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Lessons from a restricted Turing test
(Association for Computing Machinery, 1994)We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the competition and the outcome of its first instantiation in an actual event, ... -
Lessons From Cyclosporine A: Structural Determinants of Conformation-Switching and Passive Membrane Penetration
(2015-10-15)The structural complexity of ‘beyond-rule-of-5’ compounds, such as peptide macrocycles, may facilitate access to additional biological target space beyond the enzymatic active site. Naturally occurring cyclic peptides, in ... -
Lessons from History, or the Perfidy of English Exceptionalism and the Significance of Historical France
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1988)Theories of development are derived from readings of history. Modern historical research challenges many of the basic beliefs about how economies develop. More specifically, recent research suggests that the lessons drawn ... -
Lessons from history? German economic experiences and the crisis of the Euro
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Lessons from Mayan Astronomy
The Mayan culture collected exquisite astronomical data for over a millennium. However, it failed to come up with the breakthrough ideas of modern astronomy because the data was analyzed within a mythological culture of ... -
Lessons from Schumpeterian Growth Theory
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"Let Ishmael Live Before You!" Finding a Place for Hagar's Son in the Priestly Tradition
(2013-10-08)Since Julius Wellhausen's synthesis of the Documentary Hypothesis—and no doubt owing in part to the Protestant Reformation—dominant portrayals of the Priestly material have described a self∼interested legist ... -
Let It Be Consumption!: Modern Jewish Writing and the Literary Capital of Tuberculosis
(2015-05-04)Let it Be Consumption!: Modern Jewish Writing and the Literary Capital of Tuberculosis investigates the relationship between literary production and the cultural experience of illness. Focusing attention on the history of ... -
Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)One of the main problems impeding the evolution of cooperation is partner choice. When information is asymmetric (the quality of a potential partner is known only to himself), it may seem that partner choice is not possible ... -
Let You Be Bound to Me (and Me to You)
(2015)According to Kaplan’s (1977) Fixity Thesis, the semantic value of indexicals, i.e. first and second person pronouns, is fixed by the context of the actual speech act and cannot be manipulated by any logical operator: I ... -
Lethal Aggression in Pan Is Better Explained by Adaptive Strategies Than Human Impacts
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)Observations of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) provide valuable comparative data for understanding the significance of conspecific killing. Two kinds of hypothesis have been proposed. Lethal ... -
Letter Grading Government Efficiency
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)We mailed letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries (10 per country), and measured whether they come back to the return address in the United States and how long it takes. About 60% of the letters were ... -
Letter identification processes in reading: Distractor interference reveals an automatically engaged, domain-specific mechanism
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2006)Recent neuroimaging studies have revealed that letters activate both the left and the right fusiform areas, but that only the left fusiform responds to letters more than to control stimuli (Cohen et al., 2003). Though these ... -
Letter to a Young Social Cognitionist
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Leverage, Derivatives, and Asset Markets
(2015-05-14)This dissertation consists of three independent essays on the relationship between leverage, derivatives (especially, option securities), and asset markets. Chapter 1, "Does the Tail Wag the Dog? How Options Affect Stock ... -
Leveraging diverse data modalities to study kinase inhibitor polypharmacology
(2021-11-16)Kinases constitute a popular class of drug targets and to date over 60 kinase inhibitors have been approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Despite the clinical efficacy of these inhibitors, ... -
Leveraging Ethnic-Racial Identity in Support of Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment
(2021-05-14)Ethnic-racial identity (i.e., ERI; the ways in which individuals develop and ascribe meaning to their ethnic-racial identification; Umaña-Taylor, Quintana et al., 2014) has emerged as a key competency that promotes adolescent ... -
Leveraging Functional Annotations and Multiethnic Data to Improve Polygenic Risk Prediction
(2018-09-25)Polygenic risk prediction is a widely-investigated topic because of its potential clinical application as well as its utility to have a better understanding of the genetic architecture of complex traits. Methods to perform ... -
Leveraging genetic association data to investigate the polygenic architecture of human traits and diseases
(2014-06-06)Many human traits and diseases have a polygenic architecture, where phenotype is partially determined by variation in many genes. These complex traits or diseases can be highly heritable and genome-wide association studies ... -
Leveraging genetic data in observational studies: methods in Mendelian randomization and applications in risk prediction modeling
(2021-03-05)Given the rapid advancements in DNA sequencing technologies over the past decade and a half, the amount of genetic data available has grown exponentially. Large-scale genome studies of complex human traits and diseases ...