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A Linear Thermohaline Oscillator Driven by Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The interdecadal variability of a stochastically forced four-box model of the oceanic meridional thermohaline circulation (THC) is described and compared to the THC variability in the coupled ocean–atmosphere GCM of Delworth, ... -
Linear Versus Self-Sustained Interdecadal Thermohaline Variability in a Coupled Box Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1997)Recent studies of decadal/interdecadal climate variability suggested two main classes of mechanisms: self-sustained (supercritical) oscillations due to the internal nonlinearity of the ocean and linear (subcritical) ... -
Linear-Algebraic Bath Transformation for Simulating Complex Open Quantum Systems
(IOP Publishing, 2014)In studying open quantum systems, the environment is often approximated as a collection of non-interacting harmonic oscillators, a configuration also known as the star-bath model. It is also well known that the star-bath ... -
Linear-Scaling Evaluation of the Local Energy in Quantum Monte Carlo
(American Chemical Society, 2006)For atomic and molecular quantum Monte Carlo calculations, most of the computational effort is spent in the evaluation of the local energy. We describe a scheme for reducing the computational cost of the evaluation of the ... -
Linearization of Nested and Overlapping Precedence in Multiple Reduplication
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LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013)Rankings are a popular and universal approach to structuring otherwise unorganized collections of items by computing a rank for each item based on the value of one or more of its attributes. This allows us, for example, ... -
The LinGO redwoods treebank: Motivation and preliminary applications
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)The LinGO Redwoods initiative is a seed activity in the design and development of a new type of treebank. While several medium- to large-scale treebanks exist for English (and for other major languages), pre-existing ... -
The Linguistic History of Some Indian Domestic Plants
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The Linguistic Problem of Morphology: Structure Versus Homology and the Standardization of Morphological Data
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)The present article discusses the need for standardization in morphology in order to increase comparability and communicability of morphological data. We analyse why only morphological descriptions and not character matrices ... -
Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar
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The Link between Social Cognition and Self-referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
(MIT Press, 2005)The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in seemingly disparate cognitive functions, such as understanding the minds of other people and processing information about the self. This functional overlap would ... -
Linking biomechanics and ecology through predator-prey interactions: flight performance of dragonflies and their prey
(The Company of Biologists, 2012)Aerial predation is a highly complex, three-dimensional flight behavior that affects the individual fitness and population dynamics of both predator and prey. Most studies of predation adopt either an ecological approach ... -
Linking chemical reactivity, magic numbers, and local electronic properties of clusters
(American Physical Society, 1999)The interplay of local energetics, local electron occupancies, and local density of states is the key to the understanding of chemical reactivity. We define local measures, within a nonorthogonal tight-binding scheme, which ... -
Linking Flux Network Measurements to Continental Scale Simulations: Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Exchange Capacity under Non-Water-Stressed Conditions
(Blackwell Science, 2007)This paper examines long-term eddy covariance data from 18 European and 17 North American and Asian forest, wetland, tundra, grassland, and cropland sites under non-water-stressed conditions with an empirical rectangular ... -
Linking Genetic Diversity and Morphological Disparity: Biodiversity Assessment of a Highly Unexplored Family of Harvestmen (Arachnida : Opiliones : Neopilionidae) in New Zealand
(CSIRO Publishing, 2014)In Opiliones, one of the largest orders within the class Arachnida, with more than 6000 described species, sexual dimorphism can be widespread and exaggerated. This great variety of forms of gender-based dimorphism suggests ... -
Linking Hydrothermal Geochemistry to Organismal Physiology: Physiological Versatility in Riftia pachyptila from Sedimented and Basalt-hosted Vents
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011)Much of what is known regarding Riftia pachyptila physiology is based on the wealth of studies of tubeworms living at diffuse flows along the fast-spreading, basalt-hosted East Pacific Rise (EPR). These studies have ... -
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market ... -
Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3-4 year old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect ... -
Linking Meaning to Language: Linguistic Universals and Variation
(Cognitive Science Society, 2010)To use natural language, speakers must map the participants in events or states in the world onto grammatical roles. There remains considerable disagreement about the nature of these so-called linking rules (Levin & Rappaport ... -
Linking Optical and Infrared Observations with Gravitational Wave Sources Through Variability
(Institute of Physics, 2008)Optical and infrared observations have thus far detected more celestial cataclysms than have been seen in gravity waves (GW). This argues that we should search for gravity wave signatures that correspond to flux variability ...