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Contagious bank failures in a free banking system
(Elsevier BV, 2000)This paper develops a model of an unregulated banking system based around a private clearing house arrangement. Whilst such a system may dominate one with a public safety net in reducing moral hazard in lending and therefore ... -
Containment Algorithms for Nonconvex Polygons with Applications to Layout
(1995)Layout and packing are NP-hard geometric optimization problems of practical importance for which finding a globally optimal solution is intractable if P6=NP. Such problems appear in industries such as aerospace, ship ... -
Contaminated Dietary Supplements
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Contaminated Turmeric Is a Potential Source of Lead Exposure for Children in Rural Bangladesh
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Background. During the conduct of a cohort study intended to study the associations between mixed metal exposures and child health outcomes, we found that 78% of 309 children aged 20–40 months evaluated in the Munshiganj ... -
The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty
(Cornell University, The Johnson School, 2014-10-28)To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended ... -
Contemplating Eternity: On Time, Death, and Timelessness in Ancient India
(2019-01-22)This dissertation examines ancient South Asian concepts and mythology of time. It journeys from the Ṛgveda to the later texts of the Vedic tradition (Upaniṣads), then to the epics, and on to philosophical tractates of ... -
Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is reliance on death certification good enough? A comparison with blinded review by an independent cause of death evaluation committee
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Background: Accurate cause of death assignment is crucial for prostate cancer epidemiology and trials reporting prostate cancer-specific mortality outcomes. Methods: We compared death certificate information with independent ... -
The Contemporary and Historical Budget of Atmospheric \(CO_2\)
(NRC Research Press, 2012)Observations of \(CO_2\) and \(O_2\) are interpreted to develop an understanding of the changes in the abundance of atmospheric \(CO_2\) that have arisen over the period 1995–2007. Fossil fuels accounted for an addition ... -
Contemporary consensus proposal on criteria and classification of eosinophilic disorders and related syndromes
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Eosinophilia is an important indicator of various neoplastic and nonneoplastic conditions. Depending on the underlying disease and mechanisms, eosinophil infiltration can lead to organ dysfunction, clinical symptoms, or ... -
Contemporary evolution of resistance at the major insecticide target site gene Ace-1 by mutation and copy number variation in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2015)Functionally constrained genes are ideal insecticide targets because disruption is often fatal, and resistance mutations are typically costly. Synaptic acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is an essential neurotransmission enzyme ... -
A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous “Ocean”
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)An active microbial assemblage cycles sulfur in a sulfate-rich, ancient marine brine beneath Taylor Glacier, an outlet glacier of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, with Fe(III) serving as the terminal electron acceptor. ... -
Contemporary predictors of death and sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot enrolled in the INDICATOR cohort
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)Objective: Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) experience increased rates of mortality and morbidity in adulthood. This study was designed to identify risk factors for death and ventricular tachycardia (VT) ... -
A Contemporary, Population-Based Analysis of the Incidence, Cost, Outcomes, and Preoperative Risk Prediction of Postoperative Delirium Following Major Urologic Cancer Surgeries
(2017-05-12)Introduction Postoperative delirium is associated with poor outcomes and increased healthcare costs across numerous surgical and medical disciplines. Although characterized in other surgical fields, the population-based ... -
Content & Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Businesses in the Music and Film Industries
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, 2005)The online environment and new digital technologies threaten the viability of the music and film industries' traditional business models. The industries have responded by seeking government intervention, among other means, ... -
Content and Conduct: How English Wikipedia Moderates Harmful Speech
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet& Society, 2019)In this study, we aim to assess the degree to which English-language Wikipedia is successful in addressing harmful speech with a particular focus on the removal of deleterious content. We have conducted qualitative interviews ... -
Content of Perceptual Experience
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Content-aware kinetic scrolling for supporting web page navigation
(Association of Computing Machinery, 2014)Long documents are abundant on the web today, and are accessed in increasing numbers from touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Navigating long documents with small screens can be challenging both physically ... -
Content-Aware Manipulations for Image and Video Collections
(2012-08-17)Digital photography and videography have become ubiquitous. With ever-cheaper and more capable cameras, found in dedicated devices and, increasingly, in multipurpose smartphones and tablets, it is now easier than ever ... -
The Contest for Human Rights: Soviet Soft Power Through Détente, Reform, and Collapse, 1973-1991
(2016-09-19)This dissertation examines Soviet approaches to human rights as a soft power issue across three periods of challenge and innovation: the mobilization of international human rights criticism in the 1970s; the launch by ...