jean Bodin published a little-known encyclopedia of natural philosophy, the Universae naturae theatrum. Composed as a dialogue between an ignorant ... -
Languages of the Heart: The Biomedical and the Metaphorical in American Fiction
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)The role of heart disease in American fiction has received less attention from scholars of literature, history, and medicine than have portrayals of tuberculosis, cancer, or HIV/AIDS, despite the fact that heart disease ... -
A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Molecular Clouds From PS1 Photometry
(IOP Publishing, 2014)Distance measurements to molecular clouds are important but are often made separately for each cloud of interest, employing very different data and techniques. We present a large, homogeneous catalog of distances to molecular ... -
Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)We examine the evidence on episodes of large stances in fiscal policy, both in cases of fiscal stimuli and in that of fiscal adjustments in OECD countries from 1970 to 2007. Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more ... -
Large Enhancement of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena by Plasmonic Nanocavity Gratings
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010)Enhancing nonlinear processes at the nanoscale is a crucial step toward the development of nanophotonics and new spectroscopy techniques. Here we demonstrate a novel plasmonic structure, called plasmonic nanocavity grating, ... -
Large N Duality, Lagrangian Cycles, and Algebraic Knots
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2013)We consider knot invariants in the context of large N transitions of topological strings. In particular we consider aspects of Lagrangian cycles associated to knots in the conifold geometry. We show how these can be ... -
A Large Organic Aerosol Source in the Free Troposphere Missing from Current Models
(American Geophysical Union, 2005)Aircraft measurements of organic carbon (OC) aerosol by two independent methods over the NW Pacific during the ACE-Asia campaign reveal unexpectedly high concentrations in the free troposphere (FT). Concentrations average ... -
Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004)High-resolution carbon isotope measurements of multiple stratigraphic sections in south China demonstrate that the pronounced carbon isotopic excursion at the Permian-Triassic boundary was not an isolated event but the ... -
Large Pt Anomaly in the Greenland Ice Core Points to a Cataclysm at the Onset of Younger Dryas
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013)One explanation of the abrupt cooling episode known as the Younger Dryas (YD) is a cosmic impact or airburst at the YD boundary (YDB) that triggered cooling and resulted in other calamities, including the disappearance of ... -
Large Shareholders and Corporate Control
(University of Chicago Press, 1986)In a corporation with many small owners, it may not pay any one of them to monitor the performance of the management. We explore a model in which the presence of a large minority shareholder provides a partial solution to ... -
Large Spin Relaxation Rates in Trapped Submerged-Shell Atoms
(American Physical Society, 2010)Spin relaxation due to atom–atom collisions is measured for magnetically trapped erbium and thulium atoms at a temperature near 500 mK. The rate constants for Er–Er and Tm–Tm collisions are 3.0×10\(^{-10}\) and 1.1×10\(^{-10}\) ... -
Large Spinose Microfossils in Ediacaran Rocks as Resting Stages of Early Animals
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)Large (> 100 mu m), profusely ornamented microfossils comprise a distinctive paleontological component of sedimentary rocks deposited during the Ediacaran Period (635-542 million years ago). Smaller spinose fossils in ... -
Large spontaneous emission enhancement in plasmonic nanocavities
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)Cavity–emitter coupling can enable a host of potential appli- cations in quantum optics, from low-threshold lasers to brighter single-photon sources for quantum cryptography1. Although some of the first demonstrations of ... -
Large, Uni-directional Actuation in Dielectric Elastomers Achieved By Fiber Stiffening
(American Institute of Physics, 2012)Cylindrical actuators are made with dielectric elastomer sheets stiffened with fibers in the hoop direction. When a voltage is applied through the thickness of the sheets, large actuation strains are achievable in the axial ... -
Large-Effect Beneficial Synonymous Mutations Mediate Rapid and Parallel Adaptation in a Bacterium
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Contrary to previous understanding, recent evidence indicates that synonymous codon changes may sometimes face strong selection. However, it remains difficult to generalize the nature, strength, and mechanism(s) of such ... -
Large-N and vacuum alignment in top-color models
(American Physical Society (APS), 1998)Topcolor and topcolor-assisted technicolor provide examples of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking which include top-condensation, thereby naturally incorporating a heavy top quark. In this note we discuss the roles ... -
Large-Scale Assessment of the Effect of Popularity on the Reliability of Research
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Based on theoretical reasoning it has been suggested that the reliability of findings published in the scientific literature decreases with the popularity of a research field. Here we provide empirical support for this ... -
Large-Scale Distribution of Total Mass versus Luminous Matter from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: First Search in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 10
(American Physical Society (APS), 2016)Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) in the early Universe are predicted to leave an as yet undetected signature on the relative clustering of total mass versus luminous matter. A detection of this effect would provide an ... -
The Large-Scale Joints of the World
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Large-scale mapping of sequence-function relations in small regulatory RNAs reveals plasticity and modularity
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Two decades into the genomics era the question of mapping sequence to function has evolved from identifying functional elements to characterizing their quantitative properties including, in particular, their specificity ...