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Come Back Aesthetics
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The comet-like composition of a protoplanetary disk as revealed by complex cyanides
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Observations of comets and asteroids show that the Solar Nebula that spawned our planetary system was rich in water and organic molecules. Bombardment brought these organics to the young Earth's surface, seeding its early ... -
Comic Belief: Religious Irreverence and Irreverent Religion in Cold War America
(2023-01-18)“Comic Belief” identifies evolving standards of humor as both reflections and engines of the cultural changes that reconfigured American institutional Christianity in the half-century following World War II. It contends ... -
Coming to Grips With the Past: Effect of Repeated Simulation on the Perceived Plausibility of Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)When people revisit previous experiences, they often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking: mental simulations of alternative ways in which personal past events could have occurred. The present study employed a novel ... -
Comma restoration using constituency information
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003)Automatic restoration of punctuation from unpunctuated text has application in improving the fluency and applicability of speech recognition systems. We explore the possibility that syntactic information can be used to ... -
Comment on "Sensitivity of Seafloor Bathymetry to Climate-Driven Fluctuations in Mid-Ocean Ridge Magma Supply"
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016)Recent studies have proposed that the bathymetric fabric of the seafloor formed at mid-ocean ridges records rapid (23,000 to 100,000 years) fluctuations in ridge magma supply caused by sealevel changes that modulate melt ... -
Comment on Individual Price Adjustment along the Extensive Margin
(University of Chicago Press, 2013) -
Comment on Rob Boddice, 'Neurohistory'
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)"With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger ... -
Comment: A Fruitful Resolution to Simpson’s Paradox via Multiresolution Inference
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)Simpson’s Paradox is really a Simple Paradox if one at all. Peeling away the paradox is as easy (or hard) as avoiding a comparison of apples and oranges, a concept requiring no mention of causality. We show how the commonly ... -
Comment: Assumptions and Procedures in the File Drawer Problem
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1988) -
Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: "Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World"
(Oxford University Press, 2008) -
Commentary: All species are important, but some species are more important than others
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)Foundation species control biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but are difficult to identify. In this issue of Journal of Vegetation Science, Elumeeva et al. show that Festuca varia and Nardus stricta act as foundation ... -
Commentary: Epidemiology in Context
(Oxford University Press, 2009) -
Commentary: Nash equilibrium and mechanism design
(Elsevier BV, 2011)A Nash equilibrium (called an “equilibrium point” by John Nash himself; see Nash 1950) of a game occurs when each player chooses a strategy from which unilateral deviations do not pay. The concept of Nash equilibrium is ... -
Commentary: The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: Second-Generation Assimilation: Comments on Haller, Portes and Lynch
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)