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Misalignment of Outflow Axes in the Proto-Multiple Systems in Perseus
(American Astronomical Society, 2016)We investigate the alignment between outflow axes in nine of the youngest binary/multiple systems in the Perseus Molecular Cloud. These systems have typical member spacing larger than 1000 au. For outflow identification, ... -
The misapplication of Mr. Michael Jensen: how agency theory brought down the economy and why it might again
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)Agency theorists diagnosed the economic malaise of the 1970s as the result of executive obsession with corporate stability over profitability. Management swallowed many of the pills agency theorists prescribed to increase ... -
MiSFIT: A Freely Available Tool for Building Safe Extensible Systems
(1996)The boundary between application and system is becoming increasingly permeable. Extensible database systems, operating systems, and applications, such as web browsers, are demonstrating the value of allowing end-users to ... -
Misguided Self-Presentation: The Ironic Consequences of Humblebragging, Backhanded Compliments and Namedropping
(2017-05-15)The ability to present oneself effectively to others is one of the most essential skills in social and organizational life. In this research, I identify unexamined yet ubiquitous self-presentation strategies—humblebragging, ... -
Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Mainstream Media to Social Media
(2023-06-01)Misinformation, which refers to false or misleading information, has drawn increasing attention in recent years and has been identified as a threat to public health. Misinformation’s impact can be felt at multiple levels. ... -
Misperceptions and Beliefs in Effort Choices
(2017-05-01)How much and how well students and employees work depends certainly on how unpleasant and useful the work is; but it also depends on how unpleasant and useful they predict it to be. In this dissertation I study one systematic ... -
Missense Mutations Allow a Sequence-Blind Mutant of SpoIIIE to Successfully Translocate Chromosomes during Sporulation
(Public Library of Science, 2016)SpoIIIE directionally pumps DNA across membranes during Bacillus subtilis sporulation and vegetative growth. The sequence-reading domain (γ domain) is required for directional DNA transport, and its deletion severely impairs ... -
Missing Complement Clause Subjects in Malagasy
(University of Hawaii Press, 2007)This paper presents and analyzes a biclausal construction in the Austronesian language Malagasy in which the subject of a complement clause is not expressed but is interpreted as coreferential with a higher noun phrase: ... -
Missing Data Problems
(2016-09-09)Missing data problems are often best tackled by taking into consideration specificities of the data structure and data generating process. In this doctoral dissertation, I present a thorough study of two specific problems. ... -
Missing Gains from Trade?
(American Economic Association, 2014)The theoretical result that there are welfare gains from trade is a central tenet of international economics. In a class of trade models that satisfy a gravity equation, the welfare gains from tradecan be computed ... -
Missing Lead and High 3He/4He in Ancient Sulfides Associated with Continental Crust Formation
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)Major terrestrial reservoirs have Pb isotopes more radiogenic than the bulk silicate Earth. This requires a missing unradiogenic Pb reservoir, which has been argued to reside in the lower continental crust or dissolved in ... -
Mission Control? The Development of Personnel Systems in U.S. Industry
(Sage Publications, 1988)This paper examines historical differences in personnel practices among U.S. industries to explore the roots of modern "bureaucratic" work control. We report multivariate analyses of data describing organizational personnel ... -
Misspecification, Nonstationarity, and Approximate Inference in Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Neural Networks
(2023-05-12)In many fields there is a need to estimate nonlinear functions and provide reliable uncertainty quantification. Gaussian processes (GPs) enable easy specification of prior assumptions and rigorous guarantees of posterior ... -
Mistaking Randomness for Free Will
(Elsevier, 2011)Belief in free will is widespread. The present research considered one reason why people may believe that actions are freely chosen rather than determined: they attribute randomness in behavior to free will. Experiment 1 ... -
Misunderstandings between Experimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inference
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)We attempt to clarify, and suggest how to avoid, several serious misunderstandings about and fallacies of causal inference. These issues concern some of the most fundamental advantages and disadvantages of each basic ... -
Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States
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Mitochondrial Calcium Signaling in Brown Fat Bioenergetics
(2018-09-26)Calcium is a ubiquitous signaling molecule that coordinates biological processes over a wide range of length and timescales. For decades, it has been known that respiring mitochondria can take up large amounts of calcium ... -
Mitochondrial Priming and Anti-Apoptotic Dependencies in Aging and Diseased Bone Marrow
(2015-05-13)This thesis explores two questions; how aging of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) may contribute to the increase in hematological malignancies with age and secondly, how hematological malignancies can be better treated ... -
Mitochondrial Priming Determines Chemotherapeutic Response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
(2013-02-08)Gain- and loss-of-function studies of the BCL-2 family of proteins have shown that they can impact chemotherapeutic sensitivity. However, cells contain myriad anti-apoptotic and pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family members making ...