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Between Surprise and Social Science
(European University Institute, 2009)Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ... -
Between syntax and discourse
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)This article examines the knowledge of topic and subject particles in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean. We assume that topic marking is mediated at the syntaxinformation structure interface, while ... -
Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy
(2014-10-21)Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary ... -
Between the Pen and the Fields: Books on Farming, Changing Land Regimes, and Urban Agriculture in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean Ca. 1500-1700
(2016-09-23)This dissertation goes “between the pen and the fields” in that it explores the relationship between the Ottoman discourse on farming as reflected in manuscripts, and the material and economic realities of farming shown ... -
Beyond Aura: Art as Object of Historical Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
(2022-05-12)This dissertation turns to the originary moment of historicism to investigate what it meant for British culture to treat artworks (from architecture to literary texts) as expressions of historical knowledge in the nineteenth ... -
Beyond blind faith: overcoming the obstacles to interdisciplinary evaluation
(Beech Tree Publishing, 2006)This paper examines how panelists serving on interdisciplinary funding panels produce evaluations they perceive as fair, drawing on 81 interviews with panelists serving on multidisciplinary fellowship competitions. We ... -
Beyond Brainstorms: Predicting Epilepsy Surgery Outcome with Functional Connectivity Centrality
(2022-05-25)For patients with medically refractory epilepsy (MRE) who do not respond to anti-seizure medicine, invasive intracranial EEG (icEEG) and resective surgery are used to respectively identify and remove epileptogenic zones ... -
Beyond bulk entrainment and detrainment rates: A new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection
(American Geophysical Union, 2012)A new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection is proposed, where the vertical evolution of the cloud mass flux distribution as a function of given parcel properties is viewed as a mapping process. Matrices ... -
Beyond Charitable Imperialism: Intersections of Third Cinema, Music, and Social Change in (Post-) Conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2013-02-13)Beyond Charitable Imperialism investigates the role of film, digital media, and music in mediating social and political change in conflict regions with specific attention to the aesthetic choices, ethical implications, and ... -
Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel
(2022-11-23)“Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel” fills a gap in scholarship regarding our understanding of and language to articulate identity construction. It attempts to decenter the ... -
Beyond Dominant Resource Fairness: Extensions, Limitations, and Indivisibilities
(ACM Press, 2012)We study the problem of allocating multiple resources to agents with heterogeneous demands. Technological advances such as cloud computing and data centers provide a new impetus for investigating this problem under the ... -
Beyond FICO: Default Prediction and Optimal Lending Strategies in Online P2P Investing
(2016-06-22)The rise of online P2P lending has led to a large community of investors with an enormous discrepancy among best practices to maximize returns. Despite this, a cohesive system for analyzing the merits of various lending ... -
Beyond Grid Kirigami
(2022-05-23)Kirigami metamaterials are engineered materials inspired by the ancient art of paper cutting. To produce them, partial cuts are placed in a base material so that stretching the material causes it to deploy, or change size ... -
Beyond Judicial Independence: The Construction of Judicial Power in Colombia
(2014-12-04)This dissertation seeks to explain the behavior of one of the most activist high courts in the world, the Colombian Constitutional Court, since its creation in 1991. The standard approach within the field emphasizes political ... -
Beyond Mutation: Epigenetic Drivers of Phenotypic Diversity and Survival in Mycobacteria
(2016-05-19)M. tuberculosis is the causative agent of a global health epidemic that kills ~1.5 million people each year. The outcomes of infection with Mtb are highly variable. Although many patients are able to control the infection ... -
Beyond Product State Approximations for a Quantum Analogue of Max Cut
(2020-03-31)We consider a computational problem where the goal is to approximate the maximum eigenvalue of a two-local Hamiltonian that describes Heisenberg interactions between qubits located at the vertices of a graph. Previous work ... -
Beyond Self-Report: Emerging Methods for Capturing Individual Differences in Decision-Making Process
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)People vary in the way in which they approach decision-making, which impacts real-world behavior. There has been a surge of interest in moving beyond reliance on self-report measures to capture such individual differences. ... -
Beyond the Culture of Poverty: Meaning-Making among Low-Income Population around Family, Neighborhood, and Work
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12-19)Meaning-making is an essential feature of social life: as humans make their way through their daily lives, they inevitably interpret themselves, their actions, those of others, and the environment that surround them. Thus, ... -
Beyond the Equivalence Divide: Developing a Performative Theory of Biblical Translation
(2018-05-13)This dissertation uses a comparative analysis of Cherokee and Greek scriptures to develop a performative theory of biblical translation that argues that new Christianities are created through processes of translation. This ...