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Beliefs and Decision-Making in Education
(2022-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays that examine beliefs and decision-making in education. The first essay examines how a short-term preschool subsidy in rural Indonesia affects parents' beliefs and investments in ... -
Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape
(University of California Press, 2009)This article examines the Legio Maria Church of western Kenya, a relatively rare example of schism from the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. One of more than seven thousand African Initiated Churches in existence today, ... -
Believing, Desiring, or Just Thinking About: Toward a Neuroscientific Account of Propositional Attitudes
(2017-05-12)Human minds can relate to a single idea in different ways. I can believe that Starbucks now sells donuts, but I can also hope or fear that Starbucks now sells donuts. Propositions, such as Starbucks now sells donuts are ... -
The Bell Curve Review: IQ Best Indicates Poverty
(2018-05-11)The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray (1994)) is a very controversial piece of economics literature. The Bell Curve, which examines the effect of IQ on various social problems, is broken down into four sections: “The ... -
The Bells: From Poe to Sardarapat
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A benchmark for RNA-seq quantification pipelines
(BioMed Central, 2016)Obtaining RNA-seq measurements involves a complex data analytical process with a large number of competing algorithms as options. There is much debate about which of these methods provides the best approach. Unfortunately, ... -
A Benchmark Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Molecular Crystal Polymorphism: A Challenging Case for Density-Functional Theory
(American Chemical Society, 2012)We have applied the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method, for the first time, to an organic molecular crystal (para-diiodobenzene) in order to determine the relative stability of its two well- known polymorphs. The DMC result ... -
Benchmarking compressed sensing, super-resolution, and filter diagonalization
(Wiley, 2016-04-15)Signal processing techniques have been developed that use different strategies to bypass the Nyquist sampling theorem in order to recover more information than a traditional discrete Fourier transform. Here we examine three ... -
Benchmarking File System Benchmarking: It *IS* Rocket Science
(USENIX Association, 2011)The quality of file system benchmarking has not improved in over a decade of intense research spanning hundreds of publications. Researchers repeatedly use a wide range of poorly designed benchmarks, and in most cases, ... -
Benchmarking Inverse Statistical Approaches for Protein Structure and Design with Exactly Solvable Models
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Inverse statistical approaches to determine protein structure and function from Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSA) are emerging as powerful tools in computational biology. However the underlying assumptions of the relationship ... -
Bending forces plastically deform growing bacterial cell walls
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)Cell walls define a cell shape in bacteria. They are rigid to resist large internal pressures, but remarkably plastic to adapt to a wide range of external forces and geometric constraints. Currently, it is unknown how ... -
Beneath our feet: a review of "Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld", by Salomon Kroonenberg
(Times Literary Supplement, 2014) -
Beneficial Use: The Political Economy of Surface Mined Land Reclamation in North America
(2023-06-01)This dissertation investigates how energy extraction since the 1970s enabled the birth of market-based policies for environmental protection. Through an investigation of surface mined land reclamation programs in Canada ... -
The Benefit of Force Feedback in Surgery: Examination of Blunt Dissection
(MIT Press - Journals, 2007-06-01)Force feedback is widely assumed to enhance performance in robotic surgery, but its benefits have not yet been systematically assessed. In this study we examine the effects of force feedback on a blunt dissection task. 20 ... -
Benjamin Harrison Grave: American invertebrate zoologist
(International Bryozoological Association, 2014) -
Benjamin Harrison Grave: American Marine Invertebrate Zoologist
(International Bryozoology Association, 2014) -
Bent Spines
(H.J. Raymond & Co., 2011) -
Benthic Microbial Fuel Cell as Direct Power Source for an Acoustic Modem and Seawater Oxygen/Temperature Sensor System
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011)Supported by the natural potential difference between anoxic sediment and oxic seawater, benthic microbial fuel cells (BMFCs) promise to be ideal power sources for certain low-power marine sensors and communication devices. ... -
Benzoquinone-Hydroquinone Couple for Flow Battery
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013)At present, there is an ongoing search for approaches toward the storage of energy from intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar. Flow batteries have gained attention due to their potential viability for inexpensive ... -
BeppoSAX Observations of the Maser Seyfert 2 Galaxy ESO 103‐G35
(IOP Publishing, 2001)