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Bureaucracy and Dissent: East German Subjectivity and Socialist Realism in the Context of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
(2016-09-15)This dissertation analyzes the central role of interior monologue and subjectivity in the GDR’s discourse of Socialist Realism. It argues that these stylistic elements, often associated with modernism, were central to the ... -
The Bureaucracy of Honor. The Habsburg Consular Service and the History of Emotions
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)I use the personnel files of three consuls in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service to consider the ways Habsburg bureaucracy recorded the emotional lives of civil servants. Consuls were expected to interact with Habsburg ... -
Bureaucratic (In)competence in a Federalist System: How Administrative Burden Impacts Participation in U.S. Elections
(2023-06-01)Federal public policies in the United States are often implemented by state and local governments who have significant power over their administration. This creates substantial variation across the country in the administration ... -
Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task
(American Economic Association, 2007-03-01)This paper investigates the normative criteria that guide the allocation of a policy task to an elected politician versus an independent bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is preferable for technical tasks for which ability is ... -
Buried by bad decisions
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Buried Nanoantenna Arrays: Versatile Antireflection Coating
(American Chemical Society, 2013)Reflection is usually a detrimental phenomenon in many applications such as flat-panel-displays, solar cells, photodetectors, infrared sensors, and lenses. Thus far, to control and suppress the reflection from a substrate, ... -
Burkholderia Xenovorans LB400 Harbors a Multi-Replicon, 9.73-Mbp Genome Shaped for Versatility
(National Academy of Sciences, 2006)<i>Burkholderia xenovorans</i> LB400 (LB400), a well studied, effective polychlorinated biphenyl-degrader, has one of the two largest known bacterial genomes and is the first nonpathogenic <i>Burkholderia</i> isolate ... -
BURRITO: Wrapping Your Lab Notebook in Computational Infrastructure
(USENIX Association, 2012)Researchers in fields such as bioinformatics, CS, finance, and applied math have trouble managing the numerous code and data files generated by their computational experiments, comparing the results of trials executed with ... -
Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
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The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800
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Business Orders under Disordered Bureaucracies: Firms, Associations and the Post-Communist State
(2013-02-06)The dissertation analyzes the behavior of post-communist firms and business associations, and explores how business interests and organization are affected by the types of states that firms confront. Focusing on the ... -
Business, Water, and the Global City: Germany, Europe, and China, 1820-1950
(2013-10-18)The dissertation examines the evolving role of Germans under the auspices of European imperialism in modern China's hydraulic management and economic globalization. In the early nineteenth-century, Germans were on the ... -
But What Did You Actually Learn? Improving Inference for Non-Identifiable Deep Latent Variable Models
(2023-05-12)Deep probabilistic and Bayesian latent variable models allow one to infer variables that have previously not been observed in the data in order to accurately model the data density. They provide an intuitive and flexible ... -
"But you Promised": Methods to Improve Crowd Engagement In Non-Ground Truth Tasks
(2017)Crowdsourcing platforms were initially designed to recruit people to perform tasks that were simple cognitively but difficult for computers. One challenge in these settings is to identify an incentive mechanism for ... -
Butchering Moses
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Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species
(2012)The evolutionary importance of hybridization and introgression has long been debated1. We used genomic tools to investigate introgression in Heliconius, a rapidly radiating genus of neotropical butterflies widely used in ... -
Buying Inertia: Preempting Social Disorder With Selective Welfare Provision in Urban China
(2015-03-30)A considerable number of welfare programs and social policies are adopted by authoritarian regimes, but we know relatively little about what shapes the pattern of redistribution in the absence of electoral competition. ... -
BVRI light curves for 22 type Ia supernovae
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)We present 1210 Johnson/Cousins B, V, R, and I photometric observations of 22 recent Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia): SNe 1993ac, 1993ae, 1994M, 1994S, 1994T, 1994Q, 1994ae, 1995D, 1995E, 1995al, 1995ac, 1995ak, 1995bd, 1996C, ... -
By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)We present a consumption‐based model that explains a wide variety of dynamic asset pricing phenomena, including the procyclical variation of stock prices, the long‐horizon predictability of excess stock returns, and the ... -
Bypass to Turbulence in Hydrodynamic Accretion Disks: An Eigenvalue Approach
(American Astronomical Society, 2005)Cold accretion disks with temperatures below similar to 3000 K are likely to be composed of highly neutral gas. The magnetorotational instability may cease to operate in such disks, so it is of interest to consider purely ...